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Amandajm (talk) 02:12, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

About your recent edit to Architecture, I have removed the edit, and am leaving this message to explain exactly why.

The paragraph that you added to was a very short one: Among the philosophies that have influenced modern architects and their approach to building design are rationalism, empiricism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology.

What you added was a statement about just one architect's ideas about just one element of design i.e. "Space". The paragraph was not about the elements of architectural design. It was about a list of just some of the many 20th century philosophical movements that influenced architecture. In other words, it summed up the ideas of countless thinkers and architects without naming any of them.

And I must say that while the statement about space is meaningful, it certainly isn't a new idea. The builders of the Parthenon were very well aware of it. The architects who laid out Paris were brilliantly aware of it. Utzen at the Sydney Opera House used the entire space of Sydney Harbour.

There is always a tendency for new editors to hone in on major articles that are the very ones that are best maintained and which are used by thousands of readers a day. That particular article is a short summary of a huge field. But every student who comes by wants to add the name of the person they are currently studying. If the article was not well maintained and regularly pruned, Frank Lloyd Wright would have completely taken over by now!

There is heaps of work to be done. Many articles are "Stubs" i.e. they consist of only a few lines. Many other articles are messy!

Amandajm (talk) 02:12, 15 April 2013 (UTC)