Talk:Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes

Previous Bishops
Ruth Harris' book provides some details about past bishops; more details would be welcome. It is possible that this list (Laurence, Schoepfer, Choquet, Theas, Perrier) is complete since the apparitions, but this is far from certain. Preacherdoc (talk) 14:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I was wrong. There have been loads of other bishops. The Catholic Hierarchy website gives details of all the bishops since 1692, and I have included these. Some bishops died in office and I have indicated this. Occasionally a successor was appointed immediately (indicated); sometimes there was a delay of several months before a successor was appointed. Some bishops were appointed elsewhere (sometimes after only a short time); some retired from office.
 * There is a gap in the chronology from 1782 to 1817, which the Catholic Hierarchy website does not explain, except to note that the diocese was "suppressed" in 1801 and "restored" in 1822.Preacherdoc (talk) 11:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Coincides with the First Empire under Napoleon. Napoleon dissolved all of the dioceses, and they were not restored until after his defeat in Waterloo.Benkenobi18 (talk) 08:30, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Flag Icon
I removed the French Republic flag icon from the Infobox, in accordance with several sections of WP:ICON; specifically (quoting),
 * Generally, flag icons should not be used in infoboxes, even when there is a "country", "nationality" or equivalent field: they are unnecessarily distracting and give undue prominence to one field among many.
 * Flags make simple, blunt statements about nationality, while words can express the facts with more complexity. [Tarbes was not part of France for many centuries, and then it belonged to the Kings of France (whose flag was a large golden fleur-de-lys on a white background), not to the French Republic. The diocese was not an integral part of the political structure of the French state].
 * Do not rewrite history. Flags should not be used to misrepresent the nationality of a historical figure, event, object, etc. Political boundaries change, often over the span of a biographical article subject's lifetime. Where ambiguity or confusion could result, it is better not to use a flag at all, and where one is genuinely needed, use the historically accurate flag.

--Vicedomino (talk) 03:41, 4 December 2017 (UTC)