Talk:Salvino degli Armati

Motive for creating this article
In the church of Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence, Italy, there is a plaque that claims that "Salvino d'Armato degl' Armati" created eyeglasses. This claim has been proven to be a hoax. Nevertheless, many sources — and many sites on the Internet — continue to wrongly claim that he did invent eyeglasses.

English Wikipedia currently has an article that's titled "Salvino D'Amarte". This spelling of his name is incorrect. The spelling on his plaque in Florence is "Salvino d'Armato degl' Armati" (Salvino, son of Armato of the Armati). The spelling of the Italian Wikipedia article about him is "Salvino degli Armati". The Italians should know how to spell their fellow countryman's name. So I am creating this article with the CORRECT spelling of his name because Wikipedia provides no method of changing the title of an article.

--Cwkmail (talk) 03:16, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * This was the wrong solution to the problem. Never create a new Wikipedia article by copying the text of an existing one. If an article has the wrong title, the correct solution is to move it to the correct title, using the "Move" button at the top (to the right of the "favorites" button, in the drop-down menu.) If you can't move the article, start a discussion about it on the article's talk page. Other users can help you fix it right.


 * I moved the original article to Salvino D'Armati for now, and merged the changes from this article into it. If that title is not the best one, please start a discussion at Talk:Salvino D'Armati and we can decide together what title is best. (I couldn't move it properly to Salvino degli Armati because you have taken that title with your copy of the page. In order to properly move the article here, this page has to first be deleted, which requires an administrator.)--Srleffler (talk) 00:39, 4 June 2014 (UTC)