User talk:2001:BB6:3E5:FF58:687C:7E00:28AE:32D5

May 2023
Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you.  Acroterion   (talk)   09:43, 2 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I did not add commentary, my own point of view, or my own personal analysis. The article itself begins with a definition of the term "British Isles" - a definition which is given without caveats as if there were no disagreements, or as if it were generally accepted. At the end of the introduction it (finally) acknowledges that, in fact, neither the UK nor Ireland recommend the use of this term, and quotes media sources which also discourage the use of this term. The article fails to mention that the term has no legal meaning internationally. It also implicitly puts forward the point of view that there is a common culture across the islands of Ireland and Britain - again an unevidenced and highly controversial suggestion. Moving the discussion of the term to the bottom of the introduction misleads people as to the level of acceptance of this term and constitutes politically loaded discourse. My edits were simply to balance the introduction, no more than that and, indeed, did not put forward my own view as I was simply quoting the page itself, and the page on the contentious nature of the term. 2001:BB6:3E5:FF58:687C:7E00:28AE:32D5 (talk) 11:49, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * A suitable, and minor change, would be simply to say "The British Isles is a contentious term (see below) for a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western ...". However, I have the impression that the addition of such a (factual) qualification is not within the bounds of wikipedia's accepted norms. Is my understanding correct? 2001:BB6:3E5:FF58:687C:7E00:28AE:32D5 (talk) 11:56, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a repository for your personal analysis of the matter. The topic is a perennial nationalist bugbear, much like Sea of Japan/East Sea, or Persian/Arabian Gulf. Wikipedia is a global encyclopedia, and doesn't give undue weight to parochial naming controversies.  Acroterion   (talk)   23:39, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, you may be blocked from editing.  Acroterion   (talk)   23:35, 2 May 2023 (UTC)