Talk:Lord high commissioner

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fastifex adds references to the Ionian Islands and links to High Commissioner. I removed this as even with Fastifex additions the article is 99% Scottish. Perhaps the Ioanian references are best High Commissioner. Lord High Commissioner is in this article for the representatives of the Monarch to the Parliament and church in Scotland. The Ionian references are to a diplomatic post to foreign powers. The use of the term Hign Commissioner for the Ioanian Islands falls more within the special use of the term in the British Commonwealth, (i.e. Commonwealth realm government to Commonwealth realm government or even Commonwealth realm to Commonwealth republic) for external representatives rather than representative to domestics bodies. garryq 12:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Like it or not, but it's up to the Crown (and in practice HM's government) to decide how to call its representatives, in Scotland or anywhere else. If you absolutely want a single meaning, for which L.H.C. is actually just a shortened form, on a separate page, for reasons I will never understand (but my subjective sensitivities are as irrelevant as yours, so that must not stop you) the only correct way to go about it seems to me to move the ecclesiastical section to a page under the full name Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (if you don't make that a content page, we should still create that, but simply as a redirect), just as it was done with the Scottish parliamentary L.H.C. Otherwise the present page would only serve those looking for the church context, which outside Scotland probably seems (another subjective estimation anyone may disagree with) not very relevant- the unspecified article L.H.C. should either accomodate all senses, or disambiguate; my vote goes to one page, but I'm satisfied as long as the reader gets a practical oversight, which from my point of view (call it word history) is actually as fascinating as either sense on its own. Fastifex 14:04, 4 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

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