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Date	Process	Result
January 24, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
March 2, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 28, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the 17th chief of the Clan Maclachlan was killed by a cannonball while leading his Jacobite clansmen at the Battle of Culloden in 1746?

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Name

The origin given is fanciful, based on nothing more than similarity of name with a family in another country, so I will adjust it 195.92.168.168 13:35, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

tartan pic

can i just say that on the tartan section someone tried to upload an image of the tartan but it failed. please could whoever it was upload that image again, seeing as it failed

McCarrot 19:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clan MacLachlan to Clan Maclachlan

I think that the article should be moved to Clan Maclachlan (no capitalisation on the "l"). The chief's name is spelt this way, the burkes peerage website lists both the chief and the clan that way, as with Moncrieffe's The Highland Clans. So does the Clan Maclachlan Society website on its mainpage, though it also says The Clan MacLachlan Society has used the spelling of the chief's family when referring to the Clan except that the Society has used capital L as being the accepted usage for 99% of the families. The spelling preferred by an individual family is used in all our records.--Celtus (talk) 07:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done, if someone has a problem with it leave a message.--Celtus (talk) 07:47, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know a person who's a decendant of this clan and the 'Lachlan' in his surname is capitilised (Neil MacLachlan is his name). Not sure if it's a branch of the main family, but I've got a book on the Jacobite Uprising in 1745(That's right, Culloden) and it mentions this clan with the capital 'L'.

That 'induvidual family', is it the main branch or is it another sept?

Anyways, someone's added a hell of a lot of new info; now I know i'm not the only one watching this page! :) McCarrot (talk) 21:08, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I put in some capital 'L's in the surnames in a section of the article. Maybe i should change them back??

McCarrot (talk) 21:17, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, yeah like the site said, 99 percent of MacLachlans spell it with a capital L, but not the chiefly family. Yeah, on the net and in many books they spell all the clans with uppercase letters after the Mac, but it doesn't seem to be the official way.--Celtus (talk) 11:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Maclachlan" is an anglicized distortion of the usual "MacLachlan"; in itself a distortion of the Gaelic "Mac Lochlainn."

It is a Victorian English invention, an arrogant bit of foreign ignorance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.241.144.28 (talk) 10:25, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lachlan MacLachlan's death at Culloden

My history teacher (that Neil MacLachlan guy) told us how Lachlan got killed. He was hit by a cannon shot and lost his head. Maybe we should put that info in the article..?

McCarrot (talk) 21:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We've got a reference to him being killed by a cannon shot, but not about him losing his head. If you can find a reference add it in.--Celtus (talk) 11:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Review

I have approved Good Article status. I think it is well-written and worthy of Good status. I have a couple of suggestions:

1. Perhaps situate better this clan in UK history. 2. Elaborate a bit on the purpose of the various societies in other countries; what role do they plan in the clan? 3. What purpose does the clan chief serve today?

Congratulations!Wuapinmon (talk) 19:22, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestions, i'll work on trying to address them.--Celtus (talk) 07:25, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]