[Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

Thu Nov 27 05:04:47 UTC 2008

I don't think that this is the right list for this matter as this is Wikipedia's problem. That being said, I mostly agree, but would leave ROI where it is as both North and the Republic are states. 

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From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:21:20 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

I don't know whether this is a reasonable place to put this problem,  
but the articles on Ireland on en.wikipedia.org need a serious look by  
people with a neutral view. Right now we've got a clique of about 10  
editors filibustering and preventing any change to the article naming  
conventions. It's driving us mad, and preventing the articles  
themselves from being improved. Somehow I think we need binding  
arbitration.

A number of us think that the most sensible proposal is to move  
[[Ireland]] to [[Ireland (island)]], [[Ireland (disambiguation)]] to  
[[Ireland]], and [[Republic of Ireland]] to [[Ireland (state)]].  
That's a compromise over an alternative, which is to move [[Ireland]]  
to [[Ireland (island)]], keep [[Ireland (disambiguation)]] where it  
is, and move [[Republic of Ireland]] to [[Ireland]]. If any of you  
would like to take a look, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ireland_(disambiguation)#Proposed_move_to_Ireland 
  and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ireland#Proposed_move_to_Ireland_.28island.29 
.

At least I'd like advice as to how we can get out of this mess.

Michael Everson

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