Talk:Oylegate

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This village is not in List of towns in the Republic of Ireland.

It is now. Sarah777 (talk) 01:52, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

census

someone should really update the census section. 202? there that many people in the school now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Techo (talk • contribs) 08:30, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Done. It's at 324 now which indicates two things; (1) the population has increased by a whopping 50% in four years and (2) that two-thirds of all Oylgatians are in the school! Sarah777 (talk) 11:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Which St. David?

The article states "The village's patron saint is Saint David". Is this saint definitely the Welsh one, as in the linked article, or one of several possible others - see Saint David (disambiguation) for a partial list? --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 18:49, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. Jenks24 (talk) 11:33, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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Oylegate → Oilgate – The article states that the latter name is official and this spelling appears on the pictured sign. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 08:04, 15 July 2012 (UTC) —  AjaxSmack  03:46, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

• Oilgate → Oilgate (scandal) Thanks User:In ictu oculi for pointing out the oversight. —  AjaxSmack  01:19, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Survey

• Oppose From Wikipedia:Article titles#Common names, "The most common name for a subject, as determined by its prevalence in reliable English-language sources, is often used as a title because it is recognizable and natural." The picture of the plaque on the school shows "Oylegate", and the caption states that this is the generally accepted local spelling. I find that, where a village in Ireland can possibly be spelt in other ways, it usually is, so a variant like "Oilgate" is not surprising in some sources. A Google search on Oylegate brings up a lot of results, and even Google Maps has "Oylegate"—A bit iffy (talk) 06:56, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Do you have evidence that "Oylegate" is more common? Ordnance Survey Ireland also uses "Oilgate". —  AjaxSmack  20:39, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
• Comment. The Irish Times has 1,470 (51 deghosted) hits for Oylegate site:www.irishtimes.com, 608 (37 deghosted) for Oilgate site:www.irishtimes.com. On GBooks, there are 55 (23 deghosted) post-1990 English-language hits for Oylegate Wexford -Oilgate, 46 (20 deghosted) for Oilgate Wexford -Oylegate. New Catholic Encyclopedia gives "Oylegate", but Frommer's and Fodor's give "Oilgate". GeoNames gives both spellings, see here and here. Kauffner (talk) 09:46, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

• Support. The Central Statistics Office uses "Oilgate", so that's apparently official. There are 22 (17 deghosted) results for Oilgate Wexford site:www.cso.ie, zero for "Oylegate" Wexford site:www.cso.ie. Kauffner (talk) 10:59, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose it's pretty evident that whatever Dublin thinks there's some local support for the spelling which makes it clear that the original Bearna na hAille has nothing to do with petroleum nor scandals in South Africa. A nice little example example of a village (and the Irish Times, the only book on Oylegate, the local football club etc.) preferring a disambiguating name. Also, what would Oilgate be moved to? Oilgate (scandal)? In ictu oculi (talk) 03:48, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• That's a good point. The proposed form should be amended to Oilgate, County Wexford, per Category:Towns_and_villages_in_County_Wexford. On the County Wexford site, there are 234 examples for Oylegate site:www.wexford.ie, 460 for Oilgate site:www.wexford.ie. Kauffner (talk) 15:54, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• Any example of the people of Oylegate using "Oilgate"? In ictu oculi (talk) 00:22, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

• It looks like the planning applications are made up by residents. There's 206 (184 deghosted) applications with "Oilgate" (Oilgate site:www.wexford.ie/wex/Departments/Planning/), 180 (161 deghosted) for "Oylegate" (Oylegate site:www.wexford.ie/wex/Departments/Planning/). Kauffner (talk) 06:06, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Kauffner, what might be unreliable about that source compared to the Irish Times? In ictu oculi (talk) 09:26, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Didn't you ask for examples of usage by residents? Usage on the Irish Times site is 51 to 37. They obviously don't know how it's spelled. Kauffner (talk) 10:10, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes. And now I'm asking what might be unreliable about that source compared to the Irish Times. We've had this kind of source come up before in RMs and there should be a note somewhere, on WP:IRS perhaps, about the problems when relying on government application forms. Even if I was a Gaeilge speaker, if I was making a planning application I would use Dublin's name for the village. Hence that isn't a reliable source. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:37, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Discussion

• The South African scandal got 581 pages views in the last 90 days, while the Irish village got 568. Kauffner (talk) 03:31, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

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