Users may be aware that an editor has, in recent months, changed the names of scores of GAA categories and articles without engaging in discussion at the respective talk pages, even when expressly invited to do so, and has reverted any reversions of that change. After many, at times acrimonious, exchanges an admin has insisted that an attempt be made to resolve matters by consensus at this page, and in the interim, has threatened to block edits on these matters. The GAA articles and categories are thus effectively frozen in different styles. I begin this discussion by seeking consensus on two issues.

Views are sought on the following proposals. For ease of reading, please respond below rather than in the body of this posting. I present the two issues as proposals which, for the avoidance of doubt, I support. They could of course have been presented differently but one editor has to initiate this discussion.

(1) All articles on intra-county GAA competitions should continue to be named according to the common name of the competition, thus "Armagh Intermediate Football Championship", "Wicklow Senior Hurling Championship" etc. without the insertion of "GAA" after the county name, and without the (transient) sponsor name, unless cases emerge where there is a real possibility of confusion with another sporting competition;

(2) All categories covering people who have played on inter-county GAA teams should continue to be named in the long-established format ["GAA county name" "footballers/hurlers/camogie players/etc."], e.g. "Tipperary footballers", "Wexford camogie players", "Derry hurlers" etc., reflecting the fact that the team name is the name of the GAA county (e.g. Tipperary) without either the addition of "GAA" ("Tipperary GAA hurlers"), or diversion to sub-categories relating to modern administrative counties ("North Tipperary", "South Tipperary", "Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown" etc.). The same would apply to generic categories such as "Sportspeople from County Tipperary": a sportsperson who played on a representative team for his/her GAA county would be listed in the traditional 32-county category rather than in the modern administrative subdivision.

Please indicate below whether you Support or Oppose (1) and (2). While anyone can make alternative proposals on these two issues, I request that comments be kept brief (and polite) for the benefit of admins who will have to assess the outcome. Brocach (talk) 23:25, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for opening this discussion. It was I who suggested a further attempt at reaching consensus - and also I who has promised to block anyone making and/or reverting any such categories until this consensus is reached. Please report any infractions to my talk page if you'd like me to carry through on this. I don't think you will need an admin or anyone else to judge whether a consensus has been reached, but if you do and people want to ask me I will certainly give my opinion. I won't be supporting or opposing any proposals here - that's for you folks who know the topic to do. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 00:14, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Could you split question 1 into two questions? You have accidental put two subjects (County name & sponsor name) into one question making the question useless. The same with question 2, where you have put two subjects (name of sport county & name of county where a sporter hails from) into one question making the question useless. The Banner talk 00:33, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hang on. In relation to sponsor names, which can change every year, are you actually proposing that in Wikipedia coverage of county championships, there must be a new article created on every occasion when the locally arranged sponsorship changes, in order to incorporate the name of the current sponsor in Wikipedia article titles? I had thought that my proposal that the article should carry the generic name - e.g. "Cork Senior Hurling Championship" - was uncontroversial, but if anyone thinks that a new article must be created every time that a new sponsor comes on board, please feel free to argue for that below.

As for the idea that "Kerry hurlers" etc. needs disambiguation between "men who hurl and come from Kerry" and "men who hurl and hurl for Kerry", I don't think that's a huge problem. There may be men who hurl for Kerry and come from Antrim - I can't think of any at the moment - and there may be men who come from Kerry and hurl for Antrim - stumped again - but in both cases, we are only talking about categories, and one man or one "sporter" (a new word for me, thanks) can easily fit in more than one category. Brocach (talk) 01:03, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What I suggest is plain this:

Question 1: Should the name of GAA competitions incorporate sponsor names?

Question 2: Should the name of GAA competitions incorporate the official name of the county (i.e. "county name" GAA "competition name)? Oppose if you prefer the popular name of the competition (i.e. "county name" "competition name)? Or the other way round, if you prefer that

Question 3: All categories covering people who have played on inter-county GAA teams should use a name according to the format ["GAA county name" "footballers/hurlers/camogie players/etc."]? Oppose if you prefer the format ["county name" GAA "footballers/hurlers/camogie players/etc."]? Or the other way round, if you prefer that

So far, no real changes in the questions expect split off and neutralisation of the questions. But the last part of the old question works out a bit different:

Question 4: Are categories about the county where a sports person is living related to the GAA-county? Oppose if you think it should be related to the geographical/administrative county they are living in? Example: is Paul Flynn (Gaelic footballer) a sports person from Dublin (plays county football for Dublin GAA) or from Fingal (he lives in Swords, Dublin, in the administrative county Fingal)

On all four question you can now say yes or no. The Banner talk 01:45, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Support (1) and Support (2) RashersTierney (talk) 02:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE WAIT WITH VOTING TILL WE HAVE AGREED ON THE QUESTIONS TO ASK. AFTER THREE YEARS OF TROUBLE, A DAY MORE DOES NOT MATTER.— Preceding unsigned comment added by The Banner (talk • contribs) 02:26, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose 1 & 2 - Whether we are ready to proceed or not, the insertion of "GAA" afterwards makes it abundantly clear what exactly they are referring to. The proposals for exclusion of "GAA" in my view is simply so that "Derry GAA hurlers" etc. can be listed as simply "Derry hurlers" in clear attempts to bypass IMoS - and before Scolaire and brocach try to say how is it being violated - it only says usually abbreviated to [[Derry GAA|Derry]] <- this does not work with categories and article titles. Mabuska ^(talk) 09:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• In regards to TheBanner's valid points, a proposal that Derry GAA be exempt from Brocach's proposals should be made. Mabuska ^(talk) 09:39, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

a rare occasion but I agree with Mabuska here. I think articles of this nature should be appended with 'GAA'. Adding 'GAA' does not detract from the article or its content, only adding clarity. Ask yourself, does adding 'GAA' detract from the article? The answer is *NO.Factocop (talk) 09:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal 1:

Titles of articles on intra-county GAA competitions should not have "GAA" inserted after the county name, i.e. "X Intermediate Football Championship", not ""X GAA Intermediate Football Championship", unless cases emerge where there is a real possibility of confusion with another sporting competition.

Support

1. Scolaire (talk) 10:44, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. Gnevin (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. Brocach (talk) 12:43, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. Hohenloh ⁺ 14:06, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
5. HighKing (talk) 16:57, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
6. Finnegas (talk) 21:48, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
7. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:28, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
8. Qetuth (talk) 13:49, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
9. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:57, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. Funny ^Pika! 18:32, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
11. Snappy (talk) 01:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
12. Staberinde (talk) 11:45, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
13. RashersTierney (talk) 19:08, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

1. Unless Derry is exempted then I can't back this proposal. Mabuska ^(talk) 12:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. As per Mabuska. — Jon C.^ॐ 14:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. The Banner talk 12:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. Common sense. Oppose.Factocop (talk) 09:50, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Per COMMONNAME, the articles should have the same names as the competitions themselves. All talk about the difference between "GAA counties", "traditional counties" and "administrative counties" is hair-splitting. There is no real possibility of confusion. Scolaire (talk) 10:44, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal 2:

Titles of articles on intra-county GAA competitions should not include the (transient) sponsor name, unless cases emerge where there is a real possibility of confusion with another sporting competition.

Support

1. Scolaire (talk) 10:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. Gnevin (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. Mabuska ^(talk) 12:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. The Banner talk 12:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
5. Brocach (talk) 12:43, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
6. — Jon C.^ॐ 14:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
7. Hohenloh ⁺ 14:07, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
8. HighKing (talk) 16:57, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
9. Finnegas (talk) 21:49, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. Weak support. Laurel Lodged (talk) 23:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
11. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:28, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
12. Qetuth (talk) 13:58, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
13. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:45, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
14. Funny ^Pika! 18:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
15. Snappy (talk) 01:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
16. Staberinde (talk) 11:46, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
17. RashersTierney (talk) 19:09, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Discussion

Many of these articles are left untouched for years. I myself have had occasion to remove a sponsor's name several years after they withdrew their sponsorship. Scolaire (talk) 10:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This does not outrule the possibility that the lead might incorporate the sponsored name as "(also known as Foo Widgets Intergalactic Handball Face Off)" in the lead. Laurel Lodged (talk) 23:30, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Am mindful of the Aviva Stadium controversy. If that's what they want to call it, and they trouser the money from the sponsor, who are we to gainsay them? Can they realy have jam on both sides? Laurel Lodged (talk) 23:34, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Naming issues of buildings is not in the scope of the present set of questions under discussion. The Banner talk 12:23, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As LL says, this should not rule out mention in the lead as appropriate, nor redirects as appropriate. --Qetuth (talk) 13:58, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal 3:

Titles of categories of people who have played on inter-county GAA teams should not have "GAA" inserted after the county name, i.e. "X hurlers", not "X GAA hurlers"; "X Gaelic footballers", not "X GAA Gaelic footballers". [note: second example added for clarity, 09:50, 3 February 2013 (UTC)]

Support

1. Scolaire (talk) 10:47, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. Gnevin (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. Brocach (talk) 12:44, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. Finnegas (talk) 21:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
5. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:29, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
6. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:47, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
7. Snappy (talk) 01:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
8. HighKing (talk) 13:46, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
9. RashersTierney (talk) 19:12, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

1. Unless Derry is exempted then I can't back this proposal. Mabuska ^(talk) 12:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. As per Mabuska. — Jon C.^ॐ 14:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. The Banner talk 12:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. 'X Gaelic Footballers' is fine and pretty obvious but I think 'X Hurlers' should be appended with GAA as it is a minority sport with little global following.Factocop (talk) 09:54, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Per COMMONNAME. Alan Brogan is not known as a "Dublin GAA Gaelic footballer" but as a "Dublin Gaelic footballer" or just as a "Dublin footballer". There is no real danger of confusion, therefore no need for disambiguation. Scolaire (talk) 10:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In every case, including Derry, the name of the team that inter-county players play or played for is the county name without the addition of "GAA". To make a special case of Derry would be to import a political issue into a sporting context where it simply isn't an issue - there has never been a Londonderry GAA, while Derry as a GAA county has been around for more than a century and its name is simply a fact. Some people may dislike the name but Wikipedia does not have an opinion about it; if anyone finds terms like "Derry footballers" or "Derry hurlers" somehow controversial or offensive, they should probably avoid articles about Ulster GAA matters and/or up the strength of their medication. Brocach (talk) 20:23, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a problem with Derry being used in the title. I just find that the proposal is not worded to avoid confusion with other sports (i.e. association football and Derry City FC), unlike the previous two. Ideally, categories should be kept as "Derry Gaelic footballers". Funny ^Pika! 18:52, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are quite right! And that is how the cats are currently named. Would anybody object if I retrospectively added '"X Gaelic footballers", not "X GAA Gaelic footballers"' to the proposal? Scolaire (talk) 20:03, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal 4:

Articles on people who have played on inter-county GAA teams should be categorised according to the county for which the player played, i.e. "Category: X GAA hurlers" or "Category: X hurlers" should include people who have hurled for X, regardless of their place of birth or residence. Players who have played for more than one county should be included in both county categories. Articles on people who have played on inter-county GAA teams should not be categorised according to the county in which the player was born or the county or counties in which they resided during their playing career.

Support

1. Scolaire (talk) 10:52, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. Gnevin (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. Mabuska ^(talk) 12:04, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. Brocach (talk) 12:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
5. — Jon C.^ॐ 14:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
6. Hohenloh ⁺ 14:15, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
7. HighKing (talk) 17:26, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
8. Finnegas (talk) 21:52, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
9. See Proposal 7 below also. Laurel Lodged (talk) 23:37, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
11. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:31, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
12. Funny ^Pika! 19:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
13. Snappy (talk) 01:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
14. Staberinde (talk) 11:47, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
15. RashersTierney (talk) 19:12, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

1. The Banner talk 14:14, 5 February 2013 (UTC) as it are two different questions presented as one question[reply]

Discussion

• Carlow hurlers are people who hurl for Carlow. It is never used in any other sense. In most cases Gaelic players play for the county of their birth/residence anyway. The exceptions are too few to cause confusion. Scolaire (talk) 10:47, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Strange question with two different subjects. Impossible to answer on this. The Banner talk 12:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• The proposal as it currently stands contains two premises. It's possible to vote for one but not the other. For clarity, the second premise should be deleted ("Articles on people who have played on inter-county GAA teams should not be categorised according to the county in which the player was born or the county or counties in which they resided during their playing career."). If liked, it could be the subject of an indedepdent proposal. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:27, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Just clarifying, this means that a 'hurler' category should itself never be a subcategory of a 'sportspeople from' category? And is it intended to apply to all GAA countries worldwide, or just those in Ireland? --Qetuth (talk) 13:47, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • The category for people who pay any sport for a county team (County Foo) should always be a sub-category of Category:Sportspeople from County Foo.
    Per WP:CAT#Overview, categories exist to facilitate navigation, and it is a navigational nonsense to exclude Category:Foo Hurlers and Category:Foo Gaelic Footballers from Category:Sportspeople from County Foo. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:37, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • Doesn't this conflict with Proposal 5 in that case? And this is not widespread elsewhere: It appears most team sports (I checked baseball, soccer, basketball and rugby league) use something like Category:Major League Baseball players by team or Category:Rugby league players by club which are not children of the "from foo" structure. And I believe rightly so, as in most cases playing for a team does not necessarily convey 'fromness' to al players, and that is something better added to players individually. I thought this proposal was clarifying that Category:Hurlers by county in the Republic of Ireland was another sports equivalent to these trees, which I would support. --Qetuth (talk) 01:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      • The proposal itself does not conflict with Proposal 5. This proposal merely says that the article on the player should be categorised according to what team he or she plays for. The question of subcats is not on the agenda in this discussion. If it is to be raised, it should be raised after this discussion is done. Scolaire (talk) 10:03, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal 5:

In any of the above cases, the county in question should be the GAA county, not the "current administrative" county, i.e. "Tipperary", not "South Tipperary"; "Dublin", not "Fingal".

Support

1. Scolaire (talk) 13:26, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. Gnevin (talk) 13:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. — Jon C.^ॐ 14:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. Hohenloh ⁺ 14:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
5. HighKing (talk) 16:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
6. Finnegas (talk) 21:53, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
7. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
8. Brocach (talk) 16:24, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
9. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:38, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. Funny ^Pika! 19:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
11. Snappy (talk) 01:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
12. Staberinde (talk) 11:48, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
13. Mabuska ^(talk) 20:54, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
14. RashersTierney (talk) 19:13, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

1. The Banner talk 14:16, 5 February 2013 (UTC) because of the dodgy question 4, the only thing left is to oppose[reply]

Discussion

• Self-evident in my opinion. Even if a Gaelic player hails from a different county to the one in which he plays, it is the GAA county that matters, not the "administrative division". Scolaire (talk) 13:26, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Without a clear question 4, impossible to answer. The Banner talk 12:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• This proposal is poorly worded. It should stand on its own ground. It should not be dependent on another proposal. Were the second term of the previous proposal ("Articles on people who have played on inter-county GAA teams should not be categorised according to the county in which the player was born or the county or counties in which they resided during their playing career.) removed, then unambiguous voting could take place. Until then, it's impossible to know what a vote really means. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • LL, I think that you are the only editor who might be interested in creating Category:Fingal hurlers or Category:South Tipperary hurlers. For the rest of us, there is no issue here. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:42, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal 6:

Derry GAA should be exempted from all the above proposals, and IMoS should be amended to clarify as such.

Support

1. Mabuska ^(talk) 11:52, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. — Jon C.^ॐ 14:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 15:04, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. The Banner talk 12:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
5. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:22, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
6. Common sense. Can see no sensical reason for opposing this, unless there is a hidden agenda here.Factocop (talk) 09:57, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

1. Scolaire (talk) 10:59, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. Gnevin (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. Brocach (talk) 12:47, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
4. Finnegas (talk) 21:54, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
5. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:31, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
6. Qetuth (talk) 14:07, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
7. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:49, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
8. Funny ^Pika! 18:59, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
9. Snappy (talk) 01:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. HighKing (talk) 13:45, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
11. RashersTierney (talk) 19:15, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

The Irish Manual of Style says that Derry GAA will usually be abbreviated to Derry. There is no reason believe that the word "usually" excludes article or category names. Scolaire (talk) 10:59, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The IMoS part that you are referring to that you yourself reworded states "and Derry GAA (which will usually be abbreviated to "[[Derry GAA|Derry]]" - how does this apply to article or category names? In all technicality it doesn't and can only apply to in-text content in an article that is wiki-linked. You will need to propose an amendment to the IMoS that clarifies it to work for you - however I oppose any such possible proposal when the issue when I raised it found 4 editors (including me) agreeing that there needs to be clarification that it shouldn't apply to categories, templates, and hash links etc as opposed to 3 (Scolaire, Gnevin, and Brocach) who disagreed. Mabuska ^(talk) 11:52, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The part I am referring to says "Where an entity uses a particular name, regardless of whether it is Derry or Londonderry, use that name for the entity". It doesn't say "use it in some places and not in others". The Derry team is an entity. It uses the name "Derry". Therefore we use "Derry". If you put a proposal to change that part, and it didn't get a consensus, that's not my fault or anybody else's. Scolaire (talk) 14:04, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In fact the Derry/Derry GAA issue whilst related, as far as I am concerned should not have been put in with this one as the Derry/Derry GAA issue focused on an actual part of the IMoS that lacks clarification and was added in without any discussion or consensus. Mabuska ^(talk) 11:58, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what your issue is with Derry GAA. Can you outline a few samples ? Gnevin (talk) 13:36, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• There is no good reason to exempt Derry. The rules work very well and made sense. People seem to want to makes things more complicated then they need to be.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:32, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  Well actually there is as it would be misleading to just have derry there because it could mislead people into thinking that co. Londonderry is erroniously called co. derry when it is just the name of the GAA county. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 08:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  I don't see a problem as long as the context of the article is within Gaelic games, as per IMOS. For me it's either all the counties follow "Dublin GAA" or "Dublin GAA|Dublin", not just some - else we're just adding pointless politics into the matter. Funny ^Pika! 19:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The infobox for Joe Brolly, to take one example, says that he was born in Dungiven, County Londonderry. There is no question of his GAA career being used to change the name of his county of birth. There is no misleading going on. I don't even see how readers can be misled. "County Londonderry" is a convention used by Wikipedia editors. It is not apparent to readers. Readers cannot be "misled" into thinking the county is called Derry, because it is called Derry by millions of people. There is a long-standing convention that the geographical county is called "Londonderry" on WP, and an equally long-standing convention that the GAA county is called "Derry". This is not a new notion that somebody has sprung upon us in the last few weeks. Scolaire (talk) 20:18, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, that is why I suggested the edit to IMOS in the first place: that Derry GAA was an example of where "Derry" had been used for many years without causing problems. And there is no reason why it should cause problems in the future. Scolaire (talk) 20:48, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In regards to Joe Brolly should it not be in the lede of the article that he is from Dungiven, County Londonderry, NI? Biography articles tend to start along those lines. Mabuska ^(talk) 22:46, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I will post a full reasoning for this proposal later. Mabuska ^(talk) 11:24, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reasoning for this proposal

