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Talk:Clan Menzies

message: Reference to the battle of Teba derives from two suppositions. The first is that this is the action  in which Sir James DOuglas ( and his men) were killed. This remains disputed  See 'Battle of Teba' article. The second is that Sir Robert Menzies was a member of DOuglas expedition to Spain. There is no evidence for this in the nearest contemprary sources (e.g. John Barbour) and appears to derive from  family folklore notably the source cited here, "The Red and White’ Book of Menzies" (1894) that describes an anecdote that does not correspond to the C14th sources and cannot be taken as reliable, not least given that in all those narratives, all those accompanying Douglas in battle are killed and therefore the anecdote quoted can only have been transmitted from beyond the grave.
For those reasons I am inserting a cautionary 'allegedly' into the text.
JF42 (talk) 13:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Clan Motto originates from the Battle of Teba"
Talk:Clan Stewart of Appin

message: Edited the "ours" out of the history of the clan to make it more informational rather than sounding like someone’s description of family history. Someone may want to edit Ardsheal's Cave section as parts of the description are a bit rambling. Allyson Stephenson (talk) 19:54, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah, this is a cut and paste job. Tinynanorobots (talk) 02:52, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor Edit
File talk:Bulleid chain valve gear.svg

message: Is this used now. days. or not  —Preceding unsigned comment added by  210.211.251.212  (talk • contribs)  January 17, 2008
:I'm not sure what you mean, the image is used in the article of the same name.  If you are referring to the mechanism the picture describes then I have no idea.
:I am currently in the process of updating this image to be an SVG image that actually takes advantage of the scalability features of the SVG format.  Currently it is just a GIF or JPG embedded in an SVG container.  Should be done by the end of the week but it may take longer as it is a very complex drawing to translate.  It should look quite a bit nicer when I am done, I also plan on adding some color so various parts can be distinguished from one another.  -AndrewBuck (talk) 19:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Clan MacAlister

message: I have added a Tag above to show that a private website is copying its history page directly from this Wikipedia article.QuintusPetillius (talk) 16:11, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Copying from Wikipedia
Talk:United Nations Security Council Resolution 853

message: I removed the tag added by the bot, as it is erroneous. The text provides only a brief summary of the resolution, while the entire text is available at wikisource. It is PD, so there are no copyright issues. Grandmaster (talk) 05:26, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I suggest merging them all into one article and making them similar to how United_Nations_resolutions_on_Abkhazia is done. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 04:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There was such an article and it was deleted. I think it is better to have separate articles on each resolution, since there are many articles about particular resolutions and the list of resolutions implies that each of them should at some point have its own article. Grandmaster (talk) 06:31, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Make all UN resolutions regarding NK conflict into one article
Talk:Bruce Fraser (civil servant)

message: More than half of this article is about the Complete Plain Words, not Bruce Fraser. The problematic section is also written in an opinionated manner and doesn't cite any sources. It ought to be revised and trimmed back, but I don't know enough about the subject to do it myself. Reyk YO! 05:37, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Off topic
Talk:United Nations Security Council Resolution 874

message: I removed the tag added by the bot, as it is erroneous. The text provides only a brief summary of the resolution, while the entire text is available at wikisource. It is PD, so there are no copyright issues. Grandmaster (talk) 05:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In order to avoid tendentious editing, it is desirable to reach a consensus on deleted parts. Dear Dallavid, please do let me know your justifications on the below deleted sentences (please see in italic):
1. Resolution 874 is the third document adopted by the UN Security Council on the Karabakh conflict.Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884:
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*  For the peaceful settlement of the conflict, this document was reaffirmed and referred to in the following years, as were the other UN Security Council resolutions on the matter.Resolutions of OIC, PACE and UNGA:
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There was no citation, as I presumed this material does not need verification and was not likely to be challenged. You may look through "International documents" section in Template:Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict for the whole list. In order to avoid ambiguity, I have added references.
2. Although the resolution called for a cessation of hostilities, this demand had not been implemented, maintaining Azerbaijani districts under occupation, in a way that non-implementation led the war in 2020.
Firstly, I paraphrased the initial sentences.
Although the resolution called for a cessation of hostilities, - This clause has been derived from the current resolution's wording.
As you argued that initial source is biased, I referred to the Armenian author. Non-implementation is derived from the below quotes of the latter: "...continuing in their defiant position of non-compliance with the UN Resolutions, the Karabakh Armenian forces launched an attack in the south-west of Azerbaijan. From August to October 1993, ... the attackers seized the Azerbaijani districts ... and occupied large swathes of territory."
The references of the remain parts are copied from First Nagorno-Karabakh War and Second Nagorno-Karabakh War; see that pages' history for attribution.
Despite the above-mentioned constructive activities, if you unreasonably, indiscriminately and persistently continue to remove, I will be obliged to request for your blocking.
=== Works cited ===
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Firuze Nesibli (talk) 12:22, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consensus building 

message: ; Books
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Firuze Nesibli (talk) 12:22, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works cited
Talk:Emiliano Díez

message: From the first paragraph, "He is best known for his Emmy-award winning, laugh out loud, fall down, side splittingtlny funny role".  Are all these adjectives necessary?  Aren't they merely opinions?  I think the line would be better rendered as "He is best known for his Emmy-award winning role".  Am I allowed to just go in and edit these adjectives away?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.18.26 (talk) 06:40, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinions, not facts
Talk:Foyer

message: There are three ways to pronounce this in English. The French one given is actually quite uncommon.  A half-approximation of it, as /foi-yay/ is common throughout English from what I can tell, and /foy-er/, to rhyme with sawyer, is common in American English. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 07:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: The introduction says it's the same thing essentially.--عبد المؤمن (talk) 23:55, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 
Talk:Henderson (surname)

message: Surprised Willie Henderson who played for Rangers and Scotland is not listed  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.3.82 (talk) 22:07, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 2011 comment

message: Henderson is paralleled by the Swedish surname/patronymic Hindersson, which likewise means "son of Henry (Hendrik, and variants)". Is this worth adding to the article? -- Picapica (talk) 05:00, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindersson
Talk:Hawthorne Math and Science Academy

message: This school wasn't the 10th best high school in CA in 2006.. this is what the linked report says:
On the API Base reports, schools are ranked in ten categories of equal size, called deciles, from one (lowest) to ten (highest)
Nada (talk) 00:32, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: High school rankings
Talk:David Napier (marine engineer)

message: I hope my new note is approved.
What does the word "ceilings" mean in the article? -Preceding  unsigned comment added by  213,114,158,204 ( talk) 17:42, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi there, my apologies if you are referring to me; someone with a similar IP address to yours appeared to be vandalising pages at the time. I have tweaked your reference so it displays correctly.Pterre (talk) 13:36, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

text: I don't believe so, no. Pterre (talk) 14:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Clan Anderson

message: I have added a Tag above to show that a private website is copying its history page directly from this Wikipedia article.QuintusPetillius (talk) 15:25, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Copying from Wikipedia

message: The whole "origins" section has a very 19th century ring to it. It also presumes a 19th-century native Scottish general/cultural knowledge, as in "However, there is no disputing the intellectual pedigree that his kinfolk subsequently established." In the context of a wiki entry this is a conspicuous non-sequitur: in the context of an 18th or 19th-century essay for something like the Spalding Club or Bannatyne Club series publications, it's a typical sort of statement. The reason it has no citiation,  I strongly suspect, is because its original readership needed none.  31.54.229.146 (talk) 01:48, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It is indeed poorly sourced and could do with being re-written. I will see what I can do when I have time.QuintusPetillius (talk) 12:01, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Copying to Wikipedia?

message: Is not the Anderson clan a sept of Clan Ross? This fact does not seem to be mentioned in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.59.31 (talk) 10:35, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There were Andersons who formed a Sept of Clan Ross in the Highlands. However the actual "Clan Anderson" was a clan of its own right who were based in the Lowlands.mjgm84 (talk) 10:56, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

text: Go ahead. Probably better that a none Anderson cleans the article up. Yours ever, Czar Brodie (talk) 11:49, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clan Ross
Talk:Clan Bannerman

message: the article's txt reads: He was succeeded by his son, Major Sir George Bannerman of Elsick. Yet Bannerman Baronets gives the Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet as the next in line!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Czar Brodie (talk • contribs) 02:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

message: This article does not contain a single reference. Therefore I will shortly be re-writing it with references.QuintusPetillius (talk) 19:27, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Article re-write
Talk:Clan Boswell

message: There are a sum total of two dozen Norman knights known to have been at Hastings, none of them named Boswell.  Any source that reports 'our ancestor was a commander at Hastings' is, well, not entirely fastidious with respect to historical reality.  Any source that repeats such claims credulously is showing that it deserves no 'reputation for fact-checking' that underlies being a WP:RS. Agricolae (talk) 13:37, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds reasonable. In some cases (not looked into it here) it might be worth noting that a family claims to have had an ancestor who was at Hastings  if it's relevant and is then presented with the caveat that we only have a couple of dozen names from the Normans at Hastings. Richard Nevell (talk) 19:11, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hastings nonsense
Talk:Clan Boyd

