Talk:Screen Ireland

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On 26 January 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland to Screen Ireland. The result of the discussion was moved.

It looks like some text in the article is copied from The Customer charter in the Irish Film Board site
Pnelnik (talk) 16:50, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

→I've tried to delete or replace much of that. Spencergreenwood (talk) 13:09, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:

• Screen Ireland Logo.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. Community Tech bot (talk) 22:21, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Before this Article was "Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland", it was "The Irish Film Board", which "Bórd Scannáin na hÉireann" redirected to. As such, I think we should rename this article to "Screen Ireland", with redirects from BSÉ, IFB, and Fís Éireann. This is also backed up at

I forgot to sign that last comment Xx78900 (talk) 18:21, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Its official name is "Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland", and it is referred to as such in a myriad of places. Given the Irish language is our official first language, why would we want to change this? From what I can see, it passes
  WP:IMOS under this name - Alison ^❤ 17:30, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply
  ]
  • The official name for government organizations are written as Irishname/Englishname. There's nothing to say both names have to be included every time, or that they realistically expect other people to do so.
    The
    WP:COMMONNAME is clearly "Screen Ireland" [1][2][3][4] and there is absolutely no need to write both the Irish and English names more than once.
    The above suggestion to have this page be named "Screen Ireland" and have Fís Éireann and others as redirects makes a lot of sense. -- 109.79.161.25 (talk) 10:16, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply
    ]
    • Why hasn't this been changed and the primary page moved to Screen Ireland already? -- 109.77.211.177 (talk) 16:57, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • 109.77.211.177 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), I started a discussion below to request a move. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 17:23, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was only wholeheartedly agreeing with the very sensible suggestion from Allison. Thanks for sorting out the page move. (I should probably try to improve this article but it is a government funding agency, important but also incredibly boring.) -- 109.77.204.119 (talk) 20:50, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]