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Hello, I am trying to work in a page on this noteworthy artist from Scottland, and have just made this page. Sir William Fettes Douglas Perhaps you could help keep it up and put it in the proper place within the Scottish portals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Watches-Crows (talk • contribs) 20:37, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
"Culture . Geography . Health . etc...", should also include a link to the Education in Scotland page given it's such a significant part of what makes the Scots/Scotland distinct. Tartanperil (talk) 05:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Is Scotland really a nation or are only the scottish people a nation? --Camaeron (talk) 17:35, 14 March 2008 (UTC) Perhaps someone should make sure it conforms to the actuall Scotland page... --Camaeron (talk) 17:36, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing a lot of work on this article, developing a former stub. I'm not finished yet, but maybe the portal would like to consider it as a geographical project? I also intend to complete the abandoned biographical article on William Speirs Bruce. Brianboulton (talk) 09:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
The article on the Culture of Scotland in the francophone Wikipedia was recently labelled a featured article (article de qualité). If anyone reads French and cares to check it out:
Most of the sources used to write the article appear to be in English, so it might be a candidate for translation, at least some portions of it could. -- Mathieugp (talk) 03:02, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
A meetup will be held in Edinburgh this Saturday, October 1st. Currently just an informal meet in a pub, but hopefully we can make an event of it. This social is being set-up to coincide with Fæ's finalization of the recruitment of a for Wikimedia in Scotland coordinator (6 months full time). So this meetup will be of great interest to anyone interested in this post. Details here; please sign up if you are interested. All welcome. Sorry about the short notice. --James B 15:58, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
I have radically changed the Wikipedia:WikiProject Clans of Scotland layout. The blueprint I used was that of Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology. As you can see the project has a neat set of tags that link the project into different sections. I added an extra tab to link its talk page as I felt the tabs could lose some inexperienced users who just enter the project to ask questions (tabs rather annoyingly have separate talk pages). It looks rather nice in my view, and somewhat more professional. Any thoughts? (if so, please post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clans of Scotland). Yours ever, Czar Brodie (talk) 09:16, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I notice there's no mention of Andy Murray in the news section, just the usual litany of stabbings a la Reporting Scotland. To quote John McEnroe "you cannot be serious!!!"--MacRùsgail (talk) 15:11, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Since there were two fantastic meetups in Glasgow this past year, attendees at the last meetup agreed would be a good idea to host the next Wikimedia meetup in Edinburgh. Details are now available on the event page - the meetup will take place on 27 October at the Malt Shovel Inn, which is very near Waverley station so we hope will attract some Wikimedians from Glasgow and elsewhere nearby! Very much hope to see some new and old faces there. ACrockford (talk) 19:03, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia UK have launched a ScotWiki mailing list to help encourage more Wikimedia events in Scotland and hopefully to establish greater contact between Wikimedians throughout the country. You can sign up here - join if you want to learn more about Wikimedia events or projects in Scotland, to promote or organise your own, or to join in general discussion! ACrockford (talk) 18:14, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Is this portal still being maintained? Selected article & quotes are both currently redlinked. Additionally the news has not been updated since February. Espresso Addict (talk) 09:12, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
WikiProject Portals is back!
The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.
As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.
There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.
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From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:44, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Template:Box-header/28W appears to be WCAG 2 AAA accessibility compliant, but is a little darker than the blue currently in use in this portal. Would you consider checking whether is is suitable for your purposes, and using it directly instead of as a subpage if it is OK? Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:11, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
What could the six territorial subdivisions of Iona be? They are smaller than civil parishes, since the whole island does not even constitute one civil parish, but belongs to one. The order of magnitude would be like townlands, but those seem to exist in Ireland only, not Scotland?
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore (talk) 13:11, 22 September 2019 (UTC)