Talk:Heavy snowfall of late 2010 in the United Kingdom/merge discussion

Merge discussion

 * This discussion is transcluded from another page. The main page for it can be found at Talk:Heavy snowfall of late 2010 in the United Kingdom/merge discussion.

My proposal is to merge Winter of 2010-2011 in Great Britain and Ireland and Heavy snowfall of late 2010 in the United Kingdom (currently two competing articles of different quality) and rename them Winter of 2010-2011 in the United Kingdom as per other similar articles on this kind of topic. Any thoughts on this would be welcome. Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 19:11, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment on two points. If you agree to such a merger as outlined above you are suggesting either a) the Republic of Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, or b) the weather system somehow miraculously stopped exactly on the border with the Republic of Ireland. As we know that the two weather systems responsible for the weather has affected both the UK and IRL, I would suggest using the title i) Winter of 2010-2011 in Great Britain and Ireland, ii) Winter of 2010-2011 in the British Isles , or iii) Winter of 2010-2011 in the United Kingdom and Ireland . i) is probably the most neutral, but excludes IOM and the Channel Isles, ii) is likely to cause furore between Irish and British nationalist agendas (see Talk:British Isles) and iii) is also likely to find a problem with nationalist editors (both British and Irish). --MacTire02 (talk) 20:22, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm happy for Ireland to be included in the title. The current titles don't make reference to Ireland, but I know they have had weather equally as bad, so it seems only fair. We have February 2009 Great Britain and Ireland snowfall so Winter of 2010-2011 in Great Britain and Ireland would be ok, as would Winter of 2010-2011 in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. I think, however, there are some who would probably object quite vehemently to British Isles being in the title so probably best to leave that one out. TheRetroGuy (talk) 20:52, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed. As this is not a political event, I would suggest the more geographically neutral Winter of 2010-2011 in Great Britain and Ireland over anything else. --MacTire02 (talk) 21:11, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Cool, sounds good to me. TheRetroGuy (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Closing
✅ the merge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:28, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks for that. Seems the most sensible thing to do. TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:46, 17 December 2010 (UTC)