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Stu, I've been thinking seriously about creating a Wikiproject for Northern Ireland and Northern Irish-related articles. This has a huge scope, but if we make a start to it then perhaps we can break it down into smaller sub-projects (geography, biographies, etc). I'm going to create this using two projects I am involved with as templates: the Formula One project and the Beatles project. I'd really appreciate your help. I think in the long term it will help us to direct our efforts to improving these articles. In the short term of course, there will be work involved in creating the damn thing in the first place! lol Let me know your thoughts anyway (and who else we might be able to call upon to enlist, such as theKeith for example). -- Mal 21:27, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
OK I've created the Wikiproject, and I'm taking a break from it for the time being. Feel free to make any changes/additions you feel are appropriate. Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Irish articles -- Mal 23:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Well most of it is from copying other peoples' work. The whole redlinks thing was my idea though. I've started the article classification, which so far lists all the articles listed in the Category:Northern Ireland page. What we can do is go through all the categories, list them for classification, then list them for redlinks. It will take a long time probably.. but if we whittle away at it we should make good progress. AND it will help us improve the articles. We might even find articles we never knew existed that interest some of us.
I'm thinking of starting a separate page for the inevitable political discussions that are bound to crop up with Northern Irish articles - so that we can deal with those issues separately from the project ... or in tandem if you like. In other words, people who don't want to get embroiled in the political crap should be able to avoid it if they want to. Sound good to you?
Once you get used to what's available in the project pages, it should make editing of them a lot easier (not to mention structured). We should also help other editors by creating and including helpful things like templates relating to NI, categories and a policy on structure. Obviously all NI articles should be sub-articles in relation to the UK. But they should also be related or linked to relevant Ireland articles and cats where apropriate. Most articles probably have that kind of addition anyway.
Anyway - discussion like this should probably go on the project's discussion page, so I'll copy it there. -- Mal 18:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
How about establishing a userbox for this project, such as the one at the Croatia project? Cordless Larry 17:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed that User:Setanta747 tagged Irish dance and Irish stepdance as part of the WPNI. Is it the intent of the project to include Irish culture articles which are not specific to Northern Ireland? Argyriou 02:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
The current
Northern Irish Collaboration of the Month is
WikiProject Belfast. Every month a different NI-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the WikiProject Belfast|nomination text and improve the article any way you can. |
The flag used in this box has no legal standing, as it was the flag in use by the Stormont government that was disbanded in the early 1970's, and should not be used in regards to the state of N. Ireland today.-- padraig3uk 15:29, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Recently this template has been put on the Talk:Ogham page. Discussion there has not been pleasant. Mal has been belligerent and unyielding about the relevance of the template on the Ogham page and about the unwelcome size and design of the Template:WPNI. In good faith, I made edits to the template which you can see here. He accused me of vandlism and threatened to block me. This is inappropriate. I would like to request the members of this WikiProject to discuss the matter of the design of the Template:WPNI. Thank you. -- Evertype· ✆ 08:54, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
westside is the best, na eastside is da best, na west is da best, na east isda best. restepc. peace out a-town . 89`s for life homie.
Template:Northern Ireland topics has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 13:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 17:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Greetings from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disambiguation. I just disambiguated all the links for Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia. Please remember to disambiguate your links. Use [[Bloody Sunday (1972)|]] which expands to [[Bloody Sunday (1972)|Bloody Sunday]]. Also, sumbuddy on this project should periodically check Special:Whatlinkshere/Bloody_Sunday and keep them clean. -- Randall Bart 04:03, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
This list is sadly lacking Northern Ireland locations. Is anyone aware of a free list of northern irish locations? GameKeeper 09:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Hundreds of articles still need assessed. I don't know how many other people are helping with this, but I seem to have not only created this project, the Belfast project, the noticeboard, the portal and all the pages associated with each of those, but I seem to have tagged nearly all of the articles in both projects, I'm the only one who rotates any of the featured articles, bios and pictures, and I seem to have been virtually the only editor who has assessed any of the articles.
The reason I set all this up was to make it easier to keep track of what needed to be done so that other editors could use the projects as a guide or, if they'd finished working on one article and found themselves stuck with something to do, could refer to the projects to see which articles interest them.
I know there aren't that many editors from Northern Ireland on Wikipedia, or even that many interested in editing Northern Irish articles, but I know a few of you exist. I also know, from my short stint of experience in helping out the good people at The Beatles Project that a small number of editors were able to make a huge difference. So, if any of you could be arsed, I'd sure love some feedback here.
Are the projects useful? Do you use them? Have you got any suggestions to make using the projects/assessment templates easier etc? Prior to reading this, were you aware of either the Belfast WikiProject, the Northern Ireland WikiProject, the NIW Noticeboard, or the NI Portal? Which subpages do you refer to, if any? How did you find out about it?
Here's where we are with regard to the NI WikiProject: Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Log.
The collection of articles that are tagged as being part of the NI project includes three Good Articles: Linfield F.C., Irish phonology and Northern Ireland. It also includes and 51 B-Class articles. But no A-class or Featured Articles, as yet.
Whether I get any help or not, I'm planning on attempting to get the three GAs up to A or FA standard, and the B-Class articles up to GA, but it would sure be a lot easier if there were other people out there who wanted to see these articles improved on the 'pedia.
There are also still 1,301 articles unassessed and a whole host of articles not even tagged yet - there could be a couple more FAs in there, or A-class or GAs.
Help!
-- Mal 23:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Mal, I too am interested in working on N.I related topics, or more specifically geographical stuff relating to County Antrim. At the moment I'm more than happy shuffling around in obscure corners and staying as far away as possible from the frequent debates that padraig3uk alludes to. That's not to say that the work you've put in has not been of tremendous value, it has, more power to your elbow. Look at any of the talk pages for some of the larger articles however, i.e, Talk:Newtownards and you'll see the sort of swivel eyed stuff that must deter a lot of potential editors. The Boy that time forgot 21:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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This article seems to gloss over his actions during the war, the ethnis cleansing refered to involved the cold blooded murder of civilians which, I understand, even Aitken's family do not stand by. Rpersse 00:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Killings claimed by, or alleged to be perpetrated by, Irish armed groups using the name Irish Republican Army (or a subset of that name).
{Includes Irish Republican Army (Army of the Irish Republic) (1919–1922) together with Organisations known by the name in later years eg: Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) · Official IRA (1969–present) · Provisional IRA (1969–present) · Continuity IRA (1986–present) · Real IRA (1997–present)}
An earlier category of this name was deleted despite this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_April_9#Category:IRA_killings W. Frank 23:56, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
note Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ireland#Descendant_WikiProjects: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ireland is the logical parent project of this one, it is not about the Republic, but about the island as a whole. Please avoid tagging articles as within the scope of WikiProject Northern Ireland when they bear no special relevance to Northern Ireland. Such topics should be categorized under WikiProject Ireland instead. This concerns mainly articles on historical topics ( Ogham, Old Irish literature and the like). It is useless template cruft to have an article tagged by a project and its sub-project. thanks, dab (𒁳) 13:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Watch your tone with me please. I seem to remember you being disrespectful to me before, and you're at it again now.
You mentioned "talk page clutter" before to me, and I resolved that by added yet more functionality (small) to the template. As you feel that is such a big issue, I will add the small flag to the template on the Old Irish literature page also. I do hope that satiates your desire to remove piddle from trees. -- Mal 08:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I have tried to use "endash;" instead of a hyphen (-) but it wont work for me! Do I simply use:"endash;" instead of "-"? This is needed in this article. Osborne 14:54, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
&
ndash; aren't you? There's &
ndash;: –, &
mdash;:—, and &
nbsp;: which is a "no (line) break space". Hope that helps. :) Which article was it you were talking about? --
Mal 02:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)Thanks for your reply. I was thinking of "Ulster Museum" (and others) the "List of some collectors." I have used, sometimes, the Insert at the bottom of the Edit page, i.e. – — °≈≠≤≥±−×÷←→ 09:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
The above article on an ex-Snow Patrol member is tagged as being part of the Wikiproject NI categories. It strikes me that a lot of the article is way out of line and not in keeping with the policies for talking about living people in Wikipedia.
