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Unfortunately Haswell-Smith and www.orkneyjar.com don't agree, and the latter is little aspecific. Neither cite their own sources. I have assumed that 'Scalpandisay' is a Celtic era adaptation of an Old Norse phrase, but this is simply a guess. This reappears in a modern guise of the Legends role playing game which refers to 'Scalpandisay or Judge’s islands,' [1] which trivia I leave here as it might be of interest if the above can be sorted out. Ben MacDui (Talk) 15:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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I removed the bit about the stone gasometer as it didn't make sense to me and I couldn't find any other reference to it. -- JBellis 19:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I found a reference for this. Strange, but apparently true. Ben MacDui (Talk) 11:30, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure about the statement that the island was given to the Blafour family in the 1200s. The sources I used to write the Balfour, Orkney article said that Thomas Balfour was something of a self-made man who was originally a tenant farmer, and accquired the money to buy an estate on the island by marrying a rich woman. Lurker ( said · done) 18:35, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
suite101.com is blacklisted by some Wikimedia spam filter. I have removed the '101' in the web address http://www.suite.com/article.cfm/all_things_scottish/28389 so that the page can be saved. I will try to get it whitelisted. If not there may be another suitable reference. I notice one of the two uses is in H-Smith (re kelp), and is basically a quote suite101 nicked from there, which may be why the site is blacklisted. Ben MacDui (Talk) 18:43, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
There is a blog concerning Shapinsay on the BBC Scotland website, which may provide some useful info- On Top of Ward Hill Lurker ( said · done) 12:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
The article is very well written and well referenced. I believe it mostly meets the Good Article criteria. There's a couple of minor issues that need to be resolved before the article can be promoted, though. I did make a lot of copyedits, though most of these are pretty minor.
Once these issues are addressed, I believe the article can be promoted to Good Article status. Cheers! Dr. Cash 22:39, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Article looks good, and will be listed. Congratulations! Dr. Cash 00:45, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
Clicking reference 8's link directed me to a 404 error page. 109.154.60.97 ( talk) 05:27, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
This article really needs a detail map of the island, as there are so many references to places on it, leaving one to wonder where they are and how they relate to one another. -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 21:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
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Unfortunately Haswell-Smith and www.orkneyjar.com don't agree, and the latter is little aspecific. Neither cite their own sources. I have assumed that 'Scalpandisay' is a Celtic era adaptation of an Old Norse phrase, but this is simply a guess. This reappears in a modern guise of the Legends role playing game which refers to 'Scalpandisay or Judge’s islands,' [1] which trivia I leave here as it might be of interest if the above can be sorted out. Ben MacDui (Talk) 15:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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I removed the bit about the stone gasometer as it didn't make sense to me and I couldn't find any other reference to it. -- JBellis 19:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I found a reference for this. Strange, but apparently true. Ben MacDui (Talk) 11:30, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure about the statement that the island was given to the Blafour family in the 1200s. The sources I used to write the Balfour, Orkney article said that Thomas Balfour was something of a self-made man who was originally a tenant farmer, and accquired the money to buy an estate on the island by marrying a rich woman. Lurker ( said · done) 18:35, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
suite101.com is blacklisted by some Wikimedia spam filter. I have removed the '101' in the web address http://www.suite.com/article.cfm/all_things_scottish/28389 so that the page can be saved. I will try to get it whitelisted. If not there may be another suitable reference. I notice one of the two uses is in H-Smith (re kelp), and is basically a quote suite101 nicked from there, which may be why the site is blacklisted. Ben MacDui (Talk) 18:43, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
There is a blog concerning Shapinsay on the BBC Scotland website, which may provide some useful info- On Top of Ward Hill Lurker ( said · done) 12:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
The article is very well written and well referenced. I believe it mostly meets the Good Article criteria. There's a couple of minor issues that need to be resolved before the article can be promoted, though. I did make a lot of copyedits, though most of these are pretty minor.
Once these issues are addressed, I believe the article can be promoted to Good Article status. Cheers! Dr. Cash 22:39, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Article looks good, and will be listed. Congratulations! Dr. Cash 00:45, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
Clicking reference 8's link directed me to a 404 error page. 109.154.60.97 ( talk) 05:27, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
This article really needs a detail map of the island, as there are so many references to places on it, leaving one to wonder where they are and how they relate to one another. -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 21:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
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