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This unbalanced article should be WP:SPLIT

The article is now dominated by approximately 85% on the postal codes and their introduction and only about 15% about the postal addresses themselves and is completely out of proportion to the article title so is an entirely suitable candidate for splitting. The lede mentions addressing in one paragraphs which never appears again in the body of the article. The lede should reflect the topic and be a precis of the whole article. It now does none of that. I think all the postcode prose should be spil off to the article Postal codes in the Republic of Ireland which is currently a redirect to this page and this page should be refined to include the actual addressing requirements (per http://correctaddress.anpost.ie/pages/Search.aspx) as well a some history of the addressing in Ireland because apparently nothing happend between 1922 and 1990, (I have some of the older Eolai an Phoist that provide some details) plus a short section on the postcodes with a link to the then main Irish postcode article. ww2censor (talk) 09:28, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support - seems sensible. BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 10:12, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment:: A lot of the Eircode-related stuff boils down to hype, rumours, edit creep and other non-notable points. I have half a mind to cut the excess out of the article entirely. It's a postal code system based off the national postal service's sorting infrastructure. It's a library of alphanumeric codes corresponding to the relevant sorting centre and a randomised code. Some people wanted different systems. They complained. Other people thought it was too expensive or too slow. They complained. That is the jist of it. I don't think anything more needs to be said about Eircode. Tomásdearg92 (talk) 00:31, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Eircode information: original research?

I'm concerned about the Eircode information lacking sources. in particular the list of routing keys: as far as I know no list has been published anywhere officially (and I've looked very hard) by either Eircode, an Post or the Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources. So this is presumably original research by someone? Should it be removed? Lozleader (talk) 17:03, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That data may have come from here. Can we call this a WP:RS? ww2censor (talk) 20:19, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think this is a reliable source, mainly because it is self-published. I am also concerned that the author, as an elected representative may take a political stance on Eircode as a system. This would affect the neutrality of the source. Tomásdearg92 (talk) 23:04, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
In the meantime, I have collapsed the rather unwieldy list into an expandable table. Tomásdearg92 (talk) 00:07, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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First country to use unique postcodes for each address

"According to the government the new system made Ireland the first country in the world to have a unique postcode for each address (without requiring the use of building numbers)."

I appreciate the "according to the government", but this seems dubious - see Postal codes in Singapore, which says: "On 1 September 1995, this was replaced by a six-digit system, in which every building was given its unique postcode..." Rolypole (talk) 18:51, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Postcodes in Singapore are assigned to buildings, most of which contain more than one address, given that Singapore is a small, urban and densely populated area - unless you live in a detached house, it's unlikely that your address will have a unique postcode. Polemicista (talk) 23:57, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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