Talk:Lists of townlands of County Cork

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Too large[edit]

This article is too large (the longest on Special:LongPages). I can't even load it on Firefox. It should be split somehow (by alphabet, by location, etc). Renata (talk) 17:06, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article has not been split into segments because that would render the sortable function meaningless. A much lighter, unsortable version was created for easy navigability but people who did not appreciate the difference voted to delete the alternate because they thought it was "the same". I have never experienced any problems using the list myself in either Firefox or Internet Explorer. Are you on a slow link? — O'Dea 00:23, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have broadband and I can stream videos without issues. I can see the page in edit mode, but not in read mode. It should be split, perhaps in half by alphabet? Renata (talk) 03:25, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just thought you ought to know, another website has a list of your longest articles, and this one literally has more information on it than any other on here. No wonder it cripples your computers. Thus, yes, it should be split. Sincerely, Watcher. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.16.10.127 (talk) 02:55, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Breaking the page up would defeat its central purpose of sortability because items would be orphaned from their proper sort positions. For example, if the table at present is sorted by Civil Parish, the townlands of Aghafore and Lehenagh will both appear in the Civil Parish of Abbeymahon. However, if the table were divided, that would no longer be the case, and the sorting feature would be rendered meaningless. Similarly, the same error would occur for sorting by any of the other column headings. The integrity of the table would be destroyed. Splitting the table would introduce these logical errors. — O'Dea 03:28, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What's the article's purpose?[edit]

It's just a list of places in Cork. Well probably all the places in Cork. But it begs the question so what? There is nothing historical, notable or even interesting of it....

It is might as well be a list of everybody who lives in and around Cork. But I think that's called the phone book. Maybe Wikipedia should doing listings directories? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.148.21 (talk) 22:38, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have to admit it is pretty useless. Any townland in County Cork that is notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article is listed on Category:Townlands of County Cork. Any reader visiting would think the Wikimedia servers were down trying to connect to this article, I do imagine, people abandon viewing this article because of its loading time. I recommend converting this article into "List of civil parishes in County Cork", which, at the least, would be 8 times shorter than this article in its current state. Please the masses, with average/slow speed Internet connections, by cutting it down, not the few with radically speedy ones. --George 2001 ^hi 16:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The purpose of the article is to document the organization of administrative units in the county, data which is constantly sought after by historical, genealogical, and geographic researchers. The fact that any individual townland may not warrant its own article is not the point: it is the collective administrative organization of the county which is its purpose. — O'Dea 03:29, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Split[edit]

I have made a preliminary split by barony:

I think Cork needs splitting further into the two Cork baronies. Rich Farmbrough, 04:37, 20 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]
Shouldn't this page be turned into a redirect to a page with a list of the pages above? Breawycker (talk) 01:05, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, how should we go about doing that? Just a bullet point list headed with

"The list of townlands in County Cork is split into baronies:"?

—Half Price 11:42, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]