Talk:Constantine II of Scotland

message: Several "king of scots" articles were nominated at the same time recently. They are all good quality articles, and meet the basic qualifications for GA status. However, part of the 'stability' requirement, in my mind, is some consistency between sets of articles. I like Malcolm III of Scotland the best, in structure and use of the Monarch infobox. If editors wouldn't mind going over that first article, and then making any adjustments they feel are necessary here, as well as bringing over a version of the monarch infobox, I'll promote this article and Malcolm II of Scotland right away. Thanks! Phidauex 23:53, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: GA status pending

message: After a review, I'm promoting this article to Good Article status, based on the qualifications. It is impressively referenced, well written, and fairly comprehensive. Keep up the good work. If you want more clarification on my reasons for promotion, please leave a message on my talk page. Phidauex 15:10, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is a [[WP:GA|Good Article]]

message: I don't recall having seen the charter evidence of the link between Constantine and Æthelstan before Woolf mentioned it, but checking I now see that the PASE (here) associates Constantine with the witness to S426 and S1792 (not on Anglo-Saxons.net yet?). Just thought it was worth mentioning. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 13:37, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Constantine and Æthelstan 

message: "Constantine, son of Áed (Mediaeval Gaelic: Constantín mac Áeda; Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh), known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II, nicknamed An Midhaise, "the Middle Aged" (before 879 – 952) was an early King of Scotland". Re-reading this, the suggestion is that Constantine was "nicknamed An Midhaise" until 952, when he became nicknamed something else, (such as "Constantine the Old"). There may be some MOS protocol here, but would this not be better as something like:
:"Constantine, son of Áed (Mediaeval Gaelic: Constantín mac Áeda; Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh), (before 879 – 952)  known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II and nicknamed An Midhaise, "the Middle Aged",  was an early King of Scotland". Ben MacDui 19:35, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine by me, but I think we could drop "and nicknamed An Midhaise, "the Middle Aged"" because that's not even mentioned in the article. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 22:14, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. Ben MacDui 17:06, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening sentence 

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message: Note 20 reads: "Anderson, Early Sources, pp. 358–358". There's something wrong there, I think. – Swa cwæð Ælfgar (talk) 00:12, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted. I've had a look at the sources and it should have been pages 357–358. I've corrected the page. Thanks. -Bill Reid | (talk) 11:06, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page error? 

message: Can we stop with this? Alba literally means Scotland, we're talking about two entirely different languages. It is absolutely redundant and asinine to continually keep including in every article what Scotland/the Kingdom of Scotland was known as in different languages of the time. This is the English Wikipedia, in modern English the kingdom is known as Scotland/the Kingdom of Scotland.
If people want to read up on the term Alba and its origins/meanings etc. etc. there are many, many articles for that. We are causing needless confusion and clutter in these historical Scotland articles by continually switching between terms for the same polities/entities.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.16.225 (talk) 15:27, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Constantine II; born no later than 879; died 952) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba. The Kingdom of Alba, a name which first appears in Constantine's lifetime, was situated in modern-day Scotland." 

message: I have added an image of Constantine which is certainly not contemporary, but is an image of what he may have looked like nevertheless. Kenneth MacAlpin's article uses one just like this. I know that this image has been controversially used before and removed, but I believe it should remain. William Wallace's article used to use an engraving, before it switched to a stained glass window, another later depiction.
Isn't it true that a later image is better than no image at all?
Tim O'Doherty (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image addition 

message: The profile picture of Constantine II has the portrait listed as Constantin III incorrectly, but it is not mentioned for clarity. 174.250.210.132 (talk) 03:44, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture