Forum:Judeo-Christian God: how to title the article
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As there is specific reference to the Jewish/Christian/Islamic God in Byzantium!, we need an article on this specific concept of God. Thing is, though, we can't do the dictionary trick of making god about the general concept and God about the specific deity. Anybody got any good guesses of how we'd title an article about God? Would it be God (Judeo-Christian)? Or do we move the current god to gods] and leave god for God?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">18:18:30 Fri 15 Jul 2011
Without reading 'Byzantium' I would check the name of the religious group in the referred work and see if any of the traditional named like 'Yahweh' are used. If none spring to mind, try calling the article something like "God" Byzantium. There should be a connection to the general god article with a counter-reference. Good luck in not stepping on toes.Boblipton 23:11, July 15, 2011 (UTC)
- I don't think God (Byzantium!) would work, because it's not like he's a character in the novel. It's a concept. And there's not Yahweh or other such alternate names used, because the concept is sometimes talked about by Jewish characters, sometimes by Roman, and sometimes by Christians. But they all say "God". It's a real conundrum. The concept does exist in the DWU; it's jut a matter of figuring out how to refer to it. Maybe a rewrite of the god article would be better, now that I think about it . . .
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">15:17:22 Sat 16 Jul 2011
