Talk:Beguinage

Definitions
(citing sources:) At dictionary.com
 * Beguinage
 * Beguines — Preceding unsigned comment added by RJFJR (talk • contribs) 02:53, 17 April 2005 (UTC)

What's the point of this? Why not just redirect it to Beguine? Adam Bishop 09:12, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

French name on English wiki?
Why is the English "Beguinage" a redirect to the French "Béguinage"? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Does anybody know how to request the move? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 16:29, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You're right. I'll look into it.  Oreo Priest  talk 17:11, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Any news? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 22:17, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Nope. I asked, an admin, to take care of it, but it looks like he hasn't been online in 3 months.  Oreo Priest  talk 07:11, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Any other admins we could ask? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 13:44, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Does need an admin just to get a name – just tab 'Move'. But there is already a page called Beguines and Beghards. –  Unbuttered parsnip  (talk) mytime= Sun 00:49, wikitime=  16:49, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It needs an admin to move a page to a name that's already taken. --Andreas Philopater (talk) 19:49, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Etymology
OED gives the following etymology:

"[From] French béguine (13th cent. in Littré), in medieval Latin beguīna, begīna, beghīna (Du Cange), an appellative derived from the surname of Lambert Bègue or le Bègue (‘the Stammerer’), a priest of Liège, in the 12th cent., the founder of the order. (Compare the annal of 1180, quoted in Du Cange: ‘God stirred up the spirit of a certain holy priest, a man of religion, who was called Lambert le Bègue (because he was a stammerer) of St. Christopher [in Liège], from whose surname women and girls who propose to live chastly, are called Beguines, because he was the first to arise and preach to them by his word and example the reward of chastity.’ The cap béguin derives its name from them, and not vice versâ.)"

Do we have sources for any alternatives? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 12:03, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Geographical Coordinates
I am removing the geographical coordinates from the top of this article. They seem to point to the middle of the railway line near Brussel Zuid station; in past versions they pointed to the begijnhof at Hoogstraten. The article is about a type of institution in several countries, so no coordinates are necessary or suitable. --Frans Fowler (talk) 19:01, 27 September 2016 (UTC) --Frans Fowler (talk) 19:28, 27 September 2016 (UTC)