Talk:Irapuato Cathedral

	Mexico portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mexico, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Mexico on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MexicoWikipedia:WikiProject MexicoTemplate:WikiProject MexicoMexico articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Architecture

	Architecture portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Catholicism

Irapuato Cathedral is within the scope of WikiProject Catholicism, an attempt to better organize and improve the quality of information in articles related to the Catholic Church. For more information, visit the project page.CatholicismWikipedia:WikiProject CatholicismTemplate:WikiProject CatholicismCatholicism articles

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Catholicism task list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : see Draft articles
Assess : see Category:Unassessed Catholicism articles; Category:Unknown-importance Catholicism articles
Cleanup : Blessed Virgin Mary (see the talk page)
Collaborate : Invitation template needed, see Category:WikiProject invitation templates
Copyedit : Cuthbert Tunstall
Expand : Angelus; Roman Catholicism in Kosovo; Bishop Adolph John Paschang; Cum sæpe accidere; Altar Society; American Board of Catholic Missions; Bernard Häring
NPOV : Americanism (heresy); Ensoulment
Photo : see Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of Catholicism
Stubs : see Category:Stub-Class Catholicism articles; Category:Catholic Church stubs
Update : Peer review; John Aloysius Maguire
Verify : Archdiocese of Glasgow; Archbishop of Westminster; Bishop; Saint Mungo; Sanctification; Westminster Cathedral
Other : Watch recent changes for Catholicism articles

Some issues

I worked on this page because of unknown words found by Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss. But I found that there are other issues as well.

First, I identified the words formeros and torales as Spanish church architectural terms. Once I found that, I suspect that the word canon is also a Spanish word, and it translated to "barrel". This could well go along with the concept of "barrel vault" structure.

However, I also found a web page of the Historical Marker Database that deals with this cathedral; the URL is https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=127335. I'm tempted to use the information in this source because I'm assuming (though I may be wrong) that it's more local and more authoritative. This source contradicts several points in the article.

1) Unknown date of construction -- HMDB says it was built in the 18th century.

2) "by the year 1631 already existed as a parish" -- This is obscure. Considering Mexico's and the Western hemisphere's history, I'd have to say that it's more likely that the church was built in the 18th rather than the early-mid 17th century. Perhaps the reference to 1631 relates to what HMDB says that the church contains records going back to 1640. Not at all sure.

3) If the "canon" refers to a barrel vault, HMDB says that the church has a groined vault. (But maybe this is not a contradiction; I'm writing this entire thing with no knowledge of church architecture whatsoever.)

Also, the third paragraph mostly includes the information in the second paragraph, and it is not well written.

I don't want to make any further changes without knowing more, but I'd give the HMDB source greater weight and modify accordingly. Jkgree (talk) 21:12, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]