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Sources don't belong in External links- they belong here!

These sources do not ever belong in External links. I have moved the link farm from there to this talk page where they do belong. Warning: I didn't check them over, so be careful in choosing any references here. Thank you! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 00:54, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So, what kind of flute exactly?

Members of the western concert flute family. --Jerome Potts (talk) 05:41, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He plays the standard western concert flute. Anarkigr (talk) 09:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish

I remember once being told that the "proper" way to describe folks from Scotland is "Scots," rather than "Scottish" or "Scotch." Any truth to this or is it all nonsense? PurpleChez (talk) 20:41, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's a legitimate question. Nothing confrontational or offensive or inappropriate. Respond to it. Don't just delete it. PurpleChez (talk) 22:11, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PurpleChez Please see my edit summary, I did not say anything about the validity of your question, I merely pointed out this page is not the best place for your question, you should ask your question here: Talk:Scottish people you'll probably get a faster and more thorough answer. Mlpearc (open channel) 22:19, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! Thanks for your message!!!PurpleChez (talk) 22:21, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Mlpearc (open channel) 23:06, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why overcomplicate this? This guy is British, why use terms like Scottish-born. I am not against labelling people as English, Welsh etc, but sometimes British is just more suitable. If you put Scottish-born in, I expect that he is also from a foreign country, which England is not to Scotland. I have taken the liberty to change this to British. 95.148.249.36 (talk) 12:04, 4 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The modern term is 'Scottish' and its is perfectly acceptable, depending on the wish of the party concerned. I refer to myself as English because I was born in and grew up in England. Scotland IS a different country to England and Wales and Ireland and not everybody likes the term 'British'....especialy the Scottish.

Old argument I know, but I will repeat the point made in the last edit. The United Kingdom is a union of kingdoms, much like the United States is a federation of states. Calling someone British is the same as calling someone American, and you will still find folk who insist on calling themselves from the state they are from (e.g. "Texan") that is still regarded as a completely valid identity, though I'm unsure about Wikipedia's specific rules on the matter but folk in Scotland, even those who are very supportive of the union, still regard themselves as a unique identity. I guess this raises a matter for how Wikipedia treats peoples belonging to nations within Union; though the rules may say it is okay to call them by an adjective for the union, I think most would consider this erasure of a culture... perhaps a topic worthy of discussion.

With that said, the argument between Scots/Scottish/Scotch, it largely depends on the context, all have been used as adjectives for the culture before. "Scotch" is rare these days, typically only referring to alcohol and frankly I've never heard an actually Scottish person use it to refer to the people or themselves while "Scottish" is pretty common at least in the lowlands and appears to be most common. As for "Scots", as an adjective the word becomes plural, a group of Scottish people are "Scots" but a single person is "a Scot", so saying that Ian Anderson is "a Scots" is grammatically incorrect. Adding to that, "Scots" as a singular refers to the language, which would make it a noun.86.27.101.242 (talk) 23:00, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality

Ian Anderson is on record as regarding himself as British (same interview linked here as cited on main page) given that his father was Scottish and his mother English. I'd suggest that his Wikipedia entry reflect this choice. --Stroness (talk) 14:27, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above attempt at consensus fits with the advice offered in WP:UKNATIONALS. As yet, no constructive argument has been offered on this page by those who oppose his being labelled British.Stroness (talk) 06:56, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

COPD

Ian has revealed that he has COPD, See this, Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 17:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

As a smoker, his attitude towards the cause of his disease is wishful thinking - surely other news outlets have reported his smoking at some point? 50.111.60.40 (talk) 16:55, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

iananderson.com

his personal page is not available April of McLeod (talk) 16:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This website listed in the Infobox no longer responds. The Internet Archive shows the last successful response was in Feb 2020. However, all the responses dating back to Oct 2013 are redirects to the website at http://jethrotull.com/ which is still available. 50.245.138.97 (talk) 21:03, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

progarchives.com

The website isn't reliable so I removed it. Sikonmina (talk) 11:52, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for explaining. Presumably it's the user-generated content aspect of Progarchives that renders it as unreliable, as per WP:UGC? Stroness (talk) 12:23, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes and specifically that it has its own definition of progressive rock so these two characteristics renders the information on the website biased and unreliable. Sikonmina (talk) 08:19, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Guitar

Should guitar be restored to the instrument list? It's because he does seem to play acoustic guitar often enough to warrant an inclusion. GTAGamer245 (talk) 12:13, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

i don't even know why it was removed, Mewhen123 (talk) 11:27, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]