Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands/Archive

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Brough Holm

Alloa Inch

News

Disused grain mill at Tankerness, St Andrews, Orkney

2008 archive

September, 2008

• Loch Coruisk, Sgurr na Coinnich
• Bernera, Lismore - interesting island, needs expansion.
• 2007 Collaborations + "DYK"s archived.
• Remote dig offers clues to life in the Iron Age & Iron Age Jawbone on Baleshare
• Aber Inch, Ceardach, Eilean Deargannan‎, Ross Isles
• Giolla Críost Brúilingeach
• Bucinch, Clairinsh, Fraoch Eilean, Island I Vow, Tarbet Isle, Wallace's Isle
• Infanticide rife on Isle of May
• Scotland's first no fishing zone in Lamlash Bay [1].
• Extreme points of Scotland
• Category:Railways on Scottish Islands
• Over 1,700 articles now assessed as part of WPSI.
• Prehistoric Orkney

August, 2008

• Soay sheep don't get SAD

July, 2008

• 2007 news archived
• Balfour Hospital
• Inveruglas Isle
• Crown Dependency of Forvik - subject of a bit of debate.

June, 2008

• Bernera Riot
• George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth, Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth
• Brough Holm, Burwick Holm, Cheynies, Fish Holm, Greena, Hoo Stack, Lady's Holm, Little Havra, Little Holm, Yell Sound; Little Holm, Scatness; Little Linga, Lunna Holm; Muckle Holm, Yell Sound‎; North Isle of Gletness‎, Sound Gruney, Urie Lingey
• Rhoda Bulter becomes a peacock (some weird wikipedian term apparently)
• Roderick Wright
• Waternish, Trotternish, Loch Snizort

May, 2008

• 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

• 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

MacCrimmon or the Victorian idea of one

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

February, 2008

The Brough of Deerness

• 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)
• 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

Eilean Ruairidh Mòr

• 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

December, 2007

Eilean Bàn with Skye beyond

• 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

Lady Isle with Ailsa Craig beyond

West coast of Eilean Mòr, Crowlin Islands

• 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

Horse of Copinsay from north west

• 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

Bigga, Shetland

• 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

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

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

2007

• 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