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I am seeing a need for some disambiguation as regards the names of now historic districts and a need for articles named for the districts. Please see Caithness District (1975 to 1996). Laurel Bush 16:54, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC).
Who is the authority's chief executive? This information seems much more pertinent than names of MPs and MSPs. Laurel Bush 18:24, 5 August 2005 (UTC).
I think this article should be moved to the Highland Council area, both to avoid ambiguity with the many other uses of the word 'highland', and not least because the website of the body itself, [1], refers to itself always as the Highland Council, and its area both as the Highland Council area and the Highlands - but never simply Highland. I shall do this presently if there are no objections. 80.255 20:53, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
As per the discussion above of a few months ago, I request deletion of Highland council area page in order to move this article back to its proper title. 80.255 01:25, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Why not treat Highland as a proper noun? It does happen, and I cant see any good reason why it should not. Laurel Bush 11:13, 10 January 2006 (UTC).
Denial of the usability of Highland as a noun is akin to denial of the usability of United Kingdom as an adjective. The latter denial perpetuates usage of British where United Kingdom would be more appropriate. Laurel Bush 15:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC).
Oppose page move. It would make Highland the only subdivision of Scotland using that form. The standard Wikipedia title for all these entities in "X", not "X Council" or "X Council area". Have a look at Category:Unitary authorities of Scotland. (PS. the entire Wikipedia prentation of the subdivisions of Scotland - both modern and historic - is disinctly second-rate. We really ought to establish a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Subdivisions of Scotland to co-ordinate the considerable work required.-- Mais oui! 15:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Please see User:Laurel Bush/Workshop I. It is about Subdivisions of Scotland, and not yet full developed. I am planning also, in the same workshop, a 'redraft' of Council areas of Scotland (currently a redirect to Subdivisions). I would welcome comment in the workshop's tallk page. Laurel Bush 16:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC).
The map fails to include Orkney and Shetland as politically part of Scotland. They are not even depicted in an inset map, as is often done with remote territorial fragments such as islands and exclaves in order to save "empty map space". The same goes for maps of the United Kingdom and England, which sometimes fail to take into account that the Isles of Scilly and of Wight are in England, and not a foreign country like the Man. Perhaps these maps should be altered to reflect this? // Big Adamsky 20:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Highland (council area) → Highland – there is no need for disambiguation.-- Mais oui! 16:11, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I think Scottish Highlands covers a larger area than the Highland Council Area. This is a good reason for using Highland as a noun. Denial of its usability as a noun encourages confusing use of the Highlands to mean Highland, as is the case in a lot of Highland Council literature. (The council claims to represent the Highlands.) Laurel Bush 10:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC).
Not moved, no consensus. — Nightstallion (?) 09:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I note the statement that 11 councillors are Liberal Democrats. I am able to find just 7 Liberal Democrats in Highland Council wards and councillors 2003 to 2007. Laurel Bush 10:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC).
-- Mais oui! 09:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
This statement is now somewhat dated:
This council maintains area committees named after the old districts
The area committees are about to be abolished, except re Inverness (where there will be major changes to committee area boundaries).
At present, however, I lack precise details re Invernes, eg names of wards to be included in the new Inverness area.
Laurel Bush
11:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
Would I be right in thinking that the council HQ buildings represent a re-use of premises of the historic Inverness county council? Apart from the way advertised by council billboards fronting Glenurqhart Road, the buildings not unattractive. Laurel Bush 14:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC).
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The map in the info box presumably shows Schotland. However, it fails displaying the Shetland islands. Hope somebody can fix that. Tomeasy ( talk) 16:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Has Highland regional Flag? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.86.230.114 ( talk) 10:42, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
The political representation section seems to need daily updates. SNP are now out of the administration, and councillors seem to be changing group/party on a daily basis. 212.219.203.252 ( talk) 14:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC).
Is the area correct because it says 30,000km2 but the council place by area says its 25,000
I notice that the list of villages in Highland omits crofting villages such as Dalhalvaig and Croick. Is there a reason for this? And how would one learn where they fit into the geopolitical structure? Their respective stubs in Wikipedia do not offer much in the way of explanation. Texastriviaguy ( talk) 18:13, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
I have deleted "This was due to a combination of factors that included the outlawing of the traditional Highland way of life following the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the infamous Highland Clearances and mass migration to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution." from the geography section. The deleted text attempts to explain the reason for the fall in population of the Highland area in the second half of the 19th century.
It has been deleted because:
The opinions are completely unreferenced.
What exactly does "outlawing the.....way of life" mean? In relation to any actual legislation, this is nonsense.
There is ample research (and citable sources, for instance
[1]: xxiii, 414 and passim ) to show that the Highland population was rising for most of the time of the clearances - reduction started in 1841 and continued for 160 years. However counter-intuitive it might appear, the greatest population falls in the Highlands occurred after the end of the clearances. So a brief mention of the Highland clearances, without any further explanation, is misleading as if furthers simplistic and erroneous assumptions.
Whilst it is true that many Highlanders migrated to the cities of Scotland, mentioning just this omits the large numbers of people who emigrated to Canada, the USA and Australia. Furthermore, what is meant by "mass" migration? Did everyone go all at the same time, or does this just signify a large number of people?
There is no mention of the
Highland Potato Famine, so unbalancing the entire explanation.
I have not added any replacement text, as I am not sure that a historical account is rightfully placed in a geography section. (Yes, I am aware of the discipline of "historical geography".)
ThoughtIdRetired (
talk)
08:07, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
References
I propose that The Highland Council be merged into Highland (council area). I preciously suggested a merge with Politics of the Highland council area but withdrew this after consideration, as the wider and historical aspects justify two articles (in addition to the general Scottish Highlands article). However, these other two are basically synonyms covering the same topic of the extant local authority covering an area of low population. Only one is needed. Crowsus ( talk) 19:22, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
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I am seeing a need for some disambiguation as regards the names of now historic districts and a need for articles named for the districts. Please see Caithness District (1975 to 1996). Laurel Bush 16:54, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC).
Who is the authority's chief executive? This information seems much more pertinent than names of MPs and MSPs. Laurel Bush 18:24, 5 August 2005 (UTC).
I think this article should be moved to the Highland Council area, both to avoid ambiguity with the many other uses of the word 'highland', and not least because the website of the body itself, [1], refers to itself always as the Highland Council, and its area both as the Highland Council area and the Highlands - but never simply Highland. I shall do this presently if there are no objections. 80.255 20:53, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
As per the discussion above of a few months ago, I request deletion of Highland council area page in order to move this article back to its proper title. 80.255 01:25, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Why not treat Highland as a proper noun? It does happen, and I cant see any good reason why it should not. Laurel Bush 11:13, 10 January 2006 (UTC).
Denial of the usability of Highland as a noun is akin to denial of the usability of United Kingdom as an adjective. The latter denial perpetuates usage of British where United Kingdom would be more appropriate. Laurel Bush 15:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC).
Oppose page move. It would make Highland the only subdivision of Scotland using that form. The standard Wikipedia title for all these entities in "X", not "X Council" or "X Council area". Have a look at Category:Unitary authorities of Scotland. (PS. the entire Wikipedia prentation of the subdivisions of Scotland - both modern and historic - is disinctly second-rate. We really ought to establish a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Subdivisions of Scotland to co-ordinate the considerable work required.-- Mais oui! 15:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Please see User:Laurel Bush/Workshop I. It is about Subdivisions of Scotland, and not yet full developed. I am planning also, in the same workshop, a 'redraft' of Council areas of Scotland (currently a redirect to Subdivisions). I would welcome comment in the workshop's tallk page. Laurel Bush 16:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC).
