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Welcome to WikiProject Scottish Islands / Fàilte gu Wiki-Proiseact nan Eilean! / Walcome tae WikiProject Scots Isles!


We hope you enjoy your visit to this project, which was created in July 2007. If you would like to get involved in this venture, please see the How You Can Help page, and add your name to the Participants section below.

WikiProject
Scottish Islands
General information
Main project page talk
How You Can Help talk
Assessment talk
Vital articles progress talk
Collaboration of the month talk
Populated Islands by rank talk
Islands by area rank talk
Population density table talk
Infobox Scottish island talk
How to write a Good Article talk
Watch List talk
New Articles talk
Cleanup listing talk
Peer review talk
Requested articles talk
Orkneyinga Saga talk
Monro's Hebrides talk
Origins of the Uí Ímair and the Earls of Orkney talk
Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Scotland talk
Deletion sorting talk
WikiProject Clans of Scotland talk
WikiProject Medieval Scotland talk
WikiProject Scottish Castles talk
WikiProject Transport in Scotland talk
WikiProject Islands talk
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Scope

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Our goals
  • To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe Scottish islands.
  • To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Scottish islands by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
  • To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Scottish islands in Wikipedia.

An overview of the islands involved can be found at the List of islands of Scotland.

Parent WikiProject

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Related: Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography

Participants

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This user is a member of WikiProject Scottish Islands.


  1. Abtract
  2. An Siarach
  3. Andrewrpalmer
  4. Ben MacDui
  5. Bo98
  6. Brewphilip
  7. Bryccan
  8. Cactus.man
  9. Celtus
  10. User:CoffeeRansacked
  11. Deacon of Pndapetzim
  12. Dhmellor
  13. Deiz
  14. Dickonprior
  15. Drchriswilliams
  16. Drumhollistan
  17. Espresso Addict
  18. Fantoman400
  19. Finavon
  20. Hadrianheugh
  21. Inge
  22. Kathryn NicDhàna
  23. Lianachan
  24. LJElliott21
  25. Lord Spring Onion
  26. Lurker
  27. MacRusgail
  28. MacSteaphain
  29. mgdm
  30. Mikhailov Kusserow
  31. mikleran
  32. MorrisMacIver
  33. Nidator
  34. OliverEastwood
  35. Pigman
  36. Rosser
  37. RussellM
  38. SarahTHunter
  39. Shetlander57
  40. Suxamethonium
  41. Warofdreams
  42. Finnrind (Finn Rindahl)
  43. Chutneycheddar

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News

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Requested moves

  • 14 Dec 2024 – Hebridean Terrane (talk · edit · hist) move request to Hebridean terrane by Dicklyon (t · c) was moved to Hebridean terrane (talk · edit · hist) by Bunnypranav (t · c) on 21 Dec 2024; see discussion

Scotland is famous for its castles and ghosts. This is a rare example of a castle that is a ghost.

To Do List

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Some priorities for improvement:

Creation

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Expansion

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  1. Top priority stubs
  2. Smaller islands with no infoboxes: Dùn, St Kilda, Grunay, Haaf Gruney, Inchcruin, Inchmoan, Lady's Holm, Linga, Vaila, Little Holm, Scatness,Little Holm, Yell Sound, Little Roe, Muckle Skerry, North Havra, Sibhinis, Urie Lingey, Uynarey
  3. Other stubs: Scottish islands stubs, Shetland stubs, Orkney stubs, Outer Hebridean stubs

Images

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Cleanup

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  1. See Cleanup listing
  2. Tidy up main list - some of the red links are unlikely topics for articles and could be relegated to an appearance on the subsidiary lists.

Collaboration of the Month

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There were numerous collaborations from 2007-2010. They may be resumed at any time using the "instructions" on the archive page, which also lists earlier collaborations.

Hall of Fame

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Good articles

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Good topics

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Did you know? articles

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Possible candidates for Good or Featured article status

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Old Man of Storr

Participants

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Eilean Munde in Loch Leven

List of Wikipedia Users by Pages Created

See: Bryan's List.

Pages prone to POV pushing, vandalism, or that otherwise need watching

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Basta, Yell
The old school house on Mingulay/Miughlaigh.

Users should feel free to use the recent changes function to examine changes to most articles relevant to this group by hitting this link.

Assessment

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Scottish Islands articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Other Total
FA 1 2 6 16 25
FL 7 1 1 9
GA 18 17 24 29 88
B 19 25 42 45 131
C 31 39 128 145 343
Start 30 97 336 584 1,047
Stub 4 39 213 1,096 1,352
List 3 14 36 108 161
Category 538 2 540
Disambig 32 32
File 1 1
Portal 1 1
Project 8 8
Template 63 63
NA 1 19 4 24
Assessed 114 234 786 2,042 647 2 3,825
Total 114 234 786 2,042 647 2 3,825
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 15,288 Ω = 5.12

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands/Assessment

Templates

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The extensive Hebridean archipelago

Disambiguation pages

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Berneray - but which one?
1890s Ordnance Survey map of Papa Stour, one of several "Papa" islands
One of many many Lingas with a skerry in front

There are numerous disambiguation pages associated with the Highlands and Islands, especially as many of the smaller islands share names. The following are essentially related to differentiating between Scottish islands. Those indicated with an asterisk (*) are "set index articles" rather than dab pages per se.

Categories

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Islands with their own categories:

Articles listed for deletion

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See also

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Commissioners' Flag of the Northern Lighthouse Board
There are some sixty islands in Loch Lomond.
Rockall, is it, or isn't it?

Articles which are relevant to Scottish islands.

Broadcasting

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A contented looking sheep on Eigg

History and folklore

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Callanish Stones
A blighted potato tuber

Sagas

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Language

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Faroese linguist Jakob Jakobsen, whose work on Shetland Norn remains seminal

Politics and government

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Charles Kennedy MP
The area covered by the Northern Constabulary

Emergency services and police

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Sport

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Holm of Noss cliffs by Isle of Noss, Shetland

Transport

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MV Saturn, one of the "Cal Mac" fleet
Up and running at Barra Airport (it's a beach!)
Climate change plays havoc with Hebridean transport routes

Relevant non-WPSI articles

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The Farne Islands... close, but no cigar
Rathlin, with Kintyre & Sanda

The following articles are not directly related to WPSI, but may be of use/interest to our readers for various reasons.

Scottish

British Isles

Scandinavia and Nordic Countries

The approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century:
  Old West Norse dialect
  Old East Norse dialect
  Old Gutnish dialect
  Old English
  Crimean Gothic
  Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility

Elsewhere in Europe and beyond

General

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