User talk:Ultimate Roadgeek

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Hagia Sophia name list
I answered on the talk page. Moreover, before reverting a revert, please consider the WP:BRD rule. Alex2006 (talk) 11:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Hagia Sophia again and again
Good evening, I restored the version which is in discussion, and that was reverted again by another user. Please try to reach a consensus in order to change it. If you disagree, you can ask a third opinion about it. Until consensus is not reached, the order of naming stays as it was in the beginning. Greetings from Helvetia Felix, Alex2006 (talk) 06:47, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Dear Roadgeek, the problem is that I see no point in continuing the discussion, for the reasons that I wrote on the talk page on the last time. Only a last example: you write that "most scholars, books, and sources refer to the Hagia Sophia by its Greek name" This is not true, since the most important works which describe the building in its whole history (Müller-Wiener, Eyice, Mamboury, and, among the guides, Freely), either do not cite the greek name at all, or, when they do it, as in Müller-Wiener, cite it after the turkish one. About what you write at the end, it just shows that you don't know how wikipedia works. Any attempt to change an article without reaching a consensus on the part of someone who wants to change it, will result in the opening of an incident against this person. Listen to me and ask for a third opinion. Bye, Alex2006 (talk) 07:16, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but there is no general rule that says that order of names in the leads and in the infobox (if present) should coincide. Usually in wikipedia in the infobox there is only a subset of the names in the lead. The reason why in the article about Hagia Sophia the greek name in the lead is the first is purely etymological: this means, what should be changed is the order in the lead, not in the infobox. Alex2006 (talk) 07:56, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * HOMEWORK :-) Please write here below (or on my talk page, or on the Hagia sophia talk page) all the byzantine museums of Istanbul, as from the actual articles on wikipedia, together with their corresponding name list in the lead. Alex2006 (talk) 08:18, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Not much homework since I've done so a long time ago for you. But anyway, all such museums: Hagia Sophia, Hagia Irene, Pammakaristos Church, and the Monastery of Stoudios. There are no others I know of, as every other former Byzantine church I have come across so far are still functional mosques at this time. --` (talk) 08:28, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You are forgetting the second most important byzantine edifice of Istanbul still extant... :-) Alex2006 (talk) 08:59, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I do not what you are referring to. The walls? If you are referring to the Chora Church, notice that it is a special case as the Greek name, different from the English name, is listed separately.--` (talk) 09:08, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Correct. It is Chora (a small inattention for someone interested in the City :-)), and there we have the turkish name (Kariye) as only one in the lead list. Chora is not a "special case": the problem is that, being Chora - as Hagia Sophia - a very well known building, the article has been written very soon in wikipedia, and the lead has never been harmonised with the others. In other words, there has never been a pattern in the case of Museums of Istanbul and, as a matter of fact, as far as I know no general work which deals with the complete history of the byzantine buildings in Istanbul makes a difference in nomenclature among mosques, ex-mosques, museums, and so on. All these building, known as Kilise-Camiler, follow the same pattern. In their wikipedia articles we use the common name in english (which is mostly the turkish one) as the article's name, and then as alternate names in the lead the turkish name. You can check it, following the links given in this template:. So, if we want to harmonise Hagia Sophia and the other 2-3 buildings to this rule, the only way is putting the turkish name as first in the list of the alternate names in the lead. As I said before, this is what the most eminent scholars and divulgators do in their general works. Alex2006 (talk) 10:26, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

P.S. You can answer on the Hagia Sophia talk page. I copypasted the thread. If i forgot something in the process, feel free to add it. Alex2006 (talk) 10:34, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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