Talk:Lady Isle

Excellent progress on this article. With a bit of work it would be a credible Good Article candidate. If a more detailed assessment is of value drop me a note to my talk page or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scottish Islands. Ben MacDui (Talk) 17:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

We'll need to correct the references before nominating this as a good article. If anyone wants to help do this, and doesn't know how, please read Wikipedia:Citing sources. If you still have questions, leave a message on my talk page. Lurker (said · done) 13:25, 14 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Other issues -

TOC - in wrong position

Geog: - round not square brackets, and tedious though it is, consistency is needed with imperial and metric i.e. each mention should have both, with one or other consistenly first.

Evidence from Old maps needs lower case 'O'

John Adair in his 1686 A mape of the west of Scotland containing Clydsdail, Nithsdail, Ranfrew, Shyre of Ayre, & Galloway. (manuscript),

why 'manuscript' ? and the comma looks peculiar after the period

In 1745 Moll used the name lady Isle. should be 'Lady Isle', unless you mean 'lady Isle' (sic).

<ref name="Moll">[http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/counties.html Herman Moll's map]</ref> Should be <ref name="Moll">[http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/counties.cfm?id=247 "Counties of Scotland, 1580-1928: Herman Moll's 1732 map"] National Library of Scotland. Retrieved [[14 October]] [[2007]].</ref> All refs should have the page title, publisher and retrieval date - and in this case the exact page url, not the generic list, which a non-Scot might be unable to find the specific page from.

Written history needs a copy edit - quicker to do than to explain. I'll attempt it asap.

I will also attempt to provide an 'Auto Peer Review'. This may be able to fix a few issues and suggest others that I will print out below. More to follow but I am short of time at present. Ben MacDui (Talk) 16:05, 14 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

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You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Ben MacDui (Talk) 16:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

30 January? Is that even English? Or just another example of creeping Americanism on wikipedia... --MacRusgail 12:33, 17 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

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