Talk:Phoenix Park

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This page contains a chapter written on Phoenix park which was written in 1907

http://indigo.ie/~kfinlay/Chart/chartlist.htm

Can some of the article be paraphrased into wikipedia? Has the copyright expired?

[edit] Sutton Park mention

Regarding Sutton Park: What has this got to do with the Phoenix Park? Absolutely nothing! Please leave it out. There is no mention in the article of the Phoenix Park claiming to be the largest city park in Europe or the World, frankly, who cares? The article is about the Phoenix Park, stick to the topic.

Phoenix Park is often popularly claimed to be the largest city park in Europe/the world (I've heard this "fact" multiple times in school), therefore a mention of why this is incorrect is very relevant to the article. Demiurge 16:29, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Sutton Park is a suburban park, and may well be larger than the Phoenix Park, but the Phoenix Park is a city park. It is about 200m from a main central mainline Railway Station, and 300m from the Guinness Brewery, and the gates just metres from the city's River Liffey. Sutton Park is 10km north of Birmingham, more of a semi-rural suburban nature reserve. Not comparable at all to Phoenix Park. Phoenix Park can only be compared to the likes of Central Park in New York. Anyway, there is no mention of it being the largest park, so why mention some obscure park in some suburban English area? Completely irrelevant. Stick to the subject: Phoenix Park, Dublin, not a park in England, it's a truly bizarre mention for an encyclopedia.

The article should include all the relevant facts about Phoenix Park. One of those facts is that Phoenix Park is widely claimed ([1] [2] [3] [4]) to be the largest enclosed city park in Europe/the world, when in fact it isn't. Very simple, and not bizarre in the slightest. If you want to qualify this by pointing out that Sutton Park is further out from the city centre, go ahead. But please don't remove relevant information from the article. Demiurge 18:35, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I feel like this small bit of information should remain; however, maybe it would better fit in its own section if the article was expanded at a later time. I study here in Dublin and have heard this 'fact' several times, so if it is something people believe to be true, the correct fact should be stated here. Feel free to discuss. Toofishes 23:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies

POTW has a long history of trying to force consensus upon others, as evidenced at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Pigsonthewing and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing. He had recently been trolling me again after a period of relative calm, so I decided to go see what he was up to and went with a "better safe than sorry" approach when I saw reverts by him. I've reverted to Demiurge's original edit, sorry for the inconvenience. karmafist 23:18, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

The above is a lie and a personal attack, contrary to Wikipedia policy, and should be removed by a neutral third party, ASAP (please feel free to remove this at the same time). Andy Mabbett 15:17, 8 December 2005 (UTC)