Wikipedia:Irish wikipedians' notice board/ICOTW/previous

This is a list of all the previous ICOTWs and their discussions. The most recent nominations are at the top.

Electricity Supply Board (3)

Very little information relative to what could be written about it - there's enough to make it a FA. CGorman 16:51, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Support. JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 18:37, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Support this and/or the Rural Electrification Scheme - which was pretty major socially to the country. Kiand 16:16, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Rivers of Ireland (3)

This whole area needs a lot of work. Perhaps some standard river maps? Zoney, you did some stellar work on the county and city maps, want to take up the challenge of the rivers?

Helpful links

• River Lee (Ireland)
• River Corrib
• River Shannon
• River Suir
• River Nore
• River Barrow, and more from List of rivers in Ireland.
• Hydroelectricity in Ireland
  • Ardnacrusha
• Canals of Ireland

• Good Examples
  • Rhine
  • Amazon River

Perhaps also, each river article should include links to the towns on its banks. Maybe in a nice table format. See also the Talk page. Seabhcán 00:20, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Support. I had thought previously of nominating an area as ICOTW because it offers more choice on what to edit. I like this idea. JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 18:37, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Support. zoney ♣ talk 18:50, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Belfast (2)

Compared to the other Irish city articles, it is quite pathetic, especially considering the amount there is to say about it, even minus the Troubles. No stub, but there's only an unsorted general introduction, brief history section and a boring politics section (recent/electoral areas). The infobox is ugly and needs cleaned up, with a photo and map to be added. Photos in general are needed. zoney ♣ talk 00:02, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Agreed - most of the Northern Ireland city articles are "dark" and revolve around the troubles too much. Djegan 19:13, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Architecture in Ireland (2)

Nice and broad, I am sure we all know something on this. A good structure will be needed, but boy is there plenty to write about! From early Christian Ireland to the British era, to the mid-20th century demolitions and the recent Celtic Tiger modern developments. Wow. Where to begin?! I see this as an ideal ICOTW - though depending on how long Irish Wikipedians are online during the week, and how quickly the article develops - this may need two weeks. There's enough to write articles for each city (even towns?) nevermind the country as a whole! See Architecture of Limerick. zoney ♣ talk 12:27, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Good choice, but I'd say at least two weeks. Filiocht 13:36, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Sport in Ireland (3)

Created the beginnings of the article, but loads to do. This is following Zoney's (good) penchant for broader articles. Loads to write about, and everyone must know something. JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 22:49, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Absolutely support - excellent article for ICOTW. CGorman 15:05, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 14:09, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Cuisine of Ireland (5)

Quite abysmal really. Again going for my preference of focussing on broader articles that really need attention :-) zoney ♣ talk 11:25, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• • Agree. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 22:27, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Support. (only if TV3 and TG4 are done first!) CGorman 20:42, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • NeoJustin 02:46, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Sarge Baldy 16:13, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

TV3 Ireland & TG4 (3)

2 out of the 4 main channels in Ireland have stub articles - noting really about Hector, Ratings figures, market share, RTE/TV3 advertising battle, etc. --CGorman 20:52, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Support. This looks like something more likely to get knowledgeable contributions. It should also be reasonably easy to source information about media companies. —Rory ☺ 21:49, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, good candidates. May have problems getting images. Filiocht 08:17, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

Comment

I think (if possible) the articles List of TG4 Programming and List of TV3 (Ireland) Programming would also be worth creating, like is already done for RTE. CGorman 18:08, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

While we are at it rename "TV3 (Ireland)" to "TV3 Ireland" - it is largely the companies name on an international scale and to a lesser extent domestically anyway. Djegan 20:33, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I've just moved the page to TV3 Ireland. CGorman 12:27, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ireland (3)

I'd suggest Geography of Ireland (apply all that recent J. Cert geography?) this week, Junior Cert next week and Ireland the week after that. What does anyone think?? Filiocht 11:42, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. —Rory ☺ 11:46, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

Agree. zoney ♣ talk 12:26, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Aren't iCOTW candidates meant to be stubs? I know Ireland isn't. JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 12:34, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

They're not "meant" to be anything, just articles many Irish contributers can work on; articles that could (should) be better than they are. The COTW are all stubs when nominated, but I don't see why our project should match that one identically. I certainly think that such a general article as Ireland needs to be feature-quality considering the input the Irish Wikipedians project gets. —Rory ☺ 13:15, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I agree with Rory. zoney ♣ talk 13:20, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

That said, Geography of Ireland and Junior Cert are stubs. Personally I think the Ireland (or any country article, for that matter) page should be a flagship for a project like Wikipedia. Filiocht 13:47, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Junior Cert (2)

• I went to see what the Junior Cert article was like and I am appalled. Maybe this nomination is biased 'cos I'm still on the Junior Cert course but there is so much more to be said. My contributions will be very anti JC obviously :). Maybe a pic of people biting their nails would be a good illustration of the atmosphere before the exam... Anyway I'll stop rambling. JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 10:36, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Support JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 10:36, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • I'm not sure the Junior Certificate is that easy for people other than students and teachers to write about. I'd favour covering the more general articles first like Ireland, Geography of Ireland, Politics of Ireland (currently a redirect but I think it could be a seperate article to both Politics of the Republic of Ireland and Politics of Northern Ireland). —Rory ☺ 10:55, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
    • Still, the JC is a major part of life for any Irish 13-15 year old and I'm sure a lot of Irish Wikipedians will remember it well. JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 11:59, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Support - I just finished my JC (8 A's, 3 B's!) and have plenty to say about it. If theres a lack of support, i'll still give John a hand if he wants it. --CGorman 17:00, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

After adding a few things to the JC earlier this week, I found myself quoting the LC constantly - I wonder should next weeks collaboration be the JC & LC instead of just the JC? They are so closely linked. --CGorman 18:50, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Geography of Ireland

• In the absence of other nominations, and because I didn't see anything in the todo list that I thought everyone could easily contribute to, I nominate Geography of Ireland for next week, which should be accessible to any editor with an Irish primary school education (if anyone remembers back that far) or a bit of light reading. I would like to remove the redirect and make this an article about the island as a whole. List objections below if you have any. —Rory ☺ 13:57, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Support. Filiocht 14:09, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Support. No need for the redirect to Geography of RoI of course, it should be the other way around. zoney ♣ talk 15:13, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Went on to be featured.