Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irish language in Northern Ireland

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was no consensus. The article defaults to "keep." Joyous 15:46, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Irish language in Northern Ireland
An important topic, but it should be merged with Irish language. There's no need for it to be an article by itself. --Angr 22:04, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment from an Irish Wikipedian. Ideally the topic would be longer, requiring a summary in the section on Irish language, linking to a separate article. Whether this should be the case at the moment - I don't know. Perhaps having the NI separate article would encourage development of the topic? Plus the main language page is quite long already! I'm leaning more towards keep. zoney &#09827; talk 22:33, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Strong keep. Definitely should be an article of its own. Everyking 16:29, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to a single article - deal with Irish as one language on one island - it cannot be compared to national variations of English, viz American, British, Hiberno and other variants which have distinct national variations in pronounciation. The variation between Irish spoken in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is no different to what would be expected within any similar sized country or the provinces. Irish is ultimately a minority language, even in Ireland - a pseudo-summary of the details in the main article is not the way forward. Djegan 22:07, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. If this article is kept and expanded, of course it will not be an article on the northern dialect of Irish; there's enough information on that at Irish language and Irish dialects. (After all, the predominant locus of the northern dialect isn't in Northern Ireland at all, but in County Donegal in the Republic.) Rather, the article will be on nonlinguistic issues: the legal status of Irish in Northern Ireland, and the sociopolitical ramifications of teaching and using a language that for most people is inextricably linked with Catholic/Republican identity in N.I. If all that is to be said on that subject fits into three or four paragraphs, then IMO it should be as a section of Irish language. If, on the other hand, a good encyclopedic article can come from this subject, then of course it should be an independent page. --Angr 23:50, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect. Spinboy 06:51, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge nothing much to say Beta_M talk, |contrib ( &Euml;-Mail )
 * Keep. This topic is definately deserving of its own article, as its becoming a more concientious issue legally these days. Kiand 20:53, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, anything useable to Irish language, no redirect. Megan1967 06:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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