I've left a comment on the article's talk page along the same lines saying that i'm going to just remove the negative comments unless anyone has any objections in the next day or so. If anyone in the NI project watches this article they may want to make a more positive change then simply removing the comments? Anyone interested?
Rmkf1982 | Talk 18:16, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007#Constituency split on splitting articles on Assembly election constituencies from those on UK Parliament constituencies, which may be of interest to some participants here. Warofdreams talk 03:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
A new infobox has been developed for use on UK places articles. If you have any concerns or appraisals, please make them at Template talk:Infobox UK place. Regards, Jhamez84 02:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello fellow editors. A straw poll has opened today (27th March 2007) regarding the use of flags on the United Kingdom place infoboxes. There are several potential options to use, and would like as many contrubutors to vote on which we should decide upon. The straw poll is found here. If joining the debate, please keep a cool head and remain civil. We look forward to seeing you there. Jhamez84 11:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
If anyone is interested; I have nominated the Derry City F.C. article for featured article status. Danny Invincible Talk| Edits 16:30, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
I would love to here from The Davidson family in County Armagh . I am a 27 year old male who wishes to to learn more about our history in Armagh with a connection to Saint John New Brunswick Canada. I can be reached via email at portcityperson@hotmail.com Thank you all.
Hey, I'd like to ask for an assessment of this article. I will continue to work on it. Ryannus 14:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I find it interesting that there are number of articles that list those who were killed during the Troubles in a single town (eg. The Troubles in Templepatrick, The Troubles in Dunloy, and so on). I question why these are necessary, since what little content most of them seem to have could easily be merged into a larger article and the articles could be subsequently redirected. Is there a reason why these articles exist, or are they the products of someone who was too bored to do anything else? Astrovega 22:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello all WikiProject:Northern Ireland participants! As a believer in inclusion, I'd like to ask you for your thoughts on altering the map within Northern Irish settlement infoboxes to one I've drawn up myself - naturally I think it's an improvement, but would like feedback from those who feel most involved with it. My suggestion is outlined at the bottom of this talk page. Hope to hear from you, Jhamez84 00:52, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
I have recently started a List of songs about the Troubles in my userspace, to collect information about how the conflict as a whole and individual events and episodes, have been interpreted in music. The list at the moment includes only four pop songs, but is also meant to include Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Republican, songs. I found this cd, but I'm not sure the songs on there are notable and/or representative. I would like to ask the members of this WikiProject to help me expand this list about what might be a sensitive subject. A ecis Brievenbus 13:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I have made a proposal to move the Republic of Ireland to Ireland See:
Please see Segregation in Northern Ireland. It's quite a controversial topic and (of course) central to the Troubles, so assistance in expanding it and maintaining neutrality would be appreciated. -- ChrisO 19:49, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to spruce up Operation Banner and was wondering if anyone knew of some good images I could use, or had some to upload? Cordless Larry 22:57, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Please support this Northern Irish editors plea to be unblocked: [1]...Gaimhreadhan (kiwiexile at DMOZ) talk • 22:16, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
There is a straw poll under way on having flag in the infobox of the Northern Ireland article.
There are four Options available choose either
Hi. Ruth Kelly is up for peer review here. Your comments are welcome. SP-KP 18:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Further to the numerous discussions, largely on Wikipedia talk:Irish Wikipedians' notice board, a proposal has been made attempt to neutrally categorise individuals imprisoned during The Troubles. Your comments are welcomed at:
Thanks. Rockpocke t 00:44, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I've been trying to improve the John Hewitt article and it occurred to me that some of it won't make sense to 99 per cent of Wikipedia users - specifically the statement that "He was attracted to the Ulster dissenting tradition". Any suggestions for how I can explain this succinctly? Cordless Larry 12:54, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I have created a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Politics of Northern Ireland. Please have a look and comment; if you are interested in participating, please add your name! Warofdreams talk 20:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello there,
A straw poll has opened at this section of the United Kingdom talk page regarding the use of the Ulster Banner for that article's circumstances only. To capture a representative result as possible, you are invited to pass your opinion there. If joining the poll, please keep a cool head, and remain civil. Hope to see you there, Jza84 22:39, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, there's currently a proposal by me for " Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)" to be clarified with usage notes regarding the use of "British" or "English", "(Northern) Irish", "Scottish" and "Welsh" to be used to describe the nationality of persons in biographical articles. Do provide your views at the " talk page" so that broad consensus on the matter can be reached. Cheers, Jacklee 16:59, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Coming out from a few conversations, a Gaeilge task force has been established to coordinate the translation of Irish place names and other Irish-language related work. Anyone who wants to get invovled is invited to add their names to the list of participants or drop a line on the task force talk page.
Even those without Irish are invited - an outside view is always important, and I'm certain that there is plenty of work that can be done without the need for the Auld'Gaeilge! -- sony-youth pléigh 16:35, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
As part of the featured portal candidacy for Portal:Ireland a suggestion was made to make a "topics" template of major ("must read" backgrounders, etc.) Ireland-related articles. I've hacked the following together, but it's obviously lacking. Can people add/remove as they feel is important according to their interest. Changes appear immediately on the portal. Thanks. -- sony-youth pléigh 15:35, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi - found in last few days. Nice new article on small NI "village". It should be on main page in next 2-3 days. Do have a copy edit and maybe an assessment? Not my article btw - I'm just the DYKnow proposer Victuallers 20:36, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
"While at the time of Treaty and the subsequent Irish Civil War the majority of the "old" IRA held this position, by the 1930s most republicans had accepted the Free State and were willing to work within it - recognising the Irish Army as the state's armed force. However, a minority of republicans argued that the army of the Republic was still the pre-1969 Irish Republican Army, itself the lineal descendant of the defeated faction in the Irish Civil War of 1922-23."
Shouldn't it be pre-1919? Jonmp 13:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
There appears to be a flag missing from the template. -- Setanta 11:57, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
WP doesn't appear to have an article on this subject, but the muppet wiki does [2], how do you go about pinching it (The content is GNU DL)? Fasach Nua 09:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I have created the above article today. It lacks some detail on the history of roads in Northern Ireland at the moment and I would appreciate any pointers or help. Regan123 ( talk) 18:49, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Is there a new Northern Ireland articles page? If not, there should be - it's good to know what's recently been created, so stubs and shoddy articles can be improved. If there is a bot looking for new articles they could be posted on it. Basically, what I'm after is a Northern Irish version of Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand) and similar. -- Helenalex ( talk) 23:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I have proposed the following mergers:
Proposal Talk:Ireland national football team IFA#Proposed_mergers with lead-up discussion earlier on that Talk: page. jnestorius( talk) 23:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Great news! The Ireland portal has been made a featured portal, taking it's place along side the Scotland, London and North West England portals on these islands and the France and European Union portals on the continent.
Come on Northern Ireland ... let's pick up the Northern Ireland portal and make a go of it for the new year!
p.s. Happy Christmas! -- sony-youth pléigh 18:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I have recently gotten authorisation for a bot (called BHGbot), for applying project banners tags to articles and categories.
BHGbot's first runs have involved tagging categories with {{ WikiProject Ireland category}}, and having completed that job I wanted to offer to do the same thing for Northern Ireland categories. (Please note that this is just intended as a helpful offer; if this project doesn't want it done, I won't do it).
There are two parts to what I propose:
{{
WPNI|class=cat}}
with the new {{
WPNI category}} tag (just created by me, modelled on {{
WikiProject Ireland category}} and other similar banners), which does not include assessment fields for priority/importance. This will ensure that the categories are still listed in
Category:WikiProject Northern Ireland categories, but will avoid cluttering
Category:Unknown-importance Northern Ireland-related articles and
Category:WikiProject Northern Ireland articles with categories, which do not need an importance ratingPlease note that both these proposed jobs will tag only categories, not the articles within them. (If members of this project are interested, I would be happy to use BHGbot to help with the auto-tagging of articles, but I suggest that's best left aside for now as a separate issue).
I'd welcome any comments, either here or on the talk pages of the two proposed jobs. Hope this helps. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
According to
WP:UKCITIES, all settlements in the UK must use the UK infobox. As it stands, most major towns in NI have been changed to the new infobox, but some towns such as
Ballymena have not yet. I changed the infoboxes for Cookstown, Coagh, Dungannon and Magherafelt, but it would be great if the editors here could help in the final push to rollout the infobox in all villages and towns in NI. Cheers!
EJF (
talk) 17:30, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I thought I would bring tis to the attention of users here we have a anon IP altering the images on Template:Politics_of_Northern_Ireland, Template:Politics_of_Northern_Ireland_1921-72 and Template:Politics_of_Northern_Ireland_1972-98, I have ask on their page not to do this without discussion on the issue first, but they insist on ignoring that request and continues to change the images. These template have been stable since they where created any thoughts.-- Padraig ( talk) 00:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi folks
I have created a navigation header template for the year in Northern Ireland series of articles, called {{ YearInNorthernIrelandNav}}, and started rolling it out on a few articles, e.g. 2007 in Northern Ireland.
The template is based on {{ YearInIrelandNav}} (which I created last month), and the colour scheme for the N.Ireland template arises out of a discussion on that template at User talk:BrownHairedGirl#Navigation_template_for_years-in-Ireland_articles and a further discussion on colours at User talk:Sarah777. Basically, the dominant dark blue color (HTML code #000062) is that used on the website of the Northern Ireland Executive, which seemed to me to be probably the most neutral option amongst the various possible colours.
Hope it's OK; pls leave a note on my talk if there are any problems. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 06:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Following from an extended discussion at " Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (biographies)" on how people from the United Kingdom should be described ("British", or "English", "[Northern] Irish", "Scottish" or "Welsh"), which did not result in consensus, an essay entitled " Wikipedia:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom" ( WP:UKNATIONALS) has been prepared. You're welcome to provide your comments on how it can be improved at the talk page of "Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)". — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 16:50, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello team,
May I please bring to the attention the WP:UKTOWNS guideline? It has been very successfully used for settlement articles for Great Britain and I think it would be a great tool for Northern Ireland too. Taking much of its recommendations from the global- WP:CITIES project, it is intended for use with NI, but I don't think it is very well known. Belfast however appears to use it effectively.
The guide is admittedly a little Anglocentric (though I've tried to combat this), but it is not meant to be political in anyway - it's purely a guideline on layout and content for inhabited places. Infact, I would hope the Republic of Ireland would also adopt a simillar approach. If there are any outstanding issues in the guidelines, please let me know and I'll provide an addendum for NI as I have done for London. Hope this helps, -- Jza84 · ( talk) 19:31, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Done rated as B. EJF ( talk) 21:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I have created the above maps. I hope you all don't mind that I was WP:BOLD and added them to the relative articles myself. I really don't want to create any edit wars I just want to see what others think and hopefully bring this to a nice consensus on what to use. I hate the idea that other countries seam to be more organized then us with these things, so I hope you think the new one looks professional... I'm actually kinda pleased :-) Please voice your opinion over at Talk:Scotland#Straw_Poll I know I'd personally love to hear your opinions! Thanks -- UKPhoenix79 ( talk) 05:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Could I ask for some help accessing local knowledge, from members of this wikiproject, on the behalf of the new WikiProject Museums? We are currently trying to identify articles within the Museum projects scope (& develop guidelines to help improve them etc). There is a List of museums in Northern Ireland. Could you take a look at the list for your local area and see if any are missing or create articles for any red links. Could you also add the new project banner "{{WikiProject Museums}}" to the Talk pages of the articles, so that we can identify those in need of work etc. Any help appreciated &, if anyone is interested you are welcome to join the project or discuss Museum related articles on the Project Talk Page.— Rod talk 13:41, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
The following is reproduced from NI article discussion page:
I think the following disambig at the top of the NI article looks really silly and should be removed. Does any one really look up NI thinking they'll go straight to an EP constituency page? Heres the disambig:
"This article is about the constituent country. For the European constituency, see Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)."
Does any one else support deleting this disambig? Redking7 ( talk) 22:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
WLU has reverted the above edit despite two of the three users who contributed to the above discussion agreeing with the edit. I'm not sure how this should be handled? Regards. Redking7 ( talk) 18:51, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
The hatnote is clumsy and doesn't seem to fit the spirit of WP:DAB. The consituency article is about NI, so it should be summarised in Northern Ireland#Demography and politics of Northern Ireland and linked from there. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 10:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
A debate that might interest editors here has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. Djln-- Djln ( talk) 00:08, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Article assessment is still a redlink. I can't find a place on the project page to request an assessment. I was hoping to get Free Derry re-assessed after a recent expansion. Scolaire ( talk) 19:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Is there, or can we come up with, a policy on which Troubles deaths are notable? Some people think that the 'two or more killed' rule is absolute - ie if only one person was killed it isn't notable and therefore can't be mentioned on a 'troubles in...' page, regardless of other circumstances. If there is not already a policy, I suggest that it should be something like:
Fatal troubles 'events' are notable and can be included in 'Troubles in...' pages if:
1. Two or more people were killed
2. The event was the first of its kind (first attributed to a particular group, first bombing death etc); first killing of a particular kind of person (first RUC officer killed, first republican paramilitary etc); or is otherwise a significant 'first'.
3. The victim was inherently notable in his/her own right (ie worthy of a page of their own).
4. The event had a significant effect - ie directly led to a breakthrough in or breakdown of the peace process etc.
It would be really good to have a semi-official policy to point at which consists of more than 'two killings notable, one killing not'. -- Helenalex ( talk) 02:50, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
As can be seen here, it has been agreed before that due to the two casualty minimum inclusion criteria the articles contained in the subcategories of Category:The Troubles in Northern Ireland by locality are biased, as they exclude the majority of killings by loyalists. Recently even more biased criteria have been added, where the death of the first soldier/policeman/etc in a particular area are to be included. As loyalists were responsible for very few of those (especially "firsts") we will be including more killings by republicans. So the average article will include killings by republicans, yet most of them will not include a single killing by loyalists despite them being responsible for over 1,000 deaths during the Troubles. This is obviously a major breach of NPOV, yet an editor refuses to allow these biased criteria to be amended. !! time=11:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
As can be seen here, it has been agreed before that due to the two casualty minimum inclusion criteria the articles contained in the subcategories of Category:The Troubles in Northern Ireland by locality are biased, as they exclude the majority of killings by loyalists. Recently even more biased criteria have been added, where the death of the first soldier/policeman/etc in a particular area are to be included. As loyalists were responsible for very few of those (especially "firsts") we will be including more killings by republicans. So the average article will include killings by republicans, yet most of them will not include a single killing by loyalists despite them being responsible for over 1,000 deaths during the Troubles. This is obviously a major breach of NPOV, yet an editor refuses to allow these biased criteria to be amended. BigDunc Talk 11:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I hope ya'll can give us your imput. GoodDay ( talk) 21:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi all, I have pulled together a design for the cluttered Project Page (see my Sandbox), as per requests on the current page. This new design includes a sidebar template. I've kept all the important stuff and tried to get rid of clutter; however there's still a lot that could be gutted, but I'm hesitant to do it. Please let me know what you think of this new design. Thanks! Dicdoc ( talk) 20:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a slight oversensitivity regarding the choice of map colours for an updated map here. Given that WPNI have a green map as their own logo, perhaps someone would care to give an opinion on behalf of this project? Just a thought. Crispness ( talk) 11:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
A poll is talking place on Subdivisions of the United Kingdom and Countries of the United Kingdom. The Merger proposal is here, and is where all the options (merge, redirect to or from etc) can be voted for. -- Matt Lewis ( talk) 18:59, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
NOTE: The new article is "Countries" of the United Kingdom, by the way - not "counties", as it it may first appear.-- Matt Lewis ( talk) 13:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Is there an online register of charities in Northern Ireland, the equivalent of those at Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and Charity Commission?
