Talk:Wishaw

E coli outbreak
I think we need to expand the section or create a new article to cover the E Coli O157 outbreak in 1996. There is quite a large article on the US E Coli outbreak which so far has killed 3 people and affected 199. The Wishaw outbreak lead was traced to one butcher, killed 20 people and lead to widespread changes in farming practice in Scotland, so in that sense it was far more important. It also lead to research which has shown where E Coli O157 is housed in the gut of cattle and how these can be removed in the slaughterhouse. From this perspective as well as the human one I feel more attention is needed - it was this outbreak and its recent mention on the Scottish TV program "Landward" that lead me to look up E Coli O157 in the first place.

I would start such an article and link it to the E Coli O157 page but I suspect there are many people more knowledgeable on this than me.

Soarhead77 13:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Please change the map on the main page to reflect the true location of Wishaw. Thanks Julian

Name Derivation
"Waygateshaw" seems to be pure speculation an highly unlikely. There does not seem to be any historical record of the use of this name. Another one is "Wincieshaw" which is supposed to mean "St. Winifreds Wood," but is even less likely than the former. Of all the supposed derivation, "Wee Shaw" or "Little Wood" is the only one which makes any sense, but it seems to be the least quoted.

The thing about the name is, nobody really knows. The best guess, it would seem, is that when the Hamiltons bought the land, they built "Wishaw House" and called it as such because wis is scots for water and shaw means wood -- Wishaw House is in the middle of South Calder Water and what would have been and still is woods, north of the golf course. 86.138.175.121 (talk) 08:48, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

No St. Nethan!
The ancient church in Cambusnethan was dedicated to St. Michael. The name is pre-Christian, from Nechtan (anglicised Nethan), who was the Celtic pagan god of rivers, not a Christian saint! The name Nechtan is related to the Latin Neptune, another water god.82.40.211.149 20:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * If you have a reliable reference for this, please add it in! Thanks, Edward Waverley 09:31, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

The pre-reformation church of St. Michael is well documented. See, for instance, here - http://www.motherwell.info/NewsDetail.php?NewListId=134. Nechtan could have been one of many characters, the Celtic river god (a high probabliity given the location (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nechtan_%28mythology%29) or one of several rulers of that name, including a King of Strathclyde, in which kingdom Cambusnethan was located, or one of several saints. The last is unlikely because of the dedication of the church to St. Michael. Wmck 17:29, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I done about two hours of reading and found out all this stuff. It's going straight in the article, I don't know why its taken two years for anybody to actually act on this. 86.138.175.121 (talk) 08:35, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

May 2008
I dispute that Newmains is a suburb of Wishaw and propose that this silly statement be removed Paul210 (talk) 12:30, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't see it in the Wishaw article. It is included as an adjoining village, as it rightly is. However, as no greenbelt exists between Wishaw and Newmains, and with the exception of a small road sign east of Cambusnethan, they would be almost indistinguishable. Newmains is also often included as a part of Wishaw for administrative purposes by North Lanarkshire Council. Badbob82 (talk) southcalder.co.uk 17:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

It is mentioned in the 'Shopping' section. However, that section in itself is rather bizarre. Is it really appropriate to have a list of local supermarkets in what is supposed to be an encyclopedic article? Paul210 (talk) 08:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Airport
Contrary to the article, Wishaw does indeed have an airport, Pather International. It tends not to be trafficked by many aircraft, but The Bad Men did play there a few times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.40.204.123 (talk) 19:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Volunteer community links
I noticed (via Orangemike) that 77.102.15.67 has been trying to provide readers with information about the various groups and organizations for volunteers in Wishaw. Excellent idea, wrong place. What's generally done in these cases is to provide a link in the External links section to the locality in Dmoz, which I have now done. 77.102.15.67 could submit the appropriate links to the appropriate sub-category there, or apply to be an editor and add them himself. I currently see nothing but churches in Society and Culture, so it could use some expansion. It should be clear that providing a link in one Wikipedia article to every good website associated with this locality would severely unbalance the article, which is why a link to a web directory, such as Dmoz, is generally found to be more useful. 75.59.231.155 (talk) 16:59, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Wishawhill into Wishaw
I propose to merge Wishawhill into Wishaw as the former is an obscure locality within the town, and I don't believe there is enough to say about it, or sufficient sources, to justify a separate article. Jellyman (talk) 08:55, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support: a small insignificant neighbourhood and article is unsourced with no information beyond a basic description. Worthy of mention on the Wishaw page but not much beyond that IMO. Crowsus (talk) 10:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Support its not even an OS settlement and Vision of Britain and the Gazetteer for Scotland doesn't have anything about this place, as noted article is unsourced other than a statement about the school.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 09:27, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 10:43, 10 July 2021 (UTC)