User talk:Calvine Struan

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Happy editing! HouseOfChange (talk) 11:32, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Highland Clearances
I have reverted your edits to Highland Clearances. Given that you are a new editor, that requires some explanation. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia that is based on reliable sources (WP:RS). That means all material added must be based on a reliable source. What constitutes a reliable source depends on the subject matter. In this case, we are considering a historical event. Therefore we look to WP:HISTRS for guidance. In short, the article should be based on the academic work of historians working in the field. That is how the article is now written.

I do not know how widely you have read on the subject of the Highland Clearances. It is a subject on which a large amount of non-specialist comment has been made - especially by some newspapers. I would encourage you to read some of the sources cited by the article. If you want a summary of how the public conception and the historical consensus of these events compares, I would recommend Tom Devine's The Scottish Clearances. If you want to track down a change of opinion in one historian, look at the preface of the 2000 edition of The Making of the Crofting Community. This is where you will find James Hunter correct his understanding of the events of the Highland Potato Famine, where he accepts that his earlier view of atrocious behaviour by landlords was very much rarer than he had originally believed. (This change in viewpoint originates from Tom Devine's work, published as The Great Highland Famine: Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century. This prize winning book demonstrates the high quality of historical work that has been carried out on the subject - much to the credit of Scottish historians.) Strangely, Hunter did not rewrite the section of the book that is corrected in the preface to this later edition. University courses in Scottish History often contain the preface to this later edition in the reading lists for their students. If you look at the comments and opinions of both Tom Devine and James Hunter outside the field of history, you might well surmise that they would both subscribe to the "popular" view of what happened if that was in any way supportable by rigorous academic work.

I hope this does not sound too "preachy", nor that you find having your edits reverted discouraging. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 16:05, 4 August 2021 (UTC)