Talk:Stewarton

Readability

I'm sorry, but some of this article is becoming quite unreadable. We must keep in mind that the goal is not to add as much information as possible, but to make a concise, informative and easy to read article which assumes no background knowledge on the part of the reader. There are just far, far, far too many historical anecdotes, confusing references to local knowledge and pieces of irrelevant information to make this readable for someone not acquainted with the town. I live in the town and I know a fair amount of its history and even I can't get through this. What possible use will this article be to someone, for instance, moving to Stewarton from the United States and looking for some basic information on what the town is like? They'd need a degree in obscure Scottish local history to make any sense of much of what is written here!

I know this is a labour of love, but this is not the outlet for this sort of historical writing. It's very useful to have people so knowledgeable about the area contribute and local history and geography must be included, but we can't let these contributions completely dominate the article to the extent that it becomes almost unreadable. I propose that a large amount of this is edited down.

Yes. It's not just that Wiki is an encyclopedia, it's that expressing personal opinions about shopping, history, and "traditional Geocaches"??? without citations will soon lead to contradictory statements. E.g., what's the "best" place to shop? What was the "most important" historical event of the 19th century? What event has a "growing reputation"? (Is someone also going to modify the article when the event has a "diminishing reputation"?) The primary rules of Wiki are verifiability, no original research, and neutral point of view. I've removed some of the hyperbole, but this article still needs pruning, and reliable, third-party references. 24.130.129.140 (talk) 04:26, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Who cares? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.20.79 (talk) 16:10, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Constructive... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.195.174.51 (talk) 22:12, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

I am at the moment trying to sort out the Lord Boyd articles, which is not as easy as it seems because the Dictionary of National Biography and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography disagree about the ordering (whether the 3rd Lord Boyd was an Alexander or a Robert), anyway that is my self appointed problem. But the 4th Loyd Boyd a Robert according to the sources I am using was "granted lands of Chapelton, etc., in the lordship of Stewartoun, in recompense for renunciation of all their claims and rights to the lands and barony of Kilmarnock". For my purposes the article "Stewarton coat of arms" is much more useful than the article Stewarton. So I have created a link from lordship of Stewarton to Stewarton coat of arms and would suggest that the article is moved to lordship of Stewarton rather than it being merged into Stewarton. -- PBS (talk) 05:21, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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