Talk:Selimiye Mosque, Üsküdar

Requested move 31 August 2021

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The result of the move request was: moved (non-admin closure) Havelock Jones (talk) 09:59, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Big Selimiye Mosque → Selimiye Mosque, Üsküdar – The mosque is most commonly called the "Selimiye Mosque" in reliable English sources, whereas the current name name doesn't appear in any independent sources (e.g. not a single match on Google Books or Google Scholar). The current page name is a direct translation of "Büyük Selimiye Cami", a name used in Turkish, but the use of the word "Big" here is awkward and unnecessary. Since all the other "Selimiye" Mosques include a disambiguator in their page names (e.g. the more famous "Selimiye Mosque, Edirne"), it should be very reasonable to include one here too. Example of English sources consulted: Doğan Kuban (2010) "Ottoman Architecture"; John Freely (2011), "A History of Ottoman Architecture"; Ünver Rüstem (2019), "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul". Another standard reference, Godfrey Goodwin's (1971) "A History of Ottoman Architecture", calls it the "Selim III Mosque", which would also be a sufficient alternative, but "Selimiye Mosque" seems to be clearly more common. R Prazeres (talk) 19:52, 31 August 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support proposer's arguments are convincing. Mr248 (talk) 02:03, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Or Selimiye Mosque, Istanbul. The current name is not commonly used. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:50, 8 September 2021 (UTC)