Talk:Castle/Archive 3

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FA Status, Anybody?

In my opinion, this article needs to be given FA status, it's so cool.--Princess Janay (talk) 14:27, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Alhambra

This sentence (and the accompanying pic caption) need reworking:

The Alhambra in Al-Andalus incorporated both defensive and residential features, but after the Reconquista unified Spain, its importance shifted and it became a palace under Charles V.

- the world-famous Muslim palace buildings are much more than "residential features"! It was always a palace, and the Renaissance palace is a totally separate building within the outer walls. It is in Granada - Al-Andaluz was a country, not a city. It's importance shifted because Granada ceased to be the capital of a state - the Hapsburg palace saw only occasional visits. Johnbod (talk) 21:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

British English

Shouldn't British English be used here as it is to do with the middle ages? Considering that AE didn't exist back then? --Camaeron (talk) 20:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

• I'd imagine so. I actually don't know the "hot words" to look up to see which type of English this article uses (colour/color, favour/favor, nor civilisation/civilization are in this article), but British English seems to be the most sensible for the topic. -BaronGrackle (talk) 17:26, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
  • This being wikipedia, we should give equal weight to Eternian spelling. Ok, maybe not. Answering your question, "defence" is a British English word (US variant is "defense"), and has been in use on this article for quite some time. Bazzargh (talk) 17:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• D'oh. That's what I get for opening my big mouth edit tab. I HAVE THE POWER!! -BaronGrackle (talk) 17:45, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Windsor castle

Loving the Neuschwanstein pic; it's brilliant! But...shouldn't there be a pic of Windsor castle here? It is the biggest castle in Europe by some but not all measures after all. Not to mention being over 1000 years old! --Camaeron (talk) 20:11, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Castles by Century

We use Wikipedia for a number of uses, but mostly to research our illustrious ancestral tree. Much of our time is spent sifting through the various European castles to find out which were build in the various specific centuries. It would be extremely helpful to people like us, if wikipedia could create a page that lists the various castles by century.

Just today, we were searching for Danish Castles built in the 11th century, but to our misfortune, we could not find one on wikipedia. It would not only save us hours, days, weeks, and even months of research time, but it would help many others in various forms of research.

If anyone decides to take up this pursuit, we would sincerely appreciate a heads-up at randallancestry@hotmail.com. Thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sharmari (talk • contribs) 19:59, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

there are thousands (literaly!) of castles out there. I'll see what I can do, but its a major project that the commitee whould probably take up if told about it. Right now, I wan't to focus on driving this article to Featured Status. After all, it is a very important article, and shoud'nt be rated "Start-Class" for this long on the assesement scale! Resident Mario (talk) 16:26, 26 December 2008 (UTC) Happy Holdays!