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Requested move 31 August 2021

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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: moved (non-admin closure) Havelock Jones (talk) 09:59, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]



Big Selimiye MosqueSelimiye Mosque, Üsküdar – The mosque is most commonly called the "Selimiye Mosque" in reliable English sources, whereas the current name name doesn't appear in any independent sources (e.g. not a single match on Google Books or Google Scholar). The current page name is a direct translation of "Büyük Selimiye Cami", a name used in Turkish, but the use of the word "Big" here is awkward and unnecessary. Since all the other "Selimiye" Mosques include a disambiguator in their page names (e.g. the more famous "Selimiye Mosque, Edirne"), it should be very reasonable to include one here too.
Example of English sources consulted: Doğan Kuban (2010) "Ottoman Architecture"; John Freely (2011), "A History of Ottoman Architecture"; Ünver Rüstem (2019), "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul". Another standard reference, Godfrey Goodwin's (1971) "A History of Ottoman Architecture", calls it the "Selim III Mosque", which would also be a sufficient alternative, but "Selimiye Mosque" seems to be clearly more common. R Prazeres (talk) 19:52, 31 August 2021 (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.