Talk:Sts Thomas Minster

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Period in name?[edit]

Is there supposed to be a period in the name: "St. Thomas Minster"?—C45207 | Talk 06:00, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The period is used in American English in tiles such as Mr. Dr. St. and so on, but in British English (in which the atricle is written pertaining to a UK subject) the period is optional and more often now omitted (see Full Stop). However, since existing wikipedia articles on British place names with "St." do use the period, I would agree it should be included for the purpose of consistency. Dainamo (talk) 00:09, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Correct Title[edit]

I attempted to rename St Thomas's Minster to the correct style Sts Thomas Minster by creating a new page and adding a redirect on the original page. I appreciate now that this method meant the history was not merged amd request to mege was added which was completed with due diligence. However, I note that the new article is again rendered in the incorrect single form St Thomas Minster. The official web site has the titles The Minster Church of Sts Thomas, http://www.newportparish.org.uk/ Newport Minster (Sts Thomas) and Newport Minster http://www.newportparish.org.uk/. Hence, any of these should be used in preference to both my proposed title or the existing one (according to preferred styles) although I may sugggest, since it is Newpot Minster and "Sts Thomas" is used in popular reference to the church, the title with parenthesis might be best (?). Whichever title, it remains that all references in the articles should be to the plural form Sts as per the proper title. Dainamo (talk) 23:53, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]