Talk:Scholastic accolades

Rename and rework to "scholastic accolade"?
We currently don't have an article about scholastic accolades, but the majority of the entries seem to fall into that category. Therefore, I would like to rename this article to "scholastic accolade", which is currently a redirect here.

Currently, this article consists almost exclusively of doctors in theology and law. Does that reflect the reality, or is it an artefact, given that most of the article has been stolen from the Catholic Encyclopedia?

How reliable or relevant are these nicknames? I just checked a number of entries, and for the vast majority I was not able to verify the nicknames:
 * For many entries, we don't have any article. Finding information about those on the internet is hard; Google searches like "Praeclarus Peter Kaiserslautern 1330 -Irrefragibilis" only show links to snippets of this article or of The new international encyclopaedia; never to anything about the person in question. I am afraid we will ever never have an article on most of them.
 * Where we do have articles, those often don't mention the accolade. I checked the the following:
 * Anselm of Canterbury - not in article
 * Anselm of Laon - not in article
 * William of Champeaux - not in article
 * Gilbert, Bishop of London - part of (redirected) article name
 * Peter Abelard - not in article
 * Bernard of Clairvaux - article contains link to Doctor Mellifluus without mentioning it's his accolade or nickname

I have seen Aristoteles being called "[THE] philosophus", but I don't consider that a "nickname". Likewise with "apostolus", which btw would need a citation.

What's the best way to address this? Should we only should keep those entries in the list for which we have, or likely will have, articles? Should we start fleshing out the redlinks? &mdash; Sebastian 10:59, 2 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I concur. These are not "nicknames", and the title should not have "nicknames" in it. Rwflammang (talk)


 * Keep the redlinks. WP:LSC means starting with a list like that in the Catholic Encyclopedia is basically a good idea. We can't say absolutely in advance that every name in the list is notable, but given the kind of list it is, it is certainly plausible. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:48, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Would it be desirable to supply translations for these accolades?AKMAdam (talk) 11:38, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Add a column to the table such that the Latin column is followed by the English translation column
Would be nice when someone has time to backfill the new column. Quercus solaris (talk) 19:45, 17 July 2022 (UTC)