Had to fix that one for you… 
Never was called a “War”, just “The Troubles”…
Old politics is complex… that is why there is no correct answer to this question.
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Even in Poland there is an IRA team.
The “both” option looks a bit odd to me as a UK person, but it’s a fair compromise, especially if it’s already commonly used outside the UK anyway.
In everyday conversation, certainly: but when you have to choose your nationality from a dropdown list when filling out a form online, I’d guess there’s a >90% chance it’ll have “Royaume-Uni” (or “Britannique”, if it’s using adjectives), but not “Angleterre”, “Écosse” etc., rising to basically 100% if what you put is going to be checked against some ID later. I think we do tend to use official terms over colloquial ones on MB. (E.g. “Netherlands”, not “Holland”… maybe that confusion is itself a UK thing.)
That said, I was once asked by a staff member at a Latin American airport what my nationality was, so I said “Reino Unido” because that matches the passport. He had no idea what I was talking about until I added “Inglaterra”. 
(Could have been bad pronunciation, of course!)
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Perhaps the translation of “United Kingdom” is less common than the original name. If you go to Vienna, you’ve got better chances with UK or United Kingdom than with “Vereinigtes Königreich”. 
United States of Europe 
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Sorry for the bump, but any progress on this? Would be good to have a final decision so I can edit with confidence. 
For the moment I’ve been mostly restricting to adding new comments, and amending those that are obviously wrong in other ways (and settled on Option C, since that looked to be where things were heading). But the inconsistency in existing comments still makes me a bit sad (which is perhaps just my problem!), so it would be nice to be able to clean up some of that as well.
By the way, for those who like stats: the votes here are in the exact opposite order of frequency in the database! 
10,842 Eng/Sco/Wal/NI, no UK
12,757 Eng/Sco/Wal/NI, UK
61,625 UK, no Eng/Sco/Wal/NI
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Have you taken a count of how many you personally flipped to UK only? You must have had a sizeable dent on that number based on just my subscribed edits.
Lol! I’d be curious to know that actually, but can’t work out how to find out.
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Sorry, I did get sidetracked! I listed this as STYLE-2657 to have some paper trail, and made the changes (to mandate both).
I do wonder whether it makes sense to have the stuff under live bootlegs, or whether it should live under the Live recordings heading in Style/Recording; it seems a bit weird to point people to bootleg guidelines for official stuff. But that’s a second discussion for another day
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Yes, I’ve often found this strange.
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Thank you @reosarevok! And thank you very much @raelthelamb for the great edits and the shared interest in getting guidelines for this!
re. this:
I remember writing this exact thing, including “discussion for another thread”, in the OP, but then decided not to muddy the waters. It is weird! But not the end of the world, I guess.
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From the ever expanding Kingdom of the United States 
, thank you everyone for this thread, very enjoyable reading this morning.
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Well as your King Trump is soon to invade Canada and Greenland, they would be like Scotland and Wales. Countries within a country. I guess he’d change their money too.
I think your new King looked close into English history and learnt how we used to pilfer gold, nutmeg and other goodies from our colonies. Which seems to be what he is rigging up with Ukraine.
I’m waiting for him to put his face on the Dollar.
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I am going to keep my mouth closed before both you and I get into trouble. 
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I hear Guantanamo is quite nice this time of year.
We are just about skirting on the “modern day example”… anything more is for the off topic thread .
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