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:To respond to the history being tied to the name - this is something that needs to be taken into account in translation - I don't see how, for example, "Lady of the Myrtles" is an insufficient translation of 'Myrtidiotissa'.
:As an aside, it's been the general practise to transliterate names that don't have an easily recognised alternative (Timotheos -> Timothy, for example, but Stylianos stays) and to translate titles (Profitis -> Prophet and Thavmatourgoi -> Wonderworkers), but I don't think there's any commonly-accepted convention on titles of icons as yet. — edited by [[User:Pistevo|<font color="green">Pιs</font><font color="gold">τévο</font>]] <sup>''[[User talk:Pistevo|<font color="blue">talk</font>]]'' ''[[User talk:Pistevo/dev/null|<font color="red">complaints</font>]]''</sup> at 02:59, February 5, 2008 (PST)
::Hiya, look I do agree that transliteration is good, I think I have been immensely been misunderstood on this forum, especially by other Ops but my point is and you kind of say it too, you need to use "the most commonly used name for something should be used". Well, my observation is that (using your example of Lady of the Myrtle) the most common name over 2,000 years has been Myrtidiotissa not Lady of the Myrtle - and I am not saying this because I have some Greek-pushing agenda (This comment is for Father ASDamick who has completely mis-understood me as a person) ... my point is, this is meant to be an Encyclopedia, correct? Well, if say I was in China ... and I was doing a search on the icons ... and I looked up the Lady of the Myrtles ... let's hypothetically assume that I was so overwhelmed by the article and the icon I wanted to visit the original. So, I organise a trip to Greece to visit this ...if I ask all the locals their (since this is the origin of this particular icon) - excuse me, please direct me to the Lady of Myrtles ...t99.9% will have no idea what this tourist is wanting from them ... if however this icon was not from Greece and was from Serbia, I support the use of the name that was adopted in Serbia ..since the origin would be in that location ... IN PARANTHESES then it should have the transliterations ...this is just my opinion so i would like no one to attack me for having a different thought to the rest of this general group of Ops. Sorry. -- [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 19:03, February 5, 2008 (PST)