Talk:Dome of the Rock

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 -- P  i   r   a   t   e   h   u   n   t   e   r   (Talk&bull;Contribs) 15:47, January 15, 2011 (UTC)