Talk:List of Latin place names in Ireland

message: Although this article and List of Roman place names in Britain are not precisely the same there is enough overlap that they could be combined into something like List of Latin placenames in the British Isles since no toponyms are listed in either article for Iceland or Faeroes. LuiKhuntek 20:33, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: William Allen Simpson 23:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Ross Burgess. I have been trying to make this very same point in relation to all the several articles entitled "List of Latin place names in [fill in the blank]". (I am not sure how many there are now, because they keep multiplying.) Again, it doesn't matter if there is a certain overlap, but for the student of ancient Roman history and toponymy, modern Latin place names such as Amstelodamum, Berolinum, Bruxella, Hafnia, Varsovia, etc. are at best irrelevant, and at worst confusing and misleading.   Pasquale 21:49, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

text: --William Allen Simpson 06:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am sorry, W. A. S., but, with all due respect, I was stupefied by how you managed to misunderstand and/or twist what I was trying to say. Please let me clarify. (1) I was trying to broaden the discussion so as to include all articles entitled "List of Latin place names in [fill in the blank]", so that, whatever solution is adopted for the British Isles, it may also be implemented for those other articles; more specifically, I believe those other articles should also have matching articles with JUST the ancient Roman names. (2) I drew the examples from the other articles entitled "List of Latin place names in [fill in the blank]". Of course, those names do not appear here, since none of those places (Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Copehagen, Warsaw) is to be found in the British Isles. (3) Don't get me wrong. I absolutely do believe the medieval and modern Latin names do have a place SOMEWHERE, however, I agree with Ross Burgess that they cause confusion when they are mixed together with the ancient names; (4) I was of course using the word "student" in its broad sense of amateur scholar or aficionado, i.e. the kind of encyclopedia user who might peruse these lists. (5) Your insistence on documentation is also misleading. Even with ample documentation, if you have five or six Latin names for, say, Winchester, the encyclopedia user or "student", no matter how serious, is bound to be confused, unless a clear distinction is made between the ancient Roman name(s) — which presumably closely reflect the original Celtic form(s) — and the medieval ones, based on later Anglo-Saxon or English names. This problem is pervasive and affects not only this article but all the other articles entitled "List of Latin place names in [fill in the blank]", in much the same way. This is why I am arguing for a split between EACH ONE of the articles entitled "List of Latin place names in [fill in the blank]" and matching articles (mostly yet to be created) entitled "List of Roman place names in [fill in the blank]". Thanks.  Pasquale 23:26, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: Quick Question - Its stated in the first sentance that Iceland was a part of the Roman Empire... I've never heard that assertion before.  Is it correct?
:Read the whole sentence: ... or that were given Latin place names in historical references. —Nightstallion (?) 10:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iceland in the Roman Empire???