File talk:Irish Population Decline.png

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This map is accurate

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"However, as of the 2022 census of Ireland, 162,280 of 191,348 people in County Galway (84.8%) identified as either White Irish or White Irish Traveller." - actually, no. If you look carefully at the map on the site you linked, it excludes Galway City, which can be verified by checking the population of County Galway as a whole - 276,451 as of the 2022 census, of which almost 211,500 were White Irish (https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressreleases/pressstatementcensus2022resultsprofile5-diversitymigrationethnicityirishtravellersreligiongalway/).

211,500/276,451=76.5%

You made the same mistake for County Cork, separating the city from the rest of the county. This map is of the White Irish population, i.e. ethnically Irish people, the indigenous people of Ireland, whereas you seem to be combining White Irish and White Irish Travellers.

There is no 70-75% category because no counties fell into that range.

The 2002 estimates of White Irish population come from a demographer on the erstwhile Twitter: https://x.com/juice8882/status/1730643458623152307 JohnsonReed (talk) 21:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for your response. RE:
  • "Cork and Galway (city and county) have been combined). If the map has combined multiple census data sets, to create a new/synthesized data set, then how is that clear? And why has that been done? (That there are no sources, so that others can interpret and validate, remains a problem).
  • "Longford". I note that you have not addressed the point about Longford. There are no separate city and council local authority areas in Longford. If the issues with Cork and Galway are explained by combining authority areas, what explains the Longford issue?
  • "2002 estimates of White Irish population come from [a tweet]". Random Twitter posts (from pretty much anyone - and in this case from a user called "juice8882" with 4,000 followers and a tagline of "I like to have fun on the Internet") are not reliable sources. Certainly not for a demographic map used (or seemingly intended to be used) on Wikipedia. Wikipedia project norms (including those relating to reliable sources and verifiability) apply to article infographics just as they do to article text.
Thanks. Guliolopez (talk) 09:57, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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