Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland

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Scottish WikiProjects and task forces
WikiProject Clans of Scotland	talk
WikiProject Medieval Scotland	talk
WikiProject Scottish Castles	talk
WikiProject Scottish Islands	talk
WikiProject Transport in Scotland	talk
WikiProject Edinburgh	talk
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Football in Scotland task force	talk
Scottish Gaelic task force	talk
Scottish television task force	talk
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The Scotland WikiProject is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Scotland. This WikiProject is modelled on similar projects and was started in August 2006, following a consultation. It runs alongside the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board, which had been functioning as a de facto WikiProject Scotland since October 2005.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Scope and Goals edit

Our goals

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

Our scope: The project generally considers any article related to Scotland to be a valid topic.

Our structure

Internally, the project may develop several structural features to help in managing its extensive work:

Coordinators, who are responsible for maintaining the administrative aspects of the project
Departments, which coordinate work on certain specialised tasks, such as peer review or project-wide collaboration
Specialised WikiProjects, which are groups for collaboration on specific areas of Scotland, such as geography, politics and sports.

Participants edit

We welcome new members for WikiProject Scotland. Please put your name on the list here.

Member identification edit

Members of WikiProject Scotland should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Scotland participants.

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[[Category:WikiProject Scotland participants]] none linked pages

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This user is a member of WikiProject Scotland.

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{{Template:User WPScotland|center}}

This user is a member of
WikiProject Scotland.

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This user is a member of
WikiProject Scotland.
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linked pages

{{Template:User WP Scotland}}

This user is a member of
WikiProject Scotland.

linked pages

{{Template:User WP Scotland|invite}}

This user invites you to join
WikiProject Scotland.

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For other Scotland user templates see Category:Scotland user templates.

Departments edit

Assessment edit

Scotland articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	12	17	28			58
FL		1	6	6			13
A		1		2			3
GA	5	35	78	153			271
B	31	193	205	570		24	1,023
C	14	194	564	2,626		61	3,459
Start		54	1,122	12,629		102	13,907
Stub		2	299	11,869		102	12,272
List	3	21	184	1,722		4	1,934
Category			9		14,386		14,395
Disambig				3	54		57
File					132		132
Portal					3		3
Project					43		43
Template					1,006		1,006
NA			22	420	636		1,078
Other					44		44
Assessed	54	513	2,506	30,028	16,304	293	49,698
Unassessed				14	2	339	355
Total	54	513	2,506	30,042	16,306	632	50,053
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 160,581			Ω = 5.18

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Scottish articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WP Scotland}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Peer Review edit

Peer Review

Thw WikiProject Scotland/Peer review page, is a place to nominate articles for peer review by others on the project.

This page should be used for articles in which an extensive analysis is wanted with all ideas and suggestions welcomed for the future development of the article.

Reviewers will be as critical as possible so that the article can become as polished as possible as all articles should have the eventual aim of becoming a featured article.

Other potential departments edit

Articles edit

Article alerts edit

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

02 Dec 2023 – Palcrafts (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
02 Dec 2023 – JD Allan (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fermiboson (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
27 Nov 2023 – Polling in Scotland for next United Kingdom general election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bondegezou (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
18 Nov 2023 – Dumfries High School (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Tagishsimon (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
16 Nov 2023 – Joasia Zakrzewski (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Joseph2302 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
13 Nov 2023 – Donald Maclean, 3rd Laird of Brolas (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
13 Nov 2023 – Donald Maclean, 1st Laird of Brolas (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
13 Nov 2023 – Lauchlan Maclean, 2nd Laird of Brolas (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
13 Nov 2023 – John Dubh Maclean, 1st Laird of Morvern (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
06 Nov 2023 – Scottish Renewables (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JMWt (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

04 Dec 2023 – Scottish Christian Alliance (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by LibStar (t · c): Created by a single purpose editor, only 1 article links to this and marked for notability concerns for 7 years. Fails WP:ORG.
03 Dec 2023 – Aaron's of Wick (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 154.47.112.58 (t · c): Non-notable bus company
30 Nov 2023 – Be in Belhaven (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Cipactli8 (t · c): This article does not meet notability guidelines, and most references contained within are either outdated or permanently dead links.

Categories for discussion

03 Dec 2023 – Category:19th-century churches in Scotland (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
25 Nov 2023 – Category:Fictional English people of Scottish descent (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
undated – Category:African presence at the Scottish royal court (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed
22 Nov 2023 – Category:Antisemitism in Scotland (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Place Clichy (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Templates for discussion

24 Nov 2023 – Template:Hospitals in Scotland (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Elshad (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

18 Nov 2023 – 2022 City of Edinburgh Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
28 Sep 2023 – 2022 Glasgow City Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
28 Aug 2023 – 2022 Clackmannanshire Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
28 Aug 2023 – Loch Henry (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bilorv (t · c); start discussion
23 Aug 2023 – Dario Franchitti (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by EnthusiastWorld37 (t · c); start discussion
13 Aug 2023 – 2022 Argyll and Bute Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
28 Jul 2023 – 2022 Angus Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
28 Jul 2023 – 2022 Aberdeenshire Council election (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Stevie fae Scotland (t · c); start discussion
15 Jul 2023 – John Higgins (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); start discussion

