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To the southern inhabitants of Scotland, the state of the mountains and islands is equally known with that of Borneo and Sumatra: of both they have only heard a little, and guess the rest. Samuel Johnson, 1703.
The land areas used in both the list and the Infoboxes are all Haswell-Smith's estimates. We are, I think, agreed that his definition is flawed: "an Island is a piece of land or group of pieces of land which is entirely surrounded by water at Lowest Astronomical Tide and to which there is no permanent means of dry access" on the grounds that the last clause excludes Skye etc.
However, there area various islands on the article list which also fail his definition as they are tidal (e.g. Davaar, Baleshare, Shuna) .This only becomes an issue for the area rank of the islands after about No. 50, which is roughly where South Walls would be. My understanding is that until about the beginning of the 20th century South Walls was a tidal island but is now connected to Hoy by a causeway. For consistency it would ideally be treated as an island in its own right, but I can't find a reference that provides a separate land area for it. (Uncharacteristically Haswell-Smith does not supply one although he does for other tidal islands).
There are various options, but it seems to me that the most credible and consistent one is to:
I will proceed on this basis unless there are objections. Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
"A feature of modern island life is the low crime rate and they are considered to be amongst the safest places to live in the UK."
Isn't this more of a lack of an undesirable feature?-- h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 11:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Depends which way you look at it I suppose. If you have an alternative suggestion for the phrasing, please feel free to present it for discussion. Ben MacDui (Talk)/ (Walk) 13:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
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I notice use of "Highland" under Group. There are various islands and groups of islands within the Highland local authority area, but I know of no single Highland group of islands. Laurel Bush ( talk) 16:46, 10 December 2007 (UTC).
Would make more sense to me to use another column in the table to link all the islands to local authority areas, and to use None under Group where this is approriate. Laurel Bush ( talk) 11:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC).
I'm not an islands expert, but someone might like to sort out this island. It appears in the Islands of the Clyde template, as redlink Eilean Dearg, and is listed in the Islands of the Clyde article, under Bute, as relink Eilean Dearg, Loch Riddon, but doesn't seem to be in this main List at all - except, presumably, under a different name, different spelling, English version, etc! Over to you, experts. PamD ( talk) 16:05, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey, what about crannogs? Those are islands in lochs in Scotland that were formed artificially by semi-prehistoric humans as budget-type castles--build a platform on poles in the water and draw up the connecting boards on the corresponding bridge to land, at night. Over time, there were actual islands build up, no longer on poles, and these islands are very noticeable as unnatural islands in glacier-carved lochs that wouldn't otherwise have any islands at all. At least according to the Crannog Museum on Loch Tay, visited recently. Don't these deserve mention? There are a finite number of them, too, could probably be listed easily. doncram ( talk) 05:31, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
You are right in that they definitely deserve a mention, although as wholly artificial in nature I think they fall outwith the scope of the list. I've added a link to List of artificial islands and will add something here. They could certainly be listed although the main article suggests 600 of them in Scotland alone. If you'd like any help in starting a list, just let me know. Ben Mac Dui 17:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
This list is a bit random and given that (I hope!) all islands are now listed in the archipelago lists it might be useful to have some minimum criteria for inclusion here. Size, notability and existence of a blue link might be amongst them, but they are not easy to categorise, or indeed measure in many instances. Ben Mac Dui 09:33, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, The main table doesn't have a column for group or archipelago - would it be okay for me to add this? Jonathan Ellis ( talk) 17:36, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
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To the southern inhabitants of Scotland, the state of the mountains and islands is equally known with that of Borneo and Sumatra: of both they have only heard a little, and guess the rest. Samuel Johnson, 1703.
The land areas used in both the list and the Infoboxes are all Haswell-Smith's estimates. We are, I think, agreed that his definition is flawed: "an Island is a piece of land or group of pieces of land which is entirely surrounded by water at Lowest Astronomical Tide and to which there is no permanent means of dry access" on the grounds that the last clause excludes Skye etc.
However, there area various islands on the article list which also fail his definition as they are tidal (e.g. Davaar, Baleshare, Shuna) .This only becomes an issue for the area rank of the islands after about No. 50, which is roughly where South Walls would be. My understanding is that until about the beginning of the 20th century South Walls was a tidal island but is now connected to Hoy by a causeway. For consistency it would ideally be treated as an island in its own right, but I can't find a reference that provides a separate land area for it. (Uncharacteristically Haswell-Smith does not supply one although he does for other tidal islands).
There are various options, but it seems to me that the most credible and consistent one is to:
I will proceed on this basis unless there are objections. Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
"A feature of modern island life is the low crime rate and they are considered to be amongst the safest places to live in the UK."
Isn't this more of a lack of an undesirable feature?-- h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 11:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Depends which way you look at it I suppose. If you have an alternative suggestion for the phrasing, please feel free to present it for discussion. Ben MacDui (Talk)/ (Walk) 13:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
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I notice use of "Highland" under Group. There are various islands and groups of islands within the Highland local authority area, but I know of no single Highland group of islands. Laurel Bush ( talk) 16:46, 10 December 2007 (UTC).
Would make more sense to me to use another column in the table to link all the islands to local authority areas, and to use None under Group where this is approriate. Laurel Bush ( talk) 11:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC).
I'm not an islands expert, but someone might like to sort out this island. It appears in the Islands of the Clyde template, as redlink Eilean Dearg, and is listed in the Islands of the Clyde article, under Bute, as relink Eilean Dearg, Loch Riddon, but doesn't seem to be in this main List at all - except, presumably, under a different name, different spelling, English version, etc! Over to you, experts. PamD ( talk) 16:05, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey, what about crannogs? Those are islands in lochs in Scotland that were formed artificially by semi-prehistoric humans as budget-type castles--build a platform on poles in the water and draw up the connecting boards on the corresponding bridge to land, at night. Over time, there were actual islands build up, no longer on poles, and these islands are very noticeable as unnatural islands in glacier-carved lochs that wouldn't otherwise have any islands at all. At least according to the Crannog Museum on Loch Tay, visited recently. Don't these deserve mention? There are a finite number of them, too, could probably be listed easily. doncram ( talk) 05:31, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
You are right in that they definitely deserve a mention, although as wholly artificial in nature I think they fall outwith the scope of the list. I've added a link to List of artificial islands and will add something here. They could certainly be listed although the main article suggests 600 of them in Scotland alone. If you'd like any help in starting a list, just let me know. Ben Mac Dui 17:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
This list is a bit random and given that (I hope!) all islands are now listed in the archipelago lists it might be useful to have some minimum criteria for inclusion here. Size, notability and existence of a blue link might be amongst them, but they are not easy to categorise, or indeed measure in many instances. Ben Mac Dui 09:33, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, The main table doesn't have a column for group or archipelago - would it be okay for me to add this? Jonathan Ellis ( talk) 17:36, 20 February 2022 (UTC)