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

[Sam Blacketer]

On 11/27/08, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
>
> On 27 Nov 2008, at 01:51, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> > So Ireland as the Republic or the State or whatever term you choose
> > to use is clearly about what happened in the part that successfully
> > cast off the shackles of occupation since 1922. For certain
> > partisans of the "Republic" to assume a monopoly on the name,
> > Ireland, seems an improper usurpation of the name for personal ends.
>
> We haven't proposed that. We proposed "Ireland (state)".
>

I come at it from the opposite perspective. To have the article on the
26-county Republic at [[Ireland (state)]] would be to gloss over the fact
that it is an incomplete Republic.

-- 
Sam Blacketer