Talk:Temple architecture (LDS Church)

message: I would love to see a photo or drawing of a baptismal font.  Also, I read that some of the smaller temples actually have only 6 oxen with a mirror reflecting the remaining six.  I can see how this is possible, with the lower part of the font in a room below that you can only look down into. Bytebear 19:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image or drawing of a temple baptismal font 

message: * Andrew, Laurel B. (1978). The Early Temples of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West. SUNY Press. . 
The full text seems to be available on google books at the above link - or at least everything I searched for was available :) --Trödel 03:51, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional reference 

message: I'm adding a cleanup tag to this article, the length is horrendous and quite redundant at times, it could be a little more terse in the wordiness of descriptions. I think it needs more attention to the "voice" of the article being consistant throughout it almost seems as though whomever was writing got tired toward the end of the article...it shows that bad.  The article is good but rambling at times, and then nitpicking in other places.  I will try to help, but I'm not much for wholesale revisions. Twunchy 07:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's been a lot of cleanup since the tag was added (about 40-50 edits), and I just cleaned up two sections as well as changed the layout at the top of the article.  The article could still probably be improved (like any article), but it seems to be good enough now that it doesn't need a Cleanup tag, so I have removed it. Bhludzin 04:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: cleanup tag

message: I prefer a simple bullet list rather than a full table.  There are too many articles with full temple lists, and this article is not designed to be a detailed list like other articles.  We can also reduce size by having two columns.  Bytebear 04:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List vs Table 

message: Editors keep deleting large chunks of text from this article without a clear explanation for why. Please do not make mass deletions without first discussing it here on the article talk page. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 22:11, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Nauvoo Temple section is just copy & pasted from the Nauvoo Temple article. See WP:SS for a primer on Wikipedia article style. Vagary (talk) 16:46, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion of large quantity of text

message: This article claims that the Newport Beach and Redlands temples are based on the 1990s-2000s cookie-cutter design.  That is inaccurate; they have much different exteriors inspired by Spanish mission architecture Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈ 00:19, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newport Beach and Redlands 

message: My name is Khothatso David Shou, from south Africa. I am a member of LDS from Khutsong Branch and now I am currently in Hong Kong due to work. I would like to continue praying in my church. Can I be given an address or the contact number so I can visit the church. Thanks in advance hope to here from you soon. KD Shou  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kshou (talk • contribs) 16:15, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see User talk:Kshou for a reply to this request. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 15:46, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direction 

message: Several sources within the article have some incorrect information about Latter-day Saint temples and their architecture, this was posted in a comment to a blog, indicating that some of that incorrect data was used as the basis for an architectural review of the recently-completed Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple.
Irritation, people. When Wikipedia came up in conversation here last week, I read some of the more general LDS wiki pages; which are awful. They are as deep as 5th grade reports and strange as well. In the LDS Temple Architecture page an author of a book about Solomon's Temple is the source given for saying that the Salt Lake temple is meant to emulate the temple of Solomon, and faces Solomon's Temple/Jerusalem. Why would someone allow an author trying to lend more current-day import to the topic of his book be used instead of the numerous sources that say LDS temples have an eastward facing preference wherever in the world they are built? Why the tendency toward the obscure and clearly biased, Wiki writers? 
Now, I'm reading an article by an architectural critic out of Philadelphia, linked from the news page of Rick's LDS Temples site, dated August 2, and she has pulled from the Wikipedia page and repeated in her article that the LDS prefer to have their temples face Jerusalem! I thought Wikipedia was widely not considered a scholarly source. Why, if she is an architectural critic did she not notice that in the same page Wikipedia calls the Nauvoo Temple 'Greek Revival' and think, "Wait, this page is all crap."?
Wikipedia needs cleaned up.
Source:  ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com, comments on 'July 2016 Newsletter' post.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:500:D01:A0CB:61AD:F98:C6F9 (talk) 02:03, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing Problems in Article