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Would it be better for me to draw up a map for the 1889 administrative counties and replace the map with those? I could do the same for all the others where this is an issue. Obviously, I'd rather prefer to correct the maps.
Morwen 18:00, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)
The current map that ostensibly shows the traditional Counties is a pretty accurate depiction of the post 1889 administrative counties (and the current resgistration counties) minus Cromartyshire (and the bit of Nairnshire incorrectly labeled as Cromarty).
Thus, if you erase the enclaves in ross-shire, there's no need to create a new map for the former administrative counties. (The only other flaw is the fact the loch lomond appears to be in dumbartonshire, which it isn't, although to be honest, I doubt many people will notice.)
I may amend your master map to correctly show the historic Counties (I have a very accurate master map of my own, although the style is different and I'm not prepared to release it into the public domain at the moment). Could I ask what software you use to make the maps?
80.255 18:18, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Exactly. I even already have that maps prepared (see
Ross and Cromarty). Re Loch Lomond - the map is certainly stylized and doesn't show every twiddle of the coastline. To make the maps I use
the Gimp, which is just a raster package.
Morwen 18:26, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)
But that was wrong, as is this. Morayshire and Moray (county) and Moray (traditional county) should redirect to
Elginshire. That's the name used in the Statistical Accounts of 1791–1799 and 1834–1845 - see
here - as the constituency name from 1708 to 1906, and on the first Ordnance Survey. Pont does indeed refer to "Elgin in Moray" (and many other places "in Moray"), but I would think that this should be read as "Elgin in the province of Moray" rather than "Elgin in the county of Moray", not least because Blaeu's later Atlas refers to "Moravia Scotiae provincia" (see
here). And don't get me started on
East Lothian,
West Lothian and
Dunbartonshire.
Angus McLellan(Talk)13:58, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
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Comment - When these entities were used in administration, the "anglicised titles" were commonly used; people did not, in normal speech, refer to 'official titles' such as "the County of Elgin" any more than they refered to "the County of Southampton" instead of saying 'Hampshire'. Calling them 'anglicised' is a red herring; it's question of quasi-official titles that often took the form of County of <<administrative centre>> versus normal English names. Secondly, Morayshire was never known as "the County of Moray"; officially, it has always either been "the county of Elgin" or "Morayshire", so remaning it as you have done is inaccurate on two counts.
Stringops13:53, 2 April 2006 (UTC) (previously 82.26.197.74)reply
Comment In administration, in my experience, Scots referred to these entities as Scots entities, not as English dominions. You're right, People didn't pronounce the full, proper title of their regions/counties. Nor, however, did they use Anglicized names. When referring to Scottish lands, one would more commonly say "I'm gang back tae Argyll," not "I'm going back to Argyllshire." This holds true for other counties such as County Moray, and County Ross. As well, Elginshire would be the preferred term over Morayshire, as evidenced here by many others.
Canaen00:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Comment -
Elginshire gets 12,400 hits on google;
county of moray gets 567, and
Morayshire gets 1,030,000. I think that this, although only a 'google test', demonstrates which name is most commonly used, and thus what the wikipedia article on it should be called.
Stringops14:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
A thoroughly specious comparison, as you very well know, because the huge majority of these results will be refering to the current
council area called
Moray or the former
district of the same name, and not the county. You want to call the article Moray (county), so the only way to test how popular the name 'Moray' is as a specific reference to the county is to search for 'county of Moray' or
moray county (326 hits).
How exactly can we determine whether or not an instance of the word 'Moray' is specifically refering to a county without searching either for 'county of Moray' or 'Moray county'? Clearly, on the other hand, 'Morayshire' is refering only to the county. The mere fact that 'Moray' and the common word 'county' appear on the same page means absolutely nothing. A search for
Moray country gives 1,490,000 results - more than
moray county. Does this mean that, by your logic, we should consider 'Moray' to be a nation state?