I've just created two new templates, {{ UK charity}} and {{ Scottish charity}}. (I know the former is inaccurately named as it only works, so far, for England and Wales: if I can work out the wiki technicalities I'll combine the two, and NI if I can find a register, into a single template at that name.) They are for use as External Links - as it seems to me to be a valuable asset to the article, as evidence of the charity's genuineness and a link to its accounts etc. They're similar to the templates for links to IMDB. See them both in use at Age Concern: Age Concern NI ( http://www.ageconcernni.org/) has charity number XN 48785A, which I'd like to link too.
The article at Charity Commission says that charities in NI "are regulated by the Voluntary Activity Unit of the Department of Health and Social Services at Stormont Castle.", with a couple of redlinks. That doesn't seem to be accurate: the nearest I can find is http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/voluntary_and_community but there doesn't seem to be a register. Someone knowledgeable might like to update that article?
If anyone can find me a useful online list for Northern Ireland charities, I'd be delighted, and will make a NI version of the template - please let me know. Thanks, PamD ( talk) 11:20, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I've added this new task force to the 'Related projects' (its actually a sub of WP:GEOG). -- Matt Lewis ( talk) 17:37, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Please see:
Thanks.-- Mais oui! ( talk) 14:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
This has beed proposed for deletion, if anyone is interested Fasach Nua ( talk) 09:20, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
There's a little discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Waterways about whether it would be more useful to have an article listing canals of the UK, or whether the existing coverage of NI canals in Canals of Ireland means it would be more useful to have an article listing just canals of GB. Contributions welcome. -- VinceBowdren ( talk) 13:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Some editors on the NI page are insisting on changing the term Flag of Ireland to something else e.g. Irish Tricolour - even though they use the correct names of the UK and former NI flags. It is being discussed here Talk: Northern Ireland#flags. Regards. Redking7 ( talk) 22:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
An Ireland disambiguation task force ( WP:IDTF) has been created. It will: free up various Talk pages for their respective articles, avoid inner and cross article repetition, avoid debate-postponing moratoriums from needing to be placed, and can accommodate all aspects of the issue of disambiguating the word "Ireland". -- Matt Lewis ( talk) 04:29, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
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Hi I'm new to editing Wikipedia, and I've noticed a substantial number of inaccuracies on the North West Regional College page - mainly due to the College's recent merger. I would like to edit these - would that be ok? ( Gerimartin ( talk) 14:47, 22 September 2008 (UTC))
Hello all...
An image used in the Craigavon Bridge article, specifically Image:Craigavon bridge 2005 jonathanmoran.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 00:54, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
An IP editor, 80.42.86.23 ( talk · contribs) has started changing the classification of settlements to towns, (example), even when some of these settlements have fewer than 200 people! A long-standing consensus has been that in accordance with NISRA's terminology, only settlements with a population above 4,500 people are towns. I'm just checking here to see that this consensus is still standing, before I revert any changes made by the IP. Thanks, EJF ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Many Northern Ireland articles are missing geographical coordinates. Finding the latitude and longitude of locations, and entering coordinates into articles is straightforwards, and explained at Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Having coordinates on articles mean that they turn up in GoogleMaps, MultiMap and other such places which link to wikipedia based on geo-coordinates.
It is now possible to get lists of Northern Ireland articles that have no geographical coordinates via Wikipedia:CatScan, for example:
Alternatively, if CatScan is down or very slow, you can find them by looking through Category:United Kingdom articles missing geocoordinate data.
The articles in the lists above are currently marked with {{ coord missing}} templates, which need replacing with filled in {{ coord}} templates containing their latitude/longitude data (or else have lat&long entered into the infobox).
There are about 67 articles missing coords - I hope you'll consider adding coordinates so as to make Northern Ireland articles more visible on the web. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 20:17, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi all,
I've started a new
Ireland related project which I hope will bridge a gap I feel exists between the two Wiki community's with an interest in Ireland related matters. The project has just started but I hope it will allow us to work together at first on uncontroversial articles such as
Sports in Ireland and if successful I hope will allow for a more constructive and friendly approach to the controversial issues.
Gnevin (
talk) 17:08, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
There are a couple current CFD discussions that people may be interested in. They concern the intersection of religious and nationalist terrorism. Please see these 2 discussions linked below. One is above the other on the same page.
I can't find anywhere to list new articles like this so I'm gonna add it here, if anyone knows a better place to put it then let me know. Dickson Plan. -- Eamonnca1 ( talk) 00:53, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Cross-community vote which I created. I don't think I've explained the concept very well. Thanks! Roadnote ♫ 13:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
There are active move discussions at: Talk:Ireland (disambiguation)#Proposed move to Ireland and Talk:Ireland#Proposed move to Ireland (island). All interested parties welcome to comment. Rockpocke t 01:27, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
A number of articles have been nominated for a name change which involves changing the capitalization scheme used. They are:
(the links point to the discussion of the requested moves.) Members may wish to comment on the requests both for and against the proposed moves. I'm not sure where else notices could be posted to get as wide a discussion as possible, both for and against the requests), and so would appreciate people identifying appropriate projects and posting similar messages there. DDStretch (talk) 08:49, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
There is currently an issue with the article Hero (Mariah Carey song) where I am involved in a discussion about an Irish political video being included in the article. More opinions welcome at Talk:Hero_(Mariah_Carey_song)#éirígí Alternative Video. (Posted here due to scope of issue). Regards, Woody ( talk) 15:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey - I've started the article Pat Finucane Centre. I think it could use the eyes of a few experts for expansion and to make sure the language is as neutral as possible. Thanks! Flying Toaster 07:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I have started a discussion here with regards making a change to the name.-- Vintagekits ( talk) 23:47, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
It has been proposed below that Republic of Ireland-UK border be renamed and moved to Ireland-UK border. Yes it's been done before; a move without consensus was reverted and there's now a proper proposal. Talk page discussion has started. -- Blowdart | talk 00:42, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
At User:The Anome/Disused UK railway stations still lacking coordinates, a group of editors are attempting to add coordinates for disused railway stations, using National Grid easting/northing coordinates obtained from old public domain maps such as those at http://www.npemap.org.uk/ , and a bot which translates these into WGS84 lat/long coordinates and adds them to the articles.
Unfortunately, we cannot find any free sources of old maps for Northern Ireland, and the current arrangement can only handle National Grid references, and not Irish Grid references (although I have the code to do so, if necessary.) Would anyone be interested in helping find these stations? If so, please contact me at my talk page.
Thanks, -- The Anome ( talk) 13:03, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I have posted a question at Talk:Ulaid but here might be better. It says on Irish mythology that Ulaidh is only the north-east corner. I didn't think that was true and changed it adding the map from Ulaidh but since that I found this map, linked to lots of articles, of 11th century Ireland where a place called Ulidia is in the top corner (I still think Ulster mythology goes beyond that but I reverted my changes until I know the difference between Ulaidh and Ulidia)
thanks ~ R. T. G 21:20, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
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I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 22:10, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Please note that User:Superfopp has twice removed the article List of rivers of Northern Ireland and subsumed its contents into an article listing rivers in Ireland. To do so reduces the body of geographical articles on NI and means that readers cannot access a list of NI specific rivers. This seems to me to be counter to NI Wiki Project. I have reverted the article. Please keep an eye on this. Ardfern ( talk) 18:27, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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Congratulations on winning the six nations 2009 grand slam to all at Wikiproject Ireland and Wikiproject Northern Ireland! Fribbler ( talk) 22:47, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
What part of Belfast/BT postcodes is in County Down because on the Traditional Unionist Voice, it says Belfast, County Down although googling the postcode shows that most websites believe it to be in County Antrim. Speedboy Salesman ( talk) 15:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
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Stu, I've been thinking seriously about creating a Wikiproject for Northern Ireland and Northern Irish-related articles. This has a huge scope, but if we make a start to it then perhaps we can break it down into smaller sub-projects (geography, biographies, etc). I'm going to create this using two projects I am involved with as templates: the Formula One project and the Beatles project. I'd really appreciate your help. I think in the long term it will help us to direct our efforts to improving these articles. In the short term of course, there will be work involved in creating the damn thing in the first place! lol Let me know your thoughts anyway (and who else we might be able to call upon to enlist, such as theKeith for example). -- Mal 21:27, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
OK I've created the Wikiproject, and I'm taking a break from it for the time being. Feel free to make any changes/additions you feel are appropriate. Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Irish articles -- Mal 23:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Well most of it is from copying other peoples' work. The whole redlinks thing was my idea though. I've started the article classification, which so far lists all the articles listed in the Category:Northern Ireland page. What we can do is go through all the categories, list them for classification, then list them for redlinks. It will take a long time probably.. but if we whittle away at it we should make good progress. AND it will help us improve the articles. We might even find articles we never knew existed that interest some of us.
