[Foundation-l] Fwd: Trouble in Ireland

[Casey Brown]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
> Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:21 PM
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> 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
>


There's a place on enwp called the "administrators noticeboard", you
can bring this up there. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN>

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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