Talk:Spire

message: Note to the future: All my art history began to evaporate from my mind as I got into the section on 20th century architecture.  If anyone could be so kind as to add some other spire structures (as opposed to the rectangular skyscraper), it would probably help the article a good bit. Geogre 01:16, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

message: (Crossposted from User Talk:Centrx)
Hello, Centrx. I saw your comments and edits at Spire. I ask you to please respect the original contributor's choice of style. In this case, the original way of writing centuries is in accordance with Wikipedia Manual of Style recommendations while your copy-edit is in violation of them, see this dates and numbers guide. If you don't approve, the appropriate action is to discuss it on the Manual of Style talk page and try to get consensus for changing it, rather than to insist on imposing your own preference on a random article (that you haven't contributed to in any other way).
As for the date linking, I remind you of this conversation between you and Rmhermen, that I noticed higher up on your Talk page:
On this page you removed links on dates. I replaced them because they are necessary for the date preference feature to work. Please don't remove them but instead add them when they are missing. Rmhermen 00:29, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed only links that were on centuries and years (such as 20th century, and 1991), not specific full-length dates (such as December 25, 2001). As the style manual says, only those full-length dates are relevant to linking for the date preferences feature. Also, the tenor of my comments is not intended to be discourteous, only straightforward. - Centrx 02:41, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said, I understand that your intentions are good. But I hope you'll give some good-faith consideration to my comment about the effect your straightforwardness has on other editors. For linking the centuries, see also . --Bishonen | (Talk) 07:22, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Century unlinking and other changes by Centrx

message: Are there architectural terms for straight pointy spires versus rounded onion dome spires versus spires with a round bit at the bottom and a straight  pointy bit above that. ChristineD 22:18, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nomenclature

message: Dictionary thinking produces separate entries for Spire and Steeple (architecture) — which is "often crowned by a spire" anyway. On the other hand, encyclopedic treatment draws both together in one article that, as part of its job, distinguishes the two terms. --Wetman 22:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Encyclopedic treatment

message: fr:Clocher tors : a full list of crooked sprires in Europe (in French)
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Is sprires a real word, or just a typo? DaveDodgy (talk) 12:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a typo, of course, and it's taken four years to fix it! 83.104.249.240 (talk) 18:27, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling mistake?

message: I couldn't edit the disambiguation page, so I'm placing a comment here. Spire is also the name of a type of actin assembly factor, which is a chemical in cells that polymerizes actin monomers. Actin is part of the cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells and gives some cells their characteristic shapes. Can we add a new page about this? See http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982205003751 for a short-n-sweet summary of its function.
Jojojlj (talk) 19:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actin assembly factor 

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message: there are interwiki conflict be careful --Base (talk) 19:35, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki conflict 

message: “The celestial and hopeful gesture of the spire is one reason for its association with religious buildings. [citation needed]” – maybe someone finds someone, who has detected this fine sounding partial “reason” for an “association”. But really: Why do we associate spires with churches or mosques etc.? Why are cars associated with roads and streets? – Most towers – very visible objects – were on churches, before sky scrapersexcept in San Gimignano: San_Gimignano#Towers. “Traditionally spires mostly made churches stand out.” Take something everybody can follow, agrees, and not ask for citations. Or just scratch associations and heavenly hopes. – Wikipedians seem to like to let others think. That does not make Wikipedia more neutral, more clear and understandable, and educates us not to think for ourselves, but to rely on books, on “sources”, on others. This trend is dangerous, as wrong thoughts can be equally amplified, tendencies introducedCogito,_ergo_sum.  – Fritz Jörn (talk) 06:42, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations? Use common sense!