Talk:George Mackay Brown

message: I request Mais oui! to desist from continually changing “Orcadian” to “Scottish”.
“Orcadian” is a perfectly legitimate term widely used to describe all those people I have contributed articles about – as Mais oui! would discover if he took the trouble to read some books on Orkney.  For example:
: The Orkney Book  edited by Donald Omand
: The New Orkney Book by Shearer, Groundwater and John D. Mackay (this is school textbook from the 1960s)
: An Orkney Anthology, edited by J.D. Robertson
As an instance, the introduction to the last of these books begins with words: “Ernest Walker Marwick was a distinguished Orcadian ..”  My article on Ernest Marwick is one of those where Mais oui! has been determined to constantly change “Orcadian” to “Scottish”.
Furthermore, the term “Orcadian” gives extra information that is lost if it is replaced by “Scottish”, analogously to the information that would be lost by replacing “Scottish” by “British”,  or “British” by “European”.  Therefore, Mais oui!’s changes are diminishing the quality of the information in Wikipedia. 
As noted on the “Orkney people stubs” discussion:  
:“Comment- Mais_oui! has a history of going through articles changing "British" to "Scottish"- so it isn't very surprising he is opposing the changes you made. Astrotrain 19:41, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orcadian 

message: I've moved a few of GMB's selected works around to conform with the classification in other sources.  The front matter for The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown published by John Murray lists The Two Fiddlers under "For Children", The Golden Bird under "Novels", and The Sea-King's Daughter under "Short Stories".  Tryst on Egilsay appears to have been a limited edition of seven poems with illustrations.  These poems appear in the The Collected Poems.  I also added The First Wash of Spring, a posthumously published collection of essays.Klundarr (talk) 15:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reclassified Some Works 

message: Although his novels are listed, nothing is said about them, or about his journalism.  --Martin Wyatt (talk) 19:43, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omissions 

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message: This is a Wordpress blog. However, Peterson is emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland (1974 -2004). I used thi s source on the Orkney Herald page some months ago.  See 
https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/57  GreyStar456 (talk) 16:16, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  use of Wordpress blog by William S. Peterson Stromness News