Cleanup listing edit

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Recognized content edit

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Scotland}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles edit

Former featured articles edit

Featured lists edit

Good articles edit

Former good articles edit

Featured pictures edit

13-06-07 RaR Biffy Clyro Simon Neil 02
Aerial View of Edinburgh, by Alfred Buckham, from about 1920
Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour
CAMPBELL, George W-Treasury (BEP engraved portrait)
Charles Robert Leslie - Sir Walter Scott - Ravenswood and Lucy at the Mermaiden's Well - Bride of Lammermoor
Common seal (Phoca vitulina) 2
Dalziel Brothers - Sir Walter Scott - The Talisman - Sir Kenneth before the King
Daniel Craig McCallum by The Brady National Photographic Art Gallery
David Livingstone by Thomas Annan
Dunrobin Castle -Sutherland -Scotland-26May2008 (2)
Edinburgh Castle from Grass Market
Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland - Jan 2011
Falkirk Wheel Timelapse, Scotland - Diliff
FalkirkWheelSide 2004 SeanMcClean
Gavin Hamilton - Coriolanus Act V, Scene III edit2
Jaguar at Edinburgh Zoo
Jeremiah Gurney - Photograph of Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa
Loch Torridon, Scotland
Mount Stuart House 2018-08-25
N. M. Price - Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering - At the Kaim of Derncleugh
NEWScotland-2016-Aerial-Blackness Castle 01
Nils Olav inspects the Kings Guard of Norway after being bestowed with a knighthood at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland
Paisley Abbey Interior East
Paisley Abbey from the south east
Prince James Francis Edward Stuart by Alexis Simon Belle
Robert William Thomson - Illustrated London News March 29 1873
Scotland-2016-West Lothian-Hopetoun House 02
Sgùrr nan Gillean from Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland - Diliff
Sir Anthony Van Dyck - Charles I (1600-49) - Google Art Project
St Matthew's Church - Paisley - Interior - 5
Synthetic Production of Penicillin TR1468
The Air Ministry, 1939-1945. CH10270 – Edit 1
The Monarch of the Glen, Edwin Landseer, 1851
The Skating Minister
Thomas Keene in Macbeth 1884 Wikipedia crop
View of loch lomond
Wemyss Bay railway station concourse 2018-08-25 2
William John Macquorn Rankine by Thomas Annan

Featured portals edit

Portal:Scotland

In the News articles edit

Main page featured articles edit

Main page featured lists edit

Picture of the day pictures edit

13-06-07 RaR Biffy Clyro Simon Neil 02
Arthur-James-Balfour-1st-Earl-of-Balfour
CAMPBELL, George W-Treasury (BEP engraved portrait)
Charles Robert Leslie - Sir Walter Scott - Ravenswood and Lucy at the Mermaiden's Well - Bride of Lammermoor
Common seal (Phoca vitulina) 2
Dalziel Brothers - Sir Walter Scott - The Talisman - Sir Kenneth before the King
Daniel Craig McCallum by The Brady National Photographic Art Gallery
Dunrobin Castle -Sutherland -Scotland-26May2008 (2)
Edinburgh Castle from Grass Market
Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland - Jan 2011
Falkirk Wheel Timelapse, Scotland - Diliff
FalkirkWheelSide 2004 SeanMcClean
Gavin Hamilton - Coriolanus Act V, Scene III edit2
Jaguar at Edinburgh Zoo
Loch Torridon, Scotland
Mount Stuart House 2018-08-25
N. M. Price - Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering - At the Kaim of Derncleugh
NEWScotland-2016-Aerial-Blackness Castle 01
Nils Olav inspects the Kings Guard of Norway after being bestowed with a knighthood at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland
Paisley Abbey Interior East
Paisley Abbey from the south east
Prince James Francis Edward Stuart by Alexis Simon Belle
Robert William Thomson - Illustrated London News March 29 1873
Scotland-2016-West Lothian-Hopetoun House 02
Sgùrr nan Gillean from Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland - Diliff
Sir Anthony Van Dyck - Charles I (1600-49) - Google Art Project
St Matthew's Church - Paisley - Interior - 5
Synthetic Production of Penicillin TR1468
The Skating Minister
Thomas Keene in Macbeth 1884 Wikipedia crop
View of loch lomond
Wemyss Bay railway station concourse 2018-08-25 2

Good topics edit

Islands of Scotland

Featured sounds edit

File:Auld Lang Syne.ogg

DYKs - click "show" to reveal.

The text of the DYK entries can be found at the Scotland Portal • Most recent DYKs • Older DYK's

Extended content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Scotland}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland

Contents

Scope and Goals edit

Participants edit

Member identification edit

Departments edit

Assessment edit

Peer Review edit

Other potential departments edit

Articles edit

Article alerts edit

Cleanup listing edit

Recognized content edit

Featured articles edit

Former featured articles edit

Featured lists edit

Good articles edit

Former good articles edit

Featured pictures edit

Featured portals edit

In the News articles edit

Main page featured articles edit

Main page featured lists edit

Picture of the day pictures edit

Good topics edit

Featured sounds edit

Did you know? articles edit