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This was adapted from my node created a while back on everything2.com http://everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=1477250 Avis Rapax 13:48, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Good evening, NSH! I thought I'd get the ball rolling. I have added a bit about the Roman remains at Seamill. Until this can be verified to Misplaced Pages standards, I have used the expression "it is said" to leave a measure of doubt. However, I am as confident as I can be that this is a genuine piece of local history! Kind regards from Avril.rennie 22:26, 3 March 2007 (UTC)82.133.110.90 22:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Pruning links

See WP:External links#Links normally to be avoided.

In general, external links sections should be kept short. I've pruned the external links section, deleting the following:

• Simpson memorial (no reciprocal relationship, and pic is now in article anyway)
• Yahoo weather (link doesn't work, need to go through main Yahoo site first; BBC weather site is better anyway IMO)
• Golf club (already in "Notes" section, and borderline advertising)

None of the following belong here, as there is no reciprocal relationship. In any case, they are all present in their own articles (where they do belong, and where there is a reciprocal relationship) and can be easily accessed via the existing links to those articles.

• FOPC
• Law Castle
• Clan Hunter
• Nicola Benedetti

--NSH001 01:00, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Good evening, NSH

Thank you for your contributions. I agree that the pic of the Simson Memorial is better where you have put it. Please note that there is no "p" in Robert Simson's name.

However, I don't see the point of deleting so many of the external links. I had noticed that the Yahoo! weather wasn't working, but I hadn'thad time to do anything about it.

I'm not quite sure what is meant here by a reciprocal relationship. As to "borderline advertising", I don't see that either. I am not involved in promoting WK Golf Club, FOPC, Law Castle, Nicola Benedetti or, even, Craft Town Scotland. As Misplaced Pages recommends, I let the facts speak for themselves.

I appreciate Misplaced Pages's groundrules about a neutral point of view. By neutral, I understand "even-handed". ("Neutral" can also mean "bland", in some contexts.) In effect, we want our article to be even-handed, without being bland.

My interpretation is that it will be acceptable to write the article with a dash of what one might call civic pride. If we wanted to be really, really impartial, we could mention the drug-addicts in The Scheme (in Simson Avenue, no less!) who are seem to be striving to lower the tone of the community, as fast as others are trying to achieve a turnaround. I have already deleted the vandals from the station car-park. (If only it were so easy in reality!) Every community has its less seemly underbelly, as we know. But, surely, we're not seeking to be to West Kilbride what Ian Rankin is to Edinburgh (in the Inspector Rebus novels).

So, NPOV is a good principle. But writing an interesting, well-researched, accurate and up-to-date article that reaches a wide audience is important too. After all, we are not presenting a PhD to some dusty old professor. Our readers will come from many walks of life and I hope each reader will derive some benefit (and enjoyment) from our article.

Must press on. I think getting some more photos will be a worthwhile step forward.

Trust you are well and enjoying life!

Kind regards from Avril.rennie 00:06, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Good afternoon, Neil

I took a look at the WK article just now, and I think it is coming along superbly. Congratulations! The expanded entries about the Village Hall etc look really good. Very authoritative!

I was in WK this afternoon, and I had a chat with Councillor Liz McLardy who's one of the key people behind the Craft Town project. I urged her to go online and to see the Misplaced Pages article. She will do so, I'm sure. I asked her for information about Helen Keller's time in West Kilbride. Apparently, Helen Keller stayed in a large house called Sunnyside on Meadowfoot Road. The owner Mr McCrindle has pictures of her there, standing beside the gatepost. It would be interesting to have a copy.

I've been working on an article about my kinsman Phillip Clancey and another about Sandra Brown (campaigner). I'll return to the WK one as soon as I can. It's good to have a break sometimes, though. Also in the pipeline is a piece about the pioneering (woman) lawyer Dame Margaret Kidd whom I had the privilege to know. A lot of work still to do, brushing these up!

Trust all is going well for you. Tell me about your Quakerism sometime. I shall be very interested! Raising the consciousness of the human race is a vitally important task! Kind regards from Avril.rennie 16:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)