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

[Zoney]

2008/11/26 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>

> 2008/11/26 Michael Everson <everson at 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
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