Talk:St Peter

Article name

Should this be at Saint Peter? J. Noel Chiappa 18:49, 25 May 2008 (CDT)

Or shouldn't it be "St. Peter" with a period? Hayford Peirce 12:51, 19 August 2008 (CDT)

I think St without a period (or Mr or Mrs or Dr) is a British thing. We seem to have a "conflict of laws" here -- I seem to recall that the Chicago Manual of Style is supposed to be our guide, and it calls for a period if you abbreviate "St."; but CZ also allows articles to be written in different variants of English. Seems that we should standardize, though, so we don't have articles on "St Peter" but "St. Paul" and "Saint Claire". Chicago seems to have a sort of vague preference for spelling it out ("Saint"). Bruce M.Tindall 16:23, 19 August 2008 (CDT)

Oh, by the way, the Other Place uses "Saint X" as the official title, with redirects from "St. X" and "St X". And as long as we're stirring things up in this general topic, how would one list, say Thomas More? "Sir Thomas More"? Or "Saint Thomas More"? Mr. Ratzinger might give one answer and Henry VIII another, though I don't think either of them has a CZ account yet. Bruce M.Tindall 16:35, 19 August 2008 (CDT)

Hehe. Yes, I figured was a Brit thing. My suggestion is this: we'll leave it as it is, and make plenty of redirects, from, say, "St. Peter" and "Saint Peter" and any others you can think of. And if it hasn't already been done, you should go into the Metadata and put BE into the Variant line, to tell everyone that the article is being written in Brit-style talk.... Hayford Peirce 17:06, 19 August 2008 (CDT)