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CSD rationale

This really isn't an article about Irish in England (which should be covered in for instance Status of the Irish language anyway), but about an organization that promotes Irish. Drmies (talk) 17:43, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because <>. —

Merge

I don't see how this should be an article in its own right: Languages of the United Kingdom, for instance, covers it already. Then again, the question is how much of this is really worth saving in the first place. The club now has its own article, Coláiste na nGael (I don't want to take credit for it; I think it should be deleted), and what's left are some data on the language and an inappropriate infobox (the article isn't about Irish, but about Irish in Britain). Drmies (talk) 22:21, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree; the article has (at most) three sentences relevant to the proclaimed subject, and the subject is already covered Irish language#Outside Ireland, and Irish language outside Ireland, as well as at "Languages of the UK". The place for information about Irish Gaelic speakers in Britain is there, so the logical thing to do would be to expand those sections (if there is anything more to say: Britain is not noted for its population of Irish speakers, and AFAIK there are few, if any, remote villages where "the Gallic" is the main means of communication. And I find the total of 95,000 for the UK a bit fanciful; there's but 91,000 in the whole of the Irish Gaeltacht). So yes, a merge would be fine. Moonraker12 (talk) 17:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I aqree that the article is redundant, but think the merge target should be Irish language or one of these mentiioned by Moonraker12, which can no doubt have a section on the extent to which it is spoken in UK. However, except a few expatriates, I suspect there are few speakers in Great Britain. Northern Ireland is part of UK, but not GB. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Move request

Irish language in Britain → Irish language in Great Britain or Irish language in the United Kingdom – 218.250.159.25 (talk) 17:39, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The word "Britain" is inherently ambiguous. Further there is another article on Irish language in Northern Ireland. 218.250.159.25 (talk) 13:11, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The words “horse” and “cart” spring to mind, though not in that order. The page is currently subject to a merge discussion (above), so debating whether it needs a new title is a bit premature. I would suggest closing this RM right now, and bringing it up again if the page is still here after the merge business is finished. Moonraker12 (talk) 16:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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