User talk:Fettercairn

Greenhill
Hi, in response to your comment about Greenhill Gardens and Chamberlain Road, with all the exclamation marks, you should read on and see that Old & New Edinburgh calls Chamberlain Road, "the adjacent thoroughfare", which is entirely compatible with what is being discussed in the article.

The structure's date may or may not be late 19th Century. That's not to say that there wasn't an earlier structure. This article would be better simply referring to the existence of a structure and a controversy (referenced) and not making a claim for the date, unless it goes into all the detail about precisely what was laid down and when, which would appear to be a minefield.

Please consult WP:VERIFY and see that the measure here is verifiability, not subjective "truth", and that the only references so far accessible to Wikipedia readers are dated 1880, (and as it happens my earlier three-book set agrees), and not 1894. The Historic Scotland and National Archives documents to which you variously refer should be converted into proper references (not necessarily online-checkable, but preferably so), as should the Old & New Edinburgh article, and the reader would then be able to draw their own conclusions.

I am sure you will appreciate that there has been considerable obfuscation of the status of the tomb, following from the Land Registry's admitted mistake several years ago in accepting the documents erroneously compiled by the solicitor acting for the owners of the house. (These details I derive from a letter written to me by the local city councillor in approx. 2006.) It is precisely because this kind of mistake can and does happen, that we can't take a Historic Scotland fact as being absolute. They are a highly respected body and thus a "reliable source", but common sense shows us that this situation is already subject to creeping error. This is why it is better to stick to sources which can be checked by the readership, or (preferably, given the lack of certainty), to leave out the details entirely. –  Kieran T  (' talk ') 11:23, 15 April 2008 (UTC)