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I am requesting peer review of the Greater Grace World Outreach article. I am working on it with another editor who has different opinions about what should be included. We have both been accused of conflict of interest and so it will be very helpful to get a third opinion. Spinkava ( talk) 15:52, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like to propose creating a workgroup to cover [ [1]] and related subjects. This page in particular is missing a lot of sources and needs a lot of work. Seeing as it's a super-important subject to Christian theology I think it would be good if some members of this project would climb aboard and improve these articles. Thoughts? Kristamaranatha ( talk) 00:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
As some of you might have noticed, Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history seems to be one of the most effectively run projects out there, with its recently elected 9 coordinators. Wikipedia:WikiProject Films and Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels are currently engaged in finding coordinators for their projects. Do the rest of you think it would be a good idea to have such coordinators here as well? John Carter ( talk) 16:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I am in favor and would volunteer to help out. -- SECisek ( talk) 19:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I am in favor of assigning or electing coordinators for various areas. I think it helps to organize the task, which is good when dealing with a subject area as huge as Christianity. It also helps people know who to talk to if they have questions or issues in the different areas in this Wikiproject. For example if someone has a question about assessments/core topics/baptist articles, they can ask the assessments/core topics/baptist coordinators. This can also help because some people are gifted administrators and are good at organizing and assigning willing volunteers to work on certain areas, while others are good volunteers who work well under a little guidance. It also helps those volunteers know what they can help with, again because Christianity is such a large area to work with. Kristamaranatha ( talk) 00:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
John Carter, I do like bold. However, I am confused by the elections page. As I read the page I note:
Nominations to be co-ordinators of what sections of the project? I just find it puzzling. Perhaps the areas of the project that are seen as priorities might be identified and "work teams" for those priorities be open to sign up, before coordinators get elected? I wonder if this is too much organization for a wiki. As for me, I am living In my own little world, working to improve the article Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the related articles that impact its stability. ( and I note I have spent 30 minutes of editing time here! I think I am nuts. In its own way, it is funny! Sorry, my friends. and I note that it is already too late to vote!) John Park ( talk) 00:48, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
An infobox was made for leaders of the orthodox church, but I want to find a better color than the yellow that orthodoxy has been assigned (It can be changed since it has not been implemented yet) (see Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes/Society#Religious_leaders). When you think of the Orthodox Church, what color do you think of? Please leave your responses at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy#Infobox Grk1011 ( talk) 22:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
The above article has recently been protected as a result of a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents#Today's theology lesson. A few more eyes to watch the page, and maybe help try to improve it in a way which all parties might find acceptable, would be very, very welcome. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 17:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Following a discussion at " Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 February 21#Template:Infobox churches and cathedrals" where it was proposed that the templates {{ Infobox church}}, {{ Infobox churches and cathedrals}} and {{ Parish church}} be merged, I've created a prototype merged template for discussion at {{ Infobox church/sandbox}}. The documentation for the template is at Template:Infobox church/doc. Your comments and help with improving the template are welcome – please discuss the matter at the Infobox church talk page.
If everyone is happy with {{ Infobox church/sandbox}}, then {{ Infobox church}} can be replaced with that template and the templates {{ Infobox churches and cathedrals}} and {{ Parish church}} nominated for deletion. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 13:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
The proposed template makes use of multiple parameter names for certain fields (e.g., "name" and "church_name") to minimize the effects of old templates being deleted. However, in general the articles that have used those templates will have to be manually updated by the editors who have those articles on their watchlists.
There's been a new development – someone has proposed converting the draft infobox template at {{ Infobox church/sandbox}} into a template that can be used for all places of worship. We would like your views on whether you think this is a good idea, and if you are able to help identify parameters that would be relevant to the religion that your WikiProject deals with. Do join the discussion taking place at " Template talk:Infobox church". — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 03:54, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
there are currently 44 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 15:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
May be of interest: there is a digital edition of Migne's Patrologia Latina available, along with a whole lot more material at www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html which may be of interest. In Latin of course. Someone (probably) associated with that project has been adding links to the relevant articles. Seems unobjectionable to me, but this has caught the eye of the ever-vigilant spam monitors, and here we are. This could be usable for inline cites, for further reading sections, to create bibliographies for Medieval Latin religious writers, etc. Hope this is useful, Angus McLellan (Talk) 01:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
This article, affiliated to this project, seems to give far too much prominence to fringe theories, eg origins of Christianity influenced by Buddhisam, Jesus visited India &c. Peter jackson ( talk) 10:12, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
I was pleased to see a speedy response to my request re Wesleyism. My next request requires a bit more work! Please see this proposal for an article on a 19th century missionary group. Does Iowa in the 1830s count as the "wild west"? -- RHaworth ( Talk | contribs) 06:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Presently there is no Crucifixion of Jesus article, though there are about 40 articles on the "last week" - even a fairly extensive Crucifixion eclipse article. The closest to Crucifixion of Jesus is Death and resurrection of Jesus - but the only content on the crucifixion there seems to be the purported miracles associated with the crucifixion. Please see Talk:Death_and_resurrection_of_Jesus#Requested_Move -- JimWae ( talk) 04:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to get an article linked to this project. But the article of Prophecy could certainly do with some help.
It is already linked to various projects, WikiProject Charismatic Christianity, WikiProject Religion, WikiProject Bible, and WikiProject Judaism.
However, there needs to be a good balanced Christian view point. It appears that in general the past the article has been hijacked to a predominantly Jewish POV and then a predominantly Christian POV. But I personally think it needs a lot of balance, but with some good solid Christian input.
I look forward to your thoughts Paulrach ( talk) 22:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Roman Catholic Church has been listed at Peer Review. Editors are anxious to get this to FA status, so please help review the article and leave comments. Karanacs ( talk) 21:40, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Monthly Newsletter for this project is long overdue. The last one was for Aug 2007. Shouldnt v restart it ? Comments ??? - Tinucherian ( talk) 06:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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Should there be an announcement on the main WikiProject Christianity page that announces these elections? I've noticed that no one is participating except for those of us who were involved in the original discussion on this talk page. Maybe some project participants haven't read the discussion and providing a link to the election would be helpful. Kristamaranatha ( talk) 23:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
If it interests anyone, a Christianity WikiProject has been started on the Simple English Wikipedia. It is located here. -- Andrew from NC ( talk) 05:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Could someone with more knowledge of subject than myself take a look at the above list. Is it needed and if so is it controvesial enough to need sources for each person? Bsnowball ( talk) 09:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Could someone have a look at this article: Pier_Luigi_Farnese,_Duke_of_Parma. It seems to contain quite some abuse and facts may need to be cross-verified. -- Jacob.jose ( talk) 17:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Christianity in China. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. The goal of this WikiProject is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Christianity in China available on Wikipedia. As a group, we do not prefer any particular tradition or denominination of Christianity, but see to it that all Christian traditions are fairly and accurately represented.
If you'd like to join and become a part of this project, sign the proposal page.
WikiProject Christianity is currently undergoing elections to choose project coordinators. All members are invited to participate. To review the open spots and their duties, see here. To nominate someone or vote, go here. Nominations are open until April 30.
By now, most of you have received the April 2008 Issue of the project newsletter on your talk pages. For uniformity and to avoid issues with the bots on automated delivery , we have created a new list for all memmbers here. By default all members may receive full content delivery on their talk pages ,whenever a new issue comes out. If you would prefer, you may choose to have the contents delivered to you as Link only content or to not receive the newsletter in any form.If so, please remove your name from the Full content Delivery list and add to Link content Delivery or No delivery sections here. - Tinucherian ( talk) 10:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
The Featured Article and Reatured Article Review processes have put out a call for reviewers. Any editor can review an article and contribute to consensus on whether that article is of FA status. Several Christianity articles have been promoted to FA status recently, and if we'd like to continue adding to that number it might be wise to give back and help review at FAC. This week's Signpost Dispatch, located at
, explains the advantages of being a reviewer and details the aspects of reviewing that are critical to maintaining WP's high standards. Hope to see some new faces at FAC or FAR soon! Karanacs ( talk) 14:52, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
How can the Ravi Zacharias article get on the good article list on WikiProject Christian's main page? I made the cut, just doesn't appear on our list yet. Thanks Kristamaranatha ( talk) 00:42, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Upon discussion and consensus ( see here) , The following changes and decisions were taken w.r.t to Indian Christianity workgroup :-
This is FYI - Tinucherian ( talk) 04:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I tried to put the Indian Christianity Portal in the Related Areas section on the Project Page. The text is fine but what have I done wrong with the Image? I followed the correct formatting. Kathleen.wright5 15:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Christianity is currently undergoing elections to choose project coordinators |
This project is currently undergoing elections to choose project coordinators.
All members are invited to participate.
To review the open spots and their duties, see
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Portal:Anglicanism is up for Featured portal candidate discussion. Your comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Anglicanism. -- Secisek ( talk) 18:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
New article. AgnosticPreachersKid ( talk) 02:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
My current activity involves finding the christianity related articles from the DYK archives, adding them to DYK section in the main project page , adding {{ ChristianityWikiProject}} banners to the talk pages of those articles and assessing them. To my surprise I was able to find lots of GA level articles in them, raising our GA article count from 44 to 51 , by now. I am going in descending order of archive pages and have collected DYK articles till Wikipedia:Recent additions 201 . - Tinucherian ( talk) 06:04, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Important work, indeed. -- Secisek ( talk) 21:00, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
These are all cold cases so don't take the listing at face value; things may have changed since the tag was placed or the tag may have always been inactionable. Figuring out exactly why the tag was placed may require investigation. Check the history around the date given on the tag.-- BirgitteSB 19:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
I had assessed this article as Start Class. The author of the article , Geogre was not happy (taken it as an insult , infact) and changed it to B class . See here . Interestingly the person is an administrator also. I left a note on his talk page here. Requesting comments - Tinucherian ( talk) 07:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Eastern Orthodox church architecture → Byzantine Rite church architecture —( Discuss). Please add your imput on this topic. —-- Kevlar ( talk • contribs) 00:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
The articles within the scope of this project just crossed 6000 articles. There is a backlog of approximately 2600 unassessed articles. We should try to cut down this backlog as much as possible. - Tinucherian ( talk) 06:22, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
New article I tagged with your project. APK yada yada 09:45, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Done - Assessment complete. - Tinucherian ( talk) 11:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
This portal has a few problems. The first and foremost of them is that it doesn't seem to have sufficient content to make a portal sustainable. The guidelines call for at least 30 non-stub articles which don't have some sort of quality question tags on them. I only count a maximum of 27 articles in Category:Christadelphians and all of its subcategories. Any suggestions on what if anything to do about this? John Carter ( talk) 13:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
I am happy to announce that we have 200+ members in our project now - Tinucherian ( talk) 05:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
A proposal to add a symbol identifying Good Articles in a similar manner to Featured ones is being discussed: see Wikipedia talk:Good articles#Proposal. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 19:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
BetacommandBot seems to be running amok today, blindly tagging articles as "Stub", "Low Importance" when they are not, such as National Council of Churches to cite just one example. Whoever is using this Bot to rate Project articles, please turn it off until you have it correctly programmed. JGHowes talk - 01:40, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
This is the task I asked "
This is from Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity. We need a help by User:BetacommandBot - for task request 8 . Our Unassessed Project articles are in Category:Unassessed-Class Christianity articles .
We need bot assisted assesment for all the articles. Our project banner is {{ ChristianityWikiProject}}
You need to
1) If "|importance=" is empty , replace it with "|importance=Low" . Make sure you dont overwrite if importance is assessed already.
2) If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assesment from the other project banners on the same talk page.
3) If there are No other wikiproject banners / any assessment already, please use the general wiki guideline of no of characters for Stub/Start classes and then add the appropriate class tag for quality
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I did this on the folllowing assumptions :-
1) The number of High/Top Importance artilces in unaccessesed articles may be less. On a second manual sweep, we should be able to identify the higher importance articles if any
2) We should not replace the orginal importance assessment if any.
3) The standards for assessment scale for most projects is the same. Hence if there is an already assessment done , we could just reuse the information .
4) Similar automated attempts were done in different Projects like WikiProject Africa -
see here.
5) This task for the Bot was an approved
task , hence I assumed it to work smoothtly :(
Unfortunatley this didnt have an actual desired effect.
Anyways I will go over the recent assessment logs manually and fix the problems if any in assessments.
Thanks Tinucherian ( talk) 02:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
2) If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assesment from the other project banners on the same talk page.
The question is Why didnt the Task3 didnt work properly . What was your criteria of assessment of quality if there was no pre-assessment on the talk page. I thought 1500 characters was the benchmark for differentiating Stub and Start classes. Looks like it didnt work properly as with the case of National Council of Churches for example.
Anyways you can do only the request 2 with respect to the remaining
Category:Unassessed-Class Christianity articles - If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assessment from the other project banners on the same talk page.
Thanks for your service, Betacommand
- Tinucherian ( talk) 03:44, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 15:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Project Elections (2008) Closure ? |
Dear members, Thanks for interest and participation in project Elections 2008 for Coordinators . Can we close the balloting ?? In this event of tie, I hereby Nominate John Carter as the Lead Coordinator. Thank you for the support we have been given - -- ₮inucherian (Talk) - 03:13, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
I've been working on cleaning up this article's very bias leanings (it's more INconsistency of the Bible than anything), and I could use some feedback (on my talk page please) regarding the changes I've made so far, and the points I've made on the article's talk page. Also, if someone can assist with rewording the beginning of the article? I'm hitting a brick wall trying to make it concise, but still presenting the points in a NPOV manner. Thank you Faith ( talk) 09:39, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
The above article has been nominated for inclusion in the latest release version of wikipedia. That nomination is now being held given the comparatively poor referencing and tone of the article. Any efforts to improve the article to make it more likely to be selected for inclusion would be extremely welcome. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 17:15, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
This is a new stub I wrote. It's only notable because it's a NRHP and I can't seem to find any RS that mention it besides the NRHP database. Anyway, I tagged it with your project. APK yada yada 05:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
The article for the Traditional Values Coalition has been replaced several times by someone noting that the "previous" version was in violation of NPOV. While this is correct, the version which the editor(s) have been replacing it with is also, and more dramatically, in violation of NPOV. If someone who is familiar with the coalition could attempt to work out a NPOV version of the article, it would be appreciated. I'd do it myself, but I won't have time until this weekend, and I don't recall hearing about the coalition before. In the meantime, I have reverted the article to the "previous" version and {{ POV}}-tagged the article. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 08:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Two things:
(1) I've recently been doing some editing on contemporary worship and noticed a few oddities in related articles. Christian worship seems to need quite a bit of work (it has loads of "see also" links) and IMO is rather POV. Also there are two articles, church service and service of worship which are quite similar. Perhaps some restructuring is needed.
(2) One notable omission is an article on conservative evangelicalism. I can't find anything on this, and as they are a distinct and notable group within the church, I really feel they merit an article of their own. Existing articles on Evangelicalism and Conservative Christianity aren't really adequate. Can anyone do some work on this? I might try to start an article, but I'm not enough of an expert to be able to do much and it will be messy!
Thanks! Sidefall ( talk) 14:04, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
As mentioned above, I have now started an article. I hope other editors will be able to work on it. Sidefall ( talk) 15:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC) I've added it to articles needing expansion above and on the main requests for expansion page. Perhaps editors of other articles could link to it as appropriate. Sidefall ( talk) 16:04, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
This article is currently a redirect to a church that takes this theological position. I would welcome a proper article on this approach. It seems to have grown in prominence in recent years. Sidefall ( talk) 20:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
I think that I'm nearing completion in writing this article about a Japanese Seventh Day Adventist medical missionary who was forced to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was killed during the Battle of Attu. I hope to nominate the article for featured status soon. I don't normally work on articles of this subject, so, if someone could look at it and provide some feedback on the article's talk page on how it could be improved, it would be really appreciated. Cla68 ( talk) 07:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I think it would make sense to alter the scope of the Syriac Christianity work group to not include any content which does not specifically relate to Christianity per se. This would mean removing a few categories from the Category:Syriac Christianity, specifically Category:Assyrian settlements. Category:Chaldeans, Category:Neo-Aramaic languages, Category:Nochiya Tribe. Category:Osroene, Category:Syriac alphabet, Category:Syriac literature, Category:Syriac writers, Category:Syriacists, Category:Translators to Syriac, and maybe moving any articles contained within those categories specifically relating to Syriac Christianity into another category. Thoughts? John Carter ( talk) 15:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
there is a straw poll underway at Talk:Roman_Catholic_Church#Capitalization_of_.22Church.22 regarding the style guidelines for capitalization and church bodies. Pastordavid ( talk) 18:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there one? John Carter ( talk) 19:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Here is one {{ Christianity barnstar}}
-- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:30, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Isn't this the standard one?
-- Jacob.jose ( talk) 16:13, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
New article. APK yada yada 04:07, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
This is to inform all that the Coordinators Elections for 2008 is now concluded and results are announced. |
The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.
The Lead Coordinator bears overall responsibility for coordinating the project; the Assistant Coordinators aid the Lead Coordinator and focus on specific areas that require special attention.
The following people were elected .
Congratulations to the elected ones and as Coordinaters , we thank all the project members for the support and participation in the elections.
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TinuCherian
(Wanna Talk?) - 06:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
We now have a list of articles which have been tagged by this project with one or more cleanup tags at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Cleanup listing. Please feel free to do any work you can to address the existing problems there. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 20:05, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
May 2008 Newsletter is ready to take off at Template:WikiProject_Christianity/Outreach/May_2008 . Let me know if there are any concerns or suggestions asap.I had asked BetacommandBot for delivery -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:39, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
We now have a Christianity browsebar listing all the Christianity portals at the unimaginatively named Template:Christianity browsebar. Are there any further portals we should consider creating? John Carter ( talk) 01:38, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
DYK that Smith's Bible Dictionary (Public Domain) is available in print? Available from Thomas Nelson. I can't put a link to the web page because it keeps going wrong. Kathleen.wright5 10:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
An user Avineshjose proposed a merger of Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church and Malankara Church. Malankara Church is the original church established by St. Thomas in India. It was undivided until 15th century - later it become different denominations Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Malankara Catholic Syrian Church, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church etc ..during the course of history. The user has his personal intentions on this request for this merger ( explained in the talk page) . To be fair to him , I request a third party and unbiased opinion on this issue , on the article Talk page -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Can somebody look into the contributions of the usee Bishop Ron McRae ( talk · contribs) on Anabaptist. Is there a POV push or just good faith? -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 02:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
I've been bold and created a discussion page for any ideas any editors may have which relate to Christianity as a whole at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/General Forum, and posted a few questions there. Anyone interested is free to make any comments on the issues raised there, or any others of importance to the various Christianity groups. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 18:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Can somebody shed light as to why this page redirects Oblate (religion)? What is "Puer oblatus"? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 03:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
This article is listed as needing copyediting. I checked up its history and it looks like it was up for deletion back in November. I don't know what the outcome, if any, there was, but I would think this article should be deleted. It is completely original research, with no sources. Can anything be done about this? Should it be deleted, or remain on the copyedit-needed list? Kristamaranatha ( talk) 04:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
A quick search came up with these thirty baptism related articles. Now don't get me wrong, baptism is certainly important. But there seems to me to be an undue amount of overlap in these articles. Suggestions? Pastordavid ( talk) 14:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
This looks like a mess of soap-box, essay, and original research to me (or perhaps at best a coat-rack). Anyone want to have a look and see if I'm totally off base here? Pastordavid ( talk) 17:12, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
GRBerry, the article wasn't actually a candidate for quick deletion. I noticed the article missing, so I traced it: It was originally its own page under Christian Torah-submission. Then, on 22 August 2007, it was merged into Biblical law in Christianity by User:Namikiw. On 23 April 2008, User:Ewawer copied and pasted the Torah-submissive section from Biblical law in Christianity to Torah-submissive Christian. [2] It doesn't appear to be copyright violation at all, but an attempt on User:Ewawer's part to split the article without following the correct procedure. I see why you deleted it and it could stand clean-up, but it should be restored to Biblical law in Christianity to allow a split to be properly discussed. MagnusX1 ( talk) 18:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
What should we do with POxy 1464, POxy 2990, POxy 3929, POxy 658, and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3035. The first four are sub-stubs on a particular libellus from circa 250 A.D. The fifth is instead an arrest warrant of the same date and origin. Are they mergable? Should the greek and English texts get transwikied to wikisource? (How would we do that?) Are they worth keeping at all? GRBerry 15:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
This is a relatively new article that looks to be redundant with Chronology of Jesus, I've suggested a merge, but I'm not sure if it's a POV fork or some other issue. It appears to be an adaptation from [3], and I don't know how reliable a source that is. Somedumbyankee ( talk) 09:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I have merged Student Life New Zealand into Student Life (university ministry), and plan to do the same with Student Life Australia. The article they are being merged into seems to lack notability too, as I have indicated with the template, and might itself be merged into the apparently notable Campus Crusade for Christ. Nobody seems to be watching them, and they were all created by one-edit wonders, so I need some more feedback. Maybe I should take them to AFD (even though the content is technically being merged) to get some? Richard001 ( talk) 03:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Just a thought here everybody but so far nobody has made any of the christian based infoboxes part of this rather impressive project. Currently there are around 25 infoboxes devoted to different aspects of christianity. A large proportion of these are about people such as bishops, archbishops, partriachs and popes and this area is largely unregulated. Basicually what I am getting at is that I have two propsales to make. 1. That we incorporate at least some of these infoboxes into our project. ( Template:Infobox Bishop ( talk · links · ), Template:Infobox Archbishop ( talk · links · ), Template:Infobox Patriarch ( talk · links · ) and Template:Infobox Pope ( talk · links · ) would be my personal preference to start with first because they are the ones I have worked with and know they are of a reasonable standard) 2. That we possibly create an Infobox Departement to deal with the problems that arise with this infoboxs. Thats it basicually, it was just a thought that crossed my mind. I know how very busy many of the members of WikiProject Christianity are but I think this would be a valuable asset to our cause. So any feed back please let me know. The Quill ( talk) 11:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Roughly a month ago, I created a cleanup listing for this WikiProject. I have now updated the list with a new data snapshot of May 24. Also, the list format has slightly changed.
On this occassion, I would like to ask you for feedback about this kind of listings. (I am currently evaluating whether it makes sense to offer them on a larger scale.) Did you find the listing useful for your project work? Does it reasonably lead you to articles that you can clean up? What could be improved about the content or formatting of the list?
As a side note, if the listings are too long when generated for the entire project, I can also generate them for individual workgroups, which might be easier to handle.
Please leave your comments at User talk:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings. Thanks, -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 09:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I can't figure out from Corpus Christi (feast) just what Corpus Christi is. Can anybody help out the non-Christians here? (Obviously, please add info to that article, not just here.) Thanks. -- Writtenonsand ( talk) 20:19, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi can I ask a question about christanity here? Electrical Experiment 21:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
There are now two new proposed work groups of Christianity, one to deal with the main articles on all the Christian faiths, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Christian creeds, and another to focus specifically on content relating to Christian philosophy and theology, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Christian theology. Any interested parties are encouraged to indicate their interest there. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 18:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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I am requesting peer review of the Greater Grace World Outreach article. I am working on it with another editor who has different opinions about what should be included. We have both been accused of conflict of interest and so it will be very helpful to get a third opinion. Spinkava ( talk) 15:52, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like to propose creating a workgroup to cover [ [1]] and related subjects. This page in particular is missing a lot of sources and needs a lot of work. Seeing as it's a super-important subject to Christian theology I think it would be good if some members of this project would climb aboard and improve these articles. Thoughts? Kristamaranatha ( talk) 00:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
As some of you might have noticed, Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history seems to be one of the most effectively run projects out there, with its recently elected 9 coordinators. Wikipedia:WikiProject Films and Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels are currently engaged in finding coordinators for their projects. Do the rest of you think it would be a good idea to have such coordinators here as well? John Carter ( talk) 16:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I am in favor and would volunteer to help out. -- SECisek ( talk) 19:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I am in favor of assigning or electing coordinators for various areas. I think it helps to organize the task, which is good when dealing with a subject area as huge as Christianity. It also helps people know who to talk to if they have questions or issues in the different areas in this Wikiproject. For example if someone has a question about assessments/core topics/baptist articles, they can ask the assessments/core topics/baptist coordinators. This can also help because some people are gifted administrators and are good at organizing and assigning willing volunteers to work on certain areas, while others are good volunteers who work well under a little guidance. It also helps those volunteers know what they can help with, again because Christianity is such a large area to work with. Kristamaranatha ( talk) 00:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
John Carter, I do like bold. However, I am confused by the elections page. As I read the page I note:
Nominations to be co-ordinators of what sections of the project? I just find it puzzling. Perhaps the areas of the project that are seen as priorities might be identified and "work teams" for those priorities be open to sign up, before coordinators get elected? I wonder if this is too much organization for a wiki. As for me, I am living In my own little world, working to improve the article Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the related articles that impact its stability. ( and I note I have spent 30 minutes of editing time here! I think I am nuts. In its own way, it is funny! Sorry, my friends. and I note that it is already too late to vote!) John Park ( talk) 00:48, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
An infobox was made for leaders of the orthodox church, but I want to find a better color than the yellow that orthodoxy has been assigned (It can be changed since it has not been implemented yet) (see Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes/Society#Religious_leaders). When you think of the Orthodox Church, what color do you think of? Please leave your responses at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy#Infobox Grk1011 ( talk) 22:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
The above article has recently been protected as a result of a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents#Today's theology lesson. A few more eyes to watch the page, and maybe help try to improve it in a way which all parties might find acceptable, would be very, very welcome. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 17:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Following a discussion at " Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 February 21#Template:Infobox churches and cathedrals" where it was proposed that the templates {{ Infobox church}}, {{ Infobox churches and cathedrals}} and {{ Parish church}} be merged, I've created a prototype merged template for discussion at {{ Infobox church/sandbox}}. The documentation for the template is at Template:Infobox church/doc. Your comments and help with improving the template are welcome – please discuss the matter at the Infobox church talk page.
If everyone is happy with {{ Infobox church/sandbox}}, then {{ Infobox church}} can be replaced with that template and the templates {{ Infobox churches and cathedrals}} and {{ Parish church}} nominated for deletion. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 13:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
The proposed template makes use of multiple parameter names for certain fields (e.g., "name" and "church_name") to minimize the effects of old templates being deleted. However, in general the articles that have used those templates will have to be manually updated by the editors who have those articles on their watchlists.
There's been a new development – someone has proposed converting the draft infobox template at {{ Infobox church/sandbox}} into a template that can be used for all places of worship. We would like your views on whether you think this is a good idea, and if you are able to help identify parameters that would be relevant to the religion that your WikiProject deals with. Do join the discussion taking place at " Template talk:Infobox church". — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 03:54, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
there are currently 44 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 15:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
May be of interest: there is a digital edition of Migne's Patrologia Latina available, along with a whole lot more material at www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html which may be of interest. In Latin of course. Someone (probably) associated with that project has been adding links to the relevant articles. Seems unobjectionable to me, but this has caught the eye of the ever-vigilant spam monitors, and here we are. This could be usable for inline cites, for further reading sections, to create bibliographies for Medieval Latin religious writers, etc. Hope this is useful, Angus McLellan (Talk) 01:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
This article, affiliated to this project, seems to give far too much prominence to fringe theories, eg origins of Christianity influenced by Buddhisam, Jesus visited India &c. Peter jackson ( talk) 10:12, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
I was pleased to see a speedy response to my request re Wesleyism. My next request requires a bit more work! Please see this proposal for an article on a 19th century missionary group. Does Iowa in the 1830s count as the "wild west"? -- RHaworth ( Talk | contribs) 06:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Presently there is no Crucifixion of Jesus article, though there are about 40 articles on the "last week" - even a fairly extensive Crucifixion eclipse article. The closest to Crucifixion of Jesus is Death and resurrection of Jesus - but the only content on the crucifixion there seems to be the purported miracles associated with the crucifixion. Please see Talk:Death_and_resurrection_of_Jesus#Requested_Move -- JimWae ( talk) 04:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to get an article linked to this project. But the article of Prophecy could certainly do with some help.
It is already linked to various projects, WikiProject Charismatic Christianity, WikiProject Religion, WikiProject Bible, and WikiProject Judaism.
However, there needs to be a good balanced Christian view point. It appears that in general the past the article has been hijacked to a predominantly Jewish POV and then a predominantly Christian POV. But I personally think it needs a lot of balance, but with some good solid Christian input.
I look forward to your thoughts Paulrach ( talk) 22:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Roman Catholic Church has been listed at Peer Review. Editors are anxious to get this to FA status, so please help review the article and leave comments. Karanacs ( talk) 21:40, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Monthly Newsletter for this project is long overdue. The last one was for Aug 2007. Shouldnt v restart it ? Comments ??? - Tinucherian ( talk) 06:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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Should there be an announcement on the main WikiProject Christianity page that announces these elections? I've noticed that no one is participating except for those of us who were involved in the original discussion on this talk page. Maybe some project participants haven't read the discussion and providing a link to the election would be helpful. Kristamaranatha ( talk) 23:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
If it interests anyone, a Christianity WikiProject has been started on the Simple English Wikipedia. It is located here. -- Andrew from NC ( talk) 05:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Could someone with more knowledge of subject than myself take a look at the above list. Is it needed and if so is it controvesial enough to need sources for each person? Bsnowball ( talk) 09:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Could someone have a look at this article: Pier_Luigi_Farnese,_Duke_of_Parma. It seems to contain quite some abuse and facts may need to be cross-verified. -- Jacob.jose ( talk) 17:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Christianity in China. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. The goal of this WikiProject is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Christianity in China available on Wikipedia. As a group, we do not prefer any particular tradition or denominination of Christianity, but see to it that all Christian traditions are fairly and accurately represented.
If you'd like to join and become a part of this project, sign the proposal page.
WikiProject Christianity is currently undergoing elections to choose project coordinators. All members are invited to participate. To review the open spots and their duties, see here. To nominate someone or vote, go here. Nominations are open until April 30.
By now, most of you have received the April 2008 Issue of the project newsletter on your talk pages. For uniformity and to avoid issues with the bots on automated delivery , we have created a new list for all memmbers here. By default all members may receive full content delivery on their talk pages ,whenever a new issue comes out. If you would prefer, you may choose to have the contents delivered to you as Link only content or to not receive the newsletter in any form.If so, please remove your name from the Full content Delivery list and add to Link content Delivery or No delivery sections here. - Tinucherian ( talk) 10:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
The Featured Article and Reatured Article Review processes have put out a call for reviewers. Any editor can review an article and contribute to consensus on whether that article is of FA status. Several Christianity articles have been promoted to FA status recently, and if we'd like to continue adding to that number it might be wise to give back and help review at FAC. This week's Signpost Dispatch, located at
, explains the advantages of being a reviewer and details the aspects of reviewing that are critical to maintaining WP's high standards. Hope to see some new faces at FAC or FAR soon! Karanacs ( talk) 14:52, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
How can the Ravi Zacharias article get on the good article list on WikiProject Christian's main page? I made the cut, just doesn't appear on our list yet. Thanks Kristamaranatha ( talk) 00:42, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Upon discussion and consensus ( see here) , The following changes and decisions were taken w.r.t to Indian Christianity workgroup :-
This is FYI - Tinucherian ( talk) 04:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I tried to put the Indian Christianity Portal in the Related Areas section on the Project Page. The text is fine but what have I done wrong with the Image? I followed the correct formatting. Kathleen.wright5 15:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
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This project is currently undergoing elections to choose project coordinators.
All members are invited to participate.
To review the open spots and their duties, see
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Portal:Anglicanism is up for Featured portal candidate discussion. Your comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Anglicanism. -- Secisek ( talk) 18:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
New article. AgnosticPreachersKid ( talk) 02:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
My current activity involves finding the christianity related articles from the DYK archives, adding them to DYK section in the main project page , adding {{ ChristianityWikiProject}} banners to the talk pages of those articles and assessing them. To my surprise I was able to find lots of GA level articles in them, raising our GA article count from 44 to 51 , by now. I am going in descending order of archive pages and have collected DYK articles till Wikipedia:Recent additions 201 . - Tinucherian ( talk) 06:04, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Important work, indeed. -- Secisek ( talk) 21:00, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
These are all cold cases so don't take the listing at face value; things may have changed since the tag was placed or the tag may have always been inactionable. Figuring out exactly why the tag was placed may require investigation. Check the history around the date given on the tag.-- BirgitteSB 19:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
I had assessed this article as Start Class. The author of the article , Geogre was not happy (taken it as an insult , infact) and changed it to B class . See here . Interestingly the person is an administrator also. I left a note on his talk page here. Requesting comments - Tinucherian ( talk) 07:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Eastern Orthodox church architecture → Byzantine Rite church architecture —( Discuss). Please add your imput on this topic. —-- Kevlar ( talk • contribs) 00:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
The articles within the scope of this project just crossed 6000 articles. There is a backlog of approximately 2600 unassessed articles. We should try to cut down this backlog as much as possible. - Tinucherian ( talk) 06:22, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
New article I tagged with your project. APK yada yada 09:45, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Done - Assessment complete. - Tinucherian ( talk) 11:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
This portal has a few problems. The first and foremost of them is that it doesn't seem to have sufficient content to make a portal sustainable. The guidelines call for at least 30 non-stub articles which don't have some sort of quality question tags on them. I only count a maximum of 27 articles in Category:Christadelphians and all of its subcategories. Any suggestions on what if anything to do about this? John Carter ( talk) 13:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
I am happy to announce that we have 200+ members in our project now - Tinucherian ( talk) 05:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
A proposal to add a symbol identifying Good Articles in a similar manner to Featured ones is being discussed: see Wikipedia talk:Good articles#Proposal. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 19:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
BetacommandBot seems to be running amok today, blindly tagging articles as "Stub", "Low Importance" when they are not, such as National Council of Churches to cite just one example. Whoever is using this Bot to rate Project articles, please turn it off until you have it correctly programmed. JGHowes talk - 01:40, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
This is the task I asked "
This is from Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity. We need a help by User:BetacommandBot - for task request 8 . Our Unassessed Project articles are in Category:Unassessed-Class Christianity articles .
We need bot assisted assesment for all the articles. Our project banner is {{ ChristianityWikiProject}}
You need to
1) If "|importance=" is empty , replace it with "|importance=Low" . Make sure you dont overwrite if importance is assessed already.
2) If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assesment from the other project banners on the same talk page.
3) If there are No other wikiproject banners / any assessment already, please use the general wiki guideline of no of characters for Stub/Start classes and then add the appropriate class tag for quality
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I did this on the folllowing assumptions :-
1) The number of High/Top Importance artilces in unaccessesed articles may be less. On a second manual sweep, we should be able to identify the higher importance articles if any
2) We should not replace the orginal importance assessment if any.
3) The standards for assessment scale for most projects is the same. Hence if there is an already assessment done , we could just reuse the information .
4) Similar automated attempts were done in different Projects like WikiProject Africa -
see here.
5) This task for the Bot was an approved
task , hence I assumed it to work smoothtly :(
Unfortunatley this didnt have an actual desired effect.
Anyways I will go over the recent assessment logs manually and fix the problems if any in assessments.
Thanks Tinucherian ( talk) 02:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
2) If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assesment from the other project banners on the same talk page.
The question is Why didnt the Task3 didnt work properly . What was your criteria of assessment of quality if there was no pre-assessment on the talk page. I thought 1500 characters was the benchmark for differentiating Stub and Start classes. Looks like it didnt work properly as with the case of National Council of Churches for example.
Anyways you can do only the request 2 with respect to the remaining
Category:Unassessed-Class Christianity articles - If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assessment from the other project banners on the same talk page.
Thanks for your service, Betacommand
- Tinucherian ( talk) 03:44, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 15:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Project Elections (2008) Closure ? |
Dear members, Thanks for interest and participation in project Elections 2008 for Coordinators . Can we close the balloting ?? In this event of tie, I hereby Nominate John Carter as the Lead Coordinator. Thank you for the support we have been given - -- ₮inucherian (Talk) - 03:13, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
I've been working on cleaning up this article's very bias leanings (it's more INconsistency of the Bible than anything), and I could use some feedback (on my talk page please) regarding the changes I've made so far, and the points I've made on the article's talk page. Also, if someone can assist with rewording the beginning of the article? I'm hitting a brick wall trying to make it concise, but still presenting the points in a NPOV manner. Thank you Faith ( talk) 09:39, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
The above article has been nominated for inclusion in the latest release version of wikipedia. That nomination is now being held given the comparatively poor referencing and tone of the article. Any efforts to improve the article to make it more likely to be selected for inclusion would be extremely welcome. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 17:15, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
This is a new stub I wrote. It's only notable because it's a NRHP and I can't seem to find any RS that mention it besides the NRHP database. Anyway, I tagged it with your project. APK yada yada 05:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
The article for the Traditional Values Coalition has been replaced several times by someone noting that the "previous" version was in violation of NPOV. While this is correct, the version which the editor(s) have been replacing it with is also, and more dramatically, in violation of NPOV. If someone who is familiar with the coalition could attempt to work out a NPOV version of the article, it would be appreciated. I'd do it myself, but I won't have time until this weekend, and I don't recall hearing about the coalition before. In the meantime, I have reverted the article to the "previous" version and {{ POV}}-tagged the article. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 08:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Two things:
(1) I've recently been doing some editing on contemporary worship and noticed a few oddities in related articles. Christian worship seems to need quite a bit of work (it has loads of "see also" links) and IMO is rather POV. Also there are two articles, church service and service of worship which are quite similar. Perhaps some restructuring is needed.
(2) One notable omission is an article on conservative evangelicalism. I can't find anything on this, and as they are a distinct and notable group within the church, I really feel they merit an article of their own. Existing articles on Evangelicalism and Conservative Christianity aren't really adequate. Can anyone do some work on this? I might try to start an article, but I'm not enough of an expert to be able to do much and it will be messy!
Thanks! Sidefall ( talk) 14:04, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
As mentioned above, I have now started an article. I hope other editors will be able to work on it. Sidefall ( talk) 15:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC) I've added it to articles needing expansion above and on the main requests for expansion page. Perhaps editors of other articles could link to it as appropriate. Sidefall ( talk) 16:04, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
This article is currently a redirect to a church that takes this theological position. I would welcome a proper article on this approach. It seems to have grown in prominence in recent years. Sidefall ( talk) 20:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
I think that I'm nearing completion in writing this article about a Japanese Seventh Day Adventist medical missionary who was forced to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was killed during the Battle of Attu. I hope to nominate the article for featured status soon. I don't normally work on articles of this subject, so, if someone could look at it and provide some feedback on the article's talk page on how it could be improved, it would be really appreciated. Cla68 ( talk) 07:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I think it would make sense to alter the scope of the Syriac Christianity work group to not include any content which does not specifically relate to Christianity per se. This would mean removing a few categories from the Category:Syriac Christianity, specifically Category:Assyrian settlements. Category:Chaldeans, Category:Neo-Aramaic languages, Category:Nochiya Tribe. Category:Osroene, Category:Syriac alphabet, Category:Syriac literature, Category:Syriac writers, Category:Syriacists, Category:Translators to Syriac, and maybe moving any articles contained within those categories specifically relating to Syriac Christianity into another category. Thoughts? John Carter ( talk) 15:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
there is a straw poll underway at Talk:Roman_Catholic_Church#Capitalization_of_.22Church.22 regarding the style guidelines for capitalization and church bodies. Pastordavid ( talk) 18:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there one? John Carter ( talk) 19:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Here is one {{ Christianity barnstar}}
-- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:30, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Isn't this the standard one?
-- Jacob.jose ( talk) 16:13, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
New article. APK yada yada 04:07, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
This is to inform all that the Coordinators Elections for 2008 is now concluded and results are announced. |
The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.
The Lead Coordinator bears overall responsibility for coordinating the project; the Assistant Coordinators aid the Lead Coordinator and focus on specific areas that require special attention.
The following people were elected .
Congratulations to the elected ones and as Coordinaters , we thank all the project members for the support and participation in the elections.
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(Wanna Talk?) - 06:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
We now have a list of articles which have been tagged by this project with one or more cleanup tags at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Cleanup listing. Please feel free to do any work you can to address the existing problems there. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 20:05, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
May 2008 Newsletter is ready to take off at Template:WikiProject_Christianity/Outreach/May_2008 . Let me know if there are any concerns or suggestions asap.I had asked BetacommandBot for delivery -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:39, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
We now have a Christianity browsebar listing all the Christianity portals at the unimaginatively named Template:Christianity browsebar. Are there any further portals we should consider creating? John Carter ( talk) 01:38, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
DYK that Smith's Bible Dictionary (Public Domain) is available in print? Available from Thomas Nelson. I can't put a link to the web page because it keeps going wrong. Kathleen.wright5 10:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
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An user Avineshjose proposed a merger of Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church and Malankara Church. Malankara Church is the original church established by St. Thomas in India. It was undivided until 15th century - later it become different denominations Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Malankara Catholic Syrian Church, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church etc ..during the course of history. The user has his personal intentions on this request for this merger ( explained in the talk page) . To be fair to him , I request a third party and unbiased opinion on this issue , on the article Talk page -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Can somebody look into the contributions of the usee Bishop Ron McRae ( talk · contribs) on Anabaptist. Is there a POV push or just good faith? -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 02:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
I've been bold and created a discussion page for any ideas any editors may have which relate to Christianity as a whole at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/General Forum, and posted a few questions there. Anyone interested is free to make any comments on the issues raised there, or any others of importance to the various Christianity groups. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 18:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Can somebody shed light as to why this page redirects Oblate (religion)? What is "Puer oblatus"? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 03:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
This article is listed as needing copyediting. I checked up its history and it looks like it was up for deletion back in November. I don't know what the outcome, if any, there was, but I would think this article should be deleted. It is completely original research, with no sources. Can anything be done about this? Should it be deleted, or remain on the copyedit-needed list? Kristamaranatha ( talk) 04:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
A quick search came up with these thirty baptism related articles. Now don't get me wrong, baptism is certainly important. But there seems to me to be an undue amount of overlap in these articles. Suggestions? Pastordavid ( talk) 14:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
This looks like a mess of soap-box, essay, and original research to me (or perhaps at best a coat-rack). Anyone want to have a look and see if I'm totally off base here? Pastordavid ( talk) 17:12, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
GRBerry, the article wasn't actually a candidate for quick deletion. I noticed the article missing, so I traced it: It was originally its own page under Christian Torah-submission. Then, on 22 August 2007, it was merged into Biblical law in Christianity by User:Namikiw. On 23 April 2008, User:Ewawer copied and pasted the Torah-submissive section from Biblical law in Christianity to Torah-submissive Christian. [2] It doesn't appear to be copyright violation at all, but an attempt on User:Ewawer's part to split the article without following the correct procedure. I see why you deleted it and it could stand clean-up, but it should be restored to Biblical law in Christianity to allow a split to be properly discussed. MagnusX1 ( talk) 18:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
What should we do with POxy 1464, POxy 2990, POxy 3929, POxy 658, and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3035. The first four are sub-stubs on a particular libellus from circa 250 A.D. The fifth is instead an arrest warrant of the same date and origin. Are they mergable? Should the greek and English texts get transwikied to wikisource? (How would we do that?) Are they worth keeping at all? GRBerry 15:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
This is a relatively new article that looks to be redundant with Chronology of Jesus, I've suggested a merge, but I'm not sure if it's a POV fork or some other issue. It appears to be an adaptation from [3], and I don't know how reliable a source that is. Somedumbyankee ( talk) 09:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I have merged Student Life New Zealand into Student Life (university ministry), and plan to do the same with Student Life Australia. The article they are being merged into seems to lack notability too, as I have indicated with the template, and might itself be merged into the apparently notable Campus Crusade for Christ. Nobody seems to be watching them, and they were all created by one-edit wonders, so I need some more feedback. Maybe I should take them to AFD (even though the content is technically being merged) to get some? Richard001 ( talk) 03:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Just a thought here everybody but so far nobody has made any of the christian based infoboxes part of this rather impressive project. Currently there are around 25 infoboxes devoted to different aspects of christianity. A large proportion of these are about people such as bishops, archbishops, partriachs and popes and this area is largely unregulated. Basicually what I am getting at is that I have two propsales to make. 1. That we incorporate at least some of these infoboxes into our project. ( Template:Infobox Bishop ( talk · links · ), Template:Infobox Archbishop ( talk · links · ), Template:Infobox Patriarch ( talk · links · ) and Template:Infobox Pope ( talk · links · ) would be my personal preference to start with first because they are the ones I have worked with and know they are of a reasonable standard) 2. That we possibly create an Infobox Departement to deal with the problems that arise with this infoboxs. Thats it basicually, it was just a thought that crossed my mind. I know how very busy many of the members of WikiProject Christianity are but I think this would be a valuable asset to our cause. So any feed back please let me know. The Quill ( talk) 11:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Roughly a month ago, I created a cleanup listing for this WikiProject. I have now updated the list with a new data snapshot of May 24. Also, the list format has slightly changed.
On this occassion, I would like to ask you for feedback about this kind of listings. (I am currently evaluating whether it makes sense to offer them on a larger scale.) Did you find the listing useful for your project work? Does it reasonably lead you to articles that you can clean up? What could be improved about the content or formatting of the list?
As a side note, if the listings are too long when generated for the entire project, I can also generate them for individual workgroups, which might be easier to handle.
Please leave your comments at User talk:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings. Thanks, -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 09:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I can't figure out from Corpus Christi (feast) just what Corpus Christi is. Can anybody help out the non-Christians here? (Obviously, please add info to that article, not just here.) Thanks. -- Writtenonsand ( talk) 20:19, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi can I ask a question about christanity here? Electrical Experiment 21:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
There are now two new proposed work groups of Christianity, one to deal with the main articles on all the Christian faiths, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Christian creeds, and another to focus specifically on content relating to Christian philosophy and theology, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Christian theology. Any interested parties are encouraged to indicate their interest there. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 18:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)