Talk:Outer Hebrides/GA1

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Reviewer: Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:41, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll make straightforward copyedits as I go (Please revert if I guff the meaning), and jot queries below. Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:41, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Amongst" and "whilst" seem to me to be perfectly acceptable Scottish English, but no matter.

Most of the islands have a bedrock formed from ancient metamorphic rocks and the climate is mild and oceanic. The 15 inhabited islands have a total population of about 26,500 and there are more than fifty substantial uninhabited islands. - take your pick "15 and 50" or "fifteen and fifty"

Done

The largest settlement is Stornoway on Lewis - I think popping in the figure here would be good.

Done

In common with the other main island chains of Scotland, many of the more remote islands were abandoned during the 19th and 20th centuries, in some cases after continuous habitation since the prehistoric period. ~~- needs a cite, and how many is many? 5,10, 100...? Even a ballpark number would be good here.~~

At a guess, more than fifty. I'll have to do some digging.

Note included. It would be neater to refer to some specific published list, but of course by definition the census is concerned with habitation, not its lack.

~~link Fomorians,~~ and who is Watson? I think a full name and maybe the book or work cited might be better prosewise.

Former done - hopefully the latter too.

The were pirates --> "They were pirates"?

Done

~~'The Roman's direct impact --> "The Romans' direct impact "? (more than one Roman?)~~

Done

As the Norse era drew to a close the Norse-speaking princes were gradually replaced by Gaelic-speaking clan chiefs including the MacLeods of Lewis and Harris, the MacDonalds of the Uists and MacNeil of Barra. - reading this is unclear. Did the norse withdraw, or did they become gaelicized?

Both. The situation is hideously complex at any level of detail, but I will add something to clarify asap.

Note added. Ben Mac Dui 20:13, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~:In Politics and local government - are the folks traditionally left- or right-leaning?~~

It is an SNP - Labour marginal as far as UK national politics are concerned, but perhaps more tellingly the council is staunchly independent so I have added something about that. Ben Mac Dui 19:44, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking in the Natural history section as to a description of the predominant vegetation types, which I presume is this Machair (??) However it is in the geography section. This is tricky, but it'd be good to expoud on vegetation types in the former section. I'd actually move the sentence across the sections and expand a little on it.

Actually, for continuity an answer might be to swap paras 2 and 3 of geography, and then slot in the natural history (possibly rename as flora and fauna) as a subsection after the 3rd para, as we then move discussion of grasslands and moors into specific vegetation etc.