Talk:Dome of the Rock

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Renaming

I personally feel that, for numerous purposes, this article should be renamed as: Haram al-Sharif, with a redirect from here. A couple of my reasons:

1. We have been doing similar things with locations found in Rome (Colosseo, Basilica di San Marco, etc.).
2. It was named in Arabic (the building I mean. The location was originally named in Hebrew). I am someone who finds renaming things such as this, due to linguistic preferences is extremely irrelevant and equally redundant (i.e. I don't pronounce Damascus, as Damascus [it's pronounced Dimashq in Arabic, and it was named in Arabic]). That's just me, but still, I feel things should be named based on the heritage that "owns" it (Arabic).
3. It just seems generally more appropriate, and even if we decide not to, I'll add the Arabic name.

Tell me what you think :P --Piratehunter (Talk•Contribs) 15:47, January 15, 2011 (UTC)