Talk:Parliament of Scotland

message: I have redirected the link "General Council" to the "General Council (disambiguation)" page, although there is no link to the General Council of the Kingdom of Scotland, because it definitely does not refer to ecclesiastical General Councils, which is where the link led previously. J S Ayer 00:45, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[General Council (Scotland)]] 

message: A whole lot of anachronistic references to the Scots language have been added in the medieval period. This is not tenable in the period before the 14th century, and probably not before 1424 when Scots began to be used as the official language in which acts of parliament were written. rjt3 3 December 2005
:What would be considered the language of the parliament before then? --Qwerty-16 (talk) 13:32, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Scots language]] 

message: We need a new article - List of Parliaments of Scotland - to match:
*List of Parliaments of England
*List of Parliaments of Ireland
*List of Parliaments of Great Britain
*List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
Anyone got the relevant info? --Mais oui! 08:24, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, although it may be a little harder compared to those other articles as a lot of work was done by committee when the Estates were not in session. I still think that we need that article. Benson85 18:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I see absolutely no reason whatsoever that the list article cannot include meetings of Lords of the Articles, the General Council, the Convention of Estates, and any other committees or related meetings. In fact, the more comprehensive and descriptive the better: better than a bare list of dates. --Mais oui! 19:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of Parliaments of Scotland]] 

message: The Convention of Estates link is currently a rather unsatisfactory redirect to The States. Is anyone out there in a decent position to start up the article properly? I ask following this:
*Talk:French States-General#Scotland
--Mais oui! 08:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convention of Estates 

message: It is high time that we began to think about starting up the articles for the constituencies of the parliament. Perhaps we could start with the redlinks (and replacing the question marks with the relevant info) at the University constituency article:
University                  	Parliament	Years 	No. of Commissioners
Edinburgh                   	Scotland  	?-1707	?
Glasgow                     	Scotland  	?-1707	?
King's College (Aberdeen)   	Scotland  	?-1707	?
Marischal College (Aberdeen)	Scotland  	?-1707	?
St Andrews                  	Scotland  	?-1707	?
Does anyone know the appropriate sources? Are lists of Commissioners from the constituencies available online? 
In fact, at the moment, we do not even have a list of constituencies, let alone an article on each one. That would be a good start. --Mais oui! 03:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We do have one list - List of Constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union - although I note that there are no university constituencies listed on it. Is this an error (the source used to compile the list is a late 19th century English one), or were university constituencies abolished prior to the 18th century? Can anyone source list info for pre-18th century Parliaments? --Mais oui! 04:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can confirm that I did not notice any university constituencies, in the source I used for the list of pre-Union Scottish constituencies. Possibly they were in a different section of the book which I did not check. I have however seen a comment somewhere that King James VI and I enfranchised Oxford and Cambridge Universities, in the Parliament of England, as he was used to university constituencies in Scotland. --Gary J 13:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. --Mais oui! 13:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

text: There's quite a substantive list of Scottish parliamentary representation available here. MrPenguin20 (talk) 12:00, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles for each constituency 

message: Can anyone turn this unsatisfactory redirect into a cited stub article? I would do it myself, but I would be starting from scratch, so if anyone has some prior knowledge they would likely do a better job!
Please see:
*Talk:French States-General#Scotland
--Mais oui! 04:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Convention of Estates]] - poor redirect 

message: As (I'll admit) a non-expert on the subject, the section on Seventeenth Century - specifically regarding the Glorious Revolution (or, if you prefer, Revolution of 1688) strikes me as fairly seriously POV.  I mean references to, for example "illegal usurpation", and the words "illegally", "oust", "rightful", "usurping" and "traitors" in the statement that "the English Parliament illegally gave itself the right to oust the rightful king, James II and VII, and formally granted the Crown to the usurping Dutchman, William of Orange, who, in turn, favoured the traitors with huge financial rewards".  I'm not reverting it because I think there's some useful information there - the POV stuff just needs weeding out.
We have what appears to me to be a balanced article at Glorious Revolution, though that seems to be rather English-centred (and so not relevant here).  I'm relatively new to this and not sure which template to use, so I'll tag it to be checked and if people feel it needs something stronger then they can put it there. Pfainuk 12:26, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Re: the Union with England heading, starting "it is an oversimplification to claim" reads a little un-encyclopaedic, and it is a topic that is mostly covered in the Act/Treaty of Union article anyway. Perhaps this should be deleted? Benson85 (talk) 05:19, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seventeenth Century 

message: I've added Image:Court.of.Session.1532.James.V.JPG to the commons, if it is of interest. It's a photograph from the Great Window in Parliament House. Notuncurious (talk) 20:11, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of Court of Session, 1532, James V 

message: This article is linked to from Wikipedia's Main Page today (7 December 2008), due to the new Golf in Scotland article appearing as the lead item in the Did you know? column. --Mais oui! (talk) 09:50, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linked from Main page today 

message: An issue was raised at Template talk:Europe topic#Oireachtas which has unearthed a navigation issue. The Euro topic template is transcluded at this article but because of the way it is set up this means that whilst the other links are to modern parliaments, in the case of Scotland (and England, which does not have a modern parliament) it is to the historic one. As far as I can see there is no easy fix, short of making Parliament of Scotland a redirect to Scottish Parliament and moving this article to Estates of Parliament, currently a redirect here. Ben MacDui 11:39, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template link issue 

message: Apologies, I appear to have made an unintended reversion a few hours ago. Clumsy fingers presumably. Mutt Lunker (talk) 08:49, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unintented reversion 

message: Substituted at 02:18, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The image of Linlithgow Palace with the text that it was a meeting place of the Scottish Parliament in the 15C was removed as being inappropriate. The image was reinstated with the text amended to "meeting place of court". It was removed again as being inappropriate and reinstated again. It is difficult to see why this image has appeared at all as Linlithgow Palace has no relevance in an article on the Scottish Parliament. The inclusion of this image should be justified. An appropriate image would be the Edinburgh Tolbooth where Parliament actually met. 82.33.169.252 (talk) 17:02, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of Linlithgow Palace