Talk:Cape Wrath

message: What does this mean? Under what conditions? Why? Why is this notable?Lordandmaker (talk) 18:12, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds anecdotal... certainly needs citation if it is to stay. C3lticmatt (talk) 02:09, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Vikings would often turn their ships for home at Cape Wrath.

message: one of the last remaining wildernesses in Western Europe
It's a top contender within the UK but surely not for western Europe. If places I've visited, I'd estimate that 50% of Norway and 80% of Iceland are at least as 'wild' with less military action.--JBellis 16:41, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Can it really be a wilderness at the same time as being used as a "military bombardment range".  As a resident of Australia and Canada I have a different defintion of wilderness I guess :)  Robertbrockway 03:54, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: "One of the last wildernesses in {England/Britain/Europe}" is an all-too-common cliché used in the British media, almost always inaccurately. (In the case of Scotland these so-called wildernesses are usually of recent creation, depopulated by the Highland clearances). I've changed it to "a desolate and virtually uninhabited region"; my assertion that it's "virtually uninhabited" is based on the 5 or 6 houses marked on the Ordnance Survey Landranger map, but I don't know whether they're occupied or not. --Blisco 16:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wilderness

message: I visited the Cape last week.  The driver of the minibus said that there are five houses on the Cape.  Three belong to the Ministry of Defence, two are used as Holiday Cottages, but all are generally uninhabited, as of course is the light house.  The two minibuses are floated over on pontoons at the beginning of the tourist year (May) and remain on the Cape for the duration of the season.  Depending on tides, the first ferry crosses at about 11am, the last at about 4.30pm.  It's a small boat and only seats about 8 people.  Apart from council lorries to repair the "road" sent across specially or any MOD vehicles, it is impossible to take a normal car across. 88.104.226.75 10:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are now two permanent residents on Cape Wrath - John & Kay Ure (along with their dogs), who live in dwellings at the lighthouse and who run the Ozone Cafe. This cafe is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for walkers/visitors to the lighthouse. Gb009761 (talk) 14:11, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Two permanent residents information may be relevant to the Demographics subsection, assuming that more thorough demographs information is added to the article. The lighthouse and the cafe would fit under the Attractions / Amenities subsection. "This cafe is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year" is trivia as related to the Cape Wrath topic and should not be in the Cape Wrath article. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 11:48, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Visit

message: Is there a Cape Wrath hotel? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Laurel Bush (talk • contribs) 18:28, 8 August 2006
:Yes. It's not on the Cape Wrath peninsula though, but on the other side of the Kyle of Durness, so its relevance to this article is probably fairly minimal unless the hotel is notable in its own right, or unless it was put in the context of tourism to the Cape. --Blisco 17:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The hotel has now been closed for several years and has since been converted into private lodge dwellings Gb009761 (talk) 14:06, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hotel? 

message: Is it  (rhymes with "hath"), or like the word "wrath":  (rhymes with "goth"?  A programme on telly tonight (Secret Britain) used the former, but I've also heard the latter.  Could we have a pronunciation guide in the def, with a ref?  Richard New Forest (talk) 21:09, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always used the latter, and I'm fairly sure the locals do (as local as you get to such a place), but I can't think of a citable reference. C3lticmatt (talk) 02:14, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

text: The locals of Durness always use the former Gb009761 (talk) 14:01, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

text: Could you try to find some sort of citation for that and then add it please. V helpful. Blue Square Thing (talk) 11:44, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: The current article was headed in the wrong direction, particularly since editors merely add information without an overall perspective of where the article is headed. Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure provides that. Regarding adding material, Wikipedia's article formula is very simple: 1. gather all information about Cape Wrath from Wikipedia reliable sources that are independent of the Cape Wrath and then 2. boil that down into a thorough and representative survey of that relevant literature. That's it. The goal is to work towards and move the article towards meeting the WP:FA criteria. As for gathering all information about Cape Wrath, you can start by using what comes up in . I'd start with Google Book source information first and then enhance that with Google news information. As for boil that down, the article now has proper section headings per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure and you need only focus on one subsection at a time. Perhaps each of you could take a subsection and develop it using what you find from . Take a look at some of the articles listed in :Category:FA-Class WikiProject Cities articles and you can get ideas of how to improve the Cape Wrath article. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 16:30, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. It is important to provides cites to the source material. An example blank cite string for a book is:  Except for the lead paragraph, each sentence and table entries should have a cite attached to it. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 16:37, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

text: I've just had a bit of a go at it, removing shed loads of stuff that is really tourist information more than encyclopaedic. Some of it might want to come back in again and the edit certainly isn't finished yet (I may well have been too harsh in places). This is more a "by eye" going over from what I know about the place and it's history - it needs sourcing and doing properly yet. I have some sources lined up and think I know where there are others as well. Blue Square Thing (talk) 13:23, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Where to take the article

message: I already edited the sentence stating that this corner of the mainland was "separated from the mainland by the Kyle" but some additional context on why exactly this part of the mainland is only accessible via ferry would be useful to someone like myself who does not live in Scotland and got the impression that Cape Wrath was an island, from the way the article is written. Biturica (talk) 01:45, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs More Clarification Of Geography

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