Stringops15:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose - I have a low opinion of the value of google hits. Anyways, Morayshire sounds just ridiculous; but as a historical county, I'm with Angus MacLellan, Elginshire is much the best. - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ)22:11, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oh dear, things become more complicated. Was there really no standard way of referring to this, or did County of Elgin and Forres just get transformed into Elginshire - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ)23:16, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose - This is a simply not how we refer to things. These are not
English shires, they are historic
Scottish counties. This is akin to renaming
UlsterUlstershire,simply because Ulster's currently in the
U.K.Canaen23:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Counties only have the suffix "-shire" if there is a county town of the same name eg York - Yorkshire but Taunton - Somerset. Hence this article should not be moved to Morayshire. --
Derek Ross |
Talk03:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Comment - Counties only *need* the shire suffix if there is a town of the same name, but that isn't to say that counties that aren't named after towns can't have it too. There are plenty of examples of such names that have only recently gone out of fashion - Somersetshire, Rutlandshire, Devonshire, &c.
Owain (
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18:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose - the other proposed scottish shires were strange enough - but Morayshire! It sounds ludicrous.
An Siarach
Comment - Proposed? By whom? Why does Morayshire sound ludicrous? According to the Royal Mail it is both a postal county and traditional county.
Owain (
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18:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oh please! The Royal Mail don't have to do anything anyone tells them. The ABC supplied the data, but the Royal Mail added it to the PAF. Shame on anyone who doesn't subscribe to your PoV eh?
Owain (
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18:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
The ABC supplied the (faulty) data, but the Royal Mail added it to the PAF (in good faith and without checking it). I see. Now all is clear. --
Derek Ross |
Talk06:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)reply
A 'Victorian neologism' would be better called an Archaeologism, otherwise known as a word. Also, in pre-19th century usages, it is generally spelt Murray, not Moray. Will you next be arguing that Alba is a far older word than Scotland and therefore we should move the
Scotland article to
Alba? Or move
England to
Albion?
Stringops16:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
He ain't arguing that. He's pointing out that Moray is older than Morayshire, which wipes away the validity of the statement "Restoration of historic name", the statement he was responding to. Actually, the original spellings are either Muireb or Moreb (pronounced as Muref, hence Latinization as Moravia). - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ)19:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
I fully acknowledge that 'Moray', 'Murray' or 'Muireb' are older terms. The question is: where and how should we draw the line when naming articles? The other question - one that you don't seem to accept - is that of what specifically these terms have refered to in the past; this article is about the county; it is not about the general area of the comital province. Morayshire and Elginshire both refer exclusively to the county; phrases like the county of Moray or the county of Elgin also refer exclusively to it; but I haven't yet see any evidence that plain Moray is popularly used for such exclusive reference, and, even if it is, don't you think it makes the title ambiguous in a way that wikipedia should seek to avoid?
Stringops16:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
I was referred here by a post on
WP:AN. The consensus here seems very mixed. I don't feel comfortable closing this discussion. Argue about it for a while longer, please.
JesseW, the juggling janitor 02:54, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
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The ABC supplied the (faulty) data, but the Royal Mail added it to the PAF (in good faith and without checking it). I see. Now all is clear. --
Derek Ross |
Talk06:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Who said it was faulty data? Who said the Royal Mail didn't check it? Obviously there are alternative names for every county and you are free to use whichever alternative you like, but that's no use if the Royal Mail don't supply the data in the first place.
Owain (
talk)
09:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Who said it wasn't ? Who said they did ? Point is that in the absence of that information, the Royal Mail can be considered no more reliable than the ABC on the subject of county names. --
Derek Ross |
Talk15:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)reply
"There were two large detached portions of Morayshire situated locally in Inverness-shire, and a corresponding part of Inverness-shire situated locally in Morayshire. With the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 these parts were merged into the county in which they locally lay." Philips' Handy Atlas of the Counties of Scotland, 1886 edition, shows this reassignment as having already happened:
Philips map "Counties of Elgin & Nairn"
and possibly others. I propose deleting them from the list, unless someone can explain why they should be retained.
