Talk:List of Ireland-related topics

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[edit] Architecture

I thought it was important to add a section on Architecture, so I have done so. This meant moving some items from "Places" and adding new links and banners within Wikipedia. I hope this meets with approval Peter Clarke 01:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Principles

This is an excellent page, especially for a new editor. Just wondering if there are any guidelines for such, though, as I have ideas as to pages to add, and there are some gaps and inconsistencies, but don't want to over-do, as could make it unusable. SeoR 09:26, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page layout

Sometime recently this page was reorganised to use table structures to reduce the length of the list. And it achieved that goal. However, in doing so, it is now quite a bit harder to follow. In particular, the "indentation" used previously to denote a hierarchy of topics is now almost impossible to discern. I recognise that precedence does not make a rule, and I appreciate why this "tabling" was done, but I'm not sure it was a good idea. I've had a quick look at some other Lists, and in general, no matter how long they get, they remain linear in form. Beyond the readability on the actual page, this new tabling structure also makes it very difficult (for a newbie in particular) to add something new into the "right" place. Personally I think this should go back to being a "linear" list. But would obviously welcome other thoughts before reverting. Guliolopez (talk) 19:02, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

If tables are to be used perhaps if they were all the same width it would work and maybe only 3 columns wide, not 4. I think that needs some more coding than is there now but if it still looks odd, then we should stick to a linear format. That was user:Peter Clarke who made the page into tables without any discussion or comment. Perhaps he was just beingbold. ww2censor (talk) 19:41, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Guilty as charged, your honour! As there had been very little activity on this page I took it that it would be OK to change it but I agree with all the points made by Guliolopez. I have another idea on how to shorten the list - perhaps you have also noticed that I added banner templates which are set to "autocollapse"? These have links to pages that are also in the list - for instance the banner "Irish linguistics" has a link to Old Irish, the list has Old Irish language which both link to the same page. Perhaps these duplications could be removed from the list? Peter Clarke (talk) 11:46, 24 November 2007 (UTC)