Talk:Orthodox Church

This page was nominated at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion on 22 June 2020. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

On 6 March 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to Orthodox Church (disambiguation). The result of the discussion was not moved.

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Requested move 6 March 2022

Latest comment: 4 years ago7 comments7 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ~Styyx^Talk? 17:50, 28 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Orthodox Church → Orthodox Church (disambiguation)Orthodox Church (disambiguation) – Although 'Orthodox Church' may refer not only to the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church is the primary topic for this term. A topic is primary for 'Orthodox Church' with respect to usage because it is much more likely be the topic sought. All three tools prove this:

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Count of the incoming wikilinks from Special:WhatLinksHere Heanor (talk) 14:18, 6 March 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. No such user (talk) 12:37, 14 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Strong oppose: most WP users do not know the difference between Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy which creates errors in the incoming hyperlinks; this was namely pointed out by wbm1058 on this talk page at 14:02, 1 April 2021. See also my previous arguments above, here (at 3:42, 31 March 2021) and here (at 07:53, 17 December 2021). Furthermore, media and most publications indiscriminately use "Orthodox" to refer sometimes to OOrthodoxy, sometimes to EOrthodoxy; for example the Pew Research Center uses the same "Orthodox" word here (OOrthodox) and here (EOrthodox) in articles which have been published the same month.

I am also pinging those who have previously discussed the issue at this very talk page: @Omnipaedista and Wbm1058:. Veverve (talk) 14:35, 6 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Support. Agree that Eastern Orthodox Church is the clear primary redirect here. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:52, 9 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
In 2010 after lengthy discussion Orthodox Church moved to Eastern Orthodox Church. I think we should see much more participation here in order to reverse that consensus. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:34, 13 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Oppose: Moving will add needless confusion and will not reflect the topic as it is used in the real world (to the shared use of the term Orthodox churches which simply isn't the specific reference to EOrthodoxy). Mesfin (talk) 15:38, 14 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Oppose. An unqualified "Orthodox Church" is most likely going to refer to the EOC, but there are significant real differences. I would prefer a WP:CONCEPTDAB here instead about the term "Orthodox Church". Red Slash 22:23, 23 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

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.