Talk:Grandfather Mountain Highland Games

Requested move 11 July 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved to Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 14:24, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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Scottish Games in North Carolina → Highland games in North Carolina – "Scottish games" is a disused term; "Highland games" is preferred (see entire text of article, as well as Category:Highland games and everything in it). "Highland games" and "Scottish games" as noun-phrases are not proper names (MOS:SPORTCAPS), so "games" should not be capitalized regardless. PS: An argument can actually be made to move this to Grandfather Mountain Highland Games (proper name of event), since that particular event is about 95% of the content, and this article does not address Scotland County (North Carolina) Highland Games.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:09, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

• Move to Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, now that I've thought about this more.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  13:07, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support Grandfather Mountain Highland Games since that's the actual topic. Dicklyon (talk) 18:58, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Additional sources

This one is largely about the Grandfather Mountain games:

• Ray, Celeste (2001). Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807849132. – Publishers Weekly: "A combination of resource compendium, exhaustively detailed anthropological study and astute cultural criticism. Extensive research, clear prose and respect for her subjects will win this authoritative work favor among Scottish American enthusiasts and academics alike."

 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  06:02, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

In popular culture

Is there any merit to adding a section on (or mention of) the GMHG in popular culture? I'm asking because the games feature prominently in an episode of the TV show Outlander (series 4, episode 3). Presumably they also appear in the source book Drums of Autumn, but I haven't read it; and I should not be surprised to learn that the games are also in other works. AliceInWikiland 7c7 (talk) 13:24, 4 January 2024 (UTC)