Talk:Kinvara

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Who is Shane Mitchell and what is he doing? Reads like some hoax if you look at other things this IP# address contributed: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Pat_Kenny&diff=3707640&oldid=3701803 and further comments on the talk page: User_talk:213.79.35.186 -- Fin 21:55, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] kinvara vs kinvarra

It is generally accepted that the proper name for the village is kinvara and not kinvarra, AFAIK the only place where the name appears spelled with two r's is on the road sign visible on the road from galway. Everyone in the village spells it kinvara. Cavetroll 18:53, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Use of Irish or Anglicised forms

There is an edit war under way: can the protagonists please use this talk page to debate and aim for consensus - the repeated reverts are getting nowhere. --Red King 29 June 2005 17:57 (UTC)

• My tuppence worth: Kinvara is not in the Gaeltacht, so both forms are equally valid. However, this is en.wikipedia and so the anglicised forms are to be preferred in that context. Adding the Irish version is useful if it explains how the Anglicised versiion came to be, but not otherwise. So Cinn Mhara is useful, Loch Lurgain is not. Conversely, in ga.wikipedia, the Irish forms should have precedence and the anglicised forms mentioned incidentally, if at all. --Red King 29 June 2005 17:57 (UTC)

Actually, we've kind of gotten to a consensus. Read Mac Duach's talk page. This is already Wikipedia policy. I wouldn't call it an edit war. We're encouraging him to contribute interesting articles here and on ga: wikipedia rather than change everything into Irish names on established articles. ℬastique▼^talk 29 June 2005 18:07 (UTC)