Talk:Monument

message: I'm not sure about the two pictures on this article (Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower).  Those are buildings, not really monuments.  --JW1805 02:44, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the 1st sentence of the article: Monuments are usually created for the dual function of commemorating an important event or person while also creating an artistic object that will improve the appearance of a city or location. The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal do fill that criteria. I think you should have discussed the matter before actually replacing the images.  --Deepak|वार्ता 03:43, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

text: A monument is structure which commemorates a person or an important event. As far as I know, The Eiffel Tower commemorates the French revolution, an important event in French history. Also its an artistic object and 'the' landmark in Paris. But yeah, I think Eiffel Tower is regarded more of a landmark than a monument. The same cant be said about Arc de Triomphe though. --Deepak|वार्ता 16:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Buildings

message: :: Somnath Temple in India was distroyed for several times and constructed by Democratic and Republic country India. Founding fathers of Constitution of India (1950) was in blind faith that India will be Democratic and Republic within ten years. In India after 55 years entire press and media is discussing about reservation policy for backword class and caste system is prevailing and there is no change in caste system for last 3000 years. All most all the Prime Ministes and Constituion Head The President of India visit this monument and greets the citizen on evey occasion of religion day (yearly more than 24 such days). I have put Somnath temple as the monument of caste system on Article Monument. vkvora 04:18, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Somnath]] Temple : Monument of Caste based system in Indian  subcontinent. 

message: There are a lot of pictures of towers in this article (I admit it, I just added another one myself) and I think that there are more pictures that deserve to be placed in the article.  Maybe we could create a 6- or 9- image gallery at the bottom of the page?  I've never done it, but if no one has any objections, I'll learn and do it myself.  Just a thought, zappa.jake (talk) 05:13, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My preference in these cases is to create a link to a gallery at Commons, rather than to have one in the article itself. There are millions of monuments out there, and thousands of very notable ones, and a gallery could quickly overwhelm this article. - SimonP 13:38, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gallery?

message: I would like to canvas views on whether or not editors feel it appropriate to have links to the ARCHI database of more than 110,000 UK sites on monuments on the Archaeology UK website ARCHI Database. One of the patrollers insists that this counts as link spam and has removed the link. However, the database allows users to locate UK Archaelogical Sites and Monuments within the UK. Chris Kutler 13:58, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now tried numerous times to explain wikipedia policy in great detail to you. It is not about canvassing views, it is simply about wikipedia policy. You added something like 18 links to your own website over a very short period of time. I have explained now in great detail why all your edits were reverted (and as I also keep pointing out to you, it was not only me who reverted your edits), yet you have twice now used the talk pages of articles to continue this. It is not about your adding one link to one article, it is because as I have already explained in great detail to you, simply adding external links is not consistent with wikipedia policy. I have suggested that rather than merely adding links to another site, that you add sourced content to each article. Please see WP:ADS. I should also point out that two other users reverted your edits at the same time I reverted your edits, so it is not a matter of one user only doing so.♦Tangerines♦·Talk 16:46, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem with Patrollers removing Related Links

message: Removed ", the  Tunisian Great Mosque of Kairouan (an important monument of Islamic North African architecture)" the fact that one must justify by adding the parenthesis is a sign. The Kaaba would be a better monument to add. 80.169.233.244 (talk) 07:52, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree to remove Great Mosque of Kairouan  per WP:NOTE, Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock is a better example.Gunkarta (talk) 18:52, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Mosque removal

message: from the lede picture, ", a monument commemorating the French Revolution]]" because i am not sure that it is true.  Et tu? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 01:24, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  I removed this part of the caption 

message: "The planned US capital Washington D.C. is built around monuments commemorating founding fathers of the United States"  from the lede picture (if that is the correct term) because really only the Washington Monument is dedicated to the Founding Fathers.  Certainly Abraham Lincoln was not a founding father.  I understand what the caption was trying to say and there probably is language that says it, but this ain't it.  Carptrash (talk) 17:24, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  I removed this part of a picture 

message: OIAM (talk) 16:12, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The 2nd para is unreferenced, and the whole frankly rather waffly. Johnbod (talk) 16:14, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  We added some text translated from the German Wikipedia article [[Denkmal|Denkmal]] where we considered it useful 

message: Recently this was added, " . .... usually three-dimensional - structure ..."  Is not a "structure" always three-dimensional?  Carptrash (talk) 20:26, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  redundant? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Без искуфст. 
Ни с вздёрнутой рукой. 
Ни с задраной ногой .. 
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thread_title:  Единственный нормальный "монумент" - Иосифу Кобзону. 

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message: It would be good to have some sources for these statements, which are scattered throughout the article. There is a lot of what I would call "theorizing" about political and social purposes beyond memorializing a person or event. What people think about a monument may not have been the intent when it was erected. Witness the destruction or removal of monuments to Confederate generals in the USA. Originally set up to memorialize a person, now they are seen by many as a reminder of the evils of slavery. I'm sure that some historians or political scientists have addressed this issue; let's cite some. Wastrel Way (talk) 13:43, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Function and purpose of a monument