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County Londonderry
Please refrain from altering references to County Londonderry to read County Derry. As per WP:DERRY the name of County Londonderry is to be used on Wikipedia. Also please note that, unlike the city naming, the name of County Derry is a purely colloquial name and not a historical name. If you read up on the history of County Londonderry you will see it was created from County Coleraine and there was not a historical County Derry previously that was renamed to Londonderry. If you continue to push edits that alter County Londonderry to read County Derry, you may be blocked from editing. Canterbury Tail talk 18:11, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

I think you will find that roughly 70% of the people on the island of Ireland will tend to disagree with you on that, it is not just colloquial. For example their GAA team is called Derry and not Londonderry. The majority of people call it Derry as they do not recognise the the name bestowed upon it by the English crown in 1613. I am from Derry, I have read the history of my home city many times. The name Derry, itself is a anglicisation of the regions original name Daire. But not to worry, a united Ireland is just around the corner, so prepare to update and this age old disagreement will be finally put to bed.


 * The people in the country of Ireland (Republic of) don't get a say in the naming of something in another country. The fact remains the county was created as County Londonderry, there wasn't a County Derry previously so it's rather cut and dried compared to the city. The government that created it gets to name it, no matter what others wish to call it. If we went around calling things by what people colloquially called things the country of Ireland could be called "down south" from Northern Ireland's perspective. Ultimately this is irrelevant, you were blocked because consensus and guidelines state that the county is to be called by its official name of County Londonderry per WP:DERRY and you were editing disruptively against that to push a name based on your personal preference and edit warring to push it.
 * Oh and P.S. according to modern opinion polls no a United Ireland isn't right around the corner. Ireland doesn't want Northern Ireland because it couldn't afford to support it, especially after the mass of job losses in NI due to separating from the UK government since so much of the UK civil service is conducted in NI. Will it happen? One day I think and truly believe it will, but it's not right around the corner it's likely at least a generation away. Canterbury Tail talk 19:35, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

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