Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands/Archive

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News[edit]

2008 archive[edit]

May, 2008[edit]

Yesnaby - small place, great scenery.
Inchbuie
Firth#Firths_in_the_Northern_Isles - Firth article was lacking Orkney/Shetland examples. Tidying up and additions welcome.
Over 1500 articles now assessed at WP:IS/A (keeping pace with parent wikiproject Scotland, which has nearly 1800 assessed)
Ronas Hill (highest point in Shetland); Firth, Shetland; Billister
Alloa Inch
Sibhinis (Shivinish, Monach Islands)
Nuclear sub crashes off Skye after 'tracing paper blunder'
Resident revisits Eilean nan Ron

April, 2008[edit]

Barpa Langass, Pobull Fhinn Rock on Uist!
Coat of arms of Orkney
Arrival of several new Orcadian Mainland parishes thanks mostly to Ben MacDui - Evie, Sandwick, Rendall, Stenness, St Ola, St Andrews, Firth. All Mainland parishes now have articles and are illustrated.
Loch of Stenness, biggest freshwater body in Orkney.

March, 2008[edit]

The Minch hit by giant meteorite. [2]
St Kessog and Inchtavannach
Castlebay article substantially expanded.

February, 2008[edit]

Ern Stack
Whiteness, Shetland created (Note: Previous article was at Whiteness, but was deleted without proper procedure, and replaced with a different one)--MacRusgail (talk) 17:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hutton's Unconformity
MacCrimmon (piping family)
Midgarth (possible merge with Linga Holm?)
Scottish Islands Federation
Otterswick, Gloup‎, Copister, West Sandwick
Ellanderroch
Shipwreck Rat Fears for St Kilda birds
Several interesting new articles including - Séon Carsuel, SS St. Sunniva
Air link between Shetland and Norway to be restored

January, 2008[edit]

Nesting, Northmavine, Cunningsburgh; South Isle of Gletness, Flotta
Deerness, Harray, Holm, Mainland Orkney, Orphir; Hoy, Shetland, Langa, Shetland
Holm of Noss (Cradle Holm); Fife adventurers; Inishail
Category:River islands of Scotland
Creinch, Inchgalbraith
Len Bennett (1/3 of Davaar's population) goes missing
~~Image:Island Games 2005 logo.jpg up for deletion~~ - needed fair use rationale
Haskeir
Over 1100 articles now assessed at WP:IS/A (fast catching up with parent wikiproject Scotland, which has over 1500 assessed)
Photo count - top 180 by area = 139/180 (with pictures - warning: may not yet be accurate figure)

2007 archive[edit]

December, 2007[edit]

Mystery object washed up on Benbecula beach (<-It's a Coors brewing tower)
Arrival of Hinba.
Isle Maree (cut and paste job), Eilean Sùbhainn‎; then Eilean Ruairidh Mòr and Garbh Eilean, Loch Maree started
Eileanan Iasgaich (note, not one island, so 50ha area is highly questionable)
All (current) articles on Islands of the Forth group have pictures, and all Islands of the Clyde >40 ha
All articles on individual islands in the top 70 by area now have photographs. (Remainder by area Top 80: 78/80; Top 90: 88/90; Top 100: 94/100)
All articles on individual inhabited islands now have photographs.
Second (known) deletion nomination Scottish Gaelic punk (vaguely connected with WPSI...)
Rabbit Islands, Scotland

November, 2007[edit]

Happy Valley (garden)
3,760 residents of Lewis and Harris sign petition against Sunday sailings by CalMac
"Very serious" fire means more than 100 workers were evacuated from oil rig off Shetland.
All articles on individual islands with population of 10 or over now have photographs.
All articles in the two rankings list in the top 70 by population and top 50 by area, respectively, now have photographs.
Seventy Shetland fishermen asked to pay back million pounds to council
Wee Free has shortage of ministers, including Gàidhlig speakers
A massive prehistoric wall has been found in Stenness, Orkney
Over 1,000 articles now assessed at WP:IS/A
Flodday near Barra; Craiglethy; Neish Island, Innis Chonnell; Nave Island
Template:Lewis and Harris created, constructive comments welcome.
The Scottish Islands Federation has been formed from the Scottish Islands Network. [3]
Eilean Mòr, Crowlin Islands - also rank by area 118 not 94 ~~(other renumbering to-do)~~
Eilean Aigas
Eilean Munde
Birds on St Kilda killing each other
Shetlands one of top island destinations in world. According to National Geographic.
Samalan Island
Suggested merger of Garbh Sgeir with Hyskeir. See Talk:Garbh Sgeir