The map fails to include Orkney and Shetland as politically part of Scotland. They are not even depicted in an inset map, as is often done with remote territorial fragments such as islands and exclaves in order to save "empty map space". The same goes for maps of the United Kingdom and England, which sometimes fail to take into account that the Isles of Scilly and of Wight are in England, and not a foreign country like the Man. Perhaps these maps should be altered to reflect this? // Big Adamsky 20:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Highland (council area) → Highland – there is no need for disambiguation.-- Mais oui! 16:11, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I think Scottish Highlands covers a larger area than the Highland Council Area. This is a good reason for using Highland as a noun. Denial of its usability as a noun encourages confusing use of the Highlands to mean Highland, as is the case in a lot of Highland Council literature. (The council claims to represent the Highlands.) Laurel Bush 10:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC).
Not moved, no consensus. — Nightstallion (?) 09:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I note the statement that 11 councillors are Liberal Democrats. I am able to find just 7 Liberal Democrats in Highland Council wards and councillors 2003 to 2007. Laurel Bush 10:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC).
-- Mais oui! 09:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
This statement is now somewhat dated:
This council maintains area committees named after the old districts
The area committees are about to be abolished, except re Inverness (where there will be major changes to committee area boundaries).
At present, however, I lack precise details re Invernes, eg names of wards to be included in the new Inverness area.
Laurel Bush
11:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
Would I be right in thinking that the council HQ buildings represent a re-use of premises of the historic Inverness county council? Apart from the way advertised by council billboards fronting Glenurqhart Road, the buildings not unattractive. Laurel Bush 14:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC).
Image:Highland arms.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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Image:Highlandlogo.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 19:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
The map in the info box presumably shows Schotland. However, it fails displaying the Shetland islands. Hope somebody can fix that. Tomeasy ( talk) 16:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Has Highland regional Flag? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.86.230.114 ( talk) 10:42, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
The political representation section seems to need daily updates. SNP are now out of the administration, and councillors seem to be changing group/party on a daily basis. 212.219.203.252 ( talk) 14:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC).
Is the area correct because it says 30,000km2 but the council place by area says its 25,000
I notice that the list of villages in Highland omits crofting villages such as Dalhalvaig and Croick. Is there a reason for this? And how would one learn where they fit into the geopolitical structure? Their respective stubs in Wikipedia do not offer much in the way of explanation. Texastriviaguy ( talk) 18:13, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
I have deleted "This was due to a combination of factors that included the outlawing of the traditional Highland way of life following the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the infamous Highland Clearances and mass migration to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution." from the geography section. The deleted text attempts to explain the reason for the fall in population of the Highland area in the second half of the 19th century.
It has been deleted because:
The opinions are completely unreferenced.
What exactly does "outlawing the.....way of life" mean? In relation to any actual legislation, this is nonsense.
There is ample research (and citable sources, for instance
[1]: xxiii, 414 and passim ) to show that the Highland population was rising for most of the time of the clearances - reduction started in 1841 and continued for 160 years. However counter-intuitive it might appear, the greatest population falls in the Highlands occurred after the end of the clearances. So a brief mention of the Highland clearances, without any further explanation, is misleading as if furthers simplistic and erroneous assumptions.
Whilst it is true that many Highlanders migrated to the cities of Scotland, mentioning just this omits the large numbers of people who emigrated to Canada, the USA and Australia. Furthermore, what is meant by "mass" migration? Did everyone go all at the same time, or does this just signify a large number of people?
There is no mention of the
Highland Potato Famine, so unbalancing the entire explanation.
I have not added any replacement text, as I am not sure that a historical account is rightfully placed in a geography section. (Yes, I am aware of the discipline of "historical geography".)
ThoughtIdRetired (
talk)
08:07, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
References
I propose that The Highland Council be merged into Highland (council area). I preciously suggested a merge with Politics of the Highland council area but withdrew this after consideration, as the wider and historical aspects justify two articles (in addition to the general Scottish Highlands article). However, these other two are basically synonyms covering the same topic of the extant local authority covering an area of low population. Only one is needed. Crowsus ( talk) 19:22, 2 December 2018 (UTC)