Talk:Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by WikiProject Royalty and Nobility.

Women's History

	History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Women's HistoryWomen's History articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Germany Low‑importance

	Germany portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GermanyWikipedia:WikiProject GermanyTemplate:WikiProject GermanyGermany articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Austria

	Austria portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Austria, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles about Austria on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project.AustriaWikipedia:WikiProject AustriaTemplate:WikiProject AustriaAustria articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Former countries: Holy Roman Empire

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Former countries, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of defunct states and territories (and their subdivisions). If you would like to participate, please join the project.Former countriesWikipedia:WikiProject Former countriesTemplate:WikiProject Former countriesformer country articles
	This article is supported by the Holy Roman Empire task force.

Silesia (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Silesia, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.SilesiaWikipedia:WikiProject SilesiaTemplate:WikiProject SilesiaSilesia articles

Frisia (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Frisia, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.FrisiaWikipedia:WikiProject FrisiaTemplate:WikiProject FrisiaFrisia articles

Hungary

	Hungary portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hungary, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Hungary on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HungaryWikipedia:WikiProject HungaryTemplate:WikiProject HungaryHungary articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Move to Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress

Latest comment: 14 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 22:24, 10 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Mary of Austria (1528–1603) → Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress — User:Gryffindor was wrong when he moved the article saying that Mary of Austria (1528–1603) was the "original name of article". The article was never titled Mary of Austria (1528–1603). Its "original name" is Maria of Spain. But there are more important reasons for moving the article back.

First of all, she is commonly called Maria of Austria.[1] Unlike her aunt, the Empress is very rarely called Mary of Austria.[2]

Secondly, we have agreed many times that a marital title is a better way of disambiguation than years of birth and death. How on Earth do years of birth and death help anyone understand who the person was? When browsing Category:Archduchesses of Austria, what title would help us understand who this person was: Mary of Austria (1528–1603) or Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress? Is she better known as a woman who was born in 1528 or as a woman who was Empress of the Holy Roman Empire and highest-ranking lady in Europe?

Last but not least, the convention does not prohibit using marital titles for disambiguation so moves like these cannot be justified by the convention. Surtsicna (talk) 12:29, 29 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Support I think in the past there was a convention that we use maiden titles and an aversion to using royal women's married titles, but we are moving away from this. These double titles may look clumsy, but in some cases they may actually be the least awkward way of disambiguating some people, particularly if they had common names like Maria. Dates are a last resort for disambiguation. PatGallacher (talk) 17:41, 29 July 2010 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.

Add topic