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This WikiProject is for the development of articles related to Seventh-day Adventism on Wikipedia. The main aim of this page will be to promote collaboration on these articles and to organise a combined effort.
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[edit] Participants
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[edit] Userboxes
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We would like to encourage you to add one of these userboxes to your user page. They will help us to coordinate the project, plus they look cool! To use it, simply put
anywhere on your userpage. You may want to include it in an infobox:
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{{User:Colin MacLaurin/Adventism}}
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This displays the default message "This user is interested in the Seventh-day Adventist Church", and can be easily changed by supplying a parameter text, as demonstrated to the right (see page source or documentation).
Feel free to edit the source if you think you can improve it. If you can find a better picture than Image:William Miller.jpg then feel free to change it. Note that "fair use" images (in particular, the church logo) are not allowed on templates. Every page using it will automatically go into Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church participants, which someone renamed from the old Category:Wikipedians interested in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It will help to coordinate our efforts and to build our community of editors.
[edit] Interwiki
There are other Wikimedia Wikis to which we can contribute quotations, source materials (public domain materials, such as historic books and pamphlets), images (upload them to Commons if they are public domain which is preferred, or to Wikipedia if they are only fair use) etc., which relate to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
[edit] Style guide for Seventh-day Adventist related articles
This is a style guide for articles relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is currently under development.
[edit] Church name spelling and abbreviation
The church website specifies the correct spelling as "Seventh-day Adventist", including the hyphen and a lower-case "d" for "day". The abbreviation "Adventist" is preferred to "SDA", for reasons of disambiguation and to avoid any appearance of exclusivism. (For more information see the Use of the Church Name page on the church's official website.)
Be careful to avoid confusion regarding the term "Adventist". In its most general setting, the term refers to anyone who believes in the Second Coming (or "Advent") of Jesus (see Wiktionary entry). In articles, write in full "Seventh-day Adventist Church" or "Seventh-day Adventist" at the first occurrence to establish context before using the abbreviation "Adventist".
[edit] Adventism template
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{{Adventism}} produces the following sidebar, which may be placed on Adventist articles (in the general sense of the term "Adventist"):
[edit] Stub articles
Place {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub}} near the bottom of stubs relating to this WikiProject. This will automatically place the article in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.
[edit] Categories
Articles should be added to Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church or, preferably, one of its child categories.
See also #Proposed articles for additional category-specific guidelines.
[edit] Talk pages
On the talk page, place {{WP Adventist}}. This will include the article in Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team and also help to identify it as a part of this WikiProject. You may also include a "class" or "importance" tag, or both. "Class" indicates the quality of the article (see the proposed guideline for ranking of Adventist articles). "Importance" indicates the importance of the article within this WikiProject, and may be low, mid, high or top. For example, {{WP Adventist|importance=mid|class=stub}}.
[edit] Bible verses
Bible verses can be linked using the {{Bibleverse}} template, for example, {{bibleverse||John|3:16|NIV}} which produces John 3:16. See the documentation on the template's talk page. You can also view the debate at Wikipedia:Citing sources/Bible.
[edit] Images
"Public domain" images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia itself. Add them to commons:Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church. "Fair use" images can only be uploaded to Wikipedia, and these should be added to Category:Images relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. (See WP:IMAGE for general guidelines).
[edit] Wikipedia 1.0 articles
Here is a summary of the Wikipedia 1.0 articles for this WikiProject:
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| Start | 1 | 17 | 28 | 23 | 46 | 115 | |
| Stub | 8 | 29 | 92 | 30 | 159 | ||
| Assessed | 4 | 30 | 57 | 116 | 76 | 283 | |
| Unassessed | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | |
| Total | 4 | 31 | 57 | 116 | 82 | 290 | |
You may also view the expanded list.
[edit] Proposed articles
This is a list of proposed Seventh-day Adventist related Wikipedia articles. Before creating, check that the article does not already exist under a different title by searching Wikipedia.
If you're looking for something to do you could also add to a stub article, as found in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.
Many articles belong in an appropriate subcategory of Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church by region, as well as other categories. They will typically belong to a subcategory of the very diverse Category:Categories by country.
- Adventist Frontier Missions
- "Elmshaven", Ellen White's home in St. Helena, California, U.S.
- "Sunnyside", Ellen White's home in Cooranbong, NSW, Australia
- Ministerial Association (or Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial Association)[1]
[edit] Church structure
Organizational divisions, as listed on General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. These belong in Category:Organisational structures of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- South American Division of Seventh-day Adventists
- South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
- Southern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
- Trans-European Division of Seventh-day Adventists
- West-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists
[edit] Adventist Church by region
Specific articles about the church in Europe, the church in Australasia, etc. Article titles could have a form either similar to (The) Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe or with the formal organizational title as in Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. This should be discussed. Add to Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church by region or an appropriate subcategory if it exists. The Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia has detailed information on the church's work in many if not all countries.
[edit] Adventist church buildings
These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist churches, and also in the appropriate subcategory of Category:Churches by country.
[edit] Education and schools
Schools belong in either Category:Academies and elementary schools affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church or Category:Universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Also add them to an appropriate subcategory of Category:Schools by country.
- An article on education, maybe Seventh-day Adventist education, Seventh-day Adventist educational system or Educational system of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Place it in among others. (Some info for article: In some Asian countries such as Hong Kong, Adventist schools are referred to as "Sam Yuk" or similar, literally meaning "threefold". This stands for threefold education, implying a holistic approach to education involving mind, body and spirit/soul. (Contemporary approaches commonly include a fourth component, social). )
[edit] Adventist media
Books, radio, television, magazines and so on belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist media. They will often belong in a subcategory or sub-list of one of the following as well: Category:Christian studies books, List of books, List of books by title: A (or B, C,...); Category:Lists of writers; Category:Television networks by country; Category:Christian publishing companies etc.
- Review and Herald Publishing Association
- Loma Linda Broadcasting Network (LLBN) - http://www.llbn.tv
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal
- Ellen White books - a stub for each of her major works
- Adventist World Radio
- Adventist World, the new magazine which avoids the North American focus of the Review
- Andrews University Seminary Studies journal, http://www.andrews.edu/SEM/auss/
- List of Seventh-day Adventist books available online
- Ministry (magazine) - http://www.ministrymagazine.org/
- Adventists Affirm
[edit] Adventist hospitals
These belong in Category:Hospitals affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, an appropriate subcategory and probably others.
[edit] Theology
These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist theology. See also the page Seventh-day Adventist theology.
[edit] Adventist people
These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventists, or preferably a subcategory of this one. Also place them in the appropriate subcategory of Category:People by nationality - just keep going down the subcategories until you reach the end. For example, Ellen G. White is in Category:People from Battle Creek, Michigan. Perhaps also add them to an appropriate subcategory of Category:Deaths by cause.
The en dash "–" should be used for date ranges rather than the shorter minus sign "-", for example: John Byington (1798–1887)... The longer em dash "—" should be used for an open range, for example Desmond "Des" Ford (1928—)... Spaces are not generally included within the range. These are the first two of the big list of symbols below the edit box when you are editing.
