Talk:Baháʼí World Centre buildings

Merge

I suggest merging the pictures and info on all these subpages onto this page. It seems a little unorganized and sporadic right now. Cuñado - Talk 22:22, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. I've started this process. I haven't redirect the pages as of yet until we decide if this is something that we definitely want to do. Furthermore, I've left "main" links for some of the sections. This is a little arbitrary (for example, I have put a "main" link for the Seat of the International Teaching Centre, but not for 10 Haparsim Street); I've left the "main" links for the ones I think can grow in the future, but I'm not sure the "main links" are necessarily needed for most of them. More comments.... -- Jeff3000 02:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not even sure exactly where to talk about this, so here goes... I want to propose that we get all these Baha'i World Centre and pilgrimage related articles into three main categories.

• Bahá'í pilgrimage, put information about pilgrimage, some history, statistics, etc...
• Bahá'í World Centre, put only information about the administrative institutions that work at the Baha'i World Centre, along with history and importance to the Baha'i world.
• Bahá'í World Centre buildings, put details about the buildings, and redirect all the subpages for this, including Seat of the Universal House of Justice, Seat of the International Teaching Centre, Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts, Pilgrim House, International Archives, Monument Gardens (Bahá'í World Centre), etc...

There are a few ambiguous pages like The Arc (Bahá'í) which might be hard to categorize, but I think with re-writes all these subpages which have a lot of repeated information, and usually not more than 2 paragraphs, can be condensed into these 3 articles. It will be much more organized and less sporadic.

Any thoughts? Cuñado - Talk 23:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree. -- Jeff3000 19:25, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Just to mention something I stated on another page. I agree with your work on the World Centre buildings, this is a good form of consolidation. On the other hand, it is much simpler to click on a link to find information immediately than to scroll down a very big page and get lost in it. We might want to consider this as well. Nmentha 02:47, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Linking between pages will still work fine. For example, instead of typing [[Eastern Pilgrim House]], you can instead type [[Bahá'í World Centre buildings#Eastern Pilgrim House|Eastern Pilgrim House]], and it link directly to the section on this page.

I think the consolidation is much better. It seemed very chaotic before, and now it's a bit more clear to read through the page, instead of clicking on several links. Cuñado - Talk 06:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Capitilization

The word shrine should not be captilized. Only when it is a proper noun, such as the Shrine of the Bab, is it capitilized. I'm changing it back. Baha'is generally like to capitilize a lot of stuff, and that is fine, but for a non-Baha'i site, we have to follow general conventions. See Talk:Bahá'í Faith/archive2 -- Jeff3000 01:44, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Redirect

I would like to redirect all the subpages on this page. I think we should keep The Arc, the Shrine of the Bab, and the Shrine of Baha'u'llah as separate main pages, but nothing else can be expanded on much.

How does that sound? I don't want to do too much without approval. Cuñado - Talk 07:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree and I'll start the process, but I think the Terraces should also be its own page. -- Jeff3000 14:25, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I've done most of it (I think), but I've also left the Mansion of Bahjí as it's own article, since so many articles link to it as Bahjí. -- Jeff3000 16:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

photos

FYI, I've received permission from the authors of the following sites to have any of their pilgrimage pictures included on wikipedia and/or wikimedia commons:

• http://www.arashcity.com/PilgrimagePictures.htm - Author: Arash Hashemi
• http://martinsquest.com/pilgrimage/index.html - Author: Martinsquest.com

If there are any photos that need to be replaced on this page, please consider uploading one of these. --dragfyre 13:55, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Change title to "Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee"?

I have the feeling the title of this page should be changed to Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee. Wiki-uk (talk) 07:23, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Makes sense, except for the capitalization of Holy Places. -- Jeff3000 (talk) 12:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. I prefer the current title: "Baha'i World Centre buildings". Cuñado ☼ - Talk 18:20, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

They are not all buildings, but gardens as well, so in my opinion the current title is incorrect. What can we decide? Wiki-uk (talk) 14:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

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Change title to "Baha'i World Centre sites"

As noted above (in 2008!), there are lots of gardens, terraces, graves monuments, which all sit uneasily under the title "buildings". Also, the page is nicely organised by sites, 4 of them in total - Haifa, Acre and do on. So "sites" is certainly more accurate than "buildings". If there's no one who can find arguments in favour of current title, I'll go ahead and change it. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 02:32, 29 April 2022 (UTC)