The problems with the above proposals in regards to the Derry GAA is the obvious fact that it is far too ambiguous especially if used outside of a GAA article. There are two editors who are vocal in their opposition to my proposal, and one of them focuses quite a lot on the term "GAA county". In regards to that:

• I have seen no proof and can find none at present that states the GAA created an entirely separate and distinct county structure of it's own. Rather all I have seen including on Wikipedia is that the GAA based itself on the county system used in Ireland at that time - 32 counties, one of which is officially called Londonderry and has been since it's very creation.
• Obviously the county system has changed since the GAA's formation, with Tipperary being made into North and South, and Dublin not even existing anymore having being split into 3 - yet the GAA didn't change it's structure to follow suit as it isn't bound by government decisions on boundaries and counties.
• After the aims of preserving Ireland's Gaelic sporting past, the GAA is an organisation that extols Irish nationalism, with it deeply embedded to its core, which is evident to this day in the naming of it's clubs, organisations and tournaments. It even split at one time between members who backed constitutional nationalism or militant nationalism. Thus it has always called the county of Londonderry, Derry, as that is what Irish nationalists call it.
• Living in a nationalist majority part of County Londonderry I have spoken to mates and colleagues who have told me explicitly that Derry GAA represents "County Derry" as in County Londonderry not a separate unique creation.

What I'm getting at with the above points is that I have seen no evidence that shows that the GAA created a brand new county entity called Derry. Rather the Derry GAA county board is a county board that represents GAA clubs in County Londonderry. The Derry GAA article's history section also gives the impression (to me anyways) that the county board represents County Londonderry rather than a brand new county created by the GAA. This is also backed up for me by Rannpháirtí anaithnid, an edit that was opposed and reworded by Brocach who made argument once again of this distinct "GAA county".

Thus the arguments about a distinct unique "GAA county" of Derry from that of County Londonderry I feel are rather moot and appears to be either original research that Brocach has added to many GAA articles, and/or a Wikipedia neologism invented for the purpose of pushing the usage of Derry in place of Londonderry in regards to the county area.

Having said that, despite the fact Derry GAA represents County Londonderry, as the sport and it's participants and supporters have always used Derry for it, I have no issue with that and have never voiced a problem with that on Wikipedia. The problem for me however lies in the ambiguity Scolaire recently added into the IMoS with "Derry GAA (which will usually be abbreviated to [[Derry GAA|Derry]])". The edit makes perfect sense in-text within a GAA article, especially if it's used unpiped in the first instance of the term "Derry GAA"'s usage, I have no problem with that. The problem is that it has been used since to backup arguments to push "Derry" in place of "Derry GAA", and also does not make sense for links and categories that refer to Derry GAA.

According to the IMoS we use Derry for the city and Londonderry for the county. Despite recent undiscussed additions that have no community consensus, the Derry GAA is the GAA in County Londonderry. Using just "Derry" instead of "Derry GAA" for me and others implies an attempt to have the county called Derry by the back-door.

Unfortunately the following will probably seem like an ad hominem statement, however it is what gave ground to my belief that the primary focus of some editors is to bypass IMoS and impose Derry for the county. The prime example for my concerns is Brocach's edits in Derry GAA related articles and the IMoS prior to this discussion - which included trying to replace County Londonderry categories from Derry GAA related articles and adding County Derry ones - this for the proposing of deleting Londonderry ones and this for deletion of his County Derry creations. Several weeks after Cydebot deleted all the County Derry categories, Brocach added a "#Derry" to a "See also" link in most or all Derry GAA club articles, example. I do accept that I could well be wrong in regards to Brocach's edits and intentions, however my experience suggests otherwise and means I am finding it hard to assume good faith on this issue.

• Links such as List_of_Gaelic_games_clubs_in_Ireland#Derry|List of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry to me give the impression that it is simply an attempt to bypass IMoS - backed up for me by Brocach's edit history the past year in regards to Derry GAA articles and IMoS - briefly highlighted above.
• Links such as List_of_Gaelic_games_clubs_in_Ireland#Derry|List of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry whilst useful for such a long article (which me and Brocach have tried to shorten together), links to a pipe-link which further gives the impression to me of County Derry, especially as the hash link bypasses the lede which makes it clear it is on about "GAA counties", and assumes a reader will follow through with that pipe-link.
• There is also the possibility of confusion with the city of Derry, but it can be easily remedied with the addition of city.

In regards to that link I had made a proposal were we used "#Derry GAA", however there was no consensus, and Brocach and Scolaire both oppossed a counter-proposal from myself where I suggested piping "List_of_Gaelic_games_clubs_in_Ireland#Derry" with "List_of_Derry GAA clubs". As it is clear that there is no consensus for or against Proposal 6, the onus is upon all here to work for a compromise that meets the concerns of all involved and we can all agree to. I had already proposed a couple, and no doubt there are many others that could be proposed by editors. An idea could be only using "Derry GAA" in the form of a pipe where the link or category may be used in a non-GAA article etc. No doubt there is a multitude of other possibilities that can be suggested by others. Compromise is needed. Mabuska ^(talk) 22:46, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mabuska, I agree with you that "GAA county" stuff is sometimes overplayed. We had 2 lengthy CFD discussions on the topic last autumn (CFD Sept 26 and October 19. In the first discussion, Brocachj acknowledged that "The differences between the 32 GAA counties (in Ireland) and the (former) 32 local government counties are so slight, and so variable from year to year, that for most purposes they can be considered as pretty much identical."

I think that view is quite widely shared, which is why LL's desire to refer to "Cork GAA hurlers" etc has not achieved consensus. But it's also irrelevant here.

We are not discussing the GAA county, or even whether it exists. We are discussing the county board, and the team it fields. And you are making really heavy going of something that's actually quite simple.

