Wikipedia:Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board

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This is a page to function as a notice board for things that are particularly relevant to Wikipedians from Northern Ireland or who are writing about NI related topics.

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Contents 1 NI related WikiProjects 2 UK Current Events 3 Current developments 3.1 News 4 Newly created articles 5 Substantially updated articles 6 Newly created Categories and Sub-Categories 7 Participants 8 See also

[edit] NI related WikiProjects

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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast - project created with the goal of improving articles relating to Belfast.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland - project created to create a logical process of improving articles and categories related to Northern Ireland.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography - Project for getting counties and cities up to featured status.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Football Clubs
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[edit] UK Current Events

• British and Irish current events

[edit] Current developments

This project has been created as part of the expectation that the Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board would expand to include notice boards for the individual countries within the UK.

For related notice boards, see:

• Wikipedia:English Wikipedians' notice board
• Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board
• Wikipedia:Welsh Wikipedians' notice board

Note that Wikipedians in Northern Ireland may also be found at Wikipedia:Irish Wikipedians' notice board.

To-do list for Wikipedia:Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board:

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To create Professor Richard Rose Cameron Commission Rose Report Northern Ireland Housing Executive Industrial Development Board Edward Harland Helen's Tower Ulster Cup Glenola Collegiate School Ulster Says No The Skerries (Northern Ireland) Newton Emerson Dane's Cast Black Pig's Dyke Ulster women's hockey Belfast Hospitals: Belvoir Park Hospital Ulster Hospital To find images Eddie Irvine picture of him in Ferrari Belfast - better pictures Clandeboye Estate Stubs TK Maxx Vision Express County Antrim Shield St George's Market On Featured article candidates /Complete to do list To improve Cathedral Quarter, Belfast The Northern Whig Ulster Way McKee Clock William Orr Giant's Causeway Miss Northern Ireland Northern Ireland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland Grand Committee Marble Arch Caves Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Irish Football League clubs Orange Institution (cleanup) County Down Television in the United Kingdom Bangor, County Down* Carrickfergus* Somme_Heritage_Centre Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland - Needs complete list of Moderators Old Bushmills Distillery Northern Ireland Fire Brigade *To conform to standards such as seen at Crewe On Expansion requests List of topics related to Northern Ireland List of Northern Irish people Media of the United Kingdom British literature On Peer Review Nominated for deletion

[edit] News

News Archive April 2006

• A car bomb has exploded in Spamount near Castlederg, injuring a police officer. The attack is believed to have been carried out by "dissident" Republicans. This story does not seem to have been covered by Wikipedia current events and there doesn't seem to be any mention elsewhere. The event may be important as marking the start of a fresh campaign of violence. I have filed the event with Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates, though I am not familiar with that area of Wikipedia. --Setanta747 (talk) 12:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

• Their is a discussion and straw poll here about moving the following three articles: Civil service of the Republic of Ireland -> Civil service of Ireland, Foreign relations of the Republic of Ireland -> Foreign relations of Ireland, Public service of the Republic of Ireland - > Public service of Ireland. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion or vote. Djegan (talk) 13:00, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

• List of Lords Justices of Appeal of Northern Ireland is up for Afd. View and comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Lords Justices of Appeal of Northern Ireland EJF (talk) 15:13, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

• The article on the Titanic is currently undergoing a peer review on its Featured Article status. It looks as though it's going to fail and be de-listed. The article needs help primarily, it seems, with de-POVing weasel wording and citations. see Wikipedia:Featured article review/RMS Titanic --Mal 22:54, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

• The {{Northern Ireland tasks}} template has been updated with dozens of articles in need of creation. Please take a look at the list. Add to it if necessary. --Mal 14:25, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

• I have noticed that all the disruptions caused by the politically-motivated moves in Wikipedia against the usage of the flag of Northern Ireland, have been frozen at a point which appears to favour one particular political pov. See here. --Mal 09:47, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Please support the article improvement drive nomination for the Northern Ireland national football team article here. --Mal 02:10, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

• Request to move First Minister of Northern Ireland to Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. The current article deals with both positions. Article talk page, many thanks. « Keith ^te » 17:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Northern Ireland has been, rather pointedly, excluded from the draft Template:Infobox UK place . I have requested an explanation from the template's author, here. Please contribute your thoughts. --Mais oui! 07:18, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• There is a vote on the use of flags in the Northern Ireland infobox. See here. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 16:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• Musician Mark McClelland has been nominated for POV-check. --Mal 03:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• Category:Northern Irish paramilitaries has been listed for renaming here. --Mal 19:41, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

• Several Troubles categories listed for deletion/renaming here. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 17:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Bernadette Sands McKevitt was deleted[1] - quite suddenly and with no apparent warning, from what I can tell. --Mal 06:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Restored. --Mal 03:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Battle of the Somme is a Featured Article which is up for FA-review. Please concentrate on this article, if you can, to help keep its status before any decision is reached. --Mal 03:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• Please take some time to read THIS and leave some feedback. Thank you. --Mal 00:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• The usual BS about the flag of Northern Ireland on Template:Precedence. --Mal 08:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

• I've created a page - Ethnic Minorities in Northern Ireland. I'd appreciate comments and improvements. NotMuchToSay 22:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• In addition to the comment below I'd really like to start a debate on the use of Irish language on NI pages. Usage for placenames seems to be fine to me, but some usage seems increasingly tenuous. See Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland), Department_for_Employment_and_Learning and First Minister of Northern Ireland. NotMuchToSay 18:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

• I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles) about the use of the Irish language on NI-related articles. Not sure if this is the best place to start a discussion because I'm relatively new to this, but I'd appreciate your input. NotMuchToSay 21:40, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles) on whether to use "member" or "volunteer" to describe people who are in the IRA. Your input would be appreciated. Demiurge 17:26, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• • Their is a move request at Talk:Cork (city), scroll down to the bottom of the page if you want your say. Djegan 22:01, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Someone is trying to delete the article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Troubles in Tynan and proposes that all the other articles in this series that have been created be deleted as well. Ben W Bell talk 16:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Kept. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 20:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

• The Tullaghmurray Lass article is up for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Tullaghmurray Lass. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 10:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

• Hi. I'm having a debate with another user about the best way to use Categories in relation to the somewhat unusual history of the Ireland international football teams teams (main articles Ireland national football team (IFA), Northern Ireland national football team and Republic of Ireland national football team). Discussion is at Category talk:Football in Ireland#IFA and FAI international teams if anyone cares to read and/or contribute. Thanks. jnestorius^(talk) 01:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

• Hi, I've noticed Vacuum newspaper has been nominated for deletion - for those who dont know it, its a satirical newspaper from Belfast, so I would ask experienced wikipedians to weigh in and help the article out a bit. I've suggested grouping it with related articles - but as a bit of a newcomer to this all, I dont know how to do that. Can anyone help??

• TfD nomination of Template:Northern Ireland topics. Template:Northern Ireland topics has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

• Is Northern Ireland symbols a rogue category? See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 October 4#Category:Northern Ireland symbols --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

• • "The result of the debate was delete". Shame. Please keep an eye out for any resulting orphans. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 17:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• I've started a CFD proposal at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 September 10#Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry. At the minute consensus is to leave it as it is. In this case the county is beng referred to, rather than the city. So it should be Londonderry. If the votes stay as is then the Derry/Londonderry naming agreement will be breached. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 16:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

The result of the debate was rename/merge as nominated Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry to Category:Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Londonderry

• I have started stubs for all the Northern Ireland government departments (Template:Northern Ireland Executive). They all need a bit of attention, I also wikified tables from the Northern Ireland Executive article.  Keithology  Talk!  20:07, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

• • Great work, I'll try and help out with expanding them in the next few days. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 21:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

• Some recently-started articles on schools in Northern Ireland are being nominated for deletion. Please add your votes and/or comments regarding the proposal. --Mal 01:08, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

• New {{NI-bio-stub}} created today as per this request. Can someone check if I created it correctly? This will mean a fair amount of work to change NI biography stubs currently tagged with the {{NI-stub}} tag, and others tagged with {{Ireland-bio-stub}}. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 15:05, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• Belfast has been successful as the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography's collaboration of the month. For anyone who's interested in helping to get the article up to FAC standard, there are many resources and a guide available on the UK Geography Project page. --Mal 01:58, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

• There is a new stub at Magee College. Please contribute your expertise about the University of Ulster at Magee. Read the to-do list on Talk:Magee College --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 17:57, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

• The Northern Irish articles project has been renamed to avoid confusion over future named pages relating to the project. It can now be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland.

• Belfast has been nominated as the UK Geography project's colaboration of the month. Please feel free to offer your opinion and vote in support of the nomination.

• New Belfast WikiProject has been started. Please join the effort to improve articles relating to Belfast.

• Proposal to rename the British Isles (terminology) page: Talk:British Isles (terminology)#Requested move.

• CFD - Belfast MPs - see: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Up-merging_of_the_by_city.2Fby_region_sub-categories_of_British_MPs --Mais oui! 10:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• Has the NI away football top changed from white to blue? Discussion at Talk:Northern Ireland national football team#Away jerseys. --Kwekubo 17:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• AfD Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2006_May_23#Ballymoney_railway_station Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ballymoney_railway_station.

• Want to help improve articles on Northern Ireland and about Northern Irish people? Then help out with the article classification - part of the Northern Irish articles wikiproject! --Mal 10:52, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

• AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 May 16#UKonian. Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UKonian

• Cfd discussion - Delete Category:Northern Irish cinema

• Please see the talk page regarding thoughts on articles about violent incidents in Northern Ireland's Troubles, and about the inclusion of Troubles-related deaths in NI town and village articles. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 15:22, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

• There is currently a revert war going on with the article Constituent Countries with two issues - one relating specifically to Northern Ireland. --Mal 06:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

• There is a need to improve articles on Northern Irish politicians. I have added succession boxes to a number of them but, in doing so, I noticed thre were a number of politicians missing. One glaring example off-hand is Brid Rogers (as I'm aware this is how her name is spelled.. not Rodgers - please verify). Many others are merely stubs.

• • The article Brid Rodgers has now been created. Having looked through the SDLP's website, I confirmed that Rodgers is the correct spelling of her surname! --Mal 14:08, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newly created articles

• Belfast Botanic Gardens
• Gilnahirk
• Graham Reid
• List of topics related to Northern Ireland
• Obel Tower
• Ulster Orchestra
• Northern Ireland Fire Brigade
• St George's Market
• Vacuum newspaper
• Musgrave Park Hospital

[edit] Substantially updated articles

• Divis - Added military information and map
• Old Bushmills Distillery - Redone the entire thing!
• Silent Valley Reservoir - Another complete overhaul

[edit] Newly created Categories and Sub-Categories

• The Troubles in Northern Ireland
• The Troubles in Northern Ireland by locality (8 further sub-categories and 34 articles added by 02-09-06)
• Victims of the Troubles

[edit] Participants

See Category:Wikipedians in Northern Ireland

• Mal
• theKeith
• Martin
• Dom0803
• Stu
• Ardfern
• User:Traditional unionist

[edit] See also

• United Kingdom Wikipedians
• Wikimedia UK
• List of United Kingdom-related topics
• Portal:United Kingdom
• Irish Wikipedians' notice board
• UK Wikipedians' notice board