Talk:Noorderkerk

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The result of the proposal was no consensus to move these pages, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 07:23, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Noorderkerk → North Church
• South Church
• Oosterkerk → East Church
• Westerkerk → West Church
• New Church (Amsterdam)
• Old Church

Suggesting per

Thats what redirects are for ;-).

^{? en | nl} 01:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply

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• Oppose - I support the current names. I am Dutch and live in Amsterdam, and can tell you the names West Church, East Church are incorrect translations, as I pointed out out to you previously. If you have to use English names, then it would be Western Church, Eastern Church etc. However it seems a bit a nonsensical to translate these names into English. Then you would also have to give the Prinsengracht as Prince's Canal, the Champs-Élysées in Paris would have to be renamed Elysian Fields, and so on. The rationale that "well that's what the tour guide said" seems a bit thin. Besides, Wikipedia is not Wikitravel. A more credible source is the Amsterdam municipality which uses Westerkerk, Oosterkerk etc in their English-language texts. Regards, Jvhertum 09:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose with the same reasons. – Kaihsu 11:12, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Support largely because the oppose votes above are wrong on English idiom; this follows my comments below. I would still like to see evidence of English usage. – Pmanderson 14:23, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose For
  WP:UE to apply the English usage policy on names, the English version of the name should be common and well-established. Neither has been shown for these churches; hence the local name is prefered. Arnoutf 16:35, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose if "our colleagues" at Columbia Encyclopedia and Encarta use at least several of the Dutch language names, why wouldn't we. Create a bunch of redirects and everything should be fine... My "vote" is based on
  ^{? en | nl} 01:26, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • • Oppose;
      Deutschland), but this is not the case here. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• WP:NCGN for some reasonable way to demonstrate English usage. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:14, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • Like I said, my main exposure is just from my couple days there. I never heard the -kerk names the whole time I was there and I seriously had difficulty finding these articles when I got back to the home base. From Google searches, it's difficult to find a place where the Dutch names are given without the English names at least patenthetically mentioned. In that regard the Champs-Elysees counterexample falls flat IMHO. "Champs-Elysees" is so commonplace in the English-speaking world that I didn't even know it translated to "Elysian Fields" until yesterday. The -kerk vs. Church comparison, on the other hand, seems to be pretty equally split and in an equal split, I'd lean towards the English version on the English Wikipedia. —Wknight94 (talk) 14:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Usage would appear to be borne out by searching for "North Church" and Amsterdam on Google Scholar. I have rejected hits for New Amsterdam as false positives.

• I find 46 hits for North Church of which the first is about this building, and the rest substantiate usage of the form.
• Of the 12 hits for Noorderkerk, most are street addresses, which as
  WP:NCGN
  says, show Dutch usage, not English.
• There are also 46 hits for Northern Church; but all of them are false postives. Some of them are discussing the Northern
  Presbyterian Church, where Church is a denomination not a building, and Northern means the Northern United States; half are discussing Karl Barth's Das altkirchliche Dogma in der kirchlichen Dogmatik (published in Amsterdam) and the "Northern Church" being discussed is the Chruch in Northern Europe. Compare this search. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:11, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Gare du Nord, Paris, has not been translated to "north station". – Kaihsu 10:40, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nor have any of the Churches in Paris, except the American and Scottish ones. Jvhertum 13:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• The Columbia article on Amsterdam ([1]) mentions the Nieuwe Kerk and the Oude Kerk.
  ^{? en | nl} 15:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  Encarta does the same: [2].

  ^{? en | nl} 01:24, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply

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To use the English version it should be commonly used. The above account of North Church is a single instance, so hardly evidence of common usage. Therefore I would conclude the native name should be preferred. Arnoutf 16:33, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.