Forget for a moment that this is anything to with a county; it is a private sporting organisation, which manages a sport in a given area. That area may be whatever it may be, and the sporting organisation can call itself whatever it likes. It could, like Apprentice Boys of Derry, ignore the formal name of the area and choose an unofficial name; or it could name itself after another area (Inishmurray GAA?); or it could make something up. "Electric Crocodile GAA", if it so chose.

None of that is any of our business on Wikipedia. In naming articles, we use the WP:COMMONNAME and disambiguate as needed. So the article title spells out the name in full ("Derry GAA") ... but when the context is clear, we can skip the GAA bit. So if a paragraph in some non-GAA context makes a passing ref, we spell out "Derry GAA" in full ... but if it is in a GAA context, we can skip the GAA bit.

The specific issue that troubles you is a remarkably narrow one, and does not reflect well on any of the editors involved. We don't need a ruleset to sort out some sort of a compromise on that one. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:52, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I fully agree with Mabuska here. This does appear to be a back door edit to go around IMOS. I do not understand why we would not want to remove the confusion and ambiguity around 'Derry', 'Derry GAA' and 'County Londonderry'. Ofcourse its not confusing for us, and those versed on the topic but it is the reader here that we are trying to appease. So any point of 'its not confusing' or 'not misleading' is a waste of characters. Please, please, please apply some common sense for once in this project!!!!Factocop (talk) 10:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Factocop, I'm all in favour of commonsense. I just don't think that we need to spell out every instance of it. That way lies a morass of instruction creep which makes it harder for editors to understand the principles. Much better to continue to assume that editors will respect the spirit of WP:IMOS, and deal directly with issues caused by those who ignore it.

What we have here is simply one editor (Broach) who has been trying to promote the usage of "Derry" as a name for the county. Hir attempts to rename the categories all failed, so now he has been trying to push the same objective in a difft area. Instead of Brocach's [[List of Gaelic games clubs in Ireland#Derry|List of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry]] we can write [[List of Gaelic games clubs in Ireland#Derry|List of Derry Gaelic Athletic Association clubs]] or [[List of Gaelic games clubs in Ireland#Derry|List of Derry GAA clubs]]. Simple solution, works for all POVs. Why do we need a rule to achieve this? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:19, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mabuska, that's a very important bit of history you've given us there. I have to confess that throughout the various discussions over the past weeks I was never fully aware of the background. And it does matter. And it is both relevant and important to this discussion. Those edits, cat creations and CfDs were wrong. They were wrong, not because they broke some rule, but because they were against the spirit of compromise that we have all tried to maintain on the Derry/Londonderry question for the last nine years. And if an edit was made to IMOS in an attempt to justify going against a long-standing convention – and I can fully understand why you think it was – that was also wrong.
Having said that, I agree with BHG: there is a difference between compromise and iron-clad rules. "Derry for the city and Londonderry for the county" is a convention, not a rule. I believe that all of us over the years have worked hard at preserving that convention, even when it meant reverting edits that our own personal POVs would have made us tend to leave. Another convention, that was never explicitly mentioned on IMOS before this current controversy arose, is that in GAA matters, the county is referred to as "Derry". For all of the nine years, as far as I am aware, that convention was observed without causing any trouble. If, in a case like that, an editor starts doing things against the spirit of compromise, the answer is not to change the "rules" but to follow the dispute resolution procedure. In the first place, changing the "rules" will not deter a determined editor; in the second, it complicates things for those who want to edit articles, without any obvious benefit to the reader; and in the third, many (most?) editors are unaware of IMOS, or don't look it up before editing. If we consider edits to be disruptive, we start by discussing, then go to the dispute resolution noticeboard, then to AN/I and then, if need be, to formal mediation or arbitration. I believe that making Derry an exception to these proposals would simply create an anomaly which would confuse the reader, and would not deter an editor who was determined to be disruptive.
You are right, of course, that "GAA counties" have no real existence. It's just a shorthand. Unfortunately, it is used in different ways at different times. Sometimes, it is used for places where borders are not identical e.g. Ballaghaderreen is in County Roscommon, Ballaghaderreen GAA club plays in Mayo. Other times it is used to mean the "traditional counties" or "32 counties" e.g. "Dublin" refers to the three administrative areas plus Dublin city. In the case of Derry, it is used to refer to the aforementioned convention of using "Derry" as the county name in GAA matters, which I believe has resulted in peace more often than in war over the years.
Apologies for the length of this, but I believe that such a detailed and well-argued rationale deserves an equally detailed response. Scolaire (talk) 10:04, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the detailed explanation Mabuska. It's a pity you had to resort to blaming "nationalists" - that's a tired argument. We should have our own version of Godwin's law for whenever this argument is used. It's a backhanded anti-AGF argument and we've all been around long enough to know if this is the case, rather than label as a nationalist anyone who disagrees with your opinion or !votes differently.

That said, the Londonderry/Derry naming convention has survived because the rule is simple. One for the county, the other for the city. For me, the question is whether we should refer to the GAA administrative area by what it is commonly known as, or whether we should acknowledge that since the area is referred to as a "county" by the GAA, we should stick with the IMOS conventions already agreed in the past.

I've a lot of sympathy for the arguments for using the term Londonderry, based on "official name" arguments. But in this case, I believe the difference is that the GAA owns the "official name" for their administrative area, and as BHG stated, can call it anything they like. For that reason, I don't see how we can not call it Derry.

That leaves the question of appending "GAA" to the name. There's a number of arguments for and against. I believe the strongest reason to append "GAA" is to add clarity to titles - "Derry GAA hurlers" instead of "Derry hurlers" for example. The main problem with that suggestion is that for people who know what hurling is, the GAA is superfluous. And for people who don't know what hurling is, adding GAA doesn't clarify anything - it would be better if the suggestion was to expand to "Derry Gaelic Athletic Association hurlers".

On balance, I believe the titles and articles should reflect common naming and usage where possible. Editors can then get to the articles they want to see by searching using common terms and names. --HighKing (talk) 13:44, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@ HK - no-one is arguing for the use of Londonderry in place of Derry in GAA articles and I did not blame nationalists, I was explaining a short history for those editors who have voted who may not understand the history in regards to why the GAA call it Derry, and that Brocach's "GAA county" appears to be more or less a neologism.

