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71: 53: 267: 257: 236: 152: 131: 22: 162: 642:, we can use a descriptive title, provide it is neutral. "East of Ireland" fits that definition. Isn't it better to do that than to use a non-standard disambiguator? Every other EuroParl constituency uses the dab "(European Parliament constituency)", and several others also use descriptive titles -- e.g. 711:
for the EU parliament elections. I suppose that the same thing happened in Ireland, so that the names there also sound artificial to the Irish. In this context, I agree that the disambiguator should remain uniformly "(European Parliament constituency)" and that we can use descriptive titles for the
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for now, unless there's some evidence that the French constituency is called "East" in English, and/or that "East of Ireland" is in use for the Irish constituency. It seems possible that "East" may be ambiguous, but I'm not finding anything suggesting "East of Ireland" was in use for this topic. If
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which would retain the official name without the new for two sets of brackets and avoids the problem of the first world in the bracket being different to the other constituencies. I don't think we're ever going to have a perfect solution to this problem so we just need to find the 'least bad' one.
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and official name of the Irish constituency is "East", so ideally the title would simply add a disambiguator to that. However, since the title is already disambiguated by a standard disambiguator (used for all EuoParl constituencies), that would either break the convention (e.g.
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I agree that this is a search for the least worst outcome, so I'm glad you have put another option the table. However, that option involves a complicated compound disambiguator, which is hard for readers to infer. I think that natural language disambiguation is neater.
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title as the parenthetical (European Parliament constituency) isn't natural or descriptive. A real descriptive title would be something like "East Ireland European Parliament constituency", but that's a whole other can of
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Yeah, these are artificial names anyway: the French EU parliament constituencies do not match any administrative, geographical or historical region of France, they were created
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As far as this article goes, I still don't see the proposal as an improvement. If "East of Ireland" isn't used for this topic, it shouldn't be used. It's not a
726: 481: 401: 1005: 995: 736: 740: 184: 725:. You are right that these constituencies don't match the administrative, geographical or historical regions of Ireland. The 2009–14 incarnation of 1015: 323: 313: 875: 392: 790:, which is even more of a problem if "North-West France" isn't actually in use for that constituency. The whole lot of them may need an overhaul. 488:. Since the same issue applies in both cases, it makes sense to discuss both articles together, so I have added North-West to this discussion. -- 891: 1025: 743:) followed the boundaries of the provinces of those name. But East, South and North-West were new creations solely for the Euro elections. -- 405: 1010: 755: 684: 556: 500: 464: 445: 175: 136: 358:
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ambiguous constituencies such as East France and East Ireland (or "East of France" and "East of Ireland" if that sounds better) —
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EP constituency, so I would favour converging to "East of France" and "East of Ireland" names. Wait, there's a
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is a particularly hideous construct, both in shape and in socio-economic/cultural diversity.
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Says a lot about the aloofness of EU bureaucrats, really! I just noticed there's an
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It looks like there are problems with a number of these articles.
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for additional information. I made the following changes:
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North-West of Ireland (European Parliament constituency)
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The choice of new name is less straightforward. The
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