Talk:International Island Games Association

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Flags

I've added the flag for the islands as used at the IGA here. I made one modification, by creating a flag for Hitra based on the design for Froya's flag and the coat of arms of Hitra, since the site lumps them together on a description page for no apparent reason (since I believe they compete separately), and which I think would reasonably be the flag for that island. I have not changed the flags for places like the Isle of Wight and Saaremaa, which have their own flags, but which the IGA site has listed as flying their country's flag. Also, some islands seem to have other flags locally (the Western Isles has a council flag, and Orkney has a different unofficial flag) than the ones the IGA uses--these I have left the way the IGA has them. OzLawyer 20:07, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The Union Jack ensign is not used in the Western isles. --MacRusgail 15:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Acording to Island Games Association (IGA) it is the flag that represent Western Isles —Preceding unsigned comment added by Calapez (talk • contribs) 01:01, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

For the Game Venues section, isn't the use of the modern Isle of Wight flag in 1993 anachronistic? When they competed under the English flag. For national sports teams wikipedia uses contemporary flags. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gogleddcymru (talk • contribs) 11:08, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Anglesey / Ynys Mon

Holy accidental hitting of the enter key while writing edit summaries, Batman! Anyway, I changed it back because that's the name it goes under at the Island Games Association (in English, which I assume is the only working language of the association). I'm all for using English where proper, but it's kind of like how "Tahiti" is a memer of FIFA, even though it represents all of French Polynesia. OzLawyer 16:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

It is not simply the case of using, or translating to, the English name. Anglesey's Island Games Association has always entered itself under the Welsh name (Ynys Môn). This is the name by which it has chosen to be represented; as the Western Isles have not decided to be called 'Outer Hebrides', (or indeed 'Na h-Eileanan Siar'). Therefore it is a chosen team name and not just the English/Welsh name for the island group (which includes Holy Island among others) they represent.//User:Gogleddcymru 11:36, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Board Games

This page was linked to from "List of Game Manufacturers" as a manufacturer of board games. If it is in fact such a company, this description should reference the game that they made. Oz 21:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Island of Gibraltar???

Gibraltar patently fails to meet the key physical qualification for membership of the IIGA. Has the Association ever published their justification for admitting this peninsula in spite of its own constitution? If so, a summary of that ruling would make a good addition to this article. (I fail to see how Anglessey meets the membership criterion of significant access and participation difficulties, being served as it is by a major trunk road with a permanent bridge, but that is a less obvious breach of the definition.) Kevin McE 23:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Gibraltar now has its own artificially constructed island just off its western coast of nearly 1 square mile simply called "The Island", a construction where a dozen or so luxury homes are being built. YourPTR! 16:37, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Gibraltar got elected partially on a sympathy vote, as at the time it was proposed Spain was having one its regular hissy fits over Gib. Each local IGA had a vote to ratify the accession which is then passed onto the main meeting and as quite a few of the small islands have often felt they have been bullied by larger neighbours, there was a bit of 'up yours'. Regarding the current criteria for membership the original idea in '85 was to invite those Islands which had links with the IOM, eg had been invaded and settled by the Vikings, or had Celtic links, to the Games, which is why Iceland took part. Since then the criteria have been altered and tightened. Optomramsey (talk) 23:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

IGA has no US members

Should we make note of the IGA never invited an American territorial island to participate? The US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or the Northern Marianas and American Samoa; the states of Hawaii and Rhode Island; and any microcosm island community such as Key West, Fla. and Santa Catalina Island, Cal. The IGA represents islands with a semi-national or sovereign status as a culture or people long isolated from the mainland until recent times. + 71.102.2.206 (talk) 08:22, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Please see my note above as this gives the reason why nobody from the USA was invited. But to reiterate the original games in 85 were set up to celebrate the IOM Year of Sport and the criteria used by the IOM was links with the Island, since then it has remained somewhat eurocentric and anglocentric (again this has changed in recent years). Nobody in the IOM expected the Games to take off as they have. It was really only at the party after the closing ceremony that we realised what had been started as Guernsey's announcement that they would hold one 2 years later was something of a surprise.So should we make a note of it? No. Also most of the territories listed above would not meet the population criteria. Optomramsey (talk) 23:38, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

why aren't the restrictions listed in the article? it seems you know a lot that could be added here 67.176.160.47 (talk) 16:26, 11 September 2010 (UTC)