Welcome to the Scotland Wikia!
Scotland is one of the most amazing places in the world. This Wikia is an unofficial tourist guide to Scotland. If you've been there, or would like to go there, this is a great place to learn more about this wonderful nation.
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Like other wikis in the Wikia family, anyone can edit these pages, and no one actually "owns" the wiki or its content.
By all means be bold in your edits, adding content and information that you believe others will want to know about.
But please also remember to collaborate with others, be friendly, discuss differences of opinion, and be mindful of the work others have done on this project before you got here. Remember that they are, like you, volunteers and fans, and they like what they've done here. Approach your edits in the spirit of improving the wiki, rather than "putting your stamp on it" and your presence here will be a blessing, not one that is resented.
Try to be accurate in your statements and leave links and/or other verifiable source information in articles you edit. Feel free to add your opinions and feelings where it's appropriate and where it's clearly labeled as such. (Unlike Wikipedia articles, Wikia has many opportunities to share your POV: point of view.)
Wikia and Wikipedia[]
Wikia shares a licencing arrangement with Wikipedia, so information about Scotland may be copied from there to here. However, in practice, it's best to innovate and improve upon anything taken from Wikipedia - or consider starting the article yourself, from scratch.
For first-time editors[]
Please make Help:Contents over at the main Wikia site the first place you visit. It will have you editing in no time!
Is this your first time here? Please consider feeling your way around, learning how to edit by hitting the "edit" tab, and not starting off your career as an editor by vandalizing pages (if you add things to pages to "test" how to edit, it's vandalism if you hit the 'save page' button.)
There will be a great temptation to make a dozen edits in your first hour or two here. That's GREAT! But please make them quality edits that will make you a valued member of a team, not a "spoiler" who ruins what others have worked hard to create without understanding why the site is the way it is. You may inadvertantly destroy what took many hours and long discussion to create.
While it's not required before you start editing, registering and adopting a User name is a good idea. When people see your IP number - rather than a User name - they may assume you are simply here to vandalize pages anonymously. If you are here to contribute, you'll want to establish a "good name" so let's see what that name is!