[Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

[Christiano Moreschi]

Amusing. I am strongly reminded of the fights over Macedonia and Liancourt Rocks. Except on those occasions nobody had any illusions that the participants on all side were any more than puerile time-wasters. Just because this lot have greater fluency in the English language doesn't mean that they're any more rational.

CM

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.



> From: everson at evertype.com
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:21:20 +0000
> 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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