message: The statement currently on the page that Robert the first Boyd was a nephew of Walter Fitz Alan is rather vague in terms of what is commonly alleged.  Both Round's Peerage and William Boyd's History of the Boyd Family state that this Robert was a son of Simon Fitz Alan, whose parentage is disputed but who has been often said to be a son of Alan Fitz Flaald or possibly a son of Flaald's wife only and a "bastard brother" to the other more well-established sons including Walter Fitz Alan. So to simply say Robert was "a nephew" of Walter Fitz Alan is making things seem more well-established than they really are.  Safulop (talk) 17:54, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well if you want to make any changes you will have to provide sources to verify it. The article as it stands is based on the sources being quoted - which is what Wikipedia is about - reflecting what the sources say. Any unsourced information can be challenged and removed. I am the original editor of the article in its current form so have verified the sources. However, if you have other sources, especially online then they can be incorporated into the article. What we could do is mention the various versions of the origins of the clan based on the different sources.QuintusPetillius (talk) 19:10, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancestor of Clan Boyd
Talk:Clan Boyle

message: Made a  correction and addition: the current Earl was only a naval reservist and also worked in TV. Removed the 'distinguished' as he achieved distinction in neither.
Where’s the Boyle tartan? 2601:601:8680:A0A0:B9C9:FDD2:8BE3:F0D0 (talk) 14:45, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Clan Bruce

message: Maybe some more current sources could be used for the early history of the family. See this talkpage: Talk:Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale#Disputed.--Celtus (talk) 08:12, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle of Hastings and all that 

message: Could the Bruce have come from Bruz (pronounced "Bruce") in Brittany? Henry I brought many Bretons over with him. It's known that many Bretons settled in Ayrshire in the early 1100s during the time of King David of Scotland, Henry I of England, and Count Stephen the Breton Lord of Richmond. Among these were the family of the hereditary Dapifer of the Archbishop of Dol in Brittany; they became the Royal Stewarts/Stuarts. The Bruce and the Stewarts were for centuries closely associated with prominent families of either Breton or Cumbrian origin (both being ethnically Old British) such as the Tweedie clan and the Earls of Dunbar. Zoetropo (talk) 13:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bruce town of origin? 

message: "In 1124 he followed David north to reclaim his kingdom."
This sentence needs recasting.
Prince David couldn't 'reclaim' something he didn't previously have.
The circumstance of the Norman conquest of Scotland, headed by David but sponsored by Henry I, are a bit strange. 'followed' may be somewhat misleading.
On a more pedantic point, its not entirely clear whether there was a kingdom or just a crown, for David to  claim in 1124. By the end of his reign there was a Kingdom, but in 1124 he became 'King of the Scots', but not perhaps quite King of Scotland.
Maybe the sentence would better read: 'In 1124 he accompanied David north to claim the Scottish crown'.
Cassandra  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.74.250.233 (talk) 08:52, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  In 1124 he followed David north to reclaim his kingdom.
Talk:Clan Buchan

message: I came across this as it links to the page for Thomas Buchan, which I've greatly expanded. These comments are simply to explain my reservations about linking back to this article as it currently stands;
- The description of Buchan's career itself contains several factual errors; 
- The article seems unbalanced; Origins goes to about 1500 but the whole of the period to Modern Day (or 1830) is essentially about Thomas Buchan;
- It relies heavily on one source - see Wikipedia guidelines Citation overkill.
I'm happy to provide more detail or suggestions if requested but otherwise this is purely to raise awareness.
Robinvp11 (talk) 14:45, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerns regarding this article  

message: I've recently came across a detail of one of Mary Stuarts Tapestries which includes the motto 'non inferiora secutus'. The embroidery details the usual Clan Buchan Crest, however the flowers are just distinguishable as Marigolds rather than Sunflowers.  Could this be a common misconception which has continued unnoticed?  My Surname is Buchan and I hail from the same area of Lowland territory in Scotland and I see Sunflowers embroidered on every depiction of the Crest.  L.G. Buchan (talk) 00:18, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clan Crest Origin
Talk:Clan Buchanan

message: Firstly, the Scottish Gaelic is "Bochanan". Some of the other forms given are not in Gaelic spelling.
Secondly, the "ch" sound is the sound in "loch", and is not properly pronounced "ck".--MacRusgail (talk) 09:56, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Inaccuracy

message: There's a lot of both here; take the "The 21st-century clan chief" section, which reads:
"Unlike the pre-18th-century chiefs, a 21st-century chief is not going to lead their clan in war or demand rents and levies. The experience of other clans is that their 21st-century chief:
adds to the clan's sense of completeness;
adds to the perceived prestige of the clan;
performs and adds dignity to ceremonial duties;
enables the clan to speak with one voice;
helps to focus clan effort on matters of clan wide interest;
represents clan interests in multi-clan forums;
promotes the right use of chiefly arms and associated heraldry;
promotes a general awareness and increased use of heraldry by the clan folk;
interacts with the clan society in a similar way to how a constitutional monarchy interacts with the elected governments of his or her subjects;
appoints lieutenants to represent them when they cannot be present; and
uses modern communications to achieve effective (sometimes synchronous) communication between him or herself, the lieutenants and the clan folk."
There is no source cited, and the tone is completely unencyclopaedic. The content is also scarcely relevant to the specific subject of Clan Buchanan.
Above, the "External evidence of historic claims" section includes: "Edinburgh and London Gazettes. An on-line search of the historic Edinburgh Gazette[112] and London Gazette[113] for notices pertaining to 'laird of buchanan', 'buchanan of that ilk' or 'buchanan of buchanan' and the alternate spelling of 'Buchanan' reveal no supporting evidence for either the Buchanan of Auchmar or Buchanan-Hamilton claims." This is original research, not reported in a reliable secondary source, and therefore inappropriate for inclusion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.207.33 (talk) 22:17, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research and editorializing
Talk:Burnett of Leys

