Talk:Minaret

message: I'm deleting the "Part of a series..." box for Islam, and keeping the one for Mosques. The one for mosques is more suitable, and having two of them in the same article makes it look shoddy and causes formatting conflicts. Debate this edit as you like. - Cyborg Ninja 14:57, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Part of a series... 

message: I added a gallery to make the article more pleasing to the eye, though frankly the gallery serves little purpose at the moment except to not upset the editors who added the images originally. It would be good if someone could incorporate it with the examples of minarets between different countries and cultures, to show contrasts between them. There's currently a link to minarets at WikiCommons. - Cyborg Ninja 15:23, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They don't always, typically the reason for two is just symetry of design I think. I have seen many smaller mosques with only one. Mark Richards 20:45, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery 

message: I renamed the "Opposition" section and took this part out:
As a symbolic marker of Muslim presence, minarets have occasionally elicited political and religious opposition in traditionally non-Muslim countries;
The article gives no evidence of this aside from the Swiss controversy. I can't find any examples aside from that. I think it was an inappropriate generalization. Please don't re-add unless you have reliably-sourced examples of political or religious opposition to minarets outside of Switzerland.—Chowbok ☠ 00:16, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Opposition" section 

message: There is a dubious claim in the post that minarets function as air conditioners or provide ventillation. While this may or may not be true or just too ineffective to deserve a mention, ventilation will definitely not be due to the heating of the dome. Heating of the dome and the air below it can in no way cause the cooler air further down to rush up. Instead, the heated air will spill out the sides due to an increase in volume/pressure, but after this spill of air, equilibrium will have been reached. Callanv (talk) 22:42, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The heat-chimney or cooling tower effect attribute of such structures is in no way dubious- I encourage you to pursue references until you have achieved satisfaction.   I recommend that you do not limit yourself to minarets when conducting your search, as you will find more readily available material in the sphere of solar/sustainable architecture.   Mavigogun (talk) 16:16, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ventillation 

message: I need to add minaret example from Indonesia as I show at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asmaulhusna-minaret-Indonesia.jpg
Thank you
Budi Waluyo
Ldiisidoarjo (talk) 23:42, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Ldiisidoarjo, 16 August 2010 

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message: Propose merging Şerefe (minaret) with Minaret.
This is a case of WP:DICTIONARY. Small article with little evidence of WP:NOTABILITY as something separate from the main topic of minaret (see also my earlier comments at Talk:Şerefe (minaret)). This is simply the Turkish word for the balcony of a minaret, and such balconies are features of nearly all major minarets outside of Turkey as well, where they are known by different terms and most English references just use the word "balcony" or "gallery", etc. Even the main reference there, the Turkish Islam Ansiklopedisi, redirects this topic to its own minaret article () and the Turkish version of that article adds little else too. Anything worth covering there can be, or already is, covered here at minaret, or at Ottoman architecture, etc. R Prazeres (talk) 19:17, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Support: Also a feature far from unique to Turkish mosque architecture, with balconies featuring on minarets from Damascus to Delhi. This material, together with the existing mention of balconies on the page, would potentially lend itself well to a discrete subsection on the feature, but nothing standalone at this point. Iskandar323 (talk) 20:49, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

text: I nearly forgot about this proposal. I'll carry out the merge shortly. R Prazeres (talk) 17:23, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: After looking closer at Şerefe (minaret), it turns out that none of the potentially relevant content there is supported by the cited sources, so I don't see a point in transferring any of it here. For future reference, if needed, the pre-redirect version of that page can be found here. R Prazeres (talk) 18:49, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal