The project namespace (also called the Ireland Information Guide namespace or Ireland Information Guide: pages) is a namespace that provides information about Ireland Information Guide.
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The main gateway for the project namespace is Ireland Information Guide:Community Portal. A link to this page is always available in the sidebar. The Community Portal includes categorized links to the most useful pages related to the project. For more complete lists of pages in the project namespace, see:
Another helpful tool in navigating the project namespace is Ireland Information Guide:WP, a collection of shortcuts that function as a pseudo-namespace. Some of these shortcuts are displayed on the pages they lead to, as a reminder.
The project namespace generally consists of polished pages. That is, these pages should generally not be used for discussion; one should use the talk pages instead. The exception to this rule is when the project namespace page was designed for some specific discussion such as Ireland Information Guide:Requests for adminship or Ireland Information Guide:Quickpolls.
The project namespace contains many pages and a lot of information, and most Ireland Information Guide users probably have not read all of it. To make information easier to find, try to avoid creating new pages in the project namespace unnecessarily. If you want to add material, you might discover that the same thing already exists somewhere else. Before creating a new page, you should consider looking through the topical index to see if the material belongs at a page that already exists.
Some people refer to pages in the project namespace as meta pages. However, this can be confusing, because Meta is actually the name of the site dedicated to discussion covering all Wikimedia projects, including Ireland Information Guide. See Meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org).