[Tagging] patron saints

[Thorsten Alge]

On 2015-01-26 01:39, Friedrich Volkmann wrote:
> On 25.01.2015 23:30, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>> On 1/26/15, Lukas Sommer <sommerluk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And I think it makes sense to define explicitly some things in the
>>> documentation. Things like
>>> – use always (or use never) “Saint”: “Saint Paul” vs “Paul”.
> That's a good point. In German, there are name variations for many saints,
> e.g. Nepomuk = Johannes Nepomuk. There are name variations even for the word
> "saint": "Sankt", "St.", "Heiliger", "Hl.", none.
>
> But AFAIK the official dedication for a given church is always a fixed
> version of the name. Of course that breaks comparability.
>
>
Maybe use the Wikidata-ID instead? patron_saint:wikidata=Qxxxx. If you
need the names in whatever language you want you can get it from
wikidata in a second step.