Talk:Flower of Scotland

message: It was my understanding that Roy Williamson was actually referring to the defeat at Flodden where the "flowers of the forest were a' wede awa'" Brendandh 18:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong Battle

message: I have deleted the following text from the article:
On 20th of October, 2008, the Scottish Government announced that Flower of Scotland has been removed from the competing list of potential national anthems for Scotland.
As far as I can see, this is a misinterpretation of the news that Flower of Scotland has been knocked out of a competition to find Scotland's best-loved song — see, for example, this BBC article dated 2008-10-20. Dricherby (talk) 10:40, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted inaccurate text 

message: This is mentioned in Karen Williamson's book "Roy Williamson, My Father".  I don't have a copy so can't add a proper cite, but if anyone has a copy lying around a cite would be a very handy contribution, thanks :) Calum (talk) 12:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composition on Northumbrian pipes 

message: I have fixed the result for Scots Wha Hae.  It achieved only 6 percent in the poll on the RSNO's website, not 7%.  The fact that the table comes to 99% and not 100% is due to rounding of the figues. Panthro (talk) 11:13, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  RSNO poll 

message: This song is still copyright, which doesn't completely bar  quoting the full lyrics, however putting them under GFDL does, I would say. Rich Farmbrough, 14:31, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Also th4e capitalisation is wrong and the source repeats verse 1 at the end, and is hardly an RS "The various services once located at www.geo.ed.ac.uk have either been retired, moved or in a few cases remain for historical and technical reasons. An even smaller number remain in limbo because we don't have the resources to do anything about them and are not sure whether anyone wants them any more. " Rich Farmbrough, 14:37, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We can't realistically quote the lyrics in full. Short quotations (which would be less than half a verse) would probably be OK. Stifle (talk) 15:15, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright

message: "The Press" newspaper, published in Christchurch New Zealand, reported in its edition of 12 September 1977, that 
  'The Scottish Football Association has pleased advocates of home rule for Scotland by changing from "God Save the Queen" to "Flower of Scotland"
 as the song to sing before international matches.
  'But what the Scottish F.A. apparently did not realise was that "Flower of Scotland" commemorates the sixteenth century Battle of Flodden
 in Northumberland - a considerably worse defeat by the English than ever the 9-3 rout at Wembley in 1961'
  'NZPA London
So apart from getting the historical fact wrong in the second paragraph, this article suggests that the Scottish FA had adopted the song considerably earlier than the year of 1997 suggested in the main article.
James Scott, Lower Hutt, New Zealand  — Preceding unsigned comment added by jayelless 222.153.171.106 (talk) 19:28, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Scottish Football Association

message: The second sentence in the lede suggests that Highland Cathedral (1982) is older than Flower of Scotland (1965). Is that just wrong or am I missing something? Tigerboy1966  22:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dating in lede 

message: Is there any reason not to add the lyrics? The fact that some group sang this traditional song surely doesn't mean they own the rights over it?--Michael (talk) 07:18, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: nvm, thought it was much older. Why can't they use a real traditional song?--Michael (talk) 07:23, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics 

message: The author died in 1990 so there is still some copyright left. It was death +7 years but this was extended to death +70 years so will expire in 2060. But Wikipedia follows US law. QuentinUK (talk) 16:54, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the lyrics for this reason. Please do not restore. MER-C 17:17, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

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thread_title:  Lyrics: Copyright problem removed 

message: If the only sound file available is a completely atypical, ponderously slow version it is better that it is not added. Mutt Lunker (talk) 12:05, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: What's more, the copyright status of the file would appear to be questionable as it has been taken from a commercial recording uploaded to YouTube. Mutt Lunker (talk) 19:33, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound file