Talk:Garda Síochána

At the time of this writing, the shield graphic being used is this one: [1]

This graphic is riddled with errors, not of least of which is that it says "Sarda Síochána" instead of "Garda". There are other major issues as well, including lettering that is differing sizes and not aligned, triquetras that are lopsided, and the GS letter mark in the centre looking like it was hand-drawn. In all, it just looks bad and amateurish.

For comparison, this is a proper shield from the Gardai's Facebook page: [2]

I'm going to remove the shield for now because its poor quality (and massive misspelling in the name) really detracts from the article. 73.254.89.77 (talk) 04:01, 25 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Update: I let the original uploader (and artist?) know over on Commons. Once it gets repaired, I hope we can bring the graphic back 73.254.89.77 (talk) 05:02, 25 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Update 2: The author simply deleted my message, taking no further action on this. Therefore, I'm going to assume that this person is uninterested in fixing it. I'm going to open a request at Commons' Graphics Lab and see if we can get a fix. 73.254.89.77 (talk) 06:08, 8 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion:

• Garda Special Branch Bodyguard.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 06:51, 8 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Some of the references needs to be either updated (if can be) or removed entirely as the source no longer exists for some of them. IrishDeafBoy (talk) 11:01, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. Could you give examples, to speed this up? Offline sources are fine, so for lost-link online sources, they may, hopefully, have been captured by the Internet Archive, or the retention project of a national or research library (the National Library of Ireland, British Library, Library of Congress, several US bodies and universities, etc.), either by recording the source, or by printing and filing a copy. At any rate, we can look into it. SeoR (talk) 16:10, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Scores of wikipedia articles contain the word "gardaí", and a quick suvey indicates most do not link the word to the present article, or otherwise help the reader unaware that the word refers to "police" in Ireland. I think they should nearly all at first occurance have gardaí (a piped link). Agree? Nø (talk) 11:16, 19 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Absolutely agree. Good catch. SeoR (talk) 13:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done. (In fact, most had a link already.) Nø (talk) 10:26, 20 May 2024 (UTC)Reply