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Dublin Shield

I have reverted your change to the Dublin shield as the one originally used is intended as only a shield with none of the extras (simple but clear) and also intended to complement the other cities in Ireland articles with similar layout. Djegan 21:09, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have reverted the Waterford article for the same reasonas above. If you believe that their is reason for substitution of logos then i recommend that you present your reasons at Wikipedia talk:Irish Wikipedians' notice board in the first instance for discussion. Djegan 21:29, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dublin

Common consensus among Irish Wikipedians was that for cities, we were to remain with traditional counties rather than current administrative ones. Therefore the maps being used are with county Dublin rather than the current administrative Counties.

I have reverted your changes to Skerries and Swords. If you would like this to change, please direct this desire to the Irish Wikipedians board. ℬastique▼^talk 14:26, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Please try discussion

The Irish Wikipedians' notice board is a good place to bring these matters up. There is another solution besides making a broad-based change to a template that works very well for every other city. ℬastique▼^talk 14:55, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Images

Hi. You need to tag the images you upload. Wikipedia:Image Copyright Tags has a list of them. The Irish government doesn't release stuff into the public domain. The size or quality doesn't negate copyright issues. Please tag municipal crests/logos with {{Coatofarms}}. Thanks. Secretlondon 12:38, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

I've tagged all the crests/logos for you (the ones you uploaded anyway). We need to know the license we are using the photographs under. Thanks Secretlondon 13:00, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

County Dublin/Dublin Region

I have made changes to the County Dublin article, in addition Dublin Region points to the former. I hope you can agree with the changes as it is obvious that County Dublin is no more, and yet still, I believe both can be presented in a consistent, accurate article that reflects the historical and modern realities. My rational for the changes is on Talk:County Dublin, and I would be grateful if you raised any questions/comments their before radical change or reversion. Djegan 22:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the better map, reupload it as Image:Map of the Dublin Region.png - it will take wikipedia a few hours to update and will over write my file - its not worth creating duplicates and also gives a history of the file. Djegan 19:37, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

I made some remarks on the debate here about the fact that there seems to be no coverage in Wikipedia of the Irish regional government structure; feeble though it is, I think it deserves coverage. Do you think it would be worth having articles on the various regions, or one article on the system, or any other thoughts? Palmiro | Talk 17:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Regional government in Ireland

Yes, the map is good, though I don't like that shade of red! One possible problem is that the pattern you have chosen for Northern Ireland has a slightly dazzling effect on my screen. I suppose for the article title either "Regions of the Republic of Ireland" or, my preference, "regional government in the Republic of Ireland". Palmiro | Talk 11:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Malahide

I noticed you recent edit of Malahide where you changed the infobox data showing Malahide as being in County Dublin to being in County Fingal. You are of course aware there are only 32 counties in Ireland (26 in the republic) and County Fingal is not one of them. I also saw that in the intro text it was you who originally changed the reasonably correct wording to indicate the same County Fingal assertion. [1]

My feeling is that it should, more accurately, state something like this: Malahide (from the Irish Mullach Íde) is a picturesque suburban village of Dublin City located in the administrative county of Fingal, a subdivision of County Dublin, Ireland.

IMHO the infobox should also be reverted to show the town in its correct county, however the Fingal county image could stay as that shows the subdivision of County Dublin correctly. Your thoughts? Cheers ww2censor 14:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I see that you have done similarly for Balbriggan. ww2censor 14:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

That is all very interesting about the counties but I understand that the 1984 Republic of Ireland Act that defines the 26 counties of Ireland still is the dominant law and that the three counties are only administrative, but until I can find better info to counter your erudite argument I concede to you better knowledge. However, despite there new counties I have never heard anyone saying there are 29 counties in the Republic. I must ask a friend who is a barrister what the legal standing is of these 3 counties. BTW, I did not make any changes, I just made the comments as I was not really sure about the standing of there counties. Cheers ww2censor 03:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Counties of Ireland

Hey, no problem. I did mean 1948, well actually 1949 not 1984. Unfortunately my barrister friend is not too good on the email replies but I will ask his opinion. He is particularly good on the nuances of Irish historical stuff. Thanks ww2censor 17:14, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

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