Wikipedia:WikiProject Clans of Scotland
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Hello, and welcome to the WikiProject Clans of Scotland. This WikiProject aims primarily to organise and developed a series of articles about the clans of Scotland. This includes each clan's individual characteristics such as their songs, tartans, mottos, arms, chiefs, battles etc.
Our guidelines, written by us for us, are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!
[edit] Tasks
The unassigned priorities for the Project are as follows. It would be nice to get at least the first two done by the end of July 2009, in time for Homecoming Scotland 2009 :
- Improve the "Big 3" articles to GA standard and beyond : Scottish clan, Tartan, Kilt
- Expand the remaining clan/branch stubs : Clan Cairns, Clan Craig, Clan Fenton, Clan Ged, Clan Grierson, Clan Kelly, Clan Kirkpatrick, Clan Maxton, Clan Stuart of Bute, Clan Udny, Clan Walkinshaw, Frasers of Inverallochy, Frasers of Muchalls, Maclean of Duart
- Improve our 10 next most popular articles to GA standard : Scottish Highlands, Battle of Culloden, Massacre of Glencoe, Highland Clearances, Clan Campbell, Clan Donald, Clan MacLeod, Border Reivers, Sept (social), Lord of the Isles
- Expand other stubs such as : Aulay Macaulay of Ardincaple, Derbfine, Fosterage, John MacLeod of MacLeod, R. R. McIan, Statutes of Iona
When expanding stubs, remember that they become eligible for a Did you know? slot on the main page if you can expand them 5-fold within 5 days. It's worth organising your edits accordingly, if necessary editing offline with a {{Under construction}} template on the article itself until you're ready to unveil the expansion.
[edit] News
- Did you know
- 2 Jul 2009 – A fact from Clan Macdonald of Sleat (talk) appeared on the main page.
Other news
- 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
- 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
- 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
- 30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot.
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[edit] Parentage
[edit] Related Wikiprojects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Medieval Scotland
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Castles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy
[edit] Participants
Place {{User WP Clans of Scotland}} on your userpage to advertise your membership of this project.
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- CatherineMunro
- Celtus - Project stalwart, for all things clan-related
- Chuq
- Craigenputtock - primarily working on Clan Campbell branch, Carter-Campbell of Possil
- Czar Brodie - primarily working on Clan Brodie
- Derek Ross
- Jza84
- Kathryn NicDhàna - Celtic culture
- Kittybrewster - biographies, particularly for WikiProject Baronetcies
- Le Deluge - clan battles and general coordination/assessment stuff
- Nfras - general clans, particularly Mackintosh
- Norinko - primarily working on Clan Wood
- Petedavo
- QuintusPetillius - various clans and battles, primarily finding sources to be used as references
- RedStan - MacLeods and battles
- Rosiestep
- ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ - primarily working on Clan Sinclair
- Trevor MacInnis
[edit] Inactive participants
- Amiens984
- Canaen - primarily working on Clan Fraser
- fonzy
- The Great Gavini - primarily working on Clan Drummond
- Isis
- JFPerry - currently working on the Highland Games Wikicity
- Psycotics1454 - various clans and battles
- WilliamThweatt - primarily working on Clan MacThomas and related clans
[edit] Assessment
Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Clans of Scotland supported articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Clans of Scotland/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 4 days or so.
| Clans of Scotland articles |
Importance | ||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 A |
1 | 1 | |||||
 GA |
1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| B | 2 | 14 | 8 | 24 | |||
| C | 9 | 13 | 30 | 8 | 60 | ||
| Start | 7 | 158 | 53 | 3 | 221 | ||
| Stub | 1 | 18 | 42 | 61 | |||
| List | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Assessed | 13 | 23 | 222 | 111 | 3 | 372 | |
| Unassessed | 80 | 80 | |||||
| Total | 13 | 23 | 222 | 111 | 83 | 452 | |
[edit] Templates
- {{Scottish clans}}, Navbox
Our main infobox, {{Infobox Clan}}, still needs some work before widespread deployment. Other infoboxes that may be useful include :
- {{Infobox Person}} and more specific versions such as :
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- {{Infobox Military Person}}
- {{Infobox Monarch}}
- {{Infobox Officeholder}} (synonyms include {{Infobox MSP}} and {{Infobox Politician}})
- {{Infobox Peer}}
Our main stub tag is {{scotland-clan-stub}}. In general try to use the most specific stub tag you can find, rather than a general one like {{scotland-stub}} :
- {{heraldry-stub}}
- {{scotland-bio-stub}}
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- {{scotland-noble-stub}} (synonyms include {{scotland-peer-stub}}, {{scotland-duke-stub}}, {{scotland-earl-stub}})
- {{scotland-politician-stub}}, {{GreatBritain-MP-stub}}, {{MSP-stub}}
- {{UK-mil-bio-stub}}, {{UK-army-bio-stub}}
- {{scotland-hist-stub}}
- {{scotland-org-stub}}
- {{UK-battle-stub}}
Some sample pages (need redoing?)