@ BHG - 5 other editors agree with this proporsal, so obviously other editors feel similar to me. The reason for my long post above and the focus on "GAA county" is that outside of Brocach and LL's naming issue with each other, I was involved in a separate specific naming issue revolving around Brocach and Derry GAA articles that ended up having to be lumped into this one as the results of this would obviously affect it.

"In naming articles, we use the WP:COMMONNAME and disambiguate as needed. So the article title spells out the name in full ("Derry GAA") ... but when the context is clear, we can skip the GAA bit. So if a paragraph in some non-GAA context makes a passing ref, we spell out "Derry GAA" in full ... but if it is in a GAA context, we can skip the GAA bit." - I have no problem with that, however to clarify: if a non-GAA has the following link: "List_of_Gaelic_games_clubs_in_Ireland#Derry" we pipe it "List_of_Gaelic_games_clubs_in_Ireland#Derry GAA"? Mabuska ^(talk) 12:21, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You suggestion about non-GAA contexts I think is a good one and should be expanded (although I don't think adding "GAA" is the correct disambiguation, I'd rather spell it out in full). --HighKing (talk) 14:15, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I really have to question the motives of the 11 opposed to this suggestion. Doesnt make sense really.

@HK, for people who know what hurling is would be those in the minority given that GAA is not a globally played sport. My first thoughts would be Paddy McCourt if someone mentioned 'Derry footballer', thats why I would of thought appending 'GAA' makes sense. Avoids any confusion that people might think that the Governmental County is called Derry and removes ambiguity. Simple. So if the 11 opposed could change their votes, that would be great.Factocop (talk) 12:53, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please read fully what I actually said. If you don't know what "hurling" is, appending "GAA" doesn't help explain anything. As to the point about generating confusion around the county getting named as "Derry", I have some sympathy for that. But we've other compromises (even worse in my opinion) that editors just get on with - the naming of the article "Republic of Ireland" springs to mind when the correct name is just simply "Ireland". The "true name" or even the COMMONNAME sometimes isn't even enough... --HighKing (talk) 14:15, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget ignoring the correct name and true name of Londonderry which is ignored aswell. Your right that simply 'GAA' will not help those who do not know what 'GAA' is and so perhaps in that case expand to the full Gaelic Athletic Association. HK, what exactly your reason for opposition? you seem to have provided a reasoning and understanding for the proposal but have opposed it non the less. The problem here is that GAA is probably known by about 6million people, and 6 billion have never heard of the sport.Factocop (talk) 16:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Don't jump into speculation and original research Factocop.

Whilst it is off-topic, that RoI issue isn't quite a problem elsewhere on Wikipedia, for example the United Mexican States, Hellenic Republic, People's Republic of China, and the Republic of China to name some states. Though as stated that is off-topic.

On topic, that suggestion I made is based on what BHG said in response to my reasoning's for this proposal, and it should be implemented in non-GAA related articles where a link or category may crop up as it would likely be out of context. Though Facotcop makes a good point on Paddy McCourt - he is a "Derry footballer" as in a soccer/football player from Londonderry - it can lead to confusion if using "Derry footballer" on it's own when referring to the Derry GAA. Mabuska ^(talk) 16:45, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe use "Derry Gaelic footballer" to disambiguate? Mabuska ^(talk) 16:47, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps this proposals needs to be modified.Factocop (talk) 17:24, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal 3 is: '"X Gaelic footballers", not "X GAA Gaelic footballers"'. If that were adopted, there would be no need to make Derry an exception.

As regards [[List of Gaelic games clubs in Ireland#Derry|List of Derry GAA clubs]], would it not be simpler just to take that link out of the "See also's" altogether? I really don't see what it adds. If the link is to remain, it cannot have "#Derry GAA" in it without changing the section heading in the List to "Derry GAA", which would leave it out of synch with the other section headings. For that reason, I prefer BrownHairedGirl's proposal (the one I've just cited). Scolaire (talk) 18:49, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal 7

The scope of the category structure "Sportspeople from County Foo" (e.g. Category:Sportspeople from County Galway) should be defined as "Notable sportspeople who were born in the Irish county of Foo". This structure to be independent of the GAA county structure. So a person can be born in one county but may play for a different (or multiple) GAA county (e.g. Tony Reddin). Furthermore, the structure to permit the creation of categories for all modern administrative counties (e.g. Fingal, South Dublin and North Tipperary) as well as the "traditional" counties.

Support

1. Laurel Lodged (talk) 22:57, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. The Banner talk 12:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. Mabuska ^(talk) 16:49, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

