Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Peer review/Temple architecture (Latter-day Saints)

Temple Architecture (Latter-day Saints)
As one who is quite familiar with the subject, I would like those who have less of an understanding of the structural use and design of LDS temples to give a review of what might be unclear, lacking or over emphasized. Bytebear 22:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Some comments and recommendations from me: Best of luck, DVD+ R/W 11:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Review by DVD R W
 * For some reason I don't like titles with brackets, maybe consider renaming it "Latter-day Saints Temple Architecture".
 * Don't overlink, just use around the first instance of a page you want to link to, not every time it is mentioned.
 * Find material from sources that are not LDS as such. Meaning - find references to these buildings in the press, and in architectural monographs, journals, magazines, or websites; then include some of this info in the article.
 * Merge or expand short paragraphs, and merge or remove a few sections to reduce the length of the table of contents. You probably shouldn't start with a choppy lead with two one-line sentences.
 * Write the sections that are lists in prose form.
 * After looking around a little, this article might be a content fork of Temple (Latter Day Saints).


 * Some comments from Mcginnly
 * I found the introduction rather confusing and non-standard from a WP:LEAD standpoint. To fix it, I'd go with DVD's renaming suggestion, but rename the article to "Temple architecture of the Latter-day Saints". The article can then start
 * The Temple architecture of the Latter-day Saints has its roots in the 19th century after the movements founder Joseph Smith, Jr., reported receiving a revelation that called upon church members to restore the practice of temple worship.
 * I'd suggest some of the information currently in the lead, the quotation etc. be moved into a brief history paragraph about the origins of the movement and the call to build temples. The lead can then be left to do it's job and summarise the article.


 * The prose needs looking at - as an example:-
 * Following the completion of the Salt Lake Temple, the church took a break from temple building. It would be two decades before another temple would be announced. That announcement came as the Cardston Alberta Temple (6) on June 27, 1913. This temple was different than previous temples. It was the first temple design to be put out to bid to prominent architects. It was also the first temple to be designed without a priesthood assembly hall beginning a transition away from multi-purpose temples.
 * Can you find a synonym for temple? I know it's the articles subject, but there's an enormous repetition of the word - perhaps building might be used. Naturally if the building is called Cardston Alberta Temple then you're stuck with it, but I'd prune the usage a bit if I could.

The phrase progressive-style recurs quite a bit - I don't know what it is or what it's characteristics are. Also the endowment ceremony is a mystery to me. Kind regards. --Mcginnly | Natter 16:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The article uses church to mean a body of people and temple to signify the building, there's some initial confusion caused by this because of the double meaning of church. Perhaps either use a different word or clarify what the article is doing fairly early on. --Mcginnly | Natter 16:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Expanding DVD's comments about referencing, it might be an idea to include some information from the architectural press regarding the architecture of the LDS - how is it regarded architecturally? Has it influenced any other building types? Are the external styles of the buildings reflective of non-LDS ecclesiastical architecture of their times or are they something different. The plan forms are interesting - how do they differ from contemporaneous church/cathedral plans? etc.etc.
 * Reading the entry at Mormon I understand the term is no longer perjorative. As a UK resident, I'm more familiar with the term Mormon than a member of the church of latter-day saints. I'd suggest Mormon is put into the lead fairly early on so the reader gets a quick grasp on what the article is about.
 * The Logan Utah Temple (2) was the first temple to feature progressive-style ordinance rooms for presentation of the endowment ceremony
 * I missed the link in the lead to Temple (Latter Day Saints) because my assumption was that it linked to just Temple.
 * I tweaked the image and TOC a little - I couldn't read the text on the image - please revert if it's not to your taste.

Autoreview by Andyz Script The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question. You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Mcginnly | Natter 15:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide context for the article.[?]
 * See if possible if there is a free use image that can go on the top right corner of this article.[?]
 * Per What is a featured article?, Images should have concise captions.[?]
 * Avoid including galleries in articles, as per Wikipedia:Galleries. Common solutions to this problem include moving the gallery to a separate page, like Gallery of Temple architecture (Latter-day Saints).[?]
 * There may be an applicable infobox for this article. For example, see Template:Infobox Biography, Template:Infobox School, or Template:Infobox City.[?] (Note that there might not be an applicable infobox; remember that these suggestions are not generated manually)
 * Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -  between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 288 feet, use 288 feet, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 288&amp;nbsp;feet.[?]
 * Per Wikipedia:Context and Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006.[?]
 * As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), dates shouldn't use th; for example, instead of using January 30th was a great day, use January 30 was a great day.[?]
 * Per Manual of Style (headings), headings generally do not start with articles ('the', 'a(n)'). For example, if there was a section called  ==The Biography== , it should be changed to  ==Biography== .[?]
 * Please reorder/rename the last few sections to follow guidelines at Guide to layout.[?]
 * Per WP:WIAFA, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long- consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Summary style.[?]
 * This article may need to undergo summary style, where a series of appropriate subpages are used. For example, if the article is United States, than an appropriate subpage would be History of the United States, such that a summary of the subpage exists on the mother article, while the subpage goes into more detail.[?]
 * There are a few occurrences of weasel words in this article- please observe WP:AWT. Certain phrases should specify exactly who supports, considers, believes, etc., such a view.
 * it has been
 * apparently
 * might be weasel words, and should be provided with proper citations (if they already do, or are not weasel terms, please strike this comment).[?]
 * Avoid using contractions like (outside of quotations): didn't.
 * Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.[?]