[edit] Achievements
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Featured articles - none, you can be the first!
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Good articles - Clan MacAulay (nominated by Celtus, passed 23/Sept/07), Clan Maclachlan (Celtus 2/Mar/08), Scottish crest badge (Celtus 19/Sept/08)
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Did you know? - (incomplete list) Clan Schaw (Created or expanded 5-fold by Celtus, appeared 4/Feb/09), Stand-off at the Fords of Arkaig (Le Deluge 21/Apr/09), Battle of Lochaber (Le Deluge 26/Apr/09)
[edit] Resources
[edit] Free or out-of-copyright sources
- Books
- The Scottish Clans And Their Tartans: With Notes (Library Edition ed.). Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston. 1900?. http://www.archive.org/details/scottishclansand00edin.
- Eyre-Todd, George (1923). The Highland Clans Of Scotland; Their History And Traditions. 1. New York: D. Appleton. http://www.archive.org/details/highlandclansofs01eyreuoft.
- Eyre-Todd, George (1923). The Highland Clans Of Scotland; Their History And Traditions. 2. New York: D. Appleton. http://www.archive.org/details/highlandclansofs02eyreuoft.
- Websites
- Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs - Lists recognised clans with brief summaries for most. Also lists of member chiefs of the Standing Council.
- myclan.com used to be owned by the Standing Council, and archive.org still has its list of clans which appears to be derived from the 1994 Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopaedia (see below).
- The RCAHMS site has lots of details of the physical traces left by clan life, although the Archaeology Data Service has a slicker interface for finding artefacts on a map - have a look around near the clan seat or site of a battle.
- Google Books has a wealth of 19th century books to search - they can be pretty biased, but are good for referencing basic facts about a clan.
- The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 - St Andrews have digitised official government documents and charters, a great resource.
- www.electricscotland.com - be wary of this. It often comes up near the top of Google web searches, but seems to have a mix of old documents (which can usually be found in better referenced, more transparent form on Google Books) and seductive webpages about clans which are often just copies of the equivalent Wikipedia article! Even if it's not a circular reference from here, their text is probably taken from a book that's available on Google Books or archive.org or similar, usually without attribution. So Electric Scotland is generally not a reliable source for article references, but it is a good source of "bait" phrases for web searches and Google Books searches, as well as general background reading.
[edit] Published sources
- Way of Plean, George; Squire, Romilly (2000). Clans & Tartans. Glasgow: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-472501 8.
- Maclean, Fitzroy (1997). Highlanders; A History of the Scottish Clans. New York: Penguin Studio Books.
- Way of Plean, George; Squire, Romilly (1994). Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopaedia.
- Grant, Neil (1987). Scottish Clans & Tartans. New York: Crescent Books.
- McIan, R.R. and Logan, James (1985). The Clans of the Scottish Highlands. New York: Crescent Books.
- Bain, Robert; Stewart-Blacker, P. E.; MacDougall, Margaret O. (ed.) (1983). The Clans And Tartans Of Scotland. London: Fontana. ISBN 0-00-411117-6. - also ISBN 0-00-6364160. Contains information on a clan and its history, crests, mottos, tartans (with a color plate of each), etc.
- Adam, Frank; Innes of Learney, Thomas (1970). The Clans, Septs & Regiments of the Scottish Highlands (8th edition ed.). Edinburgh: Johnston and Bacon.
- Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Sir Iain (1967). The Highland Clans. London: Barrie & Rockliff.
- Munro, R.W. (1989). Highland Clans and Tartans. London: Peerage Books.
- The History of the Feuds and Conflicts Among the Clans in the Northern Parts of Scotland.... Foulis Press (since reprinted many times). 1764. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lIEuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage. - commonly known as Conflicts of the Clans, this was one of the earliest books about clan warfare and Chinese whispers versions of its text have appeared in many subsequent histories. It's best to avoid such derivative texts, although the original is not altogether reliable and uses somewhat archaic language so for instance the battles may not use the modern names.
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