Talk:Stewarton

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[edit] Readability

I'm sorry, but some of this article is becoming quite unreadable. We must keep in mind that the goal is not to add as much information as possible, but to make a concise, informative and easy to read article which assumes no background knowledge on the part of the reader. There are just far, far, far too many historical anecdotes, confusing references to local knowledge and pieces of irrelevant information to make this readable for someone not acquainted with the town. I live in the town and I know a fair amount of its history and even I can't get through this. What possible use will this article be to someone, for instance, moving to Stewarton from the United States and looking for some basic information on what the town is like? They'd need a degree in obscure Scottish local history to make any sense of much of what is written here!

I know this is a labour of love, but this is not the outlet for this sort of historical writing. It's very useful to have people so knowledgeable about the area contribute and local history and geography must be included, but we can't let these contributions completely dominate the article to the extent that it becomes almost unreadable. I propose that a large amount of this is edited down.