I'm thinking of starting a separate page for the inevitable political discussions that are bound to crop up with Northern Irish articles - so that we can deal with those issues separately from the project ... or in tandem if you like. In other words, people who don't want to get embroiled in the political crap should be able to avoid it if they want to. Sound good to you?
Once you get used to what's available in the project pages, it should make editing of them a lot easier (not to mention structured). We should also help other editors by creating and including helpful things like templates relating to NI, categories and a policy on structure. Obviously all NI articles should be sub-articles in relation to the UK. But they should also be related or linked to relevant Ireland articles and cats where apropriate. Most articles probably have that kind of addition anyway.
Anyway - discussion like this should probably go on the project's discussion page, so I'll copy it there. -- Mal 18:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
How about establishing a userbox for this project, such as the one at the Croatia project? Cordless Larry 17:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed that User:Setanta747 tagged Irish dance and Irish stepdance as part of the WPNI. Is it the intent of the project to include Irish culture articles which are not specific to Northern Ireland? Argyriou 02:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
The current
Northern Irish Collaboration of the Month is
WikiProject Belfast. Every month a different NI-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the WikiProject Belfast|nomination text and improve the article any way you can. |
The flag used in this box has no legal standing, as it was the flag in use by the Stormont government that was disbanded in the early 1970's, and should not be used in regards to the state of N. Ireland today.-- padraig3uk 15:29, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Recently this template has been put on the Talk:Ogham page. Discussion there has not been pleasant. Mal has been belligerent and unyielding about the relevance of the template on the Ogham page and about the unwelcome size and design of the Template:WPNI. In good faith, I made edits to the template which you can see here. He accused me of vandlism and threatened to block me. This is inappropriate. I would like to request the members of this WikiProject to discuss the matter of the design of the Template:WPNI. Thank you. -- Evertype· ✆ 08:54, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
westside is the best, na eastside is da best, na west is da best, na east isda best. restepc. peace out a-town . 89`s for life homie.
Template:Northern Ireland topics has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 13:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 17:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Greetings from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disambiguation. I just disambiguated all the links for Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia. Please remember to disambiguate your links. Use [[Bloody Sunday (1972)|]] which expands to [[Bloody Sunday (1972)|Bloody Sunday]]. Also, sumbuddy on this project should periodically check Special:Whatlinkshere/Bloody_Sunday and keep them clean. -- Randall Bart 04:03, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
This list is sadly lacking Northern Ireland locations. Is anyone aware of a free list of northern irish locations? GameKeeper 09:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Hundreds of articles still need assessed. I don't know how many other people are helping with this, but I seem to have not only created this project, the Belfast project, the noticeboard, the portal and all the pages associated with each of those, but I seem to have tagged nearly all of the articles in both projects, I'm the only one who rotates any of the featured articles, bios and pictures, and I seem to have been virtually the only editor who has assessed any of the articles.
The reason I set all this up was to make it easier to keep track of what needed to be done so that other editors could use the projects as a guide or, if they'd finished working on one article and found themselves stuck with something to do, could refer to the projects to see which articles interest them.
I know there aren't that many editors from Northern Ireland on Wikipedia, or even that many interested in editing Northern Irish articles, but I know a few of you exist. I also know, from my short stint of experience in helping out the good people at The Beatles Project that a small number of editors were able to make a huge difference. So, if any of you could be arsed, I'd sure love some feedback here.
Are the projects useful? Do you use them? Have you got any suggestions to make using the projects/assessment templates easier etc? Prior to reading this, were you aware of either the Belfast WikiProject, the Northern Ireland WikiProject, the NIW Noticeboard, or the NI Portal? Which subpages do you refer to, if any? How did you find out about it?
Here's where we are with regard to the NI WikiProject: Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Log.
The collection of articles that are tagged as being part of the NI project includes three Good Articles: Linfield F.C., Irish phonology and Northern Ireland. It also includes and 51 B-Class articles. But no A-class or Featured Articles, as yet.
Whether I get any help or not, I'm planning on attempting to get the three GAs up to A or FA standard, and the B-Class articles up to GA, but it would sure be a lot easier if there were other people out there who wanted to see these articles improved on the 'pedia.
There are also still 1,301 articles unassessed and a whole host of articles not even tagged yet - there could be a couple more FAs in there, or A-class or GAs.
Help!
-- Mal 23:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Mal, I too am interested in working on N.I related topics, or more specifically geographical stuff relating to County Antrim. At the moment I'm more than happy shuffling around in obscure corners and staying as far away as possible from the frequent debates that padraig3uk alludes to. That's not to say that the work you've put in has not been of tremendous value, it has, more power to your elbow. Look at any of the talk pages for some of the larger articles however, i.e, Talk:Newtownards and you'll see the sort of swivel eyed stuff that must deter a lot of potential editors. The Boy that time forgot 21:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Battle of the Somme has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 00:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
This article seems to gloss over his actions during the war, the ethnis cleansing refered to involved the cold blooded murder of civilians which, I understand, even Aitken's family do not stand by. Rpersse 00:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Killings claimed by, or alleged to be perpetrated by, Irish armed groups using the name Irish Republican Army (or a subset of that name).
{Includes Irish Republican Army (Army of the Irish Republic) (1919–1922) together with Organisations known by the name in later years eg: Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) · Official IRA (1969–present) · Provisional IRA (1969–present) · Continuity IRA (1986–present) · Real IRA (1997–present)}
An earlier category of this name was deleted despite this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_April_9#Category:IRA_killings W. Frank 23:56, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
note Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ireland#Descendant_WikiProjects: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ireland is the logical parent project of this one, it is not about the Republic, but about the island as a whole. Please avoid tagging articles as within the scope of WikiProject Northern Ireland when they bear no special relevance to Northern Ireland. Such topics should be categorized under WikiProject Ireland instead. This concerns mainly articles on historical topics ( Ogham, Old Irish literature and the like). It is useless template cruft to have an article tagged by a project and its sub-project. thanks, dab (𒁳) 13:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Watch your tone with me please. I seem to remember you being disrespectful to me before, and you're at it again now.
You mentioned "talk page clutter" before to me, and I resolved that by added yet more functionality (small) to the template. As you feel that is such a big issue, I will add the small flag to the template on the Old Irish literature page also. I do hope that satiates your desire to remove piddle from trees. -- Mal 08:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I have tried to use "endash;" instead of a hyphen (-) but it wont work for me! Do I simply use:"endash;" instead of "-"? This is needed in this article. Osborne 14:54, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
&
ndash; aren't you? There's &
ndash;: –, &
mdash;:—, and &
nbsp;: which is a "no (line) break space". Hope that helps. :) Which article was it you were talking about? --
Mal 02:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)Thanks for your reply. I was thinking of "Ulster Museum" (and others) the "List of some collectors." I have used, sometimes, the Insert at the bottom of the Edit page, i.e. – — °≈≠≤≥±−×÷←→ 09:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
The above article on an ex-Snow Patrol member is tagged as being part of the Wikiproject NI categories. It strikes me that a lot of the article is way out of line and not in keeping with the policies for talking about living people in Wikipedia.
