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The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Arts

Hi! I'm a new-ish wikipedia editor. Long time listener, first time caller. What's good.

I'm looking for some spare pairs of eyes on the page for the Douglas Hyde Gallery, I'd like to try up the standard of it, since it seems to have been languishing for a bit. I'm having a look at it myself, but I'm not making any grand sweeping changes to it yet, especially because I think it needs some more fundamental structural changes in how it's laid out generally. If anyone has some good examples on how a page for a gallery like this is laid out, or if there's a style guide for these kind of arts organisations, please share them, I'll have a go at rewriting it in a more top to bottom way soon™.

For the moment, I've added some sources some of the missing citations on the talk page, and marked it that it needs updating. I reckon it would be a good thing to have updated to a better standard soon considering the gallery's involvement with the 2026 Irish submission to the Venice Bienalle. (You can even see someone representing the gallery making their own wikipedia account trying to ask for help updating it, ah bless.) But seriously I think it needs and deserves a fair bit of work, and I'd love some help with it!

Also: I briefly mention it on that talk page, but would making a disambiguation page for Douglas Hyde more generally would make sense over just adding a hatnote on the gallery's page pointing to the first Irish president, considering that page has a hatnote leading to ANOTHER Douglas Hyde? WabbitOnline (talk) 18:36, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

AfD on David O'Hanlon

I've nominated David O'Hanlon, an article about a priest who criticised President Mary Robinson's attire when she visited the pope, for deletion. the discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David O'Hanlon. Scolaire (talk) 13:06, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Prehistoric Ireland

An editor has requested that Prehistoric Ireland be returned to this, its long-standing title, after an undiscussed move to Prehistory of Ireland. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. Johnbod (talk) 15:40, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

• Well, the move has been self-reverted, but it might be good, now the question has been raised, to collect comments there on the preferred title between "Prehistoric Ireland" and "Prehistory of Ireland". I don't myself see a vast need for consistency between such articles, but some evidently do. Johnbod (talk) 16:17, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

FAR: House of Plantagenet

I have nominated House of Plantagenet for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Borsoka (talk) 04:13, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Source verification needed for Carina (yacht)

I was copyediting the article Carina (yacht), about a boat that sank off Howth Head in 1944, and started looking into the sources. Of the few sources that I was able to verify, none mention a yacht Carina - many seem to discuss another boat Cymric (schooner). Most sources are 1940s newspaper articles without links, of which I can find none online; Googling comes up with only one hit for searches like "Carina Dublin 1944", https://skerriessailingclub.com/about-us/history-of-skerries-sailing-club (not sure how reliable). If anyone has a knack for finding or verifying pre-internet sources (e.g. newspaper archives), I'd appreciate if you'd take a look here. Pinging the author @Byrniman who doesn't seem to be active. -Consigned (talk) 11:19, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Consigned. I had a quick look, and I've found some of the Irish Independent sources mentioned.

Echo of Dublin Bay tragedy

Hope abandoned for yachtsmen

Skerries Club's Progress

I don't think Newspapers.com has any of the other required sources, but here's what I could find. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 11:32, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Consigned (talk) 21:04, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Discussion about WikiProject banner templates

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

• "This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

There is a proposal to change the default wording on the banners to say "priority" instead of "importance". This could affect the template for your group. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposal to update wording on WikiProject banners. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:44, 6 December 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the WikiProject Council)

Good article reassessment for Dál Riata

Dál Riata has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:10, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Article title: Independent politician

In 2019, I created a page initially titled Irish independent politician. Just after its publication, Spleodrach renamed it as Independent politicians in Ireland. In 2023, I proposed moving the page to its current title of Independent politician (Ireland). With no discussion ensuing, I enclosed it after a week, not as such on the basis of consensus, but that there was no comment.

Qwerty123M has objected to the 2023 page move as not following correct procedures, citing an article which predated this one, being Independent politicians in Australia with a different format, and referencing a principle at WP:TITLECON that article titles on similar topics should not differ without good reason. I'm not sure a single other article is sufficient to establish a naming convention, and given the topic, perhaps it is reasonable for them to vary by jurisdiction. On the other hand, Independent politicians in Ireland is more of a natural disambiguation.

Any thoughts? I maintain my 2023 observation that the parenthetical format has practical advantages, i.e., we're much more likely to refer to the "Independent politician Verona Murphy" than to be discoursing about Independent politicians in Ireland. Except, of course, on that page itself. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 12:25, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Removing (Dáil constituency) from article titles when not necessary for disambiguation

There was a clear consensus at WT:TITLE (permalink) that the disambiguation in the titles of constituency articles should be dropped unless needed. The discussion originated with UK constituencies, but would also apply to Dáil constituencies. This would result in the following article titles:

UK constituencies	Dublin College Green, Dublin Pembroke, Dublin Rathmines, Dublin St James's, Dublin St Michan's, Dublin St Patrick's, Dublin St Stephen's Green, East Cavan, East Clare, East Tipperary, East Waterford, East Wicklow, Galway Borough, Galway Connemara, Mid Tipperary, North Donegal, North Leitrim, North Longford, North Louth, North Meath, North Monaghan, North Westmeath, North Wexford, Queen's County Leix, Queen's County Ossory, South Donegal, South Leitrim, South Longford, South Louth, South Meath, South Monaghan, South Westmeath, South Wexford, West Cavan, West Clare, West Waterford, West Wicklow
Dáil constituencies	Athlone–Longford, Carlow–Kildare, Carlow–Kilkenny, Clare–South Galway, Cork City North-West, Cork City South-East, Cork East and North East, Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West, Cork North-Central, Cork North-West, Cork South-Central, Cork South-West, Donegal North-East, Donegal South-West, Donegal–Leitrim, Dublin Artane, Dublin Ballyfermot, Dublin Bay North, Dublin Bay South, Dublin Cabra, Dublin Central, Dublin County Mid, Dublin County North, Dublin County South, Dublin County West, Dublin Fingal, Dublin Fingal East, Dublin Fingal West, Dublin Finglas, Dublin Mid, Dublin Mid-West, Dublin North-Central, Dublin North-West, Dublin North-West, Dublin Rathdown, Dublin Rathmines West, Dublin South-Central, Dublin South-East, Dublin South-West, Dublin South-West, Dublin Townships, Dublin West, Kerry North–West Limerick, Kerry–Limerick West, Kildare–Wicklow, Laois–Offaly, Leitrim–Roscommon North, Leitrim–Sligo, Limerick City–Limerick East, Longford–Roscommon, Longford–Westmeath, Louth–Meath, Mayo North and West, Mayo South–Roscommon South, Meath East, Meath West, Meath–Westmeath, Roscommon–Galway, Roscommon–Leitrim, Roscommon–South Leitrim, Sligo–Leitrim, Sligo–Mayo East, Sligo–North Leitrim, Tipperary Mid, North and South, Waterford–Tipperary East, Wicklow–Wexford
European Parliament constituency	Connacht–Ulster, Midlands–North-West

Iveagh Gardens (talk) 07:19, 15 December 2025 (UTC)