Category talk:Pre-Reformation Roman Catholic cathedrals

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Problematic title[edit]

Similar to the issue discussed at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anglicanism#.22Previous_denomination:_Roman_Catholic.22, this section title is problematic. "Roman Catholic" was coined post-Reformation, specifically to distinguish those churches in communion with Rome from others who also considered themselves Catholic; so this category is anachronistic. It's also inherently POV, as it states that the church that these cathedrals were built by should be identified with the modern Roman Catholic church, not with the churches that divided from it at the Reformation.

At the least, this should be renamed "Pre-Reformation Catholic cathedrals"; arguably it should simply be removed as seeming to take a position on a controversial subject, and containing no useful information (all pre-1530s Anglican cathedrals were necessarily built by the Catholic Church as existed at that time).

@86.181.75.211: / @86.183.18.18: I'd value your thoughts, if either of those are lasting accounts.

(I note that it has already been removed from St Paul's Cathedral, though by a different anon with no explanation.) TSP (talk) 11:29, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]