Talk:Naas

Old 2006 posts

A merge notice was placed some time back, suggesting Church of Our Lady & St. David be merged into the article. I think this is a reasonable suggestion - if the town article were to grow too big, it would make more sense to create a sub-article about all the churches in Naas. However, I suspect the need for this is quite low unless we suddenly have an influx of editors from Naas.

Just checking here for dissention.

zoney ♣ talk 10:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Au contraire. QuartierLatin1968 16:36, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Just for confirmation, [nays] in this article means that that Naas rhymes with daze, with base, or with dice? QuartierLatin1968 16:36, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

NAAS rhymes with BASS (or 'base' if you want some disambiguation!)

Great, thanks for that! I've corrected the IPA. (The incorrect transcription [nays] would sound a bit like 'nice', only with a German ü sound thrown in there...) QuartierLatin1968 17:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Request for Sport section

This page needs a Sport section to include GAA, Rugby,Horse racing etc. Peter Clarke 14:14, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

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Not moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:14, 10 February 2010 (UTC) Naas → Naas, Ireland

• All queries for the term 'Naas' go straight to this article (a place name). However, since a new has emerged in the telecomms arena, variously known as NAAS, NaaS or Naas then I believe the appropriate first page should be the Nass disambiguation page. See Caas for similar example. User:Smcvarno 08:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose: The Irish town is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Any disambiguation can be taken care of by parentheses in titles and at Naas (disambiguation). – ukexpat (talk) 03:49, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose: Concur with ukexpat. An acronyn for new technology that's five minutes old does not trump the name of a town that has existed for hundreds of years. ww2censor (talk) 04:17, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose - as per ww2censor, the name is hundreds of years old. Sorry 'bout that.Red Hurley (talk) 14:15, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose As clear a case of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC as you are likely to come across. Especially as the acronym is not even the title of the page on Network as a service. Skinsmoke (talk) 18:07, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose: This town is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, and the other term, which is not even consistent in form, a new acronym of a longer term, which is the proper name of any article (and which can, in the unlikely event of need, be hatnote disambiguated). SeoR (talk) 21:05, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
• Note: There are 3 places called Naas: see Naas (disambiguation). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:11, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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Not a suburb

It's technically an exurb or commuter town. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.83.246.194 (talk) 07:23, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 7 July 2026

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Consensus is that the Irish town remains primary by usage. (closed by non-admin page mover) 1isall (talk | contribs) 14:57, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

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• Naas → Naas, Ireland
• Naas (disambiguation) → Naas

– This Irish town does not appear to be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Searching "Naas" online and in Google Scholar leads to a myriad of varying results, very few of which concern the subject of this article. This article should thus be disambiguated. — EarthDude (Talk) 14:25, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Oppose Naas is a somewhat important and well-known (well-known in Ireland) Irish town, while all other entries are of very low importance and not that well known Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 14:36, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Support makes it known what country it is in. there might be another place named naas in a different country. ~2026-38391-81 (talk) 14:55, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose. As noted in the previous move discussion above (2010), the other common meanings (e.g. abbreviation for Network as a service, first name of former ZA rugby player Naas Botha, etc) are already disambiguated (by full/non-abbreviated IT term, rugby player's full name, etc). While I understand the point about Google Scholar, this is just one measure. And, frankly, seems to be skewed because "Naas" is a given/middle name of the authors of papers returned in a Google Scholar search (the same thing occurs in a Google Scholar search for "Jordan" or for "Ennis" or "Navan"). Looking at other metrics, a worldwide Google trends review suggests that a majority of general websearches relate to the town ("naas weather", "naas hospital", "naas news", "naas cinema", "naas [name of business/service]", etc). The WikiNav traffic view for "Naas" also suggests no material through-traffic to the DAB page or other pages (suggesting that most landing on this title are where they intended/expected to be). Same seems to be the case for Page Analysis tool. Guliolopez (talk) 15:59, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
• Weak oppose it is a county town so long-term significance probably favours the Irish town and appears to be primary per views[] for the single word. Also if moved it should be Naas, County Kildare per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Ireland. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:20, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose, justified primary topic. 162 etc. (talk) 20:15, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose. The page clearly has the most views of all topics of the same name, and more than their sum. FromCzech (talk) 09:55, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose - Google Scholar is not the right starting point for this. In fact, excluding things such as the tech term NaaS, which are quite distinct, and personal (non-primary) name elements, Naas town is the leading item in general searches. So the complication of this change is not needed. And a disamb page can handle all secondary connections if needed. SeoR (talk) 11:54, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose. Clear primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:27, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

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