message: The chief of Clan Burnett is 'Burnett of Leys'. So the Burnetts of Leys (the chief's family) aren't a branch of the clan, they are the clan. Branches of Clan Burnett, by definition 'branch' off the Burnett of Leys, right? Anyway, seems to me like this article should be merged and redirected to Clan Burnett.--Celtus (talk) 07:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems a no-brainer.  However I would note that Clan Burnett is yet another clan article with copyvio problems - you might want to compare the early diffs of Nfras with the myclan.com page - whereas this article seems OK, so I guess we need to replace that one with this one, and then copyedit in some of the stuff from that one. Sigh - I've been taking a preliminary look at some of the clan articles and it seems most of them are copyvio hell courtesy of Nfras and  Mjgm84/Psycotics1454, it's a complete mess.Le Deluge (talk) 14:39, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Problems that inadvertently made these two pages essentially on the same subject have been addressed to a large extent. The 'Clan Burnett' now House of Burnett page was based on a single source that confused the two and has since been replaced by a wider variety of references that verify they are not the same entity. Burnett of Leys is a branch of the House of Burnett and both pages now reflect that. Bearpatch (talk) 13:55, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Clan Burnett]]?
Talk:Clan Calder

message: Removed unsourced claim of a new chieftain. Obviously someone simply inserting their own name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.91.141.58 (talk) 19:58, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "New chieftain" 

message: As I Was Reading This Article.   I Couldn't Help But Notice.   My Last Name Is MacCalder lol.  What are the Odds 2604:3D09:7B7A:8B00:7172:3A9E:8C84:ACAD (talk) 22:34, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  My Last Name.
Talk:Campbell of Craignish

message: Please refer to the Clan MacEacharn wiki page for properly referenced sources. Clan Dugal Craignish is the second branch of Siol Eachairn.
Clan MacIness took refuge with Clan Dugal Craignish after Lord John MacDonald ordered them to be murdered by Clan MacLean. They took refuge with their cousins, the MacEacharns.
W Skeene in the Highlanders of Scotland makes it quite clear that Clan Dugal Craignish are MacEacharns. Amceache (talk) 03:34, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Challenge to Validity of this page 

message: I have draft version of new article "Campbell of Barrichbeyan" but I am considering possibility rather to include it in existing article "Campbell of Craignish". Books dealing with subject have Campbells of Barrichbeyan and its collateral branches included within part intended to Campbells of Craignish.The House of Argyll and the collateral branches of the clan Campbell, from the year 420 to the present time. Glasgow, J. Tweed; [etc.] 1871 The Heraldry of the Campbells, with Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees, Volume 2, by George Harvey Johnston, Edinburgh, 1921
Nenad DNJ (talk) 09:13, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I think you should put it in a separate article, because we could otherwise end up with a ridiculously long article. For example, all of the Clan Munro cadet branches are listed in History of the Munros of Fowlis (the chiefs) but we still have separate articles for Munro of Milntown and Munro of Auchinbowie, even though the last is listed as a collateral branch of the first. Cheers.QuintusPetillius (talk) 11:40, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extension or new article
Talk:Clan Carmichael

message: * 23: James Carmichael Smyth (1742-1821) 
* 24: Sir James Carmichael Smyth, 1st Bt (1779-1838) 
* 25: Sir James Robert Carmichael, 2nd Bt (1817-1883) 
* 26: Sir James Morse Carmichael, 3rd Bt (1844-1902) 
* 27: Claude Dundas James Carmichael (1862-1915) 
* 28: Sir James Forrest Halkett Carmichael (1868-1934) 
* 29: Evelyn George Massey Carmichael (1871-1959) 
Opera hat (talk) 01:04, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe you could come up with an article called Chiefs of Clan Carmichael as has been done with Chiefs of Clan Munro, Chiefs of Clan Fraser, Chiefs of Clan Mackenzie, Chiefs of Clan Maclean and Chiefs of Clan MacLeod etc.... QuintusPetillius (talk) 20:15, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clan Chiefs of the Balmedie branch