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Would it be better for me to draw up a map for the 1889 administrative counties and replace the map with those? I could do the same for all the others where this is an issue. Obviously, I'd rather prefer to correct the maps.
Morwen 18:00, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)
The current map that ostensibly shows the traditional Counties is a pretty accurate depiction of the post 1889 administrative counties (and the current resgistration counties) minus Cromartyshire (and the bit of Nairnshire incorrectly labeled as Cromarty).
Thus, if you erase the enclaves in ross-shire, there's no need to create a new map for the former administrative counties. (The only other flaw is the fact the loch lomond appears to be in dumbartonshire, which it isn't, although to be honest, I doubt many people will notice.)
I may amend your master map to correctly show the historic Counties (I have a very accurate master map of my own, although the style is different and I'm not prepared to release it into the public domain at the moment). Could I ask what software you use to make the maps?
80.255 18:18, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Exactly. I even already have that maps prepared (see
Ross and Cromarty). Re Loch Lomond - the map is certainly stylized and doesn't show every twiddle of the coastline. To make the maps I use
the Gimp, which is just a raster package.
Morwen 18:26, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)
But that was wrong, as is this. Morayshire and Moray (county) and Moray (traditional county) should redirect to
Elginshire. That's the name used in the Statistical Accounts of 1791–1799 and 1834–1845 - see
here - as the constituency name from 1708 to 1906, and on the first Ordnance Survey. Pont does indeed refer to "Elgin in Moray" (and many other places "in Moray"), but I would think that this should be read as "Elgin in the province of Moray" rather than "Elgin in the county of Moray", not least because Blaeu's later Atlas refers to "Moravia Scotiae provincia" (see
here). And don't get me started on
East Lothian,
West Lothian and
Dunbartonshire.
Angus McLellan(Talk)13:58, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Survey
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Comment - When these entities were used in administration, the "anglicised titles" were commonly used; people did not, in normal speech, refer to 'official titles' such as "the County of Elgin" any more than they refered to "the County of Southampton" instead of saying 'Hampshire'. Calling them 'anglicised' is a red herring; it's question of quasi-official titles that often took the form of County of <<administrative centre>> versus normal English names. Secondly, Morayshire was never known as "the County of Moray"; officially, it has always either been "the county of Elgin" or "Morayshire", so remaning it as you have done is inaccurate on two counts.
Stringops13:53, 2 April 2006 (UTC) (previously 82.26.197.74)reply
Comment In administration, in my experience, Scots referred to these entities as Scots entities, not as English dominions. You're right, People didn't pronounce the full, proper title of their regions/counties. Nor, however, did they use Anglicized names. When referring to Scottish lands, one would more commonly say "I'm gang back tae Argyll," not "I'm going back to Argyllshire." This holds true for other counties such as County Moray, and County Ross. As well, Elginshire would be the preferred term over Morayshire, as evidenced here by many others.
Canaen00:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Comment -
Elginshire gets 12,400 hits on google;
county of moray gets 567, and
Morayshire gets 1,030,000. I think that this, although only a 'google test', demonstrates which name is most commonly used, and thus what the wikipedia article on it should be called.
Stringops14:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
A thoroughly specious comparison, as you very well know, because the huge majority of these results will be refering to the current
council area called
Moray or the former
district of the same name, and not the county. You want to call the article Moray (county), so the only way to test how popular the name 'Moray' is as a specific reference to the county is to search for 'county of Moray' or
moray county (326 hits).
How exactly can we determine whether or not an instance of the word 'Moray' is specifically refering to a county without searching either for 'county of Moray' or 'Moray county'? Clearly, on the other hand, 'Morayshire' is refering only to the county. The mere fact that 'Moray' and the common word 'county' appear on the same page means absolutely nothing. A search for
Moray country gives 1,490,000 results - more than
moray county. Does this mean that, by your logic, we should consider 'Moray' to be a nation state?
Stringops15:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose - I have a low opinion of the value of google hits. Anyways, Morayshire sounds just ridiculous; but as a historical county, I'm with Angus MacLellan, Elginshire is much the best. - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ)22:11, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oh dear, things become more complicated. Was there really no standard way of referring to this, or did County of Elgin and Forres just get transformed into Elginshire - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ)23:16, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose - This is a simply not how we refer to things. These are not
English shires, they are historic
Scottish counties. This is akin to renaming
UlsterUlstershire,simply because Ulster's currently in the
U.K.Canaen23:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Counties only have the suffix "-shire" if there is a county town of the same name eg York - Yorkshire but Taunton - Somerset. Hence this article should not be moved to Morayshire. --
Derek Ross |
Talk03:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Comment - Counties only *need* the shire suffix if there is a town of the same name, but that isn't to say that counties that aren't named after towns can't have it too. There are plenty of examples of such names that have only recently gone out of fashion - Somersetshire, Rutlandshire, Devonshire, &c.
Owain (
talk)
18:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose - the other proposed scottish shires were strange enough - but Morayshire! It sounds ludicrous.
An Siarach
Comment - Proposed? By whom? Why does Morayshire sound ludicrous? According to the Royal Mail it is both a postal county and traditional county.
Owain (
talk)
18:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Oh please! The Royal Mail don't have to do anything anyone tells them. The ABC supplied the data, but the Royal Mail added it to the PAF. Shame on anyone who doesn't subscribe to your PoV eh?
Owain (
talk)
18:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
The ABC supplied the (faulty) data, but the Royal Mail added it to the PAF (in good faith and without checking it). I see. Now all is clear. --
Derek Ross |
Talk06:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)reply
A 'Victorian neologism' would be better called an Archaeologism, otherwise known as a word. Also, in pre-19th century usages, it is generally spelt Murray, not Moray. Will you next be arguing that Alba is a far older word than Scotland and therefore we should move the
Scotland article to
Alba? Or move
England to
Albion?
Stringops16:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
He ain't arguing that. He's pointing out that Moray is older than Morayshire, which wipes away the validity of the statement "Restoration of historic name", the statement he was responding to. Actually, the original spellings are either Muireb or Moreb (pronounced as Muref, hence Latinization as Moravia). - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ)19:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
I fully acknowledge that 'Moray', 'Murray' or 'Muireb' are older terms. The question is: where and how should we draw the line when naming articles? The other question - one that you don't seem to accept - is that of what specifically these terms have refered to in the past; this article is about the county; it is not about the general area of the comital province. Morayshire and Elginshire both refer exclusively to the county; phrases like the county of Moray or the county of Elgin also refer exclusively to it; but I haven't yet see any evidence that plain Moray is popularly used for such exclusive reference, and, even if it is, don't you think it makes the title ambiguous in a way that wikipedia should seek to avoid?
Stringops16:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
I was referred here by a post on
WP:AN. The consensus here seems very mixed. I don't feel comfortable closing this discussion. Argue about it for a while longer, please.
JesseW, the juggling janitor 02:54, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
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The ABC supplied the (faulty) data, but the Royal Mail added it to the PAF (in good faith and without checking it). I see. Now all is clear. --
Derek Ross |
Talk06:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Who said it was faulty data? Who said the Royal Mail didn't check it? Obviously there are alternative names for every county and you are free to use whichever alternative you like, but that's no use if the Royal Mail don't supply the data in the first place.
Owain (
talk)
09:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Who said it wasn't ? Who said they did ? Point is that in the absence of that information, the Royal Mail can be considered no more reliable than the ABC on the subject of county names. --
Derek Ross |
Talk15:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)reply
"There were two large detached portions of Morayshire situated locally in Inverness-shire, and a corresponding part of Inverness-shire situated locally in Morayshire. With the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 these parts were merged into the county in which they locally lay." Philips' Handy Atlas of the Counties of Scotland, 1886 edition, shows this reassignment as having already happened:
Philips map "Counties of Elgin & Nairn"
and possibly others. I propose deleting them from the list, unless someone can explain why they should be retained.
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