Talk:Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover

message: I just took the liberty of correcting a bunch of minor and some major translation issues (though I don't think I nearly got them all yet).
I also changed "synod" back to the German term "Synode" because "synod" is used in a very different sense in American churches at least (the ELCA for instance consists of 65 or so "synods", that is, districts).
For some parts of the text it would be helpful to know where they originally came from. I had a hard time even understanding the "Bischofsrat" part for instance, and there is no such text on the German Wiki site. And in order to correct (or re-translate) something, it does help to have a faint idea what they are trying to say... Another sentence I simply don't understand at all is this one: "The Bishop is chairman of the College in the church office (or less the "government" of the Church)". What college? And what "less"? It would be very helpful to have the (supposedly) original German text here in order to know what is meant.
I also changed the title "National Church Office" to "Church Office". I have no idea why anyone would translate "Landeskirchenamt" to "National church office". It's the same "Landes-" as in "state church" which has been more knowledgably explained at the beginning of the article. And to call the "Landeskirchenamt" the "supreme authority within the church" - well, that's either grossly wrong or a very sarcastic Freudian slip.
I am completely at loss about the translation of "Oberkirchenrat". "Legal Higher Regional councils of churches" sounds so much like Babelfish that it makes me cringe. I am also very doubtful about the translations of the other titles. To sum things up, I am almost inclined to delete that whole part about the "National (or otherwise) Church Office".
Also, I would like to know what's the proper possessive form of "Hanover" in English. In the article, we currently have "Hanoveran" and "Hanoverian". Do either of those actually exist? (In German, the possessive depends on if you are talking about the people or the horses... ;-) )
Some more terms I am more than doubtful about are "Diakonia" and "Diaconate". Neither of those terms are correct translations of the German "Diakonie". As far as I know, there is no direct translation, so we might better leave the German term untranslated and describe what it is about.
Obviously, a lot of work remains to be done on this article... --Anna (talk) 22:06, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation issues 

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message: Can someone please explain the capitalization rules by which this thing is called "House of church Services"?
Please, either make it a proper name or title - "House of Church Services" - or just a normal phrase "House of church services". I don't see any point whatsoever in capitalizing "Services" but not "church". --87.150.2.8 (talk) 21:27, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization