Talk:Dedication of churches

Naming of the church not dealt with
Wasn't/isn't the naming of the church (or monastery) an important element? The article only touches on the topic tangentially in the Eastern Orthodoxy section by mentioning a plaque with the name of the patron saint, and nothing more.

Are there no OFFICIAL names, set firmly at the dedication ceremony? Isn't the act of dedicating the church to a Christian concept (Holy Wisdom, Trinity,...), event (Ascension, Assumption, Christmas,...), saint, or other term or holy person, an integral part of the dedication?

Rededication is a related topic - churches or monasteries being rededicated & renamed after specific events, either completely or by adding a name to the existing one.

The relation between official, popular, and other names (scientific, variations by denomination/sect, in different languages etc.) is also very interesting and fully missing.

Article seems incomplete in a major way w/o this. Just think of the endless discussions about how to name Wiki articles dealing with churches and monasteries. Anyone interested? Cheers, Arminden (talk) 09:28, 13 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi . I see this is completely your baby. Thank you very much for creating it and expanding it to such a level. Being a one-man-work it's more than complex. If my issue is not of interest for you, it would be more than legitimate to leave it to others, but in case you can and wish to add the topic to the article, I would be very grateful for that. If not, maybe you can point me towards the most relevant sources, either among those used or apart from them. Thank you, Arminden (talk) 07:27, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

"Eastern Orthodox form": one source tag for the entire section
, me again. On another issue: it's common with one-editor pages to have large paragraphs or even entire sections sourced by one single citation tag set at the very end, and later edits, which split the paragraphs w/o copying the citation at the end of each new part of the former paragraph, leave the impression of unsourced paragraphs. Inserted bits also lead to sentences orphaned of their source, and fixing that is a Sisyphean job (going through edit history, re-reading the sources, etc.).

Given all that: may I set the source you placed at the end of the section behind each of the 4 paragraphs? In my own edits I go even further, setting the source, of course in an abbreviated form (ref name and slash), behind each sentence. Elegant or not, preempting the above-mention problem has proven time and again to be the only safe method. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 08:28, 14 July 2022 (UTC)