Amusing. I am strongly reminded of the fights over Macedonia and Liancourt Rocks. Except on those occasions nobody had any illusions that the participants on all side were any more than puerile time-wasters. Just because this lot have greater fluency in the English language doesn't mean that they're any more rational.
CM Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:21:20 +0000 > Subject: [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland > > I don't know whether this is a reasonable place to put this problem, > but the articles on Ireland on en.wikipedia.org need a serious look by > people with a neutral view. Right now we've got a clique of about 10 > editors filibustering and preventing any change to the article naming > conventions. It's driving us mad, and preventing the articles > themselves from being improved. Somehow I think we need binding > arbitration. > > A number of us think that the most sensible proposal is to move > [[Ireland]] to [[Ireland (island)]], [[Ireland (disambiguation)]] to > [[Ireland]], and [[Republic of Ireland]] to [[Ireland (state)]]. > That's a compromise over an alternative, which is to move [[Ireland]] > to [[Ireland (island)]], keep [[Ireland (disambiguation)]] where it > is, and move [[Republic of Ireland]] to [[Ireland]]. If any of you > would like to take a look, please see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ireland_(disambiguation)#Proposed_move_to_Ireland > > and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ireland#Proposed_move_to_Ireland_.28island.29 > > . > > At least I'd like advice as to how we can get out of this mess. > > Michael Everson > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _________________________________________________________________ Win £1000 John Lewis shopping sprees with BigSnapSearch.com http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
