2008/11/26 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/11/26 Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The name "Ireland" is ambiguous. People looking for it might be looking > for > > the state. Most probably are. Or people looking for it might be looking > for > > the island. > > Since the Ireland should point to the disambiguation page, the correct > > thing to do is to move that content to Ireland (island) as proposed here. > > > OK. Do we have any numbers on that? Can we back up that "probably"? > > (I don't know if we do or can. We have accurate hit counts for pages, > but not for navigation between pages that I know of.) > > Personally if I went to "Ireland" I'd expect to see the page for the > country, but I know that's just me. > > > Ah, but by country, do you mean the State (which does not include Northern Ireland) or the Nation (which does include Northern Ireland just as it did pre-partition, albeit part is also "British" in the same way someone from Scotland is Scottish and British)?
My vote is for Ireland to be a disambiguation page. As someone from Ireland I am not happy to have the page "Ireland" concern only the State, as the state is only part of both the island and nation. Zoney -- ~()____) This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
