Talk:Tartan Day

message: It says "the Scottish national tourist board, now exploits the festivities to promote tourism in Scotland". I think that comment is unfair and the words "now exploits the festivities to promote tourism in Scotland" should not be in an encyclopedia. This is the opinion of someone I feel. It this is an official quote it should be stated. Scot24 12:42, 5 April 2010
:It is true, and there are sources for it, which I'll get to later, but it certainly shouldn't be phrased in negative, unencyclopedic language like that.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:00, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, with a lot more than the tourism board covered.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:32, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Scottish National Tourist Board

message: I don't know if it made it onto the front page, but just look at the pageviews for 6 April 2009! And interestingly this year saw 4.5x as many viewers as the 4028 hits on 6 April 2008. Well I find that stuff interesting... I guess it'd be nice to have this at GA in time for next year - the quality of the referencing could do with some work, and just general copyediting and filling out some gaps. Le Deluge (talk) 18:54, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Still needs works, because the NZ section is a sect-stub; lots of the sources for the original material of the article can't be verified (offline newspaper stories with no online versions that can be found); coverage of Scottish government and business involvement is heavily US-skewed; coverage of events in Australia, Canada, Argentina, even the US aside from NYC and DC, have not been much explored.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:35, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Pageviews

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Little was done to follow up the New York event in 1982."
This sentence is coming out of the blue with no clear connection to anything before or after. Unless it's resolved, it should be removed.
ICE77 (talk) 08:32, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It was weird nonsense anyway, since there is no evidence of any such event in 1982. I've removed the material in question.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:01, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous sentence 

message: This will be pertinent:
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*  – Has a chapter on Tartan Day.
 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:21, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional sources 

message: I propose changing the English variety and date format used in this article away from American, since a) the event was not invented in the US and is not closely associated with the US (it was invented in Canada, and is associated with numerous countries); and b) it's jarring to be reading all the Scotland- and Highland-dress-related articles in what can generally be called Commonwealth English only to have this one article veer into American spellings and date order; and c) it's editorially a butt-pain, because source citations cannot just be copied from one article to another but have to be edited for date formatting, and if material is merged into this article or out of it, the spellings will have to change. I'm willing to do the conversion in this article; should only take a few minutes. PS: The article was not entirely consistently using a single DATEVAR, but was leaning strongly enough American I thought it worth asking (and normalizing that and the spelling to American in the interim to agree with the general pattern; it's better that it be in one not-necessarily ideal variant than veering back and forth between two).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  13:28, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to non-US ENGVAR and date format