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::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)
::PS, another comment I wanted to make (without it being rude ...I really wish to stress that the tone in my 'text' is not intended to be aggressive or pushy it is definately calm and merely conversational) is that the NEED for transliteration is only recent in the whole scheme of the church and has become necessary in the last couple of decades due to the fact that the world is increasingly becoming 'anglosaxonised' and is part of a global push to remove cultural identity (yes, I am a Zionist - Free-mason - antichrist theorist). As an Orthodox I resist this push for unification as I know it is the predecessor of the anti ... sorry guys, keep culture in the Orthodox church ... THAT IS what has kept it alive for the rest of the world to appreciate and enjoy ..today! -- [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 19:12, February 5, 2008 (PST)