Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Shetland islands

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The list was promoted 00:26, 24 January 2008.

List of Shetland islands[edit]

This list is in the style of FLs List of islands of Scotland and List of Orkney islands and I believe meets the relevant criteria. Unlike the Orkney archipelago there are a very large number of small skerries and offshore islands, which resulted in a rather complex listing process. As noted on the Talk page, "if anyone should imagine that this large collection of islands is over-doing things and that many of them are surely mere rocks a passer-by might hardly notice, they could visit some of the photograph collections available e.g. Dore Holm or Moo Stack. If some of these spectacular but unheralded islets were in the southern half of the UK, or even anywhere near the more populous regions of Scotland, they might well be national landmarks". Ben MacDui ^Talk/Walk 11:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: "There are three islands joined to the Shetland Mainland by bridges, East Burra, West Burra, Trondra, and Muckle Roe." There are four islands named. --Golbez (talk) 19:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see you spotted the deliberate mistake. There was some discussion a while back about whether 'Burra' was one or two islands. I will of course amend. Ben MacDui ^Talk/Walk 20:12, 12 January 2008 (UTC) Done.[reply]

Support; I'd love for there to be a map of all the named islands and islets, but that would be a rather large undertaking that isn't needed for a featured list. :) --Golbez (talk) 07:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support. The map image only shows the larger islands (except Fair Isle to the south). I have a 1:100,000 map (roughly 1 x 0.5 metres in size) but it only registers up to about 50% of the smaller ones. They are all visible via the online Ordnance Survey system at 1:25,000 and I've added that as a general reference. Ben MacDui ^Talk/Walk 09:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support; as nominator. Ben MacDui ^Talk/Walk 20:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- seems to meet the criteria --Orlady (talk) 04:07, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support subject to clarification as to whether the text in the lead given footnote no.1 is a quotation or not – the use of 'these inverted commas' around the definition makes it look as though it is, but the footnote text makes me think that it isn't. Bencherlite ^Talk 09:10, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you for your support, and you ask an intriguing question. You are quite correct that it is not a quote - in the sense of being something said off-wiki. I have had a look at WP:MOS and I am not sure of the correct procedure. I removed the single quote marks and inserted a colon but that didn't look right so I removed the latter as well. Ben MacDui ^Talk/Walk 21:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying the point. (When is an island not an island? People in Wales have been asking that recently!) Bencherlite ^Talk 21:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wales may gain one, but meanwhile, on the other side of the world... [1]. Ben MacDui ^Talk/Walk 08:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Spectacular article. It might (and I say might intentionally) make sense to mention St. Ninian's Isle in the discussion of the definition of an island, since it is the only exception to the rule included in the list. Geraldk (talk) 00:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support, I will look at this. At least it is an easy-to-explain oddity, unlike say Eileanan Iasgaich - is this one island or several? Ben MacDui ^Talk/Walk 08:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Another well-written Scottish islands article. Lurker (said · done) 15:20, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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