Proposal:Catholic
| catholic | |
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| Proposal status: | Proposed (under way) |
| Proposed by: | raspbeguy |
| Tagging: | catholic=* |
| Applies to: | type |
| Definition: | For better catholic denomination description |
| Statistics: |
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| Draft started: | 2021-08-09 |
| RFC start: | 2021-08-09 |
Proposal
For catholic elements, instead of using complicated denominations like denomination=roman_catholic or denomination=greek_catholic, use the generic and already wide used denomination=catholic with catholic=roman or catholic=greek (or any other relevant rite in full communion with catholic church).
Rationale
There are three main reasons for this proposal :
- Getting a list of catholic items (for example by using Overpass API) is currently very hard if one wants to be sure to select everything: according to Denomination wiki page, there are 15 possible specific values of the denomination=* key for a catholic item.
- denomination=* specific values are greatly underused: for example in France, where everything catholic should be tagged as denomination=roman_catholic with only a few dozens of non-roman catholic establishments exceptions, denomination=catholic remains by far the most used value.
- On the ecclesiastic point of view, speaking about different denominations between different rites is wrong.
Adding the new tag catholic=* to the existing denomination=catholic is the best way to add information without breaking an existing tag and make filtering easy.
Tagging
Values of catholic=* should be the adapted values from Denomination:
- catholic=armenian
- catholic=chaldean
- catholic=coptic
- catholic=eritrean
- catholic=ethiopian
- catholic=greek
- catholic=hungarian_greek
- catholic=maronite
- catholic=polish
- catholic=polish_national
- catholic=roman
- catholic=romanian
- catholic=syriac
- catholic=syro-malabar
- catholic=ukrainian_greek
Examples
The items that should have the proposed tag are all the ones that have denomination=catholic or a relevant rite in full communion with the catholic church. This includes:
- buildings or nodes representing churches or religious offices
- religious boundaries like parishes, pastoral units, dioceses, provinces and national conferences
Features/Pages affected
The following wiki pages should be modified if accepted:
External discussions
This was previously discussed on talk-fr mailing list (in french)
Going further/out of topic
This proposal is limited to the catholic denomination. However, some other denominations like protestants and orthodox could use the same idea for their own rites/sub-denominations. I do know very little of those denominations position on that though, so this proposition should keep its limitation to catholics.