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:::::::Very odd. I presume that you have some reason for wanting to delete [[:Category:Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland (historic)]], or to remove Dail constituencies from it ... but you still haven't explained what that reason is.

:::::::I undestand that there may be difft approaches, but it's no clearer what yours actually is. --[[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 22:40, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

::::::::Apologies if amidst all the explanation of the mechanics of the move, I didn't adequately explain my reasoning for the proposal.

::::::::We have a category titled [[:Category:Dáil constituencies (historic)]]. That is a natural place for the predecessor constituencies to the current constituencies in the Dáil, so a neat counterpart category to [[:Category:Dáil constituencies]]. That would be the natural division, a constituency is either current or historic. However, there are of course a set of constituencies which were constituencies in the First and Second Dáil which were not predecessor constituencies to those of the current Dáil. So it makes sense to categorise them separately, in [[:Category:Dáil constituencies in Northern Ireland (historic)]]. But that fact alone shouldn't be enough that a constituency like Dublin South-East also needs to be in a subcategory of those in the Republic of Ireland, rather than simply using the category of [[:Category:Dáil constituencies (historic)]]. The vast majority of constituencies in question fall into the Republic of Ireland category, and to put all of these into that category, rather than simply the [[:Category:Dáil constituencies (historic)]] category almost privileges the Northern Ireland Dáil constituencies, which were used in only two elections and were not predecessor constituencies to any later Dáil constituency.

::::::::That is my reason for my proposal, which whatever your instinctual response, was in fact carefully examined.

::::::::The one argument I see against me is that [[:Category:Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland (historic)]] currently has two subcategories, [[:Category:Dáil constituencies in County Dublin (historic)]] and [[:Category:University constituencies in the Republic of Ireland]], which my proposal would then seem to present as equal subcategories with [[:Category:Dáil constituencies in Northern Ireland (historic)]]. That I concede could cause confusion. —[[User:Iveagh Gardens|Iveagh Gardens]] ([[User talk:Iveagh Gardens|talk]]) 10:33, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

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