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You could probably do Wikipedia a massive favour by updating their article, or at least adding a controversy section? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_I
by peteretep 11y ago
You could probably do Wikipedia a massive favour by updating their article, or at least adding a controversy section?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles
- rmc 11y agoIt's already there. In the last paragraph of the introduction. There's a whole article on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute
- lmm 11y agoThe first line of that article: "In standard English usage, the toponym "the British Isles" refers to a European archipelago consisting of Great Britain, Ireland and adjacent islands." Rather contradicts your original claim that "Ireland is not in the British Isles."
- DanBC 11y agoNote also that naming of bits of Britain regularly appears on ANI and has had Arbcom measures applied. relying on wikipedia for information about contentious stuff is sub-optimal.