Talk:History of Orkney

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Map[edit]

I'd be willing to produce a coastline map of Orkney, much like the one I'm currently working on for Shetland (see right). From that, I can add stuff that people send to me (coloured in various ways, dots for villages and towns, arrows for population movements etc.). Just let me know what you need, and I'll see what I can do. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:14, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Wow, that's an excellent map, much better than any of the CIA ones floating around! -- Joolz 18:22, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The place to ask is probably on Orkney Islands itself - but that style of map does seem to be of higher quality than the ones currently on that article. Secret london 18:38, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I was particularly asking if a map would be of use to the history article, during the CotF. If so, I'll change my priorities and produce the basic Orkney map ASAP. If not, its priority will stay below that of several other maps (which are at various stages of completion), and so probably won't appear for months. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:52, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

The first version of my Orkney map is on the right. If someone can send me sources or locations, I can produce maps based on this. Stuff this might include could be:

maps of archeological sites (my reference only has Skara Brae, but there' surely lots of stuff
maps of viking and christian stuff
WW1 stuff (I think I'll make a map showing the locations of the scuttled German ships) - fortifications, bases, etc.
WW2 stuff (churchill barriers, more fortifications etc).

Or anything else anyone would like. If I don't hear from anyone, I'll probably just produce updated versions of the Orkney maps and leave it at that. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:02, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

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My apologies for editing (a tidy up follows)[edit]

...however, much of the text is too Doric for an International Encyclopaedia. You know what you mean, I know it, but it's unclear in Plain English - you have to cater for furriners. For those who don't know what Doric is, it's a quasi-dialect reflecting Gaelic constructions carried uncorrected into English - for instance, Scots Gaelic has little sense of ownership, so "my boat" is "the boat that is with me" or something like it. The result is a far more widespread use of the passive tense, which dilutes the direct sense of hard history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.132.218 (talk) 00:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]