[edit] Adventist pioneers
These generally belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders:
- Martha Byington Amadon (1834–1937)
- Sylvester Bliss
- Daniel T. Bourdeau
- John Byington
- Merritt E. Cornell
- Owen Russell Loomis Crosier
- Michael Belina Czechowski - former Catholic priest, first un-official SDA missionary to Europe (1864)
- Charles Fitch
- William Ellis Foy - Black minister, received visions prior to Hazen Foss and Ellen White
- Hazen Foss
- Stephen N. Haskell (1833–1922)
- Alonzo T. Jones (A. T. Jones)
- Charles M. Kinney - first Black ordained (1889) SDA Minister
- Anna Knight
- John Norton Loughborough
- W. W. Prescott. (One reference: Gilbert M. Valentine, W. W. Prescott: Forgotten Giant of Adventism’s Second Generation. Review and Herald, 2005)
- George Storrs
- Ellet J. Waggoner (E. J. Waggoner)
- Joseph Harvey Waggoner
- Luther Warren
- Frederick Wheeler (1811–1910)
- Edson White, Ellen White's son
[edit] Adventist theologians and preachers
These also generally belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders:
- David Asscherick
- Samuele Bacchiocchi[2]
- Charles Bradford
- John M. Fowler
- Clifford Goldstein interview with Julius Nam
- George R. Knight
- Dwight Nelson
- Arthur Patrick
- Jon Paulien (not to be confused with president Jan Paulsen!)
- Gerhard Pfrandl
- Richard Rice
- H. M. S. Richards, Sr.
- Randy Roberts
- Ángel Manuel Rodríguez
- Alden Thompson
- George Vandeman
- Morris Venden
- Norman H. Young
- Article for each former General Conference president, as listed in List of Presidents of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
[edit] Former Adventists
These belong in Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists. They may also belong in Category:Protestant theologians or similar.
(Most references currently provided are from a single website. Please research other sources as well)
Resources for each of the following people may be found here [8]:
- O. R. L. Crozier
- Gilbert Cranmer
- B. F. Snook
- W. H. Brinkerhoff
- A. F. Ballenger (his book here or here)
- Robert Brinsmead, a major Australian figure known for his diverse theological journey
[edit] Sabbatarian Adventist denominations
Here are the links from List of Christian denominations, which may provide a starting point. They probably belong in Category:Adventist, a parent (more general) category of Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Branch Davidians
- Branch Seventh Day Adventists
- Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church
- Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Association
- General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists
- International Missionary Society of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement
- People's Christian Church
- Adventist Church of Promise (Brazilian Pentecostal Adventists)
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
- Sabbath Rest Advent Church
[edit] Some more ideas
- Write a nice portal page about Adventism. In the long run there will be quite a number of articles. Such a portal page would be nice.
- Expand Blue law#Seventh-day Adventist Church about Sunday laws.
- Make a graph of church membership over time, and place it on History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Data easily available on church websites. Don't just use one of their graphs because they are probably not in the public domain.
- Colour-code world maps, as on the page Human Development Index or Image:World population.PNG:
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- One for the organizational Divisions of the church, colour-coded like the map on the bottom of this page on the church's website. Make it a linked image, like for Template:Australia Labelled Map.
- One for the countries and territories in which the church has an active presence (204 out of 230 or something)
- You could even colour a map by number of church members per country, or (better) as a proportion of population by country. That would be quite informative, and illustrate the divide between Western and non-Western nations.
- For instructions, have a look at Image:BlankMap-World-v5.png which contains not only the blank map but helpful links as well.
- Write an article List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals (or perhaps "magazines", a more common word; either way put a redirect on one). Order them by number of paying subscribers, which would be one indication of notability (gift subscriptions could be misleading as to notability, because people have a vested self-interest in getting their ideas heard). Otherwise order them by theology - from most liberal to most conservative or vice versa. That would be interesting! It could sound a little subjective, but Alden Thompson's classification (at the very end of the article, in the section XI. Alternate Publications) would be a start.
- Incorporate the old church logo into History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
- Expand 28 Fundamentals. A single sentence on each fundamental would work well. Keep in mind that the main theology article is Seventh-day Adventist theology, so we don't want overlap. Put articles discussing the church's beliefs in Category:Seventh-day Adventist theology. Just remember it is against Wikipedia policy to create separate pages discussing the same topic, so don't create a specifically Adventist page on baptism by immersion or what happens when you die, as those pages already exist in a more general setting. Perhaps a content fork (not POV fork) may be legitimate if there is enough distinctly Adventist content to justify it, but this would be the exception rather than the rule.
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