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NOTE: I have deleted the pictures that you added to Romanesque architecture, and this message is to explain why.

1. The two galleries together contained ten pics to introduce the major concepts of the article. The article covers the whole of Europe. Some parts of Europe, particularly France and Italy, have thousands of Romanesque buildings, large and small. There are so many major churches and abbeys in France that only a few of the most important ones are in this article. In England there are hundreds of parish churches that have at least part of their building dating from this period. Italy has so many churches from this date that it would be impossible to list them all. These ten pictures are a broad introduction. Eastern Europe is really well covered within these pictures. Two more are not necessary.
2. Read the captions of the two galleries. One is about "Architectural forms". One is about "Scope" i.e. the types of buildings which might be found from the Romanesque era. Even if the word "Scope" is not in your vocabulary, the picture gives a very clear indication.
3. Gallery 1. shows only parts of buildings. Gallery 2. shows only complete buildings. There is a song that goes: "One of these things just doesn't belong here. One of these things is not the same." In both cases you put the wrong picture into the wrong gallery. It is obvious that the doorway should be in the top gallery..... but there is already a better picture of a doorway. The rotunda should obviously be in the lower gallery.... but there is already a better picture of a rotunda. So the pictures are completely out of place, where they are now, and are unnecessary in the other gallery because the subject matter has been dealt with already.
4. Also, I would avoid using the Rotunda of St George, Skalica in a section about "Romanesque forms", because its doorway, the ocular window and the turret on top are all later additions or changes- i.e. three of the major features of that small building are misleading to the average reader, not helpful. The building might date from the right period but it does not demonstrate Typical architectural forms which is the caption that it has been put it under.

• Typical Romanesque architectural forms
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  Portal, Church of Santa Maria, Viu de Llevata, Catalonia, Spain
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  The vault at the Abbey Church of Saint-Foy, Conques, France
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  Cloister of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome
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  Bell tower of Angoulême Cathedral, Charente, SW France
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  Window and Lombard band of the Rotunda of San Tomè, Almenno San Bartolomeo
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  Rotunda of St.George, Skalica, Slovakia

• The scope of Romanesque architecture
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  Saint Nicholas Rotunda in Cieszyn, Poland
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  Romanesque house in Poreč, Croatia
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  The Civic Hall in Massa Marittima, Italy
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  Abbey Church of St James, Lebeny, Hungary (1208)
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  The keep of Conisbrough Castle, England.
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  Church in Inowrocław, Poland

Please keep editting Wikipedia, but abide by the rules of reading and looking carefully before you make additions. Amandajm (talk) 09:50, 11 March 2014 (UTC)