I've left a comment on the article's talk page along the same lines saying that i'm going to just remove the negative comments unless anyone has any objections in the next day or so. If anyone in the NI project watches this article they may want to make a more positive change then simply removing the comments? Anyone interested?
Rmkf1982 | Talk 18:16, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007#Constituency split on splitting articles on Assembly election constituencies from those on UK Parliament constituencies, which may be of interest to some participants here. Warofdreams talk 03:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
A new infobox has been developed for use on UK places articles. If you have any concerns or appraisals, please make them at Template talk:Infobox UK place. Regards, Jhamez84 02:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello fellow editors. A straw poll has opened today (27th March 2007) regarding the use of flags on the United Kingdom place infoboxes. There are several potential options to use, and would like as many contrubutors to vote on which we should decide upon. The straw poll is found here. If joining the debate, please keep a cool head and remain civil. We look forward to seeing you there. Jhamez84 11:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
If anyone is interested; I have nominated the Derry City F.C. article for featured article status. Danny Invincible Talk| Edits 16:30, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
I would love to here from The Davidson family in County Armagh . I am a 27 year old male who wishes to to learn more about our history in Armagh with a connection to Saint John New Brunswick Canada. I can be reached via email at portcityperson@hotmail.com Thank you all.
Hey, I'd like to ask for an assessment of this article. I will continue to work on it. Ryannus 14:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I find it interesting that there are number of articles that list those who were killed during the Troubles in a single town (eg. The Troubles in Templepatrick, The Troubles in Dunloy, and so on). I question why these are necessary, since what little content most of them seem to have could easily be merged into a larger article and the articles could be subsequently redirected. Is there a reason why these articles exist, or are they the products of someone who was too bored to do anything else? Astrovega 22:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello all WikiProject:Northern Ireland participants! As a believer in inclusion, I'd like to ask you for your thoughts on altering the map within Northern Irish settlement infoboxes to one I've drawn up myself - naturally I think it's an improvement, but would like feedback from those who feel most involved with it. My suggestion is outlined at the bottom of this talk page. Hope to hear from you, Jhamez84 00:52, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
I have recently started a List of songs about the Troubles in my userspace, to collect information about how the conflict as a whole and individual events and episodes, have been interpreted in music. The list at the moment includes only four pop songs, but is also meant to include Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Republican, songs. I found this cd, but I'm not sure the songs on there are notable and/or representative. I would like to ask the members of this WikiProject to help me expand this list about what might be a sensitive subject. A ecis Brievenbus 13:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I have made a proposal to move the Republic of Ireland to Ireland See:
Please see Segregation in Northern Ireland. It's quite a controversial topic and (of course) central to the Troubles, so assistance in expanding it and maintaining neutrality would be appreciated. -- ChrisO 19:49, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to spruce up Operation Banner and was wondering if anyone knew of some good images I could use, or had some to upload? Cordless Larry 22:57, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Please support this Northern Irish editors plea to be unblocked: [1]...Gaimhreadhan (kiwiexile at DMOZ) talk • 22:16, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
There is a straw poll under way on having flag in the infobox of the Northern Ireland article.
There are four Options available choose either
Hi. Ruth Kelly is up for peer review here. Your comments are welcome. SP-KP 18:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Further to the numerous discussions, largely on Wikipedia talk:Irish Wikipedians' notice board, a proposal has been made attempt to neutrally categorise individuals imprisoned during The Troubles. Your comments are welcomed at:
Thanks. Rockpocke t 00:44, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I've been trying to improve the John Hewitt article and it occurred to me that some of it won't make sense to 99 per cent of Wikipedia users - specifically the statement that "He was attracted to the Ulster dissenting tradition". Any suggestions for how I can explain this succinctly? Cordless Larry 12:54, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I have created a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Politics of Northern Ireland. Please have a look and comment; if you are interested in participating, please add your name! Warofdreams talk 20:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello there,
A straw poll has opened at this section of the United Kingdom talk page regarding the use of the Ulster Banner for that article's circumstances only. To capture a representative result as possible, you are invited to pass your opinion there. If joining the poll, please keep a cool head, and remain civil. Hope to see you there, Jza84 22:39, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, there's currently a proposal by me for " Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)" to be clarified with usage notes regarding the use of "British" or "English", "(Northern) Irish", "Scottish" and "Welsh" to be used to describe the nationality of persons in biographical articles. Do provide your views at the " talk page" so that broad consensus on the matter can be reached. Cheers, Jacklee 16:59, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Coming out from a few conversations, a Gaeilge task force has been established to coordinate the translation of Irish place names and other Irish-language related work. Anyone who wants to get invovled is invited to add their names to the list of participants or drop a line on the task force talk page.
Even those without Irish are invited - an outside view is always important, and I'm certain that there is plenty of work that can be done without the need for the Auld'Gaeilge! -- sony-youth pléigh 16:35, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
As part of the featured portal candidacy for Portal:Ireland a suggestion was made to make a "topics" template of major ("must read" backgrounders, etc.) Ireland-related articles. I've hacked the following together, but it's obviously lacking. Can people add/remove as they feel is important according to their interest. Changes appear immediately on the portal. Thanks. -- sony-youth pléigh 15:35, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi - found in last few days. Nice new article on small NI "village". It should be on main page in next 2-3 days. Do have a copy edit and maybe an assessment? Not my article btw - I'm just the DYKnow proposer Victuallers 20:36, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
"While at the time of Treaty and the subsequent Irish Civil War the majority of the "old" IRA held this position, by the 1930s most republicans had accepted the Free State and were willing to work within it - recognising the Irish Army as the state's armed force. However, a minority of republicans argued that the army of the Republic was still the pre-1969 Irish Republican Army, itself the lineal descendant of the defeated faction in the Irish Civil War of 1922-23."
Shouldn't it be pre-1919? Jonmp 13:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
There appears to be a flag missing from the template. -- Setanta 11:57, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
WP doesn't appear to have an article on this subject, but the muppet wiki does [2], how do you go about pinching it (The content is GNU DL)? Fasach Nua 09:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I have created the above article today. It lacks some detail on the history of roads in Northern Ireland at the moment and I would appreciate any pointers or help. Regan123 ( talk) 18:49, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Is there a new Northern Ireland articles page? If not, there should be - it's good to know what's recently been created, so stubs and shoddy articles can be improved. If there is a bot looking for new articles they could be posted on it. Basically, what I'm after is a Northern Irish version of Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand) and similar. -- Helenalex ( talk) 23:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I have proposed the following mergers:
Proposal Talk:Ireland national football team IFA#Proposed_mergers with lead-up discussion earlier on that Talk: page. jnestorius( talk) 23:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Great news! The Ireland portal has been made a featured portal, taking it's place along side the Scotland, London and North West England portals on these islands and the France and European Union portals on the continent.
Come on Northern Ireland ... let's pick up the Northern Ireland portal and make a go of it for the new year!
p.s. Happy Christmas! -- sony-youth pléigh 18:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I have recently gotten authorisation for a bot (called BHGbot), for applying project banners tags to articles and categories.
BHGbot's first runs have involved tagging categories with {{ WikiProject Ireland category}}, and having completed that job I wanted to offer to do the same thing for Northern Ireland categories. (Please note that this is just intended as a helpful offer; if this project doesn't want it done, I won't do it).
There are two parts to what I propose:
{{
WPNI|class=cat}}
with the new {{
WPNI category}} tag (just created by me, modelled on {{
WikiProject Ireland category}} and other similar banners), which does not include assessment fields for priority/importance. This will ensure that the categories are still listed in
Category:WikiProject Northern Ireland categories, but will avoid cluttering
Category:Unknown-importance Northern Ireland-related articles and
Category:WikiProject Northern Ireland articles with categories, which do not need an importance ratingPlease note that both these proposed jobs will tag only categories, not the articles within them. (If members of this project are interested, I would be happy to use BHGbot to help with the auto-tagging of articles, but I suggest that's best left aside for now as a separate issue).
