Talk:Fife

message: ""almost a third of whom live in the three principal towns of Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes. Dunfermline has Fife's largest population of over 78,000."
that is utter CRAP! 
Kirkcaldy is the biggest town with only 49'000 then Dunfermline 46'000 , that is from actully official record from the council!   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.205.118.128 (talk) 23:01, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  population 

message: Should this list be reorganized?  I'm not a native, so I'd hate to prioritize somebody else's local heros, but both Adam Smith and Gordon Brown are buried in the middle of the list.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.86.240.9 (talk) 21:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  notable fifers 

message: There's no page on the fife (6 holed flute) musical instrument?
:The disambiguation page Fife (disambiguation) mentioned at the top of the article has it as the first thing - simply Fife (musical instrument). Robovski 23:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musical Instrument 

message: The related :Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from Fife constituencies has been nominated for deletion. You are encouraged to join the discussion  on the Categories for Discussion page. 
--Mais oui! 09:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  CFD 

message: Just updated the scottish parliament constituencies. Please do not change them, they were outdated. They are now correct. 217.42.235.218 (talk) 11:35, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Governance 

message: I have removed a paragraph in the History section which I believe to be vandalism. NotMiserable (talk) 15:50, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  King of Fife 

message: The population figures given for the three largest towns in the lede appear to be for "settlements" rather than "localities" but the link is dead so one can't be certain. Per the definitions here it is the latter that pertains, "the more recognisable towns and cities", so the figures given are incorrect. Annoyingly I can't find the actual figures themselves. I believe the latest estimates are that Dunfermline has just overtaken Kirkcaldy but without access to the stats wouldn't want to state that definitively. Mutt Lunker (talk) 13:26, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population, localities and settlements 

message: Gordon Brown was born in greater Glasgow and his family lived there until he was three, so he also has some ties there. Thereafter he was brought up in Kirkcaldy, all his schooling was there, he has represented only Fife constituencies and he has lived, or at least maintained a home there, all or the bulk of his life since. He even supports the mighty Raith Rovers and has done since he was a laddie. The repeated assertion that he "is not from Fife or a Fifer" is not supportable. Stop removing the reference to him. Mutt Lunker (talk) 12:48, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gordon Brown 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Fife. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20141027175925/http://gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/stats/population-estimates/special-area/mid-2012-settlement/2012-pop-est-sett-local-main-tab3a.pdf to http://gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/stats/population-estimates/special-area/mid-2012-settlement/2012-pop-est-sett-local-main-tab3a.pdf
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).
Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 18:53, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Fife (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 03:17, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: The lead says  without a citation. I asked for one and was reverted, against our standard practices, with an edit summary that cites the #History section. There’s no citation that I can see for this assertion there either: the paragraph says  but again without a citation. The edit summary also cites the existence of Kingdom FM in the area, as if this means anything at all.
Our rules require this type of assertion to be cited. Would someone please do so, especially if requests for such things are, unaccountably, not permitted in the article itself? — Trey Maturin™ 22:45, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Per MOS:LEAD it "it is common for citations to appear in the body, and not the lead", hence my removal of your tag from the lead, as reading the rest of the article, plus a perfunctory Google search indicates the mountain of evidence that the term (still) has currency, as it evidently did in recent history, from the citation in the history section. , , , , , , , , , ,  to indicate a few, may not all strictly speaking be RS's for the specific assertion but common sense would indicate the multiple coinage is not coincidence. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:56, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife 

message: Far be it from me to diminish St Andrews' importance, but almost a third of the lead is given over to it. Are we saying that's more or less the most important thing about Fife, just after its name and population? I'd be happy to diversify that section a little, but don't want to disturb a consensus, if it exists. — Arcaist (contr—talk) 18:14, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emphasis on St Andrews in the lead?