Talk:Port Dinorwic

It seems to me that the re-direct from Port Dinorwic to Y Felinheli is a mis-direction. I do not believe that Y Felinheli is in common usage as the name of the village.

It is not common on mapping.

It is not common on marine charts.

Moreover one of the key reasons cited for the return to the archaic Welsh town name is the decline of the quarrying industry and the upsurge of leisure boating.

Here is the website address of Port Dinorwic Marina.

http://www.portdinorwic.com/

I am concerned that the re-direction to Y Felinheli is in fact a Welsh Nationalist political statement. There are other potentially politically inflammatory statements on the page such as the assertion that a local hostelry owner had banned the use of the Welsh language by staff on his premises even when speaking with Welsh speakers.

I fully support the right of the Welsh to assert separatism and to expand the knowledge of the Welsh language, after all it was the original language of Great Britain, however I do not believe that the pages of Wikipedia should be used to make political statements.

Thalwil 20:58, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may be right or wrong, I do not know. However, reverting the redirect to an existing article (whatever its proper name), and posting a list of reasons against the redirect in the Port Dinorwic article itself, is not a good way to handle this. With your edit there is no encyclopedic entry and little useful information for users to read about the town.

Should you wish users to note the public dispute, you could edit the Y Felinheli article to inform them of the controversy, if done in an encyclopedic fashion. If you wish to rename the title of the existing content of Y Felinheli to Port Dinorwic, then you should probably start by discussing that on Y Felinheli's talk page. If you do not believe that you are getting an appropriate response there, you can begin a dispute resolution at the Wikipedia:Requests for comment page, which exists for helping build consensus on article content. Michael Devore 06:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]