Talk:The City of God
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-- sometimes titled The City of God Against the Pagans Sometimes, indeed! If anyone can find an edition with such a title on the titlepage, by all means return it to the entry, with its reference. Whoever wrote this stub has never handled a copy of this book. Wetman 08:55, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Maybe the author of the stub used the Cambridge University Press (http://assets.cambridge.org/052146/8434/cover/0521468434.jpg) edition (ISBN-10: 0521468434 | ISBN-13: 9780521468435). Burschik 09:47, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Article rename with no discussion
The proper name is without the "The" -- it is a Latin text, the is not used. And, the majority of articles link to it without the the. Stbalbach 01:29, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- It isn't a Latin text, it's an English title; the English title is always given with the article, thus Wikipedia policy is to use the article. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:11, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I should add that the fact that articles have links without the article isn't significant (their authors would usually link to the version of the title that existed) — a point borne out by the fact that most of them had incorrect links to Augustine (either Augustine ot St Augustine). Some used the articleless link but piped to the version with an article. Others were in fact trying to link to a novel by Doctorow called "City of God" (or to an episode of Buck Rogers); I've changed all these, I think. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:26, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- The English title is not always precendent, see Magna Carta versus "The Great Charter" for example, it's based on popularity. I based my reasoning on the article not being used for latin names, as in "The Magna Carta" (a mixture of english and latin which is improper since Latin has no "the"), but now that I think of it, a pure English translation of De Civitate Dei would have the article, and the English version is how it is most well known. I agree with the rename. Stbalbach 14:48, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
