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Again, welcome! Wesoree (Talk) 18:15, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested template created

The template that you requested at Requested templates has been created. It can be found here Template:Fife settlements. Vozul (talk) 04:01, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Subdivisions of Scotland

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Thanks for maps

Thanks for taking the time to add the settlement maps for Scottish councils. Can I just ask if you are planning to to one for South Lanarkshire? If not, I wouldn't mind giving it a go since I could adapt your parameters (otherwise I wouldn't know where to start) but if its on your 'to do' list for some point I'll just leave you to it! Cheers, Crowsus (talk) 10:29, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please go ahead and add a map for South Lanarkshire. I hope the maps will be helpful, any improvements are welcome. 185.107.14.2 (talk) 14:39, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks also for adding the map to Edinburgh, I moved it into the pushpin map but didn't know how to change the map type, so thanks for updating it. Someone did remove the map at one point, but hopefully now it will stay. Polyamorph (talk) 20:05, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for re-adding the map - time will tell if it will stay. On a side note, it appears that a number of European capitals currently have two simultaneously visible maps in their infoboxes, as my initial edit suggested. These are: Amsterdam, Andorra la Vella, Cardiff, City of San Marino, Helsinki, Kyiv, Mariehamn, Minsk, Prague, Reykjavík, Rome, Tbilisi, Vilnius and Zagreb. 185.107.14.2 (talk) 22:24, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Template:Scottish Borders settlements has been accepted

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CS1 error on Aberdeenshire

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Birsay

Can you provide some evidence of its status as a village? Also, while I am here, it's not clear to me why you think it is better to delete the settlements on the existing template and create a new one. Happy to dicuss. Ben Mac Dui 14:44, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reaching out - not having expert knowledge of Orkney, I have searched for the terms "birsay village" and "village of birsay". Birsay is mentioned as a village e.g. here: [1], [2] and in books: [3], earliest entry seems to be in 1819: [4].

Regarding the existing template with settlements, a disadvantage with adding, in this case, additional settlements is reduced readability when the template grows. Consider for instance Angus templates: Template:Angus, Scotland towns and villages, Template:Angus elections and Template:Wards of Angus - these could be combined into one monolithic template, along with other Angus related templates - and the resulting template would become huge. Second, some articles may only need one of the templates, which multiple focused templates can better accommodate. 185.107.14.2 (talk) 21:44, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Birsay. The area around the Earl's Palace is a hamlet. It may well have been called 'village' from time to time - two of your links are historical - but I can't see any real evidence of it being a village in the modern sense. It's difficult with these very small settelemnts and I will look around when I get a chance.

New template. I take the point you are making. I don't think this was that much of a problem with the existing one but neither do I have a strong objection. It would however have been polite to make a suggestion at Template talk:Orkney Islands rather than just removing stuff. But then you could also arge that WP:BOLD applies. I think the Orkney template now looks odd without any reference to settlements and I am minded to add back the two towns. Good luck with your adventures. Ben Mac Dui 10:50, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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