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On 12 July 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Scottish Highland dance to Highland dance. The result of the discussion was moved. |
There are far too many red links. Angie Y. (talk) 23:47, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
For highland dancing you can wear an Aboyne or a Kilt. The Aboyne is for the national dances. The Kilt is for the common dances. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.70.184 (talk) 02:00, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
The first sentence strings together too much information. Needed to be broken down into two sentences. Carolynweekes (talk) 01:53, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
Going to do some clean-up in the next month. Red non-existent links will be removed. The majority of the external links do not lend to the article. Will try and find some authorative source regarding 'Lorna Mitchell' -- the name Jenny Douglas has long been associated with the first female dancer c. 1850. In the Organisation section, the article places too much importance on SOBHD whereas should list SOBHD, SOHDA, etc., then continue about SOBHD's market. (SOBHD claims to be 'world', yet its board comprises of mostly local dancing associations, and makes national associations 'affiliates'.) Listing 'firsts' (first female, first American) are important, but naming current holders lends nothing. Will make a separate section on 'Competition' (and Judging will become a second level), to better cover Cowal, etc. Fix over-capitalisation.
Feel free to comment on the above before I start doing the revision. (And yes, I am a highland dancer as well as a researcher.) Q8682 (talk) 15:46, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) The Night Watch (talk) 17:17, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Scottish Highland dance → Highland dance – Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CONCISE; and the WP:PRECISE principle that we do not use more precision than necessary; and the WP:DAB principle that we do not "pre-disambiguate", even with "natural disambiguation", any topics we imagine might eventually turn out to need disambiguation; and to be WP:CONSISTENT with Highland dress, Highland games, etc. The pagename Highland dance already redirects here, and there's no hatnote indicating anything to disambiguate this from, much less something else that could possibly be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. While there are highland areas in other parts of the world, and surely dances in them, only this subject seems to be routinely called "Highland dance" or "Highland dancing" in reliable sources in English, and those sources overwhelmingly use that specific, shorter term. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 13:02, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
I found all these listed in the article as if they had been cited, but none of them were, and it's very misleading to the reader to dump them into the article like that. Re-add them to the article when they are actually consulted and cited. PS: I formatted them as proper citations, though, with ISBN-13s when possible.
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: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 11:20, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Other stuff probably of relevance: