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I've just realised I've taken both positions up there. My, that makes me look flighty! Given that many, many writers (from all over the word, including the Brits) will misues this word, maybe we should have this page as a disambiguation, that briefly explains what "British" SHOULD actually be used for. -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]] 13:35 Dec 28, 2002 (UTC)
::Maybe, though I don't begrudge the person who'll have to fix all the links pointing here! And really, is it such a big problem? Saying that [[Michael Caine]], for example, is British, and linking it to [[Great Britain]] (which is the sort of thing links pointing here do) isn't a misuse of "British" or a bad link, after all (I mean, he ''is'' from Great Britain). Saying somebody from Ireland is British would be bad, of course, but nobody seems to be doing that. So I guess I don't really see the problem with things as they now are. Maybe [[United Kinngdom]] could be mentioned and linked a bit more prominently in the [[Great Britain]] article though (like in the first paragraph) - that might be an improvement. --[[User:Camembert|Camembert]]
: This is an interminable discussion: one round finishes and the redirection is set up in such a way, then a few months later someone will reopen the issue by changing it to how they think it should be. Personally I think British should redirect to Britain, since the two words are related. See [[Talk:Britain]]. See also [[America]] for how the issue is handled there.
::Well, [[Britain]] redirects to [[Great Britain]], so the current set up is how you suggest. --[[User:Camembert|Camembert]]
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