User talk:Editp

Northern Ireland vs. Ireland
Please note that Wikipedia has rules about duplicate categorization: a person does not go in categories that are parents of other categories that the person is already in. A person does not go in both "writers" and "poets" at the same time, for example, because poets is already a subcategory of writers — and by the same token, a person does not go in both "X from Northern Ireland" and "Irish X" at the same time, because the Northern Ireland category is already a subcategory of the Irish one. Your reasoning is not unique to Colette Bryce, but applies equally to all people from Northern Ireland — which is precisely why we file Northern Ireland categories as dual subcategories of both "United Kingdom" categories and "Irish" categories.

By virtue of being in a Northern Ireland category, in other words, she is already being categorized as Irish, because the Northern Ireland category already puts her in the Irish tree. People from Northern Ireland are not double-filed in both Northern Ireland categories and Irish categories at the same time, because the Northern Ireland category already gets them categorized as Irish. Her Irishness is already covered by the Northern Ireland categories, because they're already subcategories of the Irish ones — so there's simply no need to violate our duplicate categorization rules. Bearcat (talk) 13:20, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Would you mind explaining what part of NORTHERN IRELAND CATEGORIES ALREADY COVER IRISHNESS, SO A PERSON DOES NOT GO IN BOTH AT THE SAME TIME you're having trouble understanding? Bearcat (talk) 13:31, 22 June 2017 (UTC)