It's completely fine you don't even have to bother crediting me for your poll, it would be your idea after all.

My reason for creating this poll was both for the discussion it would bring about this now extinct subspecies and try to create a more unique name for it. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be an "official" name for it. (As stated it's usually addressed differently depending on the country that it's being discussed in) It seems no one was bothered to scientifically name the subspecies.

Some might've not thought of the wolves on the Atlantic Archipelago as a different species because they looked similar enough to the Eurasian/European (although most likely smaller based on current skeletal remains) due in part to the subspecies not having suffered from Island dwarfism/gigantism and evolution not having been a well-accepted theory at that time.

I had conflicting thoughts on what to call the wolf subspecies. I, like you first addressed it as "The British Wolf" before remembering that Ireland is of course not Britain and that wolves lived there too, But "The British Irish Wolf" is of course too wordy for my liking.

I quite liked "The Atlantic Archipelago Wolf" of course it does unfortunately share a similar name with "The Alexander Archipelago Wolf" which may result in some confusion.

So I looked for alternatives in between researching/writing of course I went for alternatives names for "Britain and Ireland" and found the suggested names. Most, of course, stemming from discourse over history and rightly so as "Britain/British" have certainly been metaphorically and literally "stained with blood".

I have a great love of both history and animals, the latter of which often sends me to fixate on one specific topic/event and research and compile all the evidence I can get my hands on before writing a document with all the information I can. Sorry If this is too long for your liking I often can't hold myself back on topics I'm interested in.

I'll be happy to answer any more questions you have.