October, 2007[edit]

Over 900 articles now assessed at WP:IS/A
First seal pups of the year seen on Isle of May and surrounding islands, link also here
Black Holm, Eilean an Taighe (nb - both fairly common names, may require disambiguation)
Gannets in danger, Scotsman newspaper launches campaign to save marine life
Soay sheep use horns to fight over food
Lampay
Expansion of the article on Lady Isle, Firth of Clyde, Ayrshire.
Important new cat Category:Tidal islands in Scotland - please populate
The bot found John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. Possibly the only UK PM buried on a Scottish island? Although John Smith is another UK party leader who was buried in the islands.

September, 2007[edit]

The arrival of User:AlexNewArtBot/ScottishIslandsSearchResult. Details here.
Conference in Iceland- over continental shelf rights in Rockall area
Shetlanders want £1.5m weather radar- "Tourists sometimes ask me what the summer was like up here. I tell them it was on a Tuesday."
Fuaigh Beag
Linga, Linga, Linga, and East Linga
Barrel of Butter, Holm of Hebristra
(Shetland) Gloup Holm, Orfasay; (Inner Hebrides) Fladda-chùain, Mingay
Rare bee flourishing in Outer Hebrides- Northern Colletes (Did you know article, 18 September)
(Shetland) Haaf Gruney, Little Roe; (Orkney) Horse of Copinsay, Thieves Holm; Oldany Island, Hellisay
(Orkney) Holm of Houton, Holm of Scockness; (Outer Hebrides) Eilean Iubhard, Stuley
Shorter articles on inhabited Orkney islands expanded, along with Whitehall
First related article in deletion sorting since project founded - John 'Tonkan' Macdonald
Yorkshireman Andy Strangeway becomes the first person to sleep on every Scottish island with an area of over 40 hectares. [4]

August, 2007[edit]

Corn Holm & Black Holm seen from Copinsay

The old Shillay lighthouse became redundant in 1942; the newer light was installed in 1997.

Major vessels in the CalMac fleet added/expanded (minor to follow, eventually).
All populated islands now have infoboxes (courtesy of Finavon).
Assessed articles total now exceeds 500, total including unassessed exceeds 700 (largely courtesy of MacRusgail).
Large number of new Shetland articles, often from Shetlopedia including Literature of Shetland, The Shetland Times, Vagaland, The New Shetlander, Jakob Jakobsen et al
Hermetray; Islands of Fleet; MacCormaig Isles
Gunna, Island Macaskin, Sodom, Shetland (sic - former home of Hugh MacDiarmid)
(Orkney) Corn Holm, Rusk Holm, Holm of Faray, Holm of Huip, Sweyn Holm, Kili Holm, Calf of Flotta
(Monach Islands) Ceann Iar, Shillay, Monach Isles, (Shetland) Ramna Stacks, Uynarey
5,000 year old Skara Brae vandalised and graffitied [5][6]
Scalloway Islands, Ceann Ear
Bigga, Shetland, Bigga (disambiguation)
Inchtalla (probably should be Inch Talla, but both are variants) in Lake of Menteith.
Added red-linked islands at List of Orkney islands: Rysa Little, Cava, Muckle Green Holm, Hunda, Damsay
Islands of the Forth, Inchfad - new articles.
Another 19 infoboxes added - top 50 by area and 50 by population now covered (approx 102 pages with infobox)
Dùn Channuill and Template:Garvellachs created
Puffin populations crash on Fidra and Craigleith [7]
Puffin colony on Craigleith recovers thanks to hundreds of volunteers [8]
The arrival of Little Bernera courtesy of Finavon - Infobox transclusion (circa) 66. (Original target date for this transclusion, sometime in 2017).

Did you know (DYK)s[edit]

The following island articles have appeared on the Main Page in the Did You Know? section.

2007[edit]

December: Hinba
October: Lady Isle
August: Balfour, Orkney
July: List of Orkney islands, Mingulay, Lunga

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