2008/11/26 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
2008/11/26 Michael Everson everson@evertype.com:
The name "Ireland" is ambiguous. People looking for it might be looking
for
the state. Most probably are. Or people looking for it might be looking
for
the island. Since the Ireland should point to the disambiguation page, the correct thing to do is to move that content to Ireland (island) as proposed here.
OK. Do we have any numbers on that? Can we back up that "probably"?
(I don't know if we do or can. We have accurate hit counts for pages, but not for navigation between pages that I know of.)
Personally if I went to "Ireland" I'd expect to see the page for the country, but I know that's just me.
Ah, but by country, do you mean the State (which does not include Northern Ireland) or the Nation (which does include Northern Ireland just as it did pre-partition, albeit part is also "British" in the same way someone from Scotland is Scottish and British)?
My vote is for Ireland to be a disambiguation page. As someone from Ireland I am not happy to have the page "Ireland" concern only the State, as the state is only part of both the island and nation.
Zoney