Talk:Highland Land League

Crofter MPs

I believe five Crofter MPs were elcted in 1886. At present the article names four, and their constituncies. I am pretty sure the fifth was not elected from Sutherlandshire. Might have been the Northern Burghs constituency. Laurel Bush 11:16, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC).

Sutherlandshire (Angus Sutherland) did return a Crofter MP in 1886.

Centrality to Highland History

i think that this group was instrumental in getting a fairer deal for ordinary people in the north of Scotland, and can be seen as a distant ancestor of the Scottish devolution movement, and indirectly the SNP, and the Labour party in certain parts of northern Scotland. The page probably needs a lot more referencing.--MacRusgail (talk) 18:06, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

The Sutherland Association

There is a reference on the net to a cairn erected at Gartymore on the croft of John Fraser, a leading light of the land reform movement, the first branch of the Sutherland association, the parent of the Highland Land League. These men by their efforts succeeded in the Highland Land League.

There are several references to the Sutherland Association. One was it was estd abt 1865 (39th Anniversary of the association was in 1904). Another is that the foundation of the Sutherland Association in 1882 was a curtain-raiser to ... and the Sutherland Association and the Highland Land Law Reform Association ...BeckenhamBear (talk) 09:32, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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A generous Top importance. Little added since last assessment, but C was not in use then. Using headings amy help identify gaps. Finavon (talk) 17:04, 27 September 2008 (UTC) The rationale for the "top" importance is that the HLL was instrumental in getting a fairer deal for crofters in the Highlands and Islands, so I'd say it affects the economy of this whole area, even today...--MacRusgail (talk) 18:02, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Last edited at 18:02, 27 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 17:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

You have to remember that assessments are to allow Wikiprojects to set a priority for Wikipedians to work on, they're not really about the "lingering historical importance" of the subject of the article. And normally an article that was only getting ~10 views per day would be a low priority compared to the many other articles competing for a limited resource of editor attention. Tops are really rare, they're eg less than 0.1% of all Scotland articles, they are generally the big "overview" articles like Politics of Scotland. You have to be really careful setting Wikiproject priorities on what our readers want rather than according to some personal political agenda. FlagSteward (talk) 17:31, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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