Talk:Ireland (disambiguation)

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[edit] Poll: Ireland article titles

A poll is currently underway to determine the rendition of the island, nation-state, and disambiguation articles/titles for Ireland in Wp. Please weigh in! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 08:32, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Northern Ireland

Surely Northern Ireland should have its own bullet point? The purpose of this page is to list the uses of the term "Ireland"; if it is simply to be a dictionary definition, it is redundant, as there is already one here. "Ireland" is frequently used to refer to Northern Ireland, and whether that usage is "correct" or not is largely irrelevant on a disambiguation page. I would also submit that a link to British Isles (terminology) might be useful here too. MartinRobinson 21:44, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I belive that Northern Ireland should have its own bullet. I also propose that flag icons be added to the disambiguation, as per my suggestion in Talk:Ireland
Example:


Ireland may refer to:


Wiki01916 03:20, 9 October 2006 (GMT)
Flags are unnecessary for disambiguation pages and, in my opinion, frankly superfluous. And I do not think Northern Ireland requires a distinct bullet: we are disambiguating instances of Ireland (i.e., state and island, not necessarily listing everything with it in the title) -- Northern Ireland is discreet and not generally confused or taken to mean Ireland. See, for instance, America. (Cogito ergo sumo 20:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
No it shouldn't, as, quite simply, no one uses `Ireland' to refer to the north alone. If you find evidence that they do, please change the article on Northern Ireland to read "Northern Ireland, also known as Ireland, is a part of..." and get consensus for that before adding it to this disambiguation page. I've also removed the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland for the same reason. I suspect Southern Ireland falls into a similar category.
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 16:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Northern Ireland is a part

[edit] Straw poll of Republic of Ireland title change

I've opened a straw poll on support for a change to the title of the Republic of Ireland article and related articles. --sony-youthtalk 21:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)