[WikiEN-l] IRA

Stan Shebs shebs at apple.com
Thu May 22 01:05:44 UTC 2003


Dante Alighieri wrote:

> I noticed that the entry for IRA is a straight redirect to Irish 
> Republican Army. Should it be a disambiguation page? IRA is also 
> Individual Retirement Account. There is no preexisting article on the 
> Individual Retirement Account as far as I know, and there are MANY 
> links to IRA as the Irish Republican Army, so.... I don't know. Thoughts?

Most TLAs have multiple meanings these days, so disambig pages are in order.
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Stan






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