Talk:UK broadcaster Setanta enters administration

U.K. vs. UK
Unlike the U.S. which has periods, the UK does not in AP style. I believe the same applies to the EU, but I am not sure and will try to check. Can't fix the article now though. Calebrw (talk) 17:16, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I have seen you cite AP style as authoritative before, but why? Imho, I'd prefer if we dropped the periods for all three; indeed we could drop them for almost any abbreviation. Lots of newspapers have done so. Our style guide doesn't have a lot on this but you can see acronyms instead of full names for what we do have.--SVTCobra 18:33, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hart's agrees with your preference. Personally, I do not favour a rule that differentiates between "U.S." and "EU".  It's arbitrary and difficult to remember.  The idea that "us" is a word whereas "eu" is not, upon which this arbitrariness is supposedly based, doesn't really wash all that well with an international readership.  &#9786; Uncle G (talk) 18:50, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge AP style is used throughout the world when writing in a journalistic style. That being said, writing in the AP style is more heavily favored in the U.S. than it is in other parts of the world (and frequently, many publications have their own MoS that they use). However, AP style provides a great resource that breeds continuity, which at least in journalism is essential to proper understanding. Differentiating between "Bombay" and "New Dehli" (for example). I'm not purposing that Wikinews adapt AP style formally, but I do think it should be used to fall back on. I would also welcome further discussion of this as I may be to just America-centered in my views on this. We could move this to the Water Cooler. Calebrw (talk) 20:03, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The Associated Press' style book should not be a fallback without good reason. What suits Wikinews and takes account of project limitations should be. I would choose U.S., U.K., and E.U. - not to conform to any country or region's mores or preferences, not to follow some other organisation's style guide, but because when these abbreviations are used as the starting 'word' in an article title they should be grouped together in the relevant category.
 * I would be happy to see this discussion copied to the water cooler with a brief intro, others may have better reasons for choosing a particular scheme. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:26, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Whoa! I do apologise, I took the initiative of renaming the page without noticing this discussion. You all seem to agree, so I hope nobody minds. --AdamM (talk) 06:43, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Setanta
Setanta is NOT a UK broadcaster, it's based in Dublin, Ireland. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.44.99.250 (talk) 16:43, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It refers to the UK operations which are the ones that entered administration. Cheers, --SVTCobra 21:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * See this sentence in the article:

"The specific companies in administration are Setanta Sport Ltd and Setanta Transmissions (UK) Ltd. Setanta Ireland is not under administration." --SVTCobra 21:57, 9 July 2009 (UTC)