Talk:Celts (modern)/Archive (other)

message: Hi, I just wrote the Celtic art article which covers the Middle Ages, if anyone has anyting to contribute to Modern celtic art, even a short blurb a sentence or two, that would be helpful. Thanks! Stbalbach 17:37, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Modern celtic art

message: Hey all; I created a stub last night of Celtic Nations to fix a link on the Celtic Fusion article (although there's also a link to it on Modern Celts). It's extremely bare-bones, and I'm wondering whether I should just make it link to a section of this article, probably "What are the Celtic Countries?". Or, alternatively, someone could expand the Celtic Nations article so that it's not quite so ridiculously stubbish. What do y'all think? -GlamdringCookies
:The colonies in Cape Breton and Chubut can't really be called nations, and "modern" should also appear in the title. --MacRusgail 21:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Celtic Nations

message: I have replaced the word FORCED with SUPPORTED in the following sentence:  "Scottish and Welsh Nationalists have recently supported the institution of the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, which are seen by many as a first step towards eventual independence from the UK"  I made this change for 4 reasons:
1.  Although Welsh Nationalists (Plaid Cymru) have long supported the establishment of an assembly in Wales, the Scottish Nationalists (SNP) were ambivalent on the issue of a Scottish Parliament - some of them feeling that the Scottish Parliament was a sop that would make independence less likely to occur (subsequent events have proved them justified, at least in the short term).  In fact the SNP withdrew from cross-party group (the Scottish Constitutional Convention) which defined the powers and role of the Scottish Parliament. So the SNP certainly didn't force the Scottish Parliament on the UK.
2.  The introduction of Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly have been supported for many decades by the Liberal Democrat Party of the UK (about 20% of the national vote) and since the 1970s have been supported by the Labour Party of the UK (between 35 and 45% of the national vote).   This means that there is a vastly wider constituency of support in the UK for devolution than just Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, so there was no need for forcing (though undoubtedly historic pressure from nationalists [note the small n] contributed).
3.  Had the Conservatives won the 1997 or subsequent elections, there would be no Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly:  they would have refused to be 'forced' just as they did between 1979 to 1997.
4.  Both Assembly and Parliament were endorsed in referenda the their respective nations - thus the people of Scotland and Wales could have rejected the proposals.
In general, the sentence as it originally stood overemphasised the role and power played by the Nationalists (not capital N).
--Simhedges 16:54, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Well spotted. QuartierLatin1968  20:45, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

text: It's political. There's also a strange offensive opposition to the concept of "Kurdish", which is also an identity mobilized through political contestation. QuartierLatin1968  15:35, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Parliament and Assembly

message: This talk page is getting too long. Can the older messages be put into an archive please. --MacRusgail 13:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time for an archive  

message: In the middle of the fourth paragraph of this section, there is a stray [5] which does not fit in the numbering sequence for the other footnotes for that section.  Is there something wrong with the numbering of the footnotes throughout the article, and if so, how can it be fixed? ---Cathal 02:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's no problem: the footnotes are fine.  You're confusing footnotes with external links (which is the form all the other references take in that section). garik 09:54, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism of modern Celticism