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Category:Multinational sports teams

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I have added this category to Category:Multinational sports teams. There are two problems:

  1. describing the team as "multi-national" could be interpreted as endorsing the Two Nations Theory (Ireland), which would be POV. I have added a note to Category:Multinational sports teams explaining that it uses "nation" in the sense "sovereign state" rather than, well, "nation".
  2. the subcats Category:National sports teams of the Republic of Ireland‎ and Category:National sports teams of Northern Ireland‎ obviously do not belong in the supercat. Since Categories are not transitive, that's not a big deal, especially given the note already on the Category page. There is an argument that Category:National sports teams of Ireland‎ should be a {{containercat}} with Category:All-island Ireland national sports teams as the third sibling alongside Republic and Northern. That's an argument for another day.

jnestorius(talk) 11:59, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]