1. Wrong venue, see Discussion Brocach (talk) 23:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
2. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:33, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. Scolaire (talk) 09:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC).[reply]
4. Qetuth (talk) 14:04, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
5. Finnegas (talk) 14:15, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
6. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:51, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
7. HighKing (talk) 17:04, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
8. Hohenloh ⁺ 18:39, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
9. Snappy (talk) 01:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. RashersTierney (talk) 19:16, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Laurel Lodged, as this is not a discussion about GAA categories it does not belong here. Please find an appropriate venue and alert the Irish sports talk pages, to see how many people share your enthusiasm for splitting or multiplying "Sportspeople from County Dublin" into "Sportspeople from Final", "Sportspeople from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown" and "Sportspeople from Dublin" (and so on). But you may know the answer to that. Brocach (talk) 23:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree that this is the wrong venue. I think it's exactly the right venue and if the idea is a poor one, the opposes will outnumber the supports. Don't stifle discussion - let it happen (as has been going on very fruitfully so far) and allow the consensus to emerge (as is also occurring.) I don't doubt that the collective wisdom here will see us through, but that means allowing a range of questions to be put, to see which do and which do not gather support. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 00:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Strange, Brocach, because this is in fact your question 2, part 2! The Banner talk 01:10, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No it isn't. I didn't have any "question 2, part 2". And this is a GAA talk page, while this proposal relates to all sportspeople including garrison games. Brocach (talk) 01:15, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your question two, with the second part in bold: (2) All categories covering people who have played on inter-county GAA teams should continue to be named in the long-established format ["GAA county name" "footballers/hurlers/camogie players/etc."], e.g. "Tipperary footballers", "Wexford camogie players", "Derry hurlers" etc., reflecting the fact that the team name is the name of the GAA county (e.g. Tipperary) without either the addition of "GAA" ("Tipperary GAA hurlers"), or diversion to sub-categories relating to modern administrative counties ("North Tipperary", "South Tipperary", "Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown" etc.). The same would apply to generic categories such as "Sportspeople from County Tipperary": a sportsperson who played on a representative team for his/her GAA county would be listed in the traditional 32-county category rather than in the modern administrative subdivision. The Banner talk 12:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Read it again, slowly: what I said was completely different from what Laurel Lodged proposes; I want the 32 traditional counties, he wants your Fingals and South Tipps. This is not my proposal, I don't support it and I don't agree with Kim that a GAA talk page is a good venue to discuss a generic sports category. Brocach (talk) 16:34, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that timely intervention Kim. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:46, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• This is a horrible idea. We have never agreed that "x sportspeople" should be limited to people born there. On the other hand, we have guidelines that say the location of birth is generally trivial. We categorize people by where they were raised. Thus someone born to the US Ambassador to Turkey in Ankara, but raised in New Jersey goes in from New Jersey categories, not categories related to being from Ankara. On the other hand, if someone was born in Washington DC because their father was the Irish Ambassador to the US, but was raised in Dublin, I see no reason why they should not be classified as a sportperson from Dublin.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:36, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Suppose the ambassador's son played hurling. Suppose futher that the ambassador was posted to the UN in New York for a term of 3 years. Suppose further that the son played hurling in Gaelic Park, the Bronx for New York GAA. Is such a notable person entitled to be included in the category Category:New York hurlers? Is he entitled to be a member of Category:Sportspeople from New York? Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:51, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• As far as I can see this proposal is not about GAA, GAA having been covered in the earlier proposals. Nor do I see Irish sportpeople in general being categorised by "GAA counties", just by counties. I oppose this because neither has it anything to to with generally accepted and well recognised WP conventions. It is just one editor desperately looking for an opportunity to ride his own little hobby-horse, since he's been threatened with an indef block if he causes further disruption by indulging his obsession in the way he has usually done in the past. It is normal in the real world, as well as on WP, to refer to the traditional counties of Ireland, not current administrative divisions. Scolaire (talk) 09:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Query Is it correct that Tony Reddin is in the "Sportspeople from County Galway" category? If it is not correct, should he be in the "Sportspeople from County Tipperary" category? Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:44, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I support this question, as it supports more sports then GAA-sports or Brocachs "garrison sports" (whatever he may mean with that). It also includes table tennis, boxing, sailing, athletics, American Football, sumo wrestling, skating, weight lifting and so on. The Banner talk 12:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to be the case that the rationale for Brocach's vote and Scolaire's vote was that the proposal ought not to be present. Kim has ruled that it ought to be present. The basis for the oppose votes has therefore disappeared. I would ask both to strike their votes. Should they later wish to insert later votes, they're welcome to do so - on the merits or demerits of the the proposal. Thank you. Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:45, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No. I have said that your question should remain and they have opposed your suggestion. I infer that they would prefer the question not be asked, but seeing as it has been they are not in favour. You don't have to agree that their arguments for opposing are sound or even logical. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 13:04, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. This proposal may be in the wrong place, but it s misconceived wherever it is. There is a long-standing consensus at CFD against categorising people by where they were born. Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Residence, "the place of birth is rarely notable". The same guideline notes that People are sometimes categorized by notable residence, in the form People from Foo (not "Natives of Foo"), regardless of ethnicity, heritage, or nationality.
  So, let's take the fictional example of Sean Citizen. Sean's parents lived in County Leitrim, which has no general hospital, so he was born in Sligo General Hospital, and he lived in Leitrim until he was 4. He then moved with his family to County Clare, where he went to school in Ennis. Having done well in his Leaving Cert, Sean studied Ology at a university in Dublin, and he got his first job in Cork city, where he lived for 7 years. Aged nearly 30, Sean moved to Dundalk, where he spent the rest of his life. In Dundalk, he realised that his long-standing attempts to get onto a local club's Gaelic Football team were futile, so he took to studying team management. After a few years of managing a local club which he took from no-hope status to the county championship, Sean became manager of the Louth county team. The team's improved standing under his management generated quite a bit of news coverage over the years.
  Now, which county was Sean from? Leitrim, Sligo, Clare, Dublin, Cork or Louth?
  Answer: Louth. Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Residence, it is is Sean's only "notable residence". --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Query Do you propose to insert this incisive scope definition into each member of the "Sportspeople from..." tree structure? Remind me to amend the Ryan Giggs article. Apparently some editors think that he's a sportsperson from Wales. We now know that he's actually a sportsperson from Manchester. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:04, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not a great example; he clearly belongs in Welsh categories as well, since he plays for Wales. Closer to home, a Gaelic footballer who has played for two counties appears in both "Sportspeople from" categories. Brocach (talk) 17:23, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@LL, I'm not to to be able to support your desire to categorise Sean Citizen on the basis of his two-day stay in Sligo General. Butit ain't defining.

I do not intend to insert that explanation anywhere other than here. It is simply an illustration of a point clearly made in an existing guideline, so there is no point in repeating it elsewhere, particularly since it seems to be only LL who has a problem with understanding the status quo.

As to Ryan Giggs, there is no need to edit his article, nor the article on any other sportsperson. But Category:Manchester United F.C. players should be a subacat of Category:Sportspeople from Manchester, just as Category:Dublin hurlers is a subcat of Category:Sportspeople from County Dublin. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)

I had a look at the ManU site for their First Team. I scanned the first 6 players before I got bored. They are Ángelo Henríquez (Chilian national), David De Gea (Spanish national), Rafael (Brazilian national), Patrice Evra (Senegalese national), Phil Jones (British national), Rio Ferdinand (British national). Despite the fact that some of them are British nationals, none used the "Sportspeople from Manchester" cat. Only Rio used the "Sportspeople from" cat, but that was for London. Is that because he was born in Peckham do you think? Even Matt Busby has Category:Sportspeople from Bellshill in his cat list, not Manchester. Yet you would have us force every player for the ManU to be a member of "Sportspeople from Manchester". Wow. Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:03, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not that I know or care much about ground football, the MUFC players category belongs to the "Sportspeople from Manchester" category. Where the players concerned are listed in categories as having played for other clubs, say Liverpool, those club categories should also belong to e.g. "Sportspeople from Liverpool". Many sportspeople will belong - directly, or by reference to a club affiliation - to two or more "from" categories. Brocach (talk) 22:51, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

LL, did you set out to misrepresent me, or did you just not bother to read what I wrote?

