Talk:Cistercian nuns

Requested move
The present title is a direct copy and paste from the outdated Catholic Encyclopedia, which (as so often) is misleading here. Female Cistercians are nuns - there is no Third Order - and this remains the standard usage, as illustrated by the Google hits:


 * "Cistercian nuns" + Cistercian nun" → 16,400 + 2,020   = 18,420
 * "Cistercian sisters" + "Cistercian sister" → 1,340 + 88 = 1,428 (of which many are Cath Enc mirrors)

or less than 10%.

Of course Google is not the final arbiter but on this occasion the figures are very clear. HeartofaDog (talk) 12:56, 30 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I created the page as a redirect, and I'm fine with the new name. User:Charles Matthews may also be a good person to talk to. JASpencer (talk) 13:04, 30 August 2008 (UTC)


 * "Cistercian nuns" has a (very short) edit history, and as a non-admin I wasn't able to make the move myself.HeartofaDog (talk) 13:09, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I made the page move (having been away a few days). I don't "directly" copy-and-paste - there is always a copyedit. Here, looking around, there seems to be plenty of discussion by historians relating to the actual status of nunneries and their recognition as Cistercian - quite a tricky topic, it appears. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the move, and sorry for the copy-and-paste remark - I was focussing only on the former title, which was from the Cath Enc. Cistn nunneries are indeed a complicated subject. HeartofaDog (talk) 16:28, 3 September 2008 (UTC)