Talk:Our Lady of Porta Vaga

Importance of using a neutral term for Mary in lead
I recently changed the phrasing in the lead here [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Lady_of_Porta_Vaga&diff=prev&oldid=1053174993]

I did this because using one religious title to give context to another is not useful to readers who are not familiar with the subject. 'Mary, mother of Jesus' is understandable to a wider audience and is a neutral term. This is per policy such as WP:NPOV. Though Catholics and some others may think of Mary as the BVM, this is not a neutral term.

An IP editor (172.250.99.70) reverted this change and additionally added the phrase Roman Catholic before Marian in the lead. I will now re-instate my change whilst also keeping this editor's 'Roman Catholic Marian title' phrasing. From their edit summary, which said 'this is a Roman', I think they may have only intended to add the Roman Catholic phrase as they did not engage with my reason for my change in the edit summary.

In any case, if anyone has any comment it would be good to build consensus.JohnmgKing (talk) 22:34, 7 November 2021 (UTC)