Brocach gets the point quite clearly. It's about parenting categories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:59, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

LL actually has it right on this one. Matt Busby is in Category:Sportspeople from Bellshill, Michael Carrick is in Category:Sportspeople from Newcastle upon Tyne, and Graham Lee (jockey), who has not played any competitive sport for Galway, is in Category:Sportspeople from County Galway. If this proposal gets consensus, there is no reason why Eamonn Coghlan should not be in "Category:Sportspeople from Fingal". If this proposal gets consensus. Scolaire (talk) 00:13, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Eamonn Coghlan was born and raised in Drimnagh and retired from running in 1988, before Fingal was created in 1993. What's his Fingal connection? Snappy (talk) 00:55, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake. He lives or lived in Castleknock before or after Fingal was created. Change it to "Seán Citizen", then. Scolaire (talk) 01:08, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Scolaire, even if LL did achieve a local consenus here, this page can't override Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Residence. And AFAICS, none of your examples are of someone who was just born in a place. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:44, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I probably should have kept my mouth shut! Yes, I agree 100% about "just born in a place". Paul McGrath is in Category:Sportspeople from Dublin (city) although he was born in England. To that extent, the wording of the proposal is against Naming conventions. But the proposal itself is about where people are "from" – however you read that – not what teams they played for. I felt that all the talk about cats and subcats and soccer clubs was muddying the waters. My intention was to draw a line under all that. Maybe we can draw a line under it now. Scolaire (talk) 09:43, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! Paul McGrath is in Category:Sportspeople from London too. Yes, I definitely think we should draw a line under this. Scolaire (talk) 10:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

When Scolaire says "draw a line under", what he really means is "let's brush this under the carpet". This is because the addition of soccer has forced editors to think outside the hermeticaly sealed world of the GAA. In so doing, they have been faced with the realisation that the innovative categorisation BHG would have us use is just wrong. "From" really does mean from. "Played a significant part of their career in" is fine, but it's not what the category is for. To claim that the scope of the category structure is the latter is to pervert it's obvious and simple structure. The ManU examples demonstrate that not one ManU fan (and I believe that there might possibly be more of them than there are of all GAA fans put together) believes that "Sportspeople from Foo" relates to the club. To say otherwise is to introduce OR. Naturally, if it's wrong for Ryan Giggs, it's also wrong for Tony Reddin. Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:27, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

LL, if you had read what I wrote you woukd see that there is nothing innovative in what I propose. I am simply drawing attention to a long-standing categorisation guideline at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Residence. Please take the time to read it. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:02, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In a touching effort to bolster BHG's flagging argument, Brocach has added ManU FC as a child of "Sportspeople from Manchester". Touching as this may be, does the community consider this to be an out-of-process move that is unhelpful to the discussion? Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:14, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stop being a silly drama queen. Nothing was moved, so the question of out-of-process does not arise. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:30, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Per the strictures (below) of Kim, I am limiting what I say here to one new comment: There is obviously minimal support for limiting this category to birthplace in respect of GAA sportspeople, but I do not believe that a consensus here on what Laurel Lodged characterises as a tumbleweed page should bind all WP users (very few of whom will have seen this) in respect of other countries and sports. Birthplace is kind of significant in respect of the GAA in ways that do not apply in respect of commercially run sports; in almost every case the birth county is the same as the played-for county, but (in the GAA at least) it is important to provide flexibility for those who play at inter-county level for more than one county. Brocach (talk) 19:49, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As I write this, the actual voting is 2 in favour of this proposal, 9 against. I see no evidence of anyone's mind being changed by the exchanges above so can I ask that you think very carefully before adding further to this discussion. Thus far it seems wildly unlikely that extending it will change the voting. It does however seem likely that further contributions will become more and more tendentious and argumentative. If anyone has any new lines of argument to pursue, or if new voters feel the need to explain their votes, no problem. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 14:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll just add that these categories stem from LL's desire to use the administrative counties wherever a location calls for a name. Just noticed that the "An Post" website has a "Check an address" page. I note that any address in say, Nenagh, is listed as "Co. Tipperary". The town council is also listed as Co. Tipperary. Fingal County Council offices are also listed as Co. Dublin. I believe that it's too early to use the newer administrative county names as they haven't caught on, and COMMONNAMES are the traditional county names. --HighKing (talk) 14:03, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What an interesting but inaccurate opinion! Nenagh: Nenagh (...) is the county town of North Tipperary in Ireland. Nenagh County Council: That page is on a website marked Copyright © 2011, North Tipperary County Council. And have you ever realised that a postal adress does not have to reflect local boundaries or changed subdivisions? The Banner talk 14:12, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ho Hum. So rather than comment on the Postal Addresses I've linked to that all use "Co. Tipperary" or "Co. Dublin", you'd rather label it as "interesting but inaccurate opinion". How can it be an opinion if it's listed exactly as I've described? Maybe everyone's "opinion" is inaccurate? Note that I didn't say that the name of the council wasn't North Tipperary or Fingal, but that the postal address or "location" still uses the traditional county name (or COMMONNAME). --HighKing (talk) 14:25, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

HighKing, I fear that you are wasting your time trying to point LL to WP:COMMONNAME. He remains fixated on the view that current administrative counties are the only "real" counties, and the counties in common usage don't exist. It's bad case of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:56, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

We're going off topic a bit, but I wonder how some editors will cope in 2014 when North and South Tipperary County Councils and their respective counties are abolished, and County Tipperary rises again! Snappy (talk) 17:35, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Closed grouping

Seeing as the the results of this will no doubt be enshrined in IMoS and proposal 5 currently directly affects IMoS in regards to the Derry issue as far as I am aware I am placing notifications in the Ireland, IMoS, and Northern Ireland WikiProjects as this WikiProject will have too select a grouping following it. Mabuska ^(talk) 12:11, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for notifying the other projects. It was never the intention to make this a select grouping; the more input there is the better for everybody. I do, however, wish you could have posted a neutrally worded notice and avoided expressing your own personal feelings. You have already expressed them here. By the way, I don't know of any WP process for "enshrining" results. How is this generally done, and is it a multi-denominational procedure? Scolaire (talk) 13:52, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Move to close

It's been over 12 hours since the last vote or discussion contribution here, I propose to close these discussions tonight (not less than eight hours from this timestamp) unless there is a dramatic upsurge in voting or discussion. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 11:28, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]