Talk:Aegidius (given name)

Aegidius or Giles?

Several months ago, I changed the listings of several of the men included here to give the form of this name used since the Middle Ages, viz., Giles or Gilles. This was changed back by Wareh, claiming that people would be looking for Aegidius.

If one looks at the entries listed, in nearly all of them these men's name is given in its modern form of Giles. While Aegidius might be the Latin equivalent, would it not make more sense to show the commonly used form of their name? Daniel the Monk (talk) 15:55, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Let me explain my point more clearly. If I have encountered a reference to Giles of Rome under his common English name, and I look him up at Wikipedia, I will never see this page. If it's a cryptic reference to "Giles" I've seen, perhaps I'll get there via Giles (given name). On the other hand, suppose I'm looking at the title page of a Latin edition of a work by Gilles de Corbeil. Now, I wrote that article and would never have dreamt of titling it "Egidius Corboliensis." But if I'm looking at that title page, I'm trying to find the article on Egidius Corboliensis, and it won't do me any good to be told there's an article on some "Gilles." Does this make sense? Disambiguation pages are intended as navigational aids. This is covered in typically bureaucratic language at WP:DABREDIR ("Linking to a redirect can also be helpful when the redirect contains the disambiguated term and could serve as an alternative name for the target article"). Wareh (talk) 02:44, 11 July 2012 (UTC)