Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion
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WikiProject Religion aims primarily to organise and condense the series of articles on religion. It also seeks to ensure NPOV across articles related to religion. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
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[edit] Scope
The scope of this project is all articles in the Category:Religion. Specifically, this project hopes to deal with all articles relating to the religious observances, rituals, and practices, the histories of such practices, and related biographical articles. (For articles dealing with the stories which often contribute to the development of such practices, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Mythology.) However, given the existence of several projects covering specific areas of the category, we will be placing the majority of our attention in the following areas:
- (1) We will work to create, improve, and maintain those articles which deal with religion in a non-sectarian sense (God, theology, religion, etc.), as well as articles about specific religions which do not yet have projects which deal with them. This would include, but not be limited to, those listed on the List of religions, which do not clearly fall under the scope of any of the daughter projects below. As a rule-of-thumb guideline, this would include those faiths which have no existing projects and those articles whose content relates to at least three, non-overlapping, extant projects.
- (2) We will assist in the assessment of articles in the field of religion, particularly those articles which have not yet been assessed.
- (3) We will try to assist in the maintainance of the Portal:Religion and other religion-related portals.
[edit] To do
- Add all articles within the direct scope of this project to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Articles list by category.
- Check recent changes for recent changes to these articles.
- Check Category:Religion articles needing attention for any articles requiring immediate attention.
- Provide assessments listed under "Requesting an assessment", following the project standards.
- Improve current GA-class and A-class articles to FA standards so they may pass a featured article review.
- Improve B-class or A-class articles to GA standards that have not passed a GA review.
[edit] Recognized content
[edit] Featured content
[edit] Featured articles
[edit] Good articles
- God
- Christianity
- Jesus
- Stregheria
- Taoic religion
- Ghost dance
- Mythical origins of language
- Chinese Rites controversy
[edit] Did you know (DYK)
- Dísablót - 4 December 2006.
- Religion in Scouting - 4 December 2006.
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Religion is one of the religion related WikiProjects.
[edit] Work groups
[edit] Departments
- Assessment - our assessment department.
- We also now have a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Assessment/Top-importance articles where I hope we can come to some degree of consensus as to which articles should be held as being of top importance to the project, and possibly concentrate some effort on them.
[edit] Templates
The project banner can be found at {{WPReligion}}. Also, all members should feel free to add {{User WPReligion}} or {{User WPReligion/Userbox 2}} to their userpages.
The following existing stub templates are also available. They should be placed on the bottom of article pages as appropriate:
- {{reli-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about religion.
- {{Reli-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about religious figures.
- {{theologian-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about theologians.
- {{US-reli-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about religious figures of the United States.
- {{UK-reli-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about religious figures in the United Kingdom.
- {{Ayyavazhi-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the Ayyavazhi faith.
- {{Bahá'í-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the Bahá'í faith.
- {{newage-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the new age creeds.
- {{reli-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to religious structures or places of worship.
- {{occult-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the occult.
- {{paganism-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to paganism.
- {{UnitarianUniversalism-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Unitarian Universalism.
- {{Unitarianism-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Unitarianism.
[edit] Members
All interested parties should feel free to add their names below, and if they wish to add the {{User WPReligion}} or {{User WPReligion/Userbox 2}} to their userpages. Also, please indicate any fields of specific knowledge or interest if you see fit. We may in the future be interested in setting up subprojects, and it would be useful to know early if there is any interest in any particular fields.
- Badbilltucker 19:13, 13 November 2006 (UTC) - Primarily ancient religions, including speficially Indo-European and Semitic religions. Also have a better than average grasp of the mythology/religion of the ancient Celts (reasonable, considering my real given name is Arthur. No aardvark or Dudley Moore jokes, please.)
- ChrisHigginson 18:06, 17 November 2006 (UTC +10)
- cab49ers5 18:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- Jgilhousen 17:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keesiewonder 00:56, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- --Sir james paul 18:15, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- Nightngle - I'm interested in the project, but am having a hard time understanding the focus of this project, especially considering the proposed scope.
- Kkrystian
- NinaEliza (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) 01:41, 23 December 2006 (UTC)Whatever I can do to be of service - from copyediting to helping mediate a potential conflict, please let me know.
- WerewolfSatanist 18:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)- Well I've spent a ridiculous amount of time reading about Satanism in general and will offer my knowledge there if wanted. I've spent my time researching religion in general for awhile now and can offer my services when needed (though writing whole articles is beyond me right now).
- Devin Murphy 19:17, 27 December 2006 (UTC)I’m interested in helping with the articles on Unitarian Universalism.
- Nina Odell 23:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)However I can be of service to the project and Tucker.
- Pgg7 Can help with Christianity, Anglicanism and some philosophical aspects of religion.
- Aleta (talk • contribs) particular interest in Unitarian Universalism as well as other things
- ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 00:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I can be useful in the area of ancient Irish and Scottish mythology/religion, and with Modern Celtic traditions. Have a long background with Polytheistic reconstructionism, Paganism and Neopaganism, plus significant experience with some branches of Hinduism and various Afro-Diasporic traditions. Have done some work on First Nations articles, and a bit on Unitarian-Universalist affiliates.
- Itsmejudith 15:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I've been working on Islam-related articles and am also interested in Taoism.Itsmejudith 15:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
- Shabdiz (talk • contribs), I am from the Zoroastrianism project and portal, following Badbilltucker's call for cooperation. I am happy to help if I can. Please leave a note on my talk page too. Shabdiz 19:03, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- Cerevox 05:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Have a knowledge of Eastern Europe and Russian Mytholgy. Have a very light knoledge of mytholgy for a large variety of places all over. Happy to help out anywhere its needed though.
- Goldenrowley I am joining at the encouragement of Badbilltucker from a sister project, wikiproject mythology so we are all in the same page in goals. I've been doing a little side work on religious topics while tidying up mythology topics. Goldenrowley 02:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- Captain panda Mussolini ha sempre tarche Sign Here 04:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC) I am part of WikiProject Mythology and thus I ended up reading something in the Project saying that we should also join this. So here I am. I am knowledgable about Church History before 1500. In addition, I am also somewhat knowledgable about Norse religion, especially the mythology of it.
- User:Aminz I have some knowledge of Islam and know a little about Christianity. I hope I can help.
- ◄Zahakiel► 19:54, 28 January 2007 (UTC) I offer my services to this project; I have knowledge in areas including the Bible, Judeo-Christian religions, Eastern religion and folklore, Angels, Demons, and a number of Paranormal and Occult matters.
- User:Vassyana I am very familiar with theology and Christianity. I have a strong functional knowledge of Eastern religion in general and Daoism in particular. I possess a good familiarity with the general Occult scene and religions. Vassyana 09:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- --Destructo 087 22:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- Misou 19:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- Chimakwa I've got a shiny new BA in Religious Studies and it'd be nice to use it for something more than resume filler. I mostly focus on Christianity, Church History and unorthodox religious movements, but I have a good base of knowledge in world religions in general.
- Christophore 22:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC) Fairly extensive knowledge of ancient Roman religion.
- Sefringle 05:06, 24 February 2007 (UTC) Main intrest is Islam, but I also wish to focus on a secular view on other religions.
- Wikidudeman I'm interested in religion and it's origin. I am not personally religious but am nonetheless interested in religious especially Abrahamic religions and Buddhism.
- Darkahn 13:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC) I have (light) knowledge on zen Buddhism, Demons, and a number of matters relevant to LaVeyan Satanism.
- Okelle okelle 18:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC) Interested in creating a paganism portal. I see a Wicca portal already exists. Paganism would encompass both Wicca and other non-Abrