[Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

[Dan Rosenthal]

Outside of those involved, I don't think many harbor those same  
illusions here either.

-Dan
On Nov 26, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Christiano Moreschi wrote:

>
> 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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