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Shane Hegarty (2021-01-10). "Wikipedia at 20: Did you know Will Ferrell was once not killed in a paragliding incident?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2021-01-13. Its entry on "Ireland" is typical: "The earliest evidence of human presence in Ireland is dated at 10,500 BC. Gaelic Ireland had emerged by the 1st century AD. The island was Christianised from the 5th century onward." And so on. It reads like it was put together by committee, although this is sort of the point.
the term is a colonial and outdated one having been dug up from (by even then) archaic sources by one John Dee - an advisor to Elizabeth I of England, and who advocated for the colonisation of Ireland. Today it has no official standing and has no more relevance to Ireland than the term British East Africa has to modern day Kenya. And as such needs to be be kept in the dustbin of history where it belongs 109.78.105.250 (talk) 12:17, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
British Isles is an internationally recognised geographical term. It is used in educational textbooks in Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand etc.
It's also in common use in Ireland, ignoring those whose lives revolve around politics
It's common use in Ireland and ubiquitous use outside of Ireland. And, mind you, the 'revolt' against the term hasn't begun until Sinn Fein's recent electoral successes. 145.40.150.167 (talk) 22:28, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@145.40.150.167 citing a cruise website and Airbnb is a new low, please remove the term its offensive, to the history of Ireland.
Read the rest of the page, and the archives. It's used by a lot more than AirBnB and some cruise site. You'll find, e.g., the link to the search results returned solely from gov.ie websites. The term is offensive to you, not to "the history of Ireland". We won, remember? IONA is mentioned here, but its use is tiny (possibly because it's offensive to Iceland, Greenland, and the Canaries, among others). BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!08:27, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Considering this is a page ablut Ireland could we not use something not controversial? The Irish government do not recognise the term British Isles (aka the government that makes up like 75% of the area), and on the good Friday agreement it was also not used and "these islands" wete used instead. How about wr just use Britain and Ireland? Its not controversial. MossWoodMetric (talk) 21:22, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why? It’s an official estimate which are included in many other country wikipedia articles. I also don’t remember talking to you Ire619 (talk) 17:12, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Please do not use “the British isles”. It is not a geographical term. It is an outdated geopolitical term. The Irish government has explicitly stated that it should no longer be used to refer to Britain and Ireland as a whole in any capacity. 2001:BB6:287C:8E00:59B9:484D:25A7:6015 (talk) 08:27, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done. You didn't specify an exact replacement, this had been discussed above (#Ireland is not a "British" isle) and wider changes could be implemented also which is out of scope of a simple edit request (eg are you suggesting a rename of the article British Isles, Category:British Isles etc?). There is a note in the article about the use of "British Isles" and a link to Names of the British Isles.--Commander Keane (talk) 12:23, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. PianoDan (talk) 21:59, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
