Category talk:Churches in Philadelphia

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Philadelphia

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Work

Additional work is being done on adding Churches in Philadelphia. See draft pages here User:Waarmstr/Churches. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waarmstr (talk • contribs)

Naming Conventions

Will a naming convention such as "church name, city" be good? Neither other cities (New York, Chicago, and London) or Wikipedia Policies on Wikipedia:Naming_conventions have direction on this.

Should a naming convention be established for churches?
What should the naming convention be?

In the case of Postmaster General they just use their names because they are fairly unique (only 3 exceptions out of 75).
"Main Street" is a more common term. In this case a disambiguation page was created, but I don't think we should create a disambiguation page for almost every church (e.g. St._Andrew's_Church).

Recommendation: Since a lot of churches in different cities have the same name it is recommended that the city be mentioned in the church name. (e.g St. Augustine Church, Philadelphia)

Exceptions:

if a church is well known in most of the English speaking world by one name (St._Peter's_Basilica, Rome, or St_Paul's_Cathedral, London).
if a church has such a unique name it is unlikely to be mistaken for a church in another city (Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. 19 of the first 20 Google results were for the Tenth Presbyterian Church located in Philadelphia. The one exception was clearly titled Zionsville Presbyterian Church and was probably an error.)

Waarmstr 12:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]