Talk:Irish phone tapping scandal

NPOV tag
I am tagging this NPOV for title as I have never heard it referred to as the Fianna Fail Phone tapping scandal but just as the phone tapping scandal or a variation of those words .Garda40 (talk) 14:24, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Renamed Article
Since there has been no opposition voiced in the last 12 days to the move I went ahead and moved it tonight .Garda40 (talk) 21:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Article move
Since we now have a second Irish phone tapping scandal article (2014 Irish phone tapping scandal), it would surely make sense to move this to something like 1982 Irish phone tapping scandal. Alternatively, we could move the other one to Garda phone tapping scandal. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Paul MacDermott (talk) 14:36, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. This one covers several years (1982, 1983, + the 1992 Haughey resignation) and the other one covers several decades (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s). Therefore using years in the title probably isn't the best idea. As this one primarily involves journalism and the other one primarily involves the national police force, how about Irish journalism surveillance scandal and Garda Síochána surveillance scandal, with "Irish phone tapping scandal" and "Irish surveillance scandal" as disambiguation pages? That should cover it. --95.45.82.167 (talk) 23:36, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Assessment
There is no way this compares in importance in the overall Ireland project as "Top", even mid is pushing it, especially when you look at the topics of the other Top Irish articles here. Top importance criteria states that: ''High probability that general readers outside Ireland would look this up. Well known outside the country and important in the life and history of Ireland. Members should not give this rating to any article without first getting Project approval from the other members.'' ww2censor (talk) 15:22, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
 * My fault for copy/pasting the templates from the other phone tapping article. I hadn't noticed one included an assessment, but would agree with you on its status. For future reference, top assessment should be reserved for topics such as Culture of Ireland, Dáil Éireann, Robert Emmet and Dublin. No doubt the user who assessed 2014 Irish phone tapping scandal did so in good faith, but while the controversy may have an impact in Ireland itself, I'm not sure about the wider world. We had some coverage of it in the UK yesterday, but I don't know if other nations have picked up the story. Paul MacDermott (talk) 15:43, 26 March 2014 (UTC)


 * No problem Paul! I've been involved in assessing Irish project articles for several years so have a pretty good feel for them and was also involved in developing the criteria. Of the 40,000+ articles only around 60 have a Top-importance rating which gives one a clear idea it is reserved for exceptionally important topics, only about .15% are rated as such. Besides, articles about current topics have not yet matured enough to determine where their importance really lies. I have seen involved editors over rate article they have edited. I'm sure there is a little WP:OWN-creep there. Who can blame them? Thanks. ww2censor (talk) 18:31, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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