Talk:Eastern District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod

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On 24 September 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Eastern District of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod to Eastern District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. The result of the discussion was moved.

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I am removing the extended list of congregations & missions. I certainly see the value of an article on a middle judicatory for a major american denomination, but not for the directory style list. Athanasius • Quicumque vult 18:39, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 26 January 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved to alternate proposal endorsed by nominator. (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 20:43, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

– Use natural disambiguation rather than parenthetical; for consistency; and to avoid some malplaced pages (e.g. New England District (LCMS) exists without New England District existing as an article). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:15, 26 January 2019 (UTC)--Relisted. –Ammarpad (talk) 17:32, 2 February 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. SITH (talk) 12:54, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

While the Eastern District webpage does use "LCMS" before the district name^[1], this is not standard practice among the other districts of the LCMS.

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^ https://www.lcmsed.org/

Cranberryzing (talk) 05:44, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is not standard practice. It is more complicated than an issue of it being a middle judicatory. Complicating this is that two of these districts were formerly separate denominations--the English District used to be the "English Synod"... in some ways it is still like a separate denomination within a denomination, as all moneys are kept internally and they have a bishop leading the district (typically in the other districts they are called district president instead of bishop). In the 70s, this district split in half and they are ELCA now...it is more like how the Eastern Rite Catholics are Catholic but not Roman Catholic. If you renamed the Maronite Catholic Church to have Roman Catholic in front of their name, it would probably ruffle some feathers. The other district that used to be a separate denomination is the SELC District (LCMS), formerly the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church. Putting LCMS before the name rather than after seems inappropriate to be when members of these districts in particular would probably not do that.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 20:33, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If I was doing it, I would rename each page to have "of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod" following the word district. Hopefully no one would be offended. Let us know if you are. Acronyms get mixed up with Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry and the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore when people search things.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 20:52, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from nom I'd be happy with "XXXX District of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod". Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 12:36, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Shhhnotsoloud please check the diff of the edit I'm making now, I'm boldly correcting a mistake in the proposal, if it's supposed to be there feel free to revert. SITH (talk) 22:33, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@StraussInTheHouse: thanks, that's good. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:41, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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

Requested move 24 September 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Elli (talk | contribs) 22:29, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

– Spaces around en dashes per MOS:DASH and consistent with the outcome of the RM just closed at Talk:Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:41, 24 September 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 21:39, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support - The names should be consistent with the main article. Indyguy (talk) 17:41, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

[1] ttps://www.lcmsed.org/

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