Template talk:User NI

Content Change[edit]

There is a discussion and proposal regarding the changing of content and wording in United Kingdom location/nationality userbox templates located at Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Location/United Kingdom. - Hayter 20:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the flag in this userbox to the map image of N Ireland, the flag is not the flag of N Ireland since 1972, as it was the flag of the old Stormont government. The use of the flag is offensive to the nationalist community, and therefore could prevent nationalists from N Ireland using the userbox.--padraig3uk 16:06, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I created Template:User_NI2* for that reason. There are many people who use this template and are quite happy with it. Keithology "Talk" 16:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)*based on your changes)[reply]

So you created the two templates with the intention of dividing user from N Ireland in two different groups Unionist and Nationalist, instead of one template that both could use which wouldn't offend either.--padraig3uk 16:46, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry you feel my behaviour is divisive, that was not my intention and I apologise. I have no problem removing flag on articles and templates where it is inappropriate and used as the flag of Northern Ireland e.g. government articles/templates. However, in this instance, and in other articles, it as used as an internationally recognised symbol of our little statelet used in many cultural (in the loosest possibly sense) contexts. Keithology "Talk" 17:24, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is not a Internationaly recognised symbol for N. Ireland, it is the symbol of the Unionist Government from 1922-72 and has no legal standing, the map of N. Ireland is a neutral symbol and should be used instead in templates relating to the state except when refering to the Unionist goverment of 1922-72.--padraig3uk 17:46, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]