Talk:Aberdeen

What is the currant population of Aberdeen ages between 16-24 year old males? - (An Anonymous User)

What does the age group population matter to a traveler? If you want to get this information you should probably go visit the website for the National Statistical Office for the United Kingdom. But, be warned, you first need to define what you mean by:

1. Aberdeen - What area are we talking about? The urban area or the area administered by the local authority?
2. Current Population - Do you mean as at today? or the last Census? and do you mean ordinarily resident, or on census day? Will an estimate do? or do you need exact numbers? And what about internal migration corrections for people who shifted after the last census?
3. Ages between 16-24 years old - Does this include or exclude 16 year olds or 24 year olds? On what day are they this age? And how do you account for aging of the agegroup cohort between the last census and today?

As you can see the answer is not that simple. -- (WT-en) Huttite 04:32, 13 Jan 2006 (EST)

From what I see as I walk around, the number is in the high millions. (WT-en) Martin Leng 17:00, 30 April 2006 (EDT) There are no 16-24 year old currants in Aberdeen except for a packet sitting on the shelf in my Auntie's larder in Northfield. In any event its nae possible tae tell if they're male or female and they're no for sale..

External links

removed from article per the Where did the "External links" sections go? guidelines:

• http://www.agtb.org - Visit Scotland Aberdeen and Grampian Official Website
• http://www.agtb.org/aberdeen-scotland.htm - Visit Scotland, the Granite City Article

To Guide

I'm about to go to sleep and haven't read through the whole article, so I'm putting this up mostly as a placeholder, but my reaction is that this is a really appealing destination with a copiously illustrated article (arguably too copiously illustrated, as there are two pictures of Johnston Gardens), and it would be nice for the article to be a Guide and in good enough condition to nominate and run as a Destination of the Month. I've never been to Scotland. What work is needed to prepare this article for its closeup? Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:21, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

I visited Aberdeen for the day a few months ago, and the article seemed in good shape then. It would be good to have more lat/longs and the article needs to updated to reflect the economic impact of the dramatic fall in oil prices in the last couple of years - I was not there long enough to see the impact of this, but I know that jobs have been lost. AlasdairW (talk) 09:55, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

A little late to weigh in, but . . . the article has a lot of content that is general to Aberdeenshire, or Scotland, or any cold damp climate. I'm gradually re-assigning or condensing, eg "Buy" doesn't need a long list of standard High Street shops. Grahamsands (talk) 21:21, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

PS The banner pic is wrong - this is the rugged Aberdeenshire coastline at Stonehaven. We need a pic of the grey granite architecture, with Victorian spires and ships on a cobalt sea. Grahamsands (talk) 22:35, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

It's never too late to weigh in or to improve an article. Thanks for giving your input. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:35, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

New Banner

1: Seaton Park Gardens

2: View from Tollohill Woods

3: Marischal College

4: Marischal College

Following the observation above that the banner is not of Aberdeen, which I hadn't noticed as the view is similar to that from Aberdeen Beach, here are 3 alternative suggestions. 1) is an existing commons image which was already the right ratio, and parks are one of the features of Aberdeen. 2) is a panorama, a nice view looking to the sea, but not totally in focus when viewed close up. 3) Is Marischal College, possibly the best known building in the city. AlasdairW (talk)

• My preference is 3, 1, 2. AlasdairW (talk) 00:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
• Marischal College is an attractive and distinctive building, but banner 3 has that building-falling-backwards-into-the-picture effect. I've added another option to try to avoid that. My preferences are 4, 1, 3, 2. —Granger (talk · contribs) 01:13, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
• That's a tougher one. My favorite is #2. Beyond that, it's hard to say, but perhaps 4, 1, and 3? --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 01:17, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
• 1 The park is nice but municipal, could be Hamilton Ontario or anyplace. 2 puts the river foreground, emphasises the modern city, and pushes the sea to the background, all kinda opposite to the story. 3 suggests a woozy day after a bevy on the heavy. 4 is best and would serve, seems over-cropped, misses the element of the sea and the harbour right in the heart of the city. Grahamsands (talk) 14:15, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@Grahamsands: Thanks for the comments. Are there any images on Commons (1800 pixels wide or wider) which you would suggest as alternatives? I would be happy to crop any photos that are suggested. I am not sure where you would need to stand to get the ideal image with "granite architecture and a cobalt blue sea". I recall seeing warehouses and modern amusement arcades next the beach. AlasdairW (talk) 21:02, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Tempting to suggest a plain matt grey banner, to convey the point that on a dreich day with louring cloud coming off a winter sea, you can lose the entire grey city in between. I didn't spot anything on Commons that improves on 4, which itself is an improvement on current. The other pix there tend to suit a vertical format, Victorian spires over grey canyons of streets. Grahamsands (talk) 19:57, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

I have changed the banner to 4, which is certainly an improvement for the moment. 3 and 4 were created from the same original photo, but I thought that the image was too "slopping", but maybe went too far rotating it to correct this, AlasdairW (talk) 22:20, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Images

There are a whole bunch of images in a row, which is contrary to the guidelines at Wikivoyage:Image policy#Minimal use of images, but toward the end of the article, there's a bunch of blank space. So it would be great if the images were spaced out more. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:38, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

I have moved some images down the page, and removed 2 images that didn't appear to be useful. There may be some scope for further work. AlasdairW (talk) 22:22, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Copyvio?

Two poems are quoted in an info box. Normally even a single line of poetry is protected by copyright for 70 years after the author's death. Can we have a note added if it's been checked that this usage is "fair dealing", otherwise out they must go. Grahamsands (talk) 21:21, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Annand Taylor died in 1960, so next year will only be the 60th since her death. However, Crichton Smith died much more recently, in 1997. The poems were originally added to the article in 2015 by User:Jackofhearts101, who is no longer active. The user did not provide any indication that the poems were free from copyright, and I haven't found copies of the poems published online in a few minutes of looking. All in all, it would probably be safest to remove them.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 16:31, 25 June 2019 (UTC)