I'd welcome any comments, either here or on the talk pages of the two proposed jobs. Hope this helps. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
According to
WP:UKCITIES, all settlements in the UK must use the UK infobox. As it stands, most major towns in NI have been changed to the new infobox, but some towns such as
Ballymena have not yet. I changed the infoboxes for Cookstown, Coagh, Dungannon and Magherafelt, but it would be great if the editors here could help in the final push to rollout the infobox in all villages and towns in NI. Cheers!
EJF (
talk) 17:30, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I thought I would bring tis to the attention of users here we have a anon IP altering the images on Template:Politics_of_Northern_Ireland, Template:Politics_of_Northern_Ireland_1921-72 and Template:Politics_of_Northern_Ireland_1972-98, I have ask on their page not to do this without discussion on the issue first, but they insist on ignoring that request and continues to change the images. These template have been stable since they where created any thoughts.-- Padraig ( talk) 00:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi folks
I have created a navigation header template for the year in Northern Ireland series of articles, called {{ YearInNorthernIrelandNav}}, and started rolling it out on a few articles, e.g. 2007 in Northern Ireland.
The template is based on {{ YearInIrelandNav}} (which I created last month), and the colour scheme for the N.Ireland template arises out of a discussion on that template at User talk:BrownHairedGirl#Navigation_template_for_years-in-Ireland_articles and a further discussion on colours at User talk:Sarah777. Basically, the dominant dark blue color (HTML code #000062) is that used on the website of the Northern Ireland Executive, which seemed to me to be probably the most neutral option amongst the various possible colours.
Hope it's OK; pls leave a note on my talk if there are any problems. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 06:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Following from an extended discussion at " Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (biographies)" on how people from the United Kingdom should be described ("British", or "English", "[Northern] Irish", "Scottish" or "Welsh"), which did not result in consensus, an essay entitled " Wikipedia:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom" ( WP:UKNATIONALS) has been prepared. You're welcome to provide your comments on how it can be improved at the talk page of "Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)". — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 16:50, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello team,
May I please bring to the attention the WP:UKTOWNS guideline? It has been very successfully used for settlement articles for Great Britain and I think it would be a great tool for Northern Ireland too. Taking much of its recommendations from the global- WP:CITIES project, it is intended for use with NI, but I don't think it is very well known. Belfast however appears to use it effectively.
The guide is admittedly a little Anglocentric (though I've tried to combat this), but it is not meant to be political in anyway - it's purely a guideline on layout and content for inhabited places. Infact, I would hope the Republic of Ireland would also adopt a simillar approach. If there are any outstanding issues in the guidelines, please let me know and I'll provide an addendum for NI as I have done for London. Hope this helps, -- Jza84 · ( talk) 19:31, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Done rated as B. EJF ( talk) 21:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I have created the above maps. I hope you all don't mind that I was WP:BOLD and added them to the relative articles myself. I really don't want to create any edit wars I just want to see what others think and hopefully bring this to a nice consensus on what to use. I hate the idea that other countries seam to be more organized then us with these things, so I hope you think the new one looks professional... I'm actually kinda pleased :-) Please voice your opinion over at Talk:Scotland#Straw_Poll I know I'd personally love to hear your opinions! Thanks -- UKPhoenix79 ( talk) 05:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Could I ask for some help accessing local knowledge, from members of this wikiproject, on the behalf of the new WikiProject Museums? We are currently trying to identify articles within the Museum projects scope (& develop guidelines to help improve them etc). There is a List of museums in Northern Ireland. Could you take a look at the list for your local area and see if any are missing or create articles for any red links. Could you also add the new project banner "{{WikiProject Museums}}" to the Talk pages of the articles, so that we can identify those in need of work etc. Any help appreciated &, if anyone is interested you are welcome to join the project or discuss Museum related articles on the Project Talk Page.— Rod talk 13:41, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
The following is reproduced from NI article discussion page:
I think the following disambig at the top of the NI article looks really silly and should be removed. Does any one really look up NI thinking they'll go straight to an EP constituency page? Heres the disambig:
"This article is about the constituent country. For the European constituency, see Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)."
Does any one else support deleting this disambig? Redking7 ( talk) 22:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
WLU has reverted the above edit despite two of the three users who contributed to the above discussion agreeing with the edit. I'm not sure how this should be handled? Regards. Redking7 ( talk) 18:51, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
The hatnote is clumsy and doesn't seem to fit the spirit of WP:DAB. The consituency article is about NI, so it should be summarised in Northern Ireland#Demography and politics of Northern Ireland and linked from there. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 10:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
A debate that might interest editors here has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. Djln-- Djln ( talk) 00:08, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Article assessment is still a redlink. I can't find a place on the project page to request an assessment. I was hoping to get Free Derry re-assessed after a recent expansion. Scolaire ( talk) 19:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Is there, or can we come up with, a policy on which Troubles deaths are notable? Some people think that the 'two or more killed' rule is absolute - ie if only one person was killed it isn't notable and therefore can't be mentioned on a 'troubles in...' page, regardless of other circumstances. If there is not already a policy, I suggest that it should be something like:
Fatal troubles 'events' are notable and can be included in 'Troubles in...' pages if:
1. Two or more people were killed
2. The event was the first of its kind (first attributed to a particular group, first bombing death etc); first killing of a particular kind of person (first RUC officer killed, first republican paramilitary etc); or is otherwise a significant 'first'.
3. The victim was inherently notable in his/her own right (ie worthy of a page of their own).
4. The event had a significant effect - ie directly led to a breakthrough in or breakdown of the peace process etc.
It would be really good to have a semi-official policy to point at which consists of more than 'two killings notable, one killing not'. -- Helenalex ( talk) 02:50, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
As can be seen here, it has been agreed before that due to the two casualty minimum inclusion criteria the articles contained in the subcategories of Category:The Troubles in Northern Ireland by locality are biased, as they exclude the majority of killings by loyalists. Recently even more biased criteria have been added, where the death of the first soldier/policeman/etc in a particular area are to be included. As loyalists were responsible for very few of those (especially "firsts") we will be including more killings by republicans. So the average article will include killings by republicans, yet most of them will not include a single killing by loyalists despite them being responsible for over 1,000 deaths during the Troubles. This is obviously a major breach of NPOV, yet an editor refuses to allow these biased criteria to be amended. !! time=11:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
As can be seen here, it has been agreed before that due to the two casualty minimum inclusion criteria the articles contained in the subcategories of Category:The Troubles in Northern Ireland by locality are biased, as they exclude the majority of killings by loyalists. Recently even more biased criteria have been added, where the death of the first soldier/policeman/etc in a particular area are to be included. As loyalists were responsible for very few of those (especially "firsts") we will be including more killings by republicans. So the average article will include killings by republicans, yet most of them will not include a single killing by loyalists despite them being responsible for over 1,000 deaths during the Troubles. This is obviously a major breach of NPOV, yet an editor refuses to allow these biased criteria to be amended. BigDunc Talk 11:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I hope ya'll can give us your imput. GoodDay ( talk) 21:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 1083 of the articles assigned to this project, or 28.1%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 17:26, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hi all, I have pulled together a design for the cluttered Project Page (see my Sandbox), as per requests on the current page. This new design includes a sidebar template. I've kept all the important stuff and tried to get rid of clutter; however there's still a lot that could be gutted, but I'm hesitant to do it. Please let me know what you think of this new design. Thanks! Dicdoc ( talk) 20:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a slight oversensitivity regarding the choice of map colours for an updated map here. Given that WPNI have a green map as their own logo, perhaps someone would care to give an opinion on behalf of this project? Just a thought. Crispness ( talk) 11:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
A poll is talking place on Subdivisions of the United Kingdom and Countries of the United Kingdom. The Merger proposal is here, and is where all the options (merge, redirect to or from etc) can be voted for. -- Matt Lewis ( talk) 18:59, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
NOTE: The new article is "Countries" of the United Kingdom, by the way - not "counties", as it it may first appear.-- Matt Lewis ( talk) 13:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Is there an online register of charities in Northern Ireland, the equivalent of those at Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and Charity Commission?
I've just created two new templates, {{ UK charity}} and {{ Scottish charity}}. (I know the former is inaccurately named as it only works, so far, for England and Wales: if I can work out the wiki technicalities I'll combine the two, and NI if I can find a register, into a single template at that name.) They are for use as External Links - as it seems to me to be a valuable asset to the article, as evidence of the charity's genuineness and a link to its accounts etc. They're similar to the templates for links to IMDB. See them both in use at Age Concern: Age Concern NI ( http://www.ageconcernni.org/) has charity number XN 48785A, which I'd like to link too.
The article at Charity Commission says that charities in NI "are regulated by the Voluntary Activity Unit of the Department of Health and Social Services at Stormont Castle.", with a couple of redlinks. That doesn't seem to be accurate: the nearest I can find is http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/voluntary_and_community but there doesn't seem to be a register. Someone knowledgeable might like to update that article?
If anyone can find me a useful online list for Northern Ireland charities, I'd be delighted, and will make a NI version of the template - please let me know. Thanks, PamD ( talk) 11:20, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I've added this new task force to the 'Related projects' (its actually a sub of WP:GEOG). -- Matt Lewis ( talk) 17:37, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Please see:
Thanks.-- Mais oui! ( talk) 14:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
This has beed proposed for deletion, if anyone is interested Fasach Nua ( talk) 09:20, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
There's a little discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Waterways about whether it would be more useful to have an article listing canals of the UK, or whether the existing coverage of NI canals in Canals of Ireland means it would be more useful to have an article listing just canals of GB. Contributions welcome. -- VinceBowdren ( talk) 13:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Some editors on the NI page are insisting on changing the term Flag of Ireland to something else e.g. Irish Tricolour - even though they use the correct names of the UK and former NI flags. It is being discussed here Talk: Northern Ireland#flags. Regards. Redking7 ( talk) 22:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
An Ireland disambiguation task force ( WP:IDTF) has been created. It will: free up various Talk pages for their respective articles, avoid inner and cross article repetition, avoid debate-postponing moratoriums from needing to be placed, and can accommodate all aspects of the issue of disambiguating the word "Ireland". -- Matt Lewis ( talk) 04:29, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
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Hi I'm new to editing Wikipedia, and I've noticed a substantial number of inaccuracies on the North West Regional College page - mainly due to the College's recent merger. I would like to edit these - would that be ok? ( Gerimartin ( talk) 14:47, 22 September 2008 (UTC))
Hello all...
An image used in the Craigavon Bridge article, specifically Image:Craigavon bridge 2005 jonathanmoran.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 00:54, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
An IP editor, 80.42.86.23 ( talk · contribs) has started changing the classification of settlements to towns, (example), even when some of these settlements have fewer than 200 people! A long-standing consensus has been that in accordance with NISRA's terminology, only settlements with a population above 4,500 people are towns. I'm just checking here to see that this consensus is still standing, before I revert any changes made by the IP. Thanks, EJF ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Many Northern Ireland articles are missing geographical coordinates. Finding the latitude and longitude of locations, and entering coordinates into articles is straightforwards, and explained at Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Having coordinates on articles mean that they turn up in GoogleMaps, MultiMap and other such places which link to wikipedia based on geo-coordinates.
It is now possible to get lists of Northern Ireland articles that have no geographical coordinates via Wikipedia:CatScan, for example:
Alternatively, if CatScan is down or very slow, you can find them by looking through Category:United Kingdom articles missing geocoordinate data.
The articles in the lists above are currently marked with {{ coord missing}} templates, which need replacing with filled in {{ coord}} templates containing their latitude/longitude data (or else have lat&long entered into the infobox).
There are about 67 articles missing coords - I hope you'll consider adding coordinates so as to make Northern Ireland articles more visible on the web. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 20:17, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi all,
I've started a new
Ireland related project which I hope will bridge a gap I feel exists between the two Wiki community's with an interest in Ireland related matters. The project has just started but I hope it will allow us to work together at first on uncontroversial articles such as
Sports in Ireland and if successful I hope will allow for a more constructive and friendly approach to the controversial issues.
Gnevin (
talk) 17:08, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
There are a couple current CFD discussions that people may be interested in. They concern the intersection of religious and nationalist terrorism. Please see these 2 discussions linked below. One is above the other on the same page.
I can't find anywhere to list new articles like this so I'm gonna add it here, if anyone knows a better place to put it then let me know. Dickson Plan. -- Eamonnca1 ( talk) 00:53, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Cross-community vote which I created. I don't think I've explained the concept very well. Thanks! Roadnote ♫ 13:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
There are active move discussions at: Talk:Ireland (disambiguation)#Proposed move to Ireland and Talk:Ireland#Proposed move to Ireland (island). All interested parties welcome to comment. Rockpocke t 01:27, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
A number of articles have been nominated for a name change which involves changing the capitalization scheme used. They are:
(the links point to the discussion of the requested moves.) Members may wish to comment on the requests both for and against the proposed moves. I'm not sure where else notices could be posted to get as wide a discussion as possible, both for and against the requests), and so would appreciate people identifying appropriate projects and posting similar messages there. DDStretch (talk) 08:49, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
There is currently an issue with the article Hero (Mariah Carey song) where I am involved in a discussion about an Irish political video being included in the article. More opinions welcome at Talk:Hero_(Mariah_Carey_song)#éirígí Alternative Video. (Posted here due to scope of issue). Regards, Woody ( talk) 15:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey - I've started the article Pat Finucane Centre. I think it could use the eyes of a few experts for expansion and to make sure the language is as neutral as possible. Thanks! Flying Toaster 07:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I have started a discussion here with regards making a change to the name.-- Vintagekits ( talk) 23:47, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
It has been proposed below that Republic of Ireland-UK border be renamed and moved to Ireland-UK border. Yes it's been done before; a move without consensus was reverted and there's now a proper proposal. Talk page discussion has started. -- Blowdart | talk 00:42, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
At User:The Anome/Disused UK railway stations still lacking coordinates, a group of editors are attempting to add coordinates for disused railway stations, using National Grid easting/northing coordinates obtained from old public domain maps such as those at http://www.npemap.org.uk/ , and a bot which translates these into WGS84 lat/long coordinates and adds them to the articles.
Unfortunately, we cannot find any free sources of old maps for Northern Ireland, and the current arrangement can only handle National Grid references, and not Irish Grid references (although I have the code to do so, if necessary.) Would anyone be interested in helping find these stations? If so, please contact me at my talk page.
Thanks, -- The Anome ( talk) 13:03, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I have posted a question at Talk:Ulaid but here might be better. It says on Irish mythology that Ulaidh is only the north-east corner. I didn't think that was true and changed it adding the map from Ulaidh but since that I found this map, linked to lots of articles, of 11th century Ireland where a place called Ulidia is in the top corner (I still think Ulster mythology goes beyond that but I reverted my changes until I know the difference between Ulaidh and Ulidia)
thanks ~ R. T. G 21:20, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
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I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 22:10, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Please note that User:Superfopp has twice removed the article List of rivers of Northern Ireland and subsumed its contents into an article listing rivers in Ireland. To do so reduces the body of geographical articles on NI and means that readers cannot access a list of NI specific rivers. This seems to me to be counter to NI Wiki Project. I have reverted the article. Please keep an eye on this. Ardfern ( talk) 18:27, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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Congratulations on winning the six nations 2009 grand slam to all at Wikiproject Ireland and Wikiproject Northern Ireland! Fribbler ( talk) 22:47, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
What part of Belfast/BT postcodes is in County Down because on the Traditional Unionist Voice, it says Belfast, County Down although googling the postcode shows that most websites believe it to be in County Antrim. Speedboy Salesman ( talk) 15:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)