OrthodoxWiki talk:Style Manual (Church Calendar)
I humbly offer the way I've been working on the Church Calendar, at Joe's request:
- Open each of the sites and find the day to work with: "oca", "pomog", "goarch", "st. g", "antiochian", "typikon" (PDF). These are all listed on my user page, so I generally open the tabs from there. Open the Church Calendar in one tab in order to select the date to start on easily.
- I use mozilla firefox, which allows tabbed browsing.
==Feasts== {{August 1}} [[Category:Feasts]] [[Category:Saints]] <div style="float:right;margin-left:1em"> [[Image:Pantokrator of Sinai.jpg|100px|Our Lord Jesus Christ]] </div> <div style="float:right;margin-left:1em"> [[Image:Theotokos of Vladimir.jpg|100px|Our Holy Lady Theotokos]] </div> <div style="float:right;margin-left:1em"> [[Image:Rublev Trinity.jpg|100px|The Holy Trinity]] </div>
- I started this because of Basil's preference, then found the formatting to be useful. Be aware that this site does have typos, and you may be more used to other spellings of the names. I generally only change the spellings for names I am familiar with, and going through the other sites will help you get an idea of alternate spellings (see step 5). Unless there is an alternate spelling listed on a single site, i.e., "Olympias (Olympiada)" from the "pomog" site, I would reserve alternate spellings for the saint's article.
- When a date already has a file, check to make sure it has all the commemorations. If it doesn't, go ahead and add them to the template file.
N.B.: Just because I do it this way doesn't mean you have to. —magda 11:38, 7 Jul 2005 (EDT)
Question: Sometimes a saint will be commemorated on the day of his repose, and the repose itself will be mentioned, giving a title other than "Saint." Other times, the repose is listed of a person whose sainthood has not been declared by the Church. How may one distinguish when the commemoration should be included in the "feasts" and when in the "other events"? —magda 11:38, 7 Jul 2005 (EDT)