Talk:Scots language

the link used to define it as "official" in Scotland is dated and current page no longer claims that. Just says the language is recognised. Is there a citation to actual status under Scottish or UK government? GraemeLeggett (talk) 13:19, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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In the infobox's native name section (Braid)

Scots should be on the one row i.e. '{{lang|sco|(Braid) Scots}}
…' rather than how it is now. 2001:BB6:B817:800:18A6:8EB:B1E8:D8C3 (talk) 12:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

:Done. Mutt Lunker (talk) 14:31, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

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At the end of the section 'Literature', please ADD:

In 2022, the release of Poemes Ecossais by French poet Paul Malgrati, marked the first publication in Scots written by a non-native Anglophone.https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/po%C3%A8mes-%C3%A9cossais Wormshill30 (talk) 18:59, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for the suggestion, but the link that you provided does not qualify as a reliable source. A publisher's website is generally not a reliable source for a claim about the significance of the published work (see WP:RSCONTEXT) – in this case, the claim that Malgrati is the first non-native Anglophone to author a work in Scots. Altamel (talk) 04:49, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

:Some things just grow during incremental edits and sometimes get out of hand. The "External links" section, one of the optional appendices, has grown to 16 entries, including two subsections. Three seems to be an acceptable number, and of course, everyone has their favorite to try to add for a fourth. Consensus needs to determine this.

:However, none is needed for article promotion.

:Some links may be included in WP:ELNO, WP:NOTREPOSITORY, or WP:NOTGUIDE. Others, listed below:

• ELpoints #3) states: {{tq|Links in the "External links" section should be kept to a minimum. A lack of external links or a small number of external links is not a reason to add external links.}}
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:Moved links:

• [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/scots.htm Scots at Omniglot]
• [http://www.dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/the-scots-language/ a phonetic description of Scottish Language and Dialects] at Dictionary of the Scots Language
• [http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/scots-the-auld-an-nobill-tung/ Words Without Borders Peter Constantine: Scots: The Auld an Nobill Tung]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20040811152122/http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/5to14/specialfocus/scots/index.asp Scots in Schools]

• [http://www.dsl.ac.uk/ The Dictionary of the Scots Language]
• [http://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk/ Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd.]
• [http://www.stooryduster.co.uk/ Scottish words – illustrated]
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20010204193100/http://www.scotsindependent.org/features/scots/index.htm Scots Language Recordings]}}

• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000902181731/http://www.scotstext.org/ ScotsteXt]}} – books, poems and texts in Scots
• [https://sites.google.com/site/scotsthreip/ Scots Threap]
• [http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/ Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech] – Multimedia corpus of Scots and Scottish English
• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/scots.shtml BBC Voices, Scots section] – The BBC Voices Project is a major, though informal, look at UK language and speech
• [https://scotssyntaxatlas.ac.uk/ Scots Syntax Atlas] -- Otr500 (talk) 13:47, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

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