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I assume they're trying to avoid another Scots Wikipedia situation here, where a low quality Wikipedia misrepresents the language?
Is Scots Wikipedia really that bad? I was viewing a few pages in Scots and I was surprised how much of it I could read given how similar it is to English.
I'm not familiar, but I assume from your description it must have been a horrible representation of the language because if you could understand it clearly it's not really a good representation of the Scottish tongue.
Oh, now I see it.
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Frost?wprov=sfla1
This is the bad one right? I can mostly follow it but a couple slang terms I kinda have to guess
there was a... thing a while back.
Basically a bunch of pages were written by an American teenager just using an English Scots dictionary, so it was written in basically English with improperly used Scots words
If you see an article with a heading like "the 'Scots' in this article wis written bi a body that hasna a good grip on the leid", it means it's written in fake Scots
Example: