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I would strongly suggest that if this project is intended to cover religion in general, get rid of the graphic that shows a pair of hands in a rather specifically Christian prayer position. It is possible that Christianity is not the only religion that uses this posture to indicate prayer, but I can tell you definitively that Judaism does not, nor do several neo-pagan religions I'm familiar with, nor any of several forms of Buddhism. It would be much better to have no graphic at all than to have this one. Can you really be surprised that a number of Jews were offended when this was placed on Jewish-related articles? I'm not even a practicing Jew, and I found it offensive. - Jmabel | Talk 06:34, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Obviously, nothing can be all-inclusive but here is something reasonably broad. Is there any objection to using this instead of the praying hands? - Jmabel | Talk 02:02, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
An objection has been made on the Project Religion talk page that the photo of the sunset is inappropriate because it implies something about sun worship or that the sun is in all religions. While I would contend that it's simply a pretty picture and had thought that it would be completely controversy free, that turns out not to be the case. I think it's probably best for the project not to have a graphic at all, since a consensus is not forthcoming. The project has given itself an all inclusive scope, so any graphic must be considered in that light. However, when I've previewed removing the graphic (it's easy to change graphics) the spacing becomes messed up. If someone would be kind enough to delete the graphic, that would be great. I guess I could find an "invisible" pixel to put in it's place, but that seems silly. ;-) Thanks, Nightngle 21:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Isn't this template kinda redundant when there will be most of the time be a more specific template that exists. I think we have templates for all of the Major world religions now. Gizza Chat © 07:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I just added an image to the template, if this is okay. I noticed that there was a discussion going on about this, so if I've preempted something, please, revert. I personally think that an image is necessary for visual recognizability. Also, since it was brought up, I support the use of this template, especially for very general articles on religion. For example, I just added this to the article Religious order, an article which seems designed to collect a broad consensus. Alekjds talk 15:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Can someone here please check out Talk:Noah's Ark? Until the other day, this template was fine, but it's squashed up in one corner. Cheers, Ben ( talk) 01:07, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
On the sandbox I've started a conversion of this template to {{ WPBannerMeta}} the meta banner which all projects are gradually moving to. It's not quite finished yet, but you can get a good idea of what it will look like (not much different from your current one). It won't be implemented unless it can function 100% as desired. That said, are there any other concerns? Martin 21:41, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
At
Talk:Rick Alan Ross, the
Template:WikiProject Religion throws the following error (in preview mode when editing the whole page or the top of it): Preview warning: Page using Template:WikiProject Religion with unexpected parameter "FalunGongImp"
. The code in question is: {{WikiProject Religion|class=C|importance=Low|NRM=yes|NRMImp=Mid|FalunGong=yes|FalunGongImp=Mid}}
. This appears to comply with the documented parameters. —
SMcCandlish
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This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
WikiProject Religion template. |
|
![]() | Religion Template‑class | ||||||
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I would strongly suggest that if this project is intended to cover religion in general, get rid of the graphic that shows a pair of hands in a rather specifically Christian prayer position. It is possible that Christianity is not the only religion that uses this posture to indicate prayer, but I can tell you definitively that Judaism does not, nor do several neo-pagan religions I'm familiar with, nor any of several forms of Buddhism. It would be much better to have no graphic at all than to have this one. Can you really be surprised that a number of Jews were offended when this was placed on Jewish-related articles? I'm not even a practicing Jew, and I found it offensive. - Jmabel | Talk 06:34, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Obviously, nothing can be all-inclusive but here is something reasonably broad. Is there any objection to using this instead of the praying hands? - Jmabel | Talk 02:02, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
An objection has been made on the Project Religion talk page that the photo of the sunset is inappropriate because it implies something about sun worship or that the sun is in all religions. While I would contend that it's simply a pretty picture and had thought that it would be completely controversy free, that turns out not to be the case. I think it's probably best for the project not to have a graphic at all, since a consensus is not forthcoming. The project has given itself an all inclusive scope, so any graphic must be considered in that light. However, when I've previewed removing the graphic (it's easy to change graphics) the spacing becomes messed up. If someone would be kind enough to delete the graphic, that would be great. I guess I could find an "invisible" pixel to put in it's place, but that seems silly. ;-) Thanks, Nightngle 21:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Isn't this template kinda redundant when there will be most of the time be a more specific template that exists. I think we have templates for all of the Major world religions now. Gizza Chat © 07:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I just added an image to the template, if this is okay. I noticed that there was a discussion going on about this, so if I've preempted something, please, revert. I personally think that an image is necessary for visual recognizability. Also, since it was brought up, I support the use of this template, especially for very general articles on religion. For example, I just added this to the article Religious order, an article which seems designed to collect a broad consensus. Alekjds talk 15:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Can someone here please check out Talk:Noah's Ark? Until the other day, this template was fine, but it's squashed up in one corner. Cheers, Ben ( talk) 01:07, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
On the sandbox I've started a conversion of this template to {{ WPBannerMeta}} the meta banner which all projects are gradually moving to. It's not quite finished yet, but you can get a good idea of what it will look like (not much different from your current one). It won't be implemented unless it can function 100% as desired. That said, are there any other concerns? Martin 21:41, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
At
Talk:Rick Alan Ross, the
Template:WikiProject Religion throws the following error (in preview mode when editing the whole page or the top of it): Preview warning: Page using Template:WikiProject Religion with unexpected parameter "FalunGongImp"
. The code in question is: {{WikiProject Religion|class=C|importance=Low|NRM=yes|NRMImp=Mid|FalunGong=yes|FalunGongImp=Mid}}
. This appears to comply with the documented parameters. —
SMcCandlish
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¢ 😼 09:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)