Talk:Papinian

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Unless there is likely to be much more, this should redirect to Caracalla with a report on the confrontation, in its broader context. --Wetman 01:42, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Requested move 19 March 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 16:10, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

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Aemilius Papinianus → Papinian – He is much better known as Papinian in English (WP:COMMONNAME).

search	Google	JSTOR
Papinian	105,000	1,297
Aemilius Papinianus	21,800	90
Aemilius Paulus Papinianus	12,400	58

And all the sources of the article save one present him as "Papinian" as well. Orkhonien (talk) 14:01, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

• Support, "For foreign names, phrases, and words generally, adopt the spellings most commonly used in English-language references for the article, unless those spellings are idiosyncratic or obsolete," per WP:MOS. This name has a well-established common English-language form. We can skip the research and follow a widely available reference work like Columbia Encyclopedia. Colin Gerhard (talk) 14:09, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
• Support. Srnec (talk) 03:43, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

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