Category talk:National sports teams of Ireland

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
Requested articles (Sports)
Requested articles (Association football)
Requested articles (Association football women)
Requested articles (Motor sports)
Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople)
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
* Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
* Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
* Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
* Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
* Sport industry (currently a sub-stub)
Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories.
Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs
Update : List of world sports championships
Other :
- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

Category:Multinational sports teams[edit]

I have added this category to Category:Multinational sports teams. There are two problems:

describing the team as "multi-national" could be interpreted as endorsing the Two Nations Theory (Ireland), which would be POV. I have added a note to Category:Multinational sports teams explaining that it uses "nation" in the sense "sovereign state" rather than, well, "nation".
the subcats Category:National sports teams of the Republic of Ireland‎ and Category:National sports teams of Northern Ireland‎ obviously do not belong in the supercat. Since Categories are not transitive, that's not a big deal, especially given the note already on the Category page. There is an argument that Category:National sports teams of Ireland‎ should be a {{containercat}} with Category:All-island Ireland national sports teams as the third sibling alongside Republic and Northern. That's an argument for another day.

jnestorius^(talk) 11:59, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]