Talk:St Paul's Church, Brighton

A fact from St Paul's Church, Brighton appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton, England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

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Requested move

Church of St Paul, Brighton → Church of St Paul, Brighton — Church of St. Paul, Brighton —Vox Humana 8' 14:34, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - The page should stay without the point. Officially, British English abbreviates Saint to St, not St. ! -- Beardo 20:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Per Beardo, and that other websites designate as St Paul. If it was in the US, it'd be a different story because of American-English, but since the subject of the article is in England, we should keep at same title. Cool Blue^{talk to me} 01:24, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- With move requests, it's actually "Support" or "Oppose". It's AFD's that use Keep/Delete.
Oppose I don't understand why, but British spelling doesn't use periods for abbreviations (so they would write "Mr Smith" rather than "Mr. Smith) and this is a church in the UK. TJ Spyke 02:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In formal British English, the stop/period is used to denote omitted letters - it is not used where only letters in the middle are omitted - that is, the last letter of the original word is also the last letter of the abbreviation. Thus Mister -> Mr, Saint -> St, but Captain -> Capt. with a point. -- Beardo 20:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 17:26, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]