[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 13:11:20 UTC 2008


2008/11/27 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2008/11/27 Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>:
>
>> We haven't proposed that. We proposed "Ireland (state)".
>
> That has a slight smell of neologism - is the term used anywhere
> outside Wikipedia?

Eh? It's a disambiguation note, not a name. (though I'd prefer "country")

We don't require that [[John Smith (politician)]] be called explicitly
"John Smith (politician)" on anyone else's paperwork - just that he be
a politician and called John Smith...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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