Talk:Sankt Aegidi

Requested move 16 February 2026

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The result of the move request was: not moved. St. as an abbreviation for Sankt is not accepted and regarded as confusing; also, many primary topic grabs require further work. (closed by non-admin page mover) Iseult ^Δx talk to me 21:29, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

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• Sankt Aegidi → St. AegidiSt. Aegidi
• Sankt Agatha → St. AgathaSt. Agatha (currently a redirect to Agatha of Sicily)
• Sankt Florian → St. Florian
  • St. Florian → St. Florian (disambiguation)St. Florian (disambiguation)
• Sankt Florian am Inn → St. Florian am InnSt. Florian am Inn
• Sankt Georgen am Walde → St. Georgen am WaldeSt. Georgen am Walde
• Sankt Georgen an der Gusen → St. Georgen an der GusenSt. Georgen an der Gusen
• Sankt Georgen bei Grieskirchen → St. Georgen bei GrieskirchenSt. Georgen bei Grieskirchen
• St Georgen im Attergau → St. Georgen im AttergauSt. Georgen im Attergau
• Sankt Gotthard im Mühlkreis → St. Gotthard im MühlkreisSt. Gotthard im Mühlkreis
• Sankt Johann am Wimberg → St. Johann am WimbergSt. Johann am Wimberg
• Sankt Konrad → St. Konrad
  • St. Konrad → St. Konrad (disambiguation)St. Konrad (disambiguation)
• Sankt Leonhard bei Freistadt → St. Leonhard bei FreistadtSt. Leonhard bei Freistadt
• Sankt Marien → St. MarienSt. Marien
• Sankt Marienkirchen an der Polsenz → St. Marienkirchen an der PolsenzSt. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz
• Sankt Marienkirchen bei Schärding → St. Marienkirchen bei SchärdingSt. Marienkirchen bei Schärding
• Sankt Martin im Mühlkreis → St. Martin im MühlkreisSt. Martin im Mühlkreis
• Sankt Nikola an der Donau → St. Nikola an der DonauSt. Nikola an der Donau
• Sankt Oswald bei Freistadt → St. Oswald bei FreistadtSt. Oswald bei Freistadt
• Sankt Oswald bei Haslach → St. Oswald bei HaslachSt. Oswald bei Haslach
• Sankt Pantaleon → St. Pantaleon
  • St. Pantaleon → St. Pantaleon (disambiguation)St. Pantaleon (disambiguation)
• Sankt Peter am Wimberg → St. Peter am WimbergSt. Peter am Wimberg
• Sankt Roman → St. Roman
  • St. Roman → St. Roman (disambiguation)St. Roman (disambiguation)
• Sankt Stefan am Walde → St. Stefan am WaldeSt. Stefan am Walde
• Sankt Thomas → St. Thomas, Upper Austria
• Sankt Thomas am Blasenstein → St. Thomas am BlasensteinSt. Thomas am Blasenstein
• Sankt Ulrich bei Steyr → St. Ulrich bei SteyrSt. Ulrich bei Steyr
• Sankt Ulrich im Mühlkreis → St. Ulrich im MühlkreisSt. Ulrich im Mühlkreis
• Sankt Veit im Mühlkreis → St. Veit im MühlkreisSt. Veit im Mühlkreis
• Sankt Willibald → St. Willibald
  • St. Willibald → St. Willibald (disambiguation)St. Willibald (disambiguation)

– This multi-move aims for consistent place names in Upper Austria. Most English and German sources prefer the abbreviation "St." over "Sankt" e.g. https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/de/themen/bauen_und_wohnen/1/5 Joe vom Titan (talk) 16:08, 16 February 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 04:20, 25 February 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. Iseult ^Δx talk to me 07:41, 3 April 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 12:40, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Survey

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this subsection with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.

• Oppose. Same as last time. 'Sankt' is pronounced as German and should be spelled out. Saints should be primary over places for all "St. ___" forms. Srnec (talk) 21:38, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose per Srnec, and move St Georgen im Attergau to Sankt Georgen im Attergau instead. "Sankt" should be spelled out to assist readers who don't know German, similarly to how we should avoid the abbreviation "S." for "San" (etc.) in Italian. However, there should be more redirects beginning with "St." for the ambiguous names, e.g. St. Agatha, Austria and St. Agatha, Upper Austria (both currently red links). Ham II (talk) 07:30, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
• Support per COMMONNAME, it really doesn't make a difference if "St" stands for "Sankt" in this case.--Ortizesp (talk) 15:31, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

  The target articles for Konrad, Florian, Roman, Pantaleon and Willibald are dab pages and St. Agatha redirects to a different article. COMMONNAME isn't the only policy implicated in these moves. Srnec (talk) 00:39, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

• A proper primary topic analysis needs to be fone for the proposed primary topic grabs here - all of them seem dubious to me. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:53, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose. This is likely to confuse English-speaking readers, who will read "St." as "Saint" rather than "Sankt". Zacwill (talk) 13:45, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments: Joe vom Titan (talk) 16:08, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Note that St. Agatha and St. Florian currently redirect to the respective Saint while St. Konrad, St. Pantaleon, St. Roman and St. Willibald already redirect to the place. I guess all six of these should have hatnotes pointing to the saint. Joe vom Titan (talk) 16:13, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I've seen an argument that these pages should be at e.g. "St Aegidi" without the period instead of at e.g. "St. Aegidi". I've searched for articles mentioning "Pölten" in the BBC, Guardian, New York Times and Sydney Morning Herald. They seem to prefer the version without the period except when the BBC reports on sports. However, our style guide is clearly in favour of the official version. Official Austrian sources always use the period (or sometimes Sankt). Joe vom Titan (talk) 17:14, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Cities and WikiProject Austria have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 04:20, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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.