Talk:Willie McRae

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Herald article: ‘Security service tailed SNP activist on day of his death’[edit]

David Leask, Investigations Reporter - 4 Nov 2010 - Former police officer’s claims add weight to calls for inquiry

--Mais oui! (talk) 06:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sunday Times 9 October 2011[edit]

The Sunday Times has an article relating to McRae (specifically about Ian Rankin's latest novel being inspired by the McRae case). Has some useful info: [1] (subscription required). Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:28, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Having just re-read the novel in question I popped in to mention this. Only eleven years late chiz. Mr Larrington (talk) 21:29, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Query - time of departure on 5th April[edit]

Hi there, forgive me if I break any etiquette but I need some assistance please and I do not have sufficient experience to work this out myself.

This article contains the information that Willie MacRae left Glasgow, for Dornie, on April 5th at 18:30 hours but there is no citation for this fact.

Can somebody please assist me, by telling me which wikipedia user created this page or else performed the edit for this fact, as I need to know if there is any evidence to back it up. If not, I think it may be incorrect as I have information to the contrary.

Any help you can give me, would be greatly appreciated.

kind regards hrhpod — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hrhpod (talk • contribs) 16:21, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SNP candidate[edit]

The statement "In the 1979 General Election he stood for Parliament as the SNP candidate for Ross and Cromarty, where he narrowly lost to the Conservative Hamish Gray." is misleading. In 1979 Gray won by 4,735 votes. However MacRae stood in both 1974 elections and in October did come within 700 votes of victory. I will rewrite to reflect this. Dunarc (talk) 14:40, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

Note 4 on page 253 of Ron Culley's book reads:

A common spelling of McRae's surname, particularly in the print media, is MacRae. However, his birth certificate shows his name as William McRea, his legal business was named 'Levy & McRae' and his death certificate presents his surname as McRae.

Both "McRae" and "MacRea" occur in the sources currently used in the article; however the BBC uses "McRae" and the "Scottish Eye"/Channel Four documentary's subtitles use "McRae". I believe the BBC carries the greatest weight here.

Interestingly, this Herald article uses "MacRae" in the headline, but "McRae" throughout the report. Newspaper headlines are written by subeditors, not the reporter (suggesting a careless subeditor on this occasion).

Based on the BBC source and Culley's note, together with other sources, I have moved the page to "Willie McRae", and changed "MacRea" to "McRae" throughout the article text.

--NSH001 (talk) 08:32, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dropping it here: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/02/murder-lies-and-state-conspiracy/ — kashmīrī ^TALK 20:42, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]