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Counties

Is it common practice, though? I've seen very few biographies that include counties in the infobox, and the only time I ever include them is if the article contains minimal prose, e.g. Christian Fox. Mattythewhite (talk) 12:22, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

@Mattythewhite: unfortunately there is quite a lot of inconsistency in biographical articles. Some include it, some don't. Others include UK whilst others don't, even though the common norm is not to include UK. However per Template:Infobox_person#Parameters the following should be given: city, administrative region, country. In regards to Northern Ireland country means NI not UK, thus the next step down is NI divisions. Obviously counties aren't used anymore as administrative regions in Northern Ireland however they are still the most commonly used unit amongst the people and even local government. Any look at a biographical articles on someone from NI will state the county they are from in prose and/or infobox, not the local government unit. So yes counties should be included. Mabuska ^(talk) 23:01, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

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