Wikipedia:Irish wikipedians' notice board/Archive02

City article names
There's a scary lack of standardisation of article titles for Irish cities. Below is a table of what exists. Scheme:
 * > is a redirect.
 * # is the current location of the city article.
 * O for a non-existing page
 * X - unusable/disambiguation

D - Dublin, C - Cork, L - Limerick, G - Galway, W - Waterford, K - Kilkenny

As you can see, 3 out of the 4 formats are used for the main locations! A whole bunch of "Cityname (city)" and "Cityname, Ireland" are missing (or the others should be removed).

As immediate steps, I suggest we get Cork (city) moved to Cork City, and move Waterford City to Waterford.

Also, as Cork and Limerick articles will then be at "Cityname City", I suggest redirects at "Cityname city" for all articles...

zoney &#09619;  &#09618; talk 23:18, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * It would be ideal (but perhaps too controversal) if Cork and Limerick were used for the cities, Limerick redirects to Limerick City currently. A google search quickly shows that the cities are by far the most common terms returned. This mightbe a better option to creating "XXX city" compromise. Djegan 17:07, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * If it's not contentious Limerick redirecting to Limerick City, then we should move Limerick City to Limerick - it's no more disruptive to other searches than the current situation.
 * zoney &#09619;  &#09618; talk 17:45, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I've placed the question at Talk:Cork and asked IRC users... I suspect we will have to content ourselves with Cork City (or Cork city). Also, I'm not sure we won't get in trouble over the Limerick redirect... zoney &#09619;  &#09618; talk 20:53, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I wouldn't recommend naming the articles "Cork City" or "Limerick City". I mean. The places are called Cork and Limerick. I would have the main article link to the cities and name the Counties "County Cork" etc. But saying "Cork City" strikes me as American, not necessarily Irish (with apologies to "only" 40m Irish Americans. ;-) Ropers 02:14, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * UPDATE. User:Mikkalai has moved Cork (city) to Cork, Ireland. zoney &#09619;  &#09618; talk 23:35, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. I didn't know about this discussion. No big harm done, anyway.

BTW, FUI, here is some google hit stats: Mikkalai 23:51, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Cork: -- 2,500,000
 * Cork + Ireland -- 1,630,000
 * "Cork, Ireland" -- 452,000
 * Cork + wine  --  417,000
 * Cork + bottle -- 279,000
 * "Cork City" -- 190,000

Movings:


 * Waterford (the city) is now at Waterford, with Waterford City, Waterford city, Waterford (city) and Waterford, Ireland as redirects. zoney &#09827; talk 12:25, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Cork (the city) is now at Cork, with Cork City, Cork city, Cork (city) and Cork, Ireland as redirects. zoney &#09827; talk 12:40, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Limerick (the city) is now at Limerick, with Limerick City, Limerick city, Limerick (city) and Limerick, Ireland as redirects. zoney &#09827; talk 13:03, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Agreed, important links to the cities should be amended to the new articles. I have edited Cities in Ireland, Template:IrishCities List of Ireland-related topics. Djegan 20:29, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I created the rest of the redirects for completeness. &#8212;Rory &#9786; 19:31, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

List of towns in the Republic of Ireland

 * Discussion moved/archived to Talk:List of towns in the Republic of Ireland

Abbey Theatre photo request
Has anybody got a photo of the bouilding that could be used for the article? Filiocht 09:29, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * By the way, from the initial voting, it looks like the Abbey will not make it through to a second week on WP:COTW, so I have started my own rewrite here. Please feel free to chip in! Filiocht 09:51, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Useful link for anyone writing about Dublin area subjects
Best history of Dublin source on the Web Filiocht 11:33, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Fortycoats and the flying trick shop
I'm not even too sure of the grammar for the above title, but it's one children's programme I'd almost completely forgotten about. It was also quite bizarre... Does anyone remember anything beyond the fact that it had a "flying trick shop" and an old man who wore forty coats? zoney &#09827; talk 23:16, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I can't remember much of it (before my time), but didn't two teenage girls follow him, one called Slightly Bonkers? Kiand 07:31, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

IIRR it was called "Fortycoats and Co.", and it was a flying tuck shop. The character came from Wanderly Wagon originally. Fran Dempsey played him in the eponymous show, but I think someone else did on WW. His catchphrase was "Be me 40 coats and 50 pockets". His sidekicks were Slightly Bonkers, a Dyub skewlgurl played by ...pause for research... Virginia Cole, and Sofar Sogood, a junior Kevin Myers type. His enemy was The Whirligig Witch and her occasional superior the Svedish Vitch. I think the witch had a talking cat for keeping the whole puppet vibe. Personally I dunno how anyone can talk about this mediocre show while Wanderly Wagon remains red. Ugh! there it is again. Joestynes 09:25, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC). As a tangent, there's a rather decent Wanderly Wagon site with a number of pictures at. cmdrjameson 00:23, 29 Sep 2004.

According to the mother, who can remember the 1970's and before, Fortycoats was also the name of a real Dublin character, some old weirdo who hung around the place. She also told me I had an RTE book on Fortycoats when I was younger, something I really don't remember. Kiand 17:37, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Irish featured article candidates
There are now two Irish-interest articles on WP:FAC, Samuel Beckett and Abbey Theatre. To date, SB has ony one vote (a support). The Abbey just added now. Please read the articles and consider if you want to support or improve them. Thanks. Filiocht 09:01, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) Abbey Theatre is now a featured article. Samuel Beckett with only two votes looks likely to be culled shortly. Filiocht 07:42, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC) Beckett is now a featured article. Filiocht 07:26, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Categories - Irish reorganization
Their is currently a discussion at WP:CFD for anyone thats interested, it is regarding the reorganisation of Irish related categories. Djegan 21:56, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I've registered strong opposition, and left a note on the proposer's talk page. Although warranted for some issues, I think a blanket partition of categories into RoI and NI is wrong, and needlessly politicising non-political topics. zoney &#09827; talk 13:23, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree and also registered my opposition. Filiocht 14:03, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

A modest proposal
Hi. I'd like to suggest that we take on Culture of Ireland a a kind of Irish collaboration of the week. Between us, I think we could produce a great article. Filiocht 08:35, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I'm in, though I'm just back to college so my participation might be a little limited for a while. If it's successful we might consider doing some more collaborations. &#8212;Rory &#9786; 12:10, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm in too! Hope the pub culture bit is NPOV. I don't want to say "we're a nation of drunkards" (though the evidence is compelling), but I felt it's one of the more important topics to cover nonetheless. zoney &#09827; talk 14:24, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've sort of made this a bit less of a modest proposal, creating an Irish COTW template and adding a notice at the top of this page. What do people think? I think it would be a helpful routine to begin. Apparently other Wikipedians are considering copying what we do here, e.g. for Australia. If copied, this approach could expand Wikipedia greatly! zoney &#09827; talk 14:36, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Go for it. And I like the pub culture bit. Thanks for the spelling catches. I'm doing this at wokr in a very bitty fashion. Filiocht 14:40, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Just thinking, someone's going to say the Irish COTW message should go on the talk page (not saying I agree, but we amy need a response). How do you know about the Australian interest? Filiocht 14:48, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I know, we'll see if someone objects first though, it's a good way to grab attention and follows the procedure for WP:COTW. Do you think it's a good idea?
 * The Australian interest may or may not have been serious, it was a suggestion I made on IRC chat (#wikipedia channel) that someone agreed was a good idea (I forget who!)
 * zoney &#09827; talk 15:04, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I think it's a great idea and personally I never understood why cotw and fa messages are hidden on the talk pages. If we think an article is good or we want help to make it better, we should shout it out. After all, we stick stub messages in the article. Also, I hope other gruops do take up this idea. COWT as it is has such a limited impact and seems to put more energy into the voting than anything else. Only 3 successes with facs says it all. Filiocht 15:14, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Selecting next week's Irish COTW
moved to Irish wikipedians' notice board/ICOTW

The article "Ireland"
And back to opening cans of worms again... We may need to focus on the sub-articles first (such as Culture of Ireland, Geography of Ireland, but the simple article Ireland, is pretty awful. It's a random smattering of Irish-related material. Some good thinking/planning is needed on what should be there, what is at Republic of Ireland and what is at Northern Ireland, and how sub-sections are organised, and which article is the sub-sections parent (or parents). It's a bit of a disaster in my opinion. zoney &#09827; talk 15:36, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Filiocht 09:40, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * In the Ireland article that map of Ireland in Europe should show a single coloured Ireland, or a geographical map with the minimum of political boundaries, all in all though the article is fine but might need some review.
 * Ultimately I believe that we must avoid the tempatation with differentiating between Republic/Northern topics – at the instance of strict categorisation - their should only be such differentiation were their is distinct political and functional need to prevent confusion, thus for instance the “Constitution of Ireland” would be correct, whilst “Culture of the Republic of Ireland” would not. Their are many valid articles that use the political term "Ireland" quite validly refer to the Republic, were it is the lawful term.


 * Agree. Filiocht 09:40, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Moreover having said this articles that contain the political term Ireland - for instance "List of Ireland-related topics" - whilst they are biased towards the Republic links to Northern articles should not be subordinate, nonexistant or discouraged. Any reorgaisation should not distract from creating quality, informative articles on the modern Ireland. Caution and patient are due... Djegan 21:15, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Agree. Filiocht 09:40, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Removing items from the requests for review
The list of articles that "would appreciate review" is growing and we have no consensus on when to remove articles from it. Do people think that the person who made the request should be the person to remove it? Or should a person who has thouroughly reviewed it be able to remove it from the list? I like the idea of noting when you review an article in the list, particularly whether you checked prose or fact (or both). I propose that people make such notes and, when the original requester sees them and decides its been seen by enough eyes (or heard by enough ears for those using screen-readers) he/she should remove his/her listing.
 * I'd say that the requester removes, and ask that they do so regularly. Filiocht 12:18, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Agreed their is a problem - the whole to do list has grown out of control somewhat (even some of my own entries should be removed in retrospect, and have not been even edited). Whoever wants should remove the articles but perhaps taking the date into account, e.g. one-weeks entry maximum. Also keep annotations (just rationale of inclusion in list) to a minimum or place on articles talk. Obviously if no one follows up a article within a few days then its "fine" or not interesting enough - no insult intended but interest is relative! Djegan 21:30, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Agree. Filiocht 09:40, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Yellow Pack
Who invented it?

There was a comment here on the main Yellow Pack page (e.g. the wrong place) stating that a UK supermarket somehow connected to Quinnsworth called "Fine Fare" invented the term Yellow Pack. I've never heard of them in all the time I've lived in Ireland or the UK. Also, I'm almost certain that I've read Maurice Pratt confirming the Yellow Pack as a Quinnsworth invention.

The first Google hit for Yellow Pack is a rip of the page from here onto another site, so thats not much help... Google UK'ing Fine Fare or Yellow Pack doesn't bring up much either, and Googling the whole web for "Fine Fare" brings up a New York supermarket chain.

Safe to say it was Ireland that invented this terminology?


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Yellow_Pack&diff=6051050&oldid=5624519 is the posting that I removed. Amazing how a "larger sister" could vanish so well in just a few years, when Quinnsworths domain is even still around.

Kiand 22:32, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Do you remember also KVI? (Keenest Value in Ireland was it?) Also Five Star. St. Bernards of course continues to this day (a copy of St. Michaels, the Marks+Sparks own brand). We now have "Tesco value" and "Tesco finest". Perhaps all should be covered together in an Irish supermarket own brands article, with Yellow Pack etc. redirring rather than being a series of stubs. zoney &#09827; talk 23:35, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I do remember KVI, and the amazingly shortlived Five Star. Does anyone else remember Homestead and ShopLocal, the ownbrands/almost attempts at franchises in the early 1990's? Kiand 23:39, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Do you remember Yellow Pack lager? Yurcch!Palmiro 00:43, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Sadly, I remember all these. And now we have Superquinn's Euroshopper . Filiocht 09:40, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Ah, but Euroshopper isn't just Superquinn, its paneuropean - one chain per country. Hence the German/French/etc on the packages.

Irish theatre is the featured article on the Main page today
Just felt I wanted to tell someone: I started this article under my previous username. Filiocht 10:39, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Stub for Ireland?
I have no idea how to do this, but wouldn't a stub message for Ireland related articles be useful? or something? Seabhcan 15:51, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Well we don't want to go overboard with this irish community idea and form a clique... :-) J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 19:02, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I think most Irish-related topics will be within a particular stub group, e.g. geo-stub. Simply adding an Irish-related category should be enough. I agree with Ludraman, we don't want to go too far! zoney &#09827; talk 19:25, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree. Using categories seems fine. Filiocht 07:40, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * The fact that the Irish users can almost single handedly get a Featured Article voted in suggests we may have already formed our own clique, Ludraman.


 * There would be advantages to having a as a sub-category to  (if such a thing is possible).  has hundreds of articles in it, so many that its impossible to browse it for articles you might contribute to. But I accept that we should avoid forming a clique. Seabhcan 14:29, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

National Monuments
Until recently National Monument hosted an article about US National Monuments (since moved to National monument (U.S.)). Now as we all know from the M50 débacle, National Monuments exist in Ireland too. An article National monument (Ireland), Irish national monuments or National monuments of Ireland. I have no idea what are some of the main National Monuments, what status they have (evidently one can build motorways over them no bother), or how many there are. Any input? zoney &#09827; talk 20:04, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Wasn't that "débacle" about a heritage site? Also related are listed buildings (which is currently about UK listed buildings). &#8212;Rory &#9786; 16:03, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)


 * Office of Public Works for the photo?


 * Doesn't the OPW/Duchas/WhateverTheHellItsCalledThisWeek have a listing of all its public sites? Any site it has public is definately a "national monument" - its important enough for the state to own, maintain and make public. Then again, some would called Lissadell a national monument, or Trinity, etc. A boundary has to be set somewhere, so chosing the state-owned sites might be a good idea.


 * I could always ask Ewan (Zoney knows what I'm talking about here :-) ) for his interpretation. Probably not the best idea though...


 * Kiand 17:30, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Here is a place to start Google Search: &quot;National Monument&quot; site:irishstatutebook.ie, but you will have to do some sorting and twalling, its not very extensive. This page at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government > National Monuments Service also might be useful (methinks their is a government conspiracy to be vague). Also a database is included at GIS Heritage Data for Ireland > National Monuments website. Djegan 18:18, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

PdPhoto
PD Photo has an Irish category that is quite large. I've been trying to find use for some of the photos there; perhaps someone can help me, and perhaps it will inspire to write more articles about Irish geography. &#9999; Sverdrup 20:43, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Moving to-do list
I propose we move the to-do list to this page's talk page. This would allow it to be a longer list of all Irish pages needing attention. People OK with this? J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 15:51, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I propose something different. We move THIS (discussion) page, to the talk page, and leave the todo list on the main page. Would that be better? It'd be best done as an actual move, not just cut and paste, so as we preserve the page history. zoney &#09827; talk 16:50, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Still, isn't a todo list meant to be a "behind-the-scenes" thing on the talk page? Personally I think this page is more important. The to-do list could be a huge list of Irish pages needing attention and extra special pages like ICOTWs etc could be discussed here. J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 17:01, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Maybe a vote? J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 17:41, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps we could simply remove the todo list from this page and leave it as it is on its own subpage? &#8212;Rory &#9786; 19:00, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thats fine with me, but I think the talk page would be easier and it isn't ever used anyway (obviously). Plus its the norm to put todo lists on talk pages. J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 19:10, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy with a move to the Talk page. Filiocht 11:28, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Folks, I hate to say this, but the way things are now (with discussion sections here and the to-do-list on the talk page) really does strike me as the "wrong way around". Ropers 04:09, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * On reflection, I am inclined to agree. I think it would make sense to land on this page and see the work that needs doing and then discuss it on the Talk page. I'd also keep the link to the ICOTW discussion here. What does anyone else think? Do you want to move it round? Filiocht 07:31, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC) Just noticed that the Aussie notice board does ith the way Ropers suggests. Filiocht 08:12, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * If people are in agreement to move this page to the Talk page, and put the to-do list here, I shall do the appropriate page juggling (the current talk page needs deleted first, to allow a move of this page to there). Just give a shout on my talk page. zoney &#09827; talk 11:09, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Umbrella category
Is there any umbrella "Irish stuff" category of which all other Irish categories (like Category:Irish cuisine, Category:Irish Newspapers) would be subcategories. I think this would be very useful. J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 17:41, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Category:Culture of Ireland? &#8212;Rory &#9786; 18:55, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * Category:Ireland? Filiocht 11:28, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Obviously, yes, for an overall umbrella. But I think the specific categories mentioned should go in Category:Culture of Ireland which itself should be under Category:Ireland. &#8212;Rory &#9786; 11:37, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Irish culture exists. By the way, I'm undoing the fact that Category:Ireland was made a disambig category. Filiocht 12:12, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I've added those cats to Category:Irish culture and done a bit of trying to rationalise the cats in Category:Ireland. A lot more could be done. Filiocht 13:25, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Cabinet reshuffle
What needs changing for the cabinet reshuffle? J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 16:14, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Any effected ministers that lead from Template:GovernmentofIreland, also recent ministers may need their articles changed - anything else ? Djegan 20:09, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Subcats of Cat:Ire
Would subcategories of Cat:Ireland such as Geography of Ireland, History of Ireland, Politics of Ireland etc. be useful? I haven't seen any so far. J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 17:01, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * This might be useful to consider: WP:CFD. Djegan 20:12, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Notice board a success
It seems our (Ludraman's) notice board idea is catching on! See List of Wikipedian notice boards :-) zoney &#09827; talk 17:12, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, you know imitation is the most sincere form of flattery! J OHN C OLLISON | (Ludraman) 18:35, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)