Outside of those involved, I don't think many harbor those same illusions here either.
-Dan On Nov 26, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Christiano Moreschi wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
