Talk:Royal Scottish Geographical Society

Negotiation

The Society would regard its remit as British rather than Scottish, but I have been prevented from making tis change but someone called Mais Oui, who won't even discuss it and deletes my attempts from their 'talk' page! 83.67.68.118

Would the edit warriors kindly negotiate here. The above was removed apparently in accordance with WP:NPA - I don't believe it violates that, so I've re-instated it as the first point towards some sort of arbitration.

User:83.67.68.118 - you may wish to register for an account, it makes things rather easier for other editors and even yourself. In the meantime, before reverting - you say the organisation would consider itself to have a British remit: an expansion on this would be rather helpful, with some sourcing if possible. I think it's quite possible that it could constitute a 'British learned society' in preference to an exclusively Scottish one; after all, we don't consider the Edinburgh College of Surgeons or the Royal Society of Edinburgh to have an exclusively civic remit over Edinburgh. --Breadandcheese 04:40, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for this helpful input, I am very happy to come to a concensus. I'm afraid I don't have documents sitting around which can be used as a source, but I am on the Society's Council. Many of RSGS's services are focussed towards Scotland (for example the lecture programme delivered through the regional centres, but speakers often (usually?) come from outside Scotland). However the Society makes a contribution internationally through United Nations groups, through press coverage and international field-trips and expeditions. There are also a good number of members from other parts of the UK and well beyond. If you review the list of award-winners, you will see many (most?) of these have made an international contribution, and in many cases they are not based in Scotland nor could they necessrily be regarded as having made a contribution to Scotland. 83.67.68.118 01:10, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

That seems a fair enough point to make, and I imagine it is fairly evident and able to be sourced - but does that not give it an international remit rather than a British remit? I would expect a British remit to be based on some sort of function discharged on behalf of the government or similar. In the interim, it appears that there's no need to specify it as a 'Scottish learned society' at all - in fact, applying national labels in this way usually does narrow interpretation or suggest a degree of ownership when none applies. I think 'a learned society.... based in _____, Scotland' would do just as well and be factually beyond dispute. --Breadandcheese 04:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

OK, that seems a reasonable compromise. To avoid the Scottish-British thing, I've taken out the 'Scotland' after Glasgow. Where Glasgow is located is pretty self-evident if you click the link. 82.41.24.142 00:50, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Help

Help can't get references to insert ! -- 83.67.68.118 01:48, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

You have to put a "references /" tag (in the triangular brackets) where you want them to display. I've done it for you. I assume you can take it from there. --Breadandcheese 04:37, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Alteration

I removed some information about the fellows, as I believe it to be fictional —Preceding unsigned comment added by Weetabizz (talk • contribs) 21:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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Scottish Geographical Magazine

This is wierd. WP redirects Scottish Geographical Magazine to Royal Scottish Geographical Society. But when you get there there is nothing about the magazine except a mention, with no link or reference, that members get it free. The external link to RSGS Publications gets you to a site that shows The Geographer, going back 13 years, but I can find nothing at all about the Scottish Geographical Magazine. The Magazine started publication in 1885. Surely there should be something specifically about this venerable publication on WP? Kognos (talk) 21:27, 28 December 2021 (UTC)