Talk:Northwest Highlands

Merging
Right now in Wiki there are three closely related articles describing mostly the same geographic area:
 * Scottish Highlands
 * Northwest Highlands
 * Highland

IMHO this is a bit excessive, esp. because there is not enough linking between these pages. How about merging the content from this article into either one of the other two? Itinerant1 20:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)--


 * I agree that this article is a bit short on content at the moment, but I do think the Northwest Highlands deserves its own article. It's a distinct entity from the Highland council area, referring specifically to the land north of the Great Glen, and it's widely referred to in geographical contexts. Highland, conversely, is almost exclusively used in the context of local government, since it doesn't encompass a clearly defined geographical area (and has an unwieldy name to boot). The Scottish Highlands, meanwhile, cover a much broader area, and have more than enough historical and cultural associations to fill an article without going into too much detail about specific regions.


 * The articles do need some improvement though. Scottish Highlands is a typically mediocre wiki-miscellany with little coherent structure, while Northwest Highlands needs to be expanded and discouraged from turning into a list. Highland just about passes muster as a description of the council area, though the essentially random list of places of interest could probably go. --Blisco 23:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)