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 == Note for you == 

 Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_September_1#Arab-Israeli_conflict I'm interested in getting your feedback. Thanks. —❤☮☺M☯  

 == en-dash == 

 How do you type en-dash as effortlessly as A?    
 :On my keyboard it's ""command-hyphen"", which is no more difficult that typing ""shift-a"". Perhaps it's not universally that easy?    
 ::I won't speak for others, but no, I don't think it is. Keyboards a different all over. -   

 == Republic of Ireland cats == 

 Why are you adding the Death by something in the Republic of Ireland categories to People who died before the Republic of Ireland existed? The RoI is a political entity not geographical. It came into being in 1949. If someone died in Ireland in 1927 (like Kevin O'Higgins) then they died in Ireland not the Republic of Ireland. Also the Name of the Irish state is Ireland not the Republic of Ireland, so technically these categories are misnamed but I assume this is to differentiate them from Northern Ireland.    
 :The ""partitioned island"" state came into existence in 1922 (Irish Free State), and its current constitution was approved in 1937, according to Republic of Ireland. 1949 is merely the date the description ""Republic of Ireland"" was adopted by the Republic of Ireland Act; this is NOT the date the ROI came into ""existence"", however. There was no real constitutional or regime change in 1949—it ceased to be a possession of the Crown, true, but it's the essentially the same as it was in 1937, which signals the real beginning of the ""ROI"", in my opinion. In WP parlance, Ireland is a geographical island which includes Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is the name of the state used in WP terminology, regardless of what the ""actual name"" is. ""Ireland"" is, unfortunately, an ambiguous term, so it can't be used as the name of the state in all cases where it could also refer to the island. 

 :Anyhow, if there is a miscategorization, then we need to upmerge them to the Foo Ireland category, as you've been doing. There may well be mistakes, since before in the firearms category only a ROI category existed; I created an Ireland one for people killed in Ireland prior to the ROI being established.     

 ::""ROS came into existence in 1922"", what is ROS? The Irish Free State came into being in 1922, in 1937 the new Constitution of Ireland changed the name of the country to Ireland (or Eire) which it still is. In 1949 the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 declared that Ireland was a republic in state but not in name. So you are wrong when you state the RoI came into being in 1937. Ireland maybe an ambiguous name but you cannot use the description name of Ireland in relation to events which happen before it existed! A geographic term must be used like Ireland, like it or not! And what about those who died in 1920, technically that was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland?    

 :::(Sigh) At the risk of sounding brusque, I do grow somewhat tired of Irish and British users on either ""side"" of the never-ending debates and battles complaining about other users' actions that don't agree with their own conceptions of reality. In other words, do what you like, but please spare me from becoming yet another victims of the pettiness. I think you've misinterpreted what I've said and done, and possibly my motives, but I've been through too many of these debates with too many editors to believe that any further explanation will be useful.    

 ::::(Even bigger sigh) Your knowledge of modern Irish history is dubious. Claiming that the Republic of Ireland came into being in 1937 as you did shows your inaccuracies. In fact if you read the current Constitution of Ireland, you won't find the word republic in it at all!  And speaking of pettiness, reverting my corrections back to your erroneous version after I had pointed out your errors, now that's petty!  ([[Us