Template talk:Whisky distilleries in Scotland

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This is probably not the best Talk page to have this discussion, but I had to pick one, and I'll try to add references to other places that might want input.

There are several different places where distilleries in Scotland are listed/enumerated. Here,

I would suggest that all operating distilleries be listed, separated into a "malt" section, and a "grain" section, and that operating mean "distilling". I'm open to other interpretations, but I'd like some consistency across the articles. Ahwiv (talk) 19:09, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the differences between this template and the

List of distilleries in Scotland is probably because previous edits were attempting to avoid redirects and redlinks in a navbox per the guidelines for them. There's still a bunch of redlinks in the list article. As for the main article, it should be thinned out and kept to a brief overview. As for the various regional articles, they should just be merged to the main article; they are really pointless stubs. oknazevad (talk) 19:55, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply

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I agree it would be the most logical approach to list all operating distilleries. If a distillery distills it must go into all the lists. And it shouldn't matter whether they sell whisky or their whisky is not ready yet. But I'm not sure if a strict division into "malt" and "grain" categories is absolutely necessary. First, this may lead to confusion. Loch Lomond is listed twice in

List of distilleries in Scotland, probably because they've got regular pot stills and a patent still. Second, there is no strict border between "malt" and "grain". Some "malt" distilleries produce gin in their stills do they qualify as "grain"? LongDrink (talk) 22:38, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply

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