Talk:Office of the Dead

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This article at a glance appears to have been liberated from New Advent's article Office of the Dead almost verbatim - someone with an appropriate background and knowledge base should rewrite the sections on history and practice/obligation so that plagarism isn't an issue.

Plagiarism is most definitely not an issue. Article's copyright has expired. Rwflammang (talk) 01:22, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It might not be an issue, but somebody needs to re-write it anyway. There are so many technical terms that only someone with intimate knowledge of Catholic esoterica can understand the article. Boneyard90 (talk) 13:06, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And it's so dense my eyes just slide right off of it. Also, there are numbers in the format [#], which appear to refer to footnotes in the original text, but now are just confusing. A good start (which I can't do right now) would be to remove those numbers & brackets if you make sure one by one that they're not referencing anything in the article and also break up those overly long paragraphs.

Thanks, --Geekdiva (talk) 03:57, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Numbers

The numbers are not old footnote numbers, but are simply the numbers of the psalms used in the office. Two sets of numbers are used. The first set, without brackets, is the psalm numbering used in most modern English bibles. The set in brackets is the psalm numbering used by the Vulgate and by the office itself. I agree that having to sets of numbers is confusing and perhaps unnecessary. Rwflammang (talk) 08:22, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]