Talk:Dumfries/Archive 1

Archive 1

At Low Water

"At Low Water" removed from picture of Devorgilla Bridge- the bridge is upstream of the caul the weir that stops this part of the Nith being tidal!

David Coulthard is from Twynholm in Kirkcudbrightshire, he is not from Dumfries or Dumfriesshire. Why is someone repeatedly adding him to this article?

well this addition was done again today by someone at IP address 172.200.199.89 this is one of a block owned by... AOL. It's registered to AOL in the US, could that mean that the address is allocated over there? I like to think it's some mindless droid in the idiot world of F1 public relations putting this there because they know their fans can't spell "kirkcudbrightshire" clearwood 18:55, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Gosh what a lot of stupid activity! There are some very insecure boys around here judging by the idiotic virtual gay-bashing that they are carrying out. Any chance of some more content actually about dumfries Clearwood (talk) 14:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Economy of Dumfries

This seems to be a rather NPOV discussion which could just as well apply to many other Scottish towns. What is the town's economy actually based on? What does diesel-powered subsidiary relationship' mean?--JBellis 18:10, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Undiscoveredscotland.co.uk and Copyvio

I've been embarking on a large scale clean up of the use of the source Undiscoveredscotland as it is both commercially based (subjects are promoted on a commercial basis) and is unreliable (there is no record of its editorial process or who its writers are.) Generally I've been replacing this source with reliable scholarly sources,except for a few cases where uncontroversial observable facts have been left unsourced. Large chunks of this article were sourced to this source solely but on checking this content can be found to have been copied nearly verbatim from the source (using Dcoetzee's Duplicate Detector) as such I've deleted it from the article and of course it can be reinserted if sourced elsewhere and reworded. There is also a similar copy from electric Scotland, but as this source is just printing a historic public domain document there is no copyvio - still it is a plagarism and regular editors to this article should consider a) sourcing this to the original document not Electric Scotland and b) Reword the passages copied from that document. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 16:47, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Cite for the original book M'Dowall, William (1867). History of the burgh of Dumfries. A. and C. Black.

Contact me Gd Bsmith1977 at 561 983 7942 or Murkmatizedbs@gmail.com BSmithondeck (talk) 05:10, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Sources for library

Does anyone have any good sources about the library? I'd like a better one than the one I've used....Lirazelf (talk) 15:19, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Etymology

A third theory, which I have no cite for but heard from a learned academic (so it must be true, right?), is that it is a remnant of a tribe of Germanic Friesians (like the cow, I presume) - Dum-Fries, Hill of the Friesians. Have a nice day. 90.220.170.17 (talk) 18:11, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

I have heard of this too, but it is completely spurious whatever your "learned academic" friend says. It is worth mentioning though as I have seen it in a couple of sources. The Frisians still exist in the Netherlands and coastal Germany. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4C8:1407:621F:A026:E075:9D23:58F8 (talk) 10:13, 21 January 2022 (UTC)