Talk:Cyprus (disambiguation)

Not necessary

It is a personal opinion that this dis page is not necessary. Thoughts? Meander^₪ 06:35, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

If it didn't exist for anything else I'd have created it for the European constituency and added the national sports teams, as I've done for some other EU countries. The constituency needs a link, but it looks strange to add it as sole hatnote - see discussion at Northern Ireland. PamD (talk) 09:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi PamD i think i understood your edit. I dont understand why though. I think the European constituency articles for member states should be named "European Parliament constituency (Cyprus)" and not the other way round. European country articles already exist. The constituency refers to the representation of member countries in the Union thus it should be linked to Foreign_relations_of_Cyprus or a dis. page there. In addition i think the national sports teams should be a dis at the Cyprus#Sports or country#sports section. Can you please elaborate on why you have created this dis. and not as expressed above? Any arguments against the above? Meander^₪ 12:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Hallo Meander: there is an article for every Euroconstituency in the format Name (European Parliament Constituency) - too late to change that pattern unless you want to get into very prolonged discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union. Given that, I believe that there needs to be a link, either from an article hatnote or from a dab page, from the unadorned "Name" of the constituency. Some constituencies are named after regions, not whole countries - see Yorkshire and the Humber. The same applies to UK parliament constituencies: there is a set pattern of name, with a distinctive term in brackets, and links are provided from other uses of the name - see Crewe and Nantwich as an example. Again, for a reader who doesn't know much about how wikipedia works, it is helpful to be able to go from the country name (via a dab page) to the sports team which they, as a fan of football/basketball/whatever, think of as "England" or "Cyprus" or whatever, without having to dig down into a long article first. The link to the category provides a neat shorthand way to link to every national team, needing no updating to the dab page if new national team pages are created. PamD (talk) 12:59, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Reality

The island is divided in two. This page gives undue importance to the political fiction that it is united.93.96.148.42 (talk) 02:09, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Northern Cyprus

I think it's unnecessary to include the Northern Cyprus page as one of the searches in the disambiguation page. In disambiguation pages we include pages with the exact same name.The geographical definition of Northern Cyprus makes a clear distinction from Cyprus(Republic of Cyprus). There is anyway a reference to Northern Cyprus in the Republic of Cyprus page.The same thing will happen with North Macedonia as it is going to be removed from the Macedonia disambiguation page in the following days. Engelleip96 (talk) 22:29, 9 February 2019 (UTC)