Talk:List of Scots

message: I have read many books and articles on this man and i have NEVER even seen that he visited Scotland and i'am open to proof,Cook WAS english his father was from kelso thats it he left to find work in England,cooks mother WAS english,Cooks biggest influence was his fathers employer who paid for cooks schooling,he was born in Marton,grew up in Great Ayton and began seafaring in Whitby,he then joined the Royal Navy at Deptford London,there is no suggestion he was a scot none and this list works both ways its not who one WISHES to BE it is a matter of fact,same with tony blair he was born in scotland and has a scottish name to exclude him on this list makes a mockery of it...Bullseye30 (talk) 20:41, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Captain Cook removed

message: Famous Scots is a repositioning of the Famous Scotsmen page. One wonders whether a No True Scot fallacy page will be forthcoming? sjc
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Tony Blair Isn't Scottish
I removed him from the list. Yes, he was born in Scotland, but he isn't Scottish. An analogy for you:
Keanu Reeves's mother was British and his father was Hawaiian\Chinese. He was born in Lebanon, but was raised in Canada. Hence, the article on Keanu Reeves says he is "British-Canadian." Not Lebanese.
Tony Blair's father was English and his mother was Irish. He was born in Scotland, but was raised in England. Hence, Tony Blair is English, not Scottish. Neither of his parents were Scottish and he was not raised in Scotland, therefore he is not Scottish.
71.246.209.4 10:31, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've no wish to re-open the debate about the English-style "comes from place" or the German-style "born to parents" methods of identifying nationality, but just to prevent an untruth from lurking unchallenged, it's misleading to say Blair was "not raised in Scotland" when of course he lived in Edinburgh at the start of his life, in Glasgow later on in his childhood, and later attended a school in Scotland, at Fettes College. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 02:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Bonnie Prince Charlie-the "damned cowardly Italian"-is about as Scottish as 'German Geordie' or Swiss cheese.  He may have been a scion of the house of Stewart, but his 'Scottish blood' was highly etiolated: far more French, Italian and Polish than anything else.  Removed.  Rcpaterson 00:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My apologies. I have just re-instated Charlie boy. He may have been born without these shores for political reason, but I think the idea of using his genetic make-up to exclude him from this list is highly dubious if not downright racist. Brendandh 03:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bonnie Prince Charlie? 

message: It just seems to replicate a load of categories.--Nydas 17:40, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, this should really all be categorised and in better order than the subsections here. Brendandh 03:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the point of this list? 

message: We could do with some sources on this article. --John (talk) 14:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP:V 

message: Can I add my own name here? Shouldn't this article be renamed List of notable Scots? Jack forbes (talk) 08:54, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, and no. See Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists#Lists_of_people: "people should be selected for importance/notability in that category and should have Wikipedia articles". If they have articles, they will be notable, it doesn't need to be stated in the title. Similarly, Lists of people not Lists of notable people. Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 15:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A list of Scots would be a tad long don't you think? 

message: It looks likely that the 6 committee rooms of the Scottish Parliament will be named after famous Scots:
* "The Parliament’s corporate body agreed the proposal and set a deadline for December 31"
The names mooted are:
*John Logie Baird
*Alexander Fleming
*James Clerk Maxwell
*Adam Smith
*William Wallace
*James Watt
--Mais oui! (talk) 08:37, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Scots to be immortalised at Holyrood 

message: Would anyone object to my removing Margaret MacDonald from the list of Scottish architects? I know it seems a shame when there are currently so few women in this category, but she is listed, much more appropriately, as an artist. DavidBBG (talk) 14:05, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's entirely appropriate, you have my full support. She was a very fine artist, obviously married to Charles Rennie MackIntosh, and it can be argued that she had a significant input to his architectural work, but she was never an architect. Is she in an appropriate list of Scottish artists? --Cactus.man ✍ 23:16, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Margaret MacDonald?

message: Architects - Master Masons, etc, should probably include Alexander Laing, Edinburgh, but active also in Inverness and Moray, and the medical list should certinly include the Inverness born Colin Chisholm, an important writer on tropical, especially Caribbean,  infectious disease between 1785 and 1820 and not a negligible figure in military medicine in the West Indies94.194.2.51 (talk) 14:37, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: Is there evidence this is someone of importance?  I can't trace a page for him.Horis (talk) 18:55, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: John Cowie