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A perfectly good well-rounded article, I feel. Comprehensive, sourced, illustrated, polished. Shimgray | talk | 20:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Dear fellow contributors
MOSNUM no longer encourages date autoformatting, having evolved over the past year or so from the mandatory to the optional after much discussion there and elsewhere of the disadvantages of the system. Related to this, MOSNUM prescribes rules for the raw formatting, irrespective of whether a date is autoformatted or not). MOSLINK and CONTEXT are consistent with this.
There are at least six disadvantages in using date-autoformatting, which I've capped here:
Removal has generally been met with positive responses by editors. Does anyone object if I remove it from the main text in a few days’ time on a trial basis? The original input formatting would be seen by all WPians, not just the huge number of visitors; it would be plain, unobtrusive text, which would give greater prominence to the high-value links. Tony (talk) 11:37, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
There appears to be some confusion over who exactly built which part of Heriot's when. At one time there was a popular fallacy that it had been designed by Inigo Jones and this found its way into Chamber's Encylopaedia. If you consult the Wikipedia articles on William Wallace, William Aytoun, John Mylne and his nephew Robert Mylne, you will see the dates don't add up. The joker in the pack seems to be John Mylne. The school's own website makes no mention of him. Also, the school believes that Robert Mylne designed the clock tower, whereas the Wikipedia article has Mylne carrying out its completion to designs by Sir William Bruce. Confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.102.111.38 ( talk) 07:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Move to William Bruce (architect); there's clear consensus for a move, and this appears to be the best supported of the suggested options.. Cúchullain t/ c 16:37, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet, of Balcaskie → Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet – Unnecessary disambiguation. There was one other Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet (of Stenhouse), but going by his entry in GEC's Complete Baronetage it's unlikely he'll be notable enough ever to have his own article. Also, though this William Bruce was "of Balcaskie" when he was created a baronet in 1668, he is better known as "of Kinross", the estate he acquired in 1675, and is so styled in (for example) the DNB. Opera hat ( talk) 13:12, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
William Bruce (architect) is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so. | ||||||||||||||||
This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 28, 2007. | ||||||||||||||||
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Current status: Featured article |
This article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A perfectly good well-rounded article, I feel. Comprehensive, sourced, illustrated, polished. Shimgray | talk | 20:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Dear fellow contributors
MOSNUM no longer encourages date autoformatting, having evolved over the past year or so from the mandatory to the optional after much discussion there and elsewhere of the disadvantages of the system. Related to this, MOSNUM prescribes rules for the raw formatting, irrespective of whether a date is autoformatted or not). MOSLINK and CONTEXT are consistent with this.
There are at least six disadvantages in using date-autoformatting, which I've capped here:
Removal has generally been met with positive responses by editors. Does anyone object if I remove it from the main text in a few days’ time on a trial basis? The original input formatting would be seen by all WPians, not just the huge number of visitors; it would be plain, unobtrusive text, which would give greater prominence to the high-value links. Tony (talk) 11:37, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
There appears to be some confusion over who exactly built which part of Heriot's when. At one time there was a popular fallacy that it had been designed by Inigo Jones and this found its way into Chamber's Encylopaedia. If you consult the Wikipedia articles on William Wallace, William Aytoun, John Mylne and his nephew Robert Mylne, you will see the dates don't add up. The joker in the pack seems to be John Mylne. The school's own website makes no mention of him. Also, the school believes that Robert Mylne designed the clock tower, whereas the Wikipedia article has Mylne carrying out its completion to designs by Sir William Bruce. Confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.102.111.38 ( talk) 07:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Move to William Bruce (architect); there's clear consensus for a move, and this appears to be the best supported of the suggested options.. Cúchullain t/ c 16:37, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet, of Balcaskie → Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet – Unnecessary disambiguation. There was one other Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet (of Stenhouse), but going by his entry in GEC's Complete Baronetage it's unlikely he'll be notable enough ever to have his own article. Also, though this William Bruce was "of Balcaskie" when he was created a baronet in 1668, he is better known as "of Kinross", the estate he acquired in 1675, and is so styled in (for example) the DNB. Opera hat ( talk) 13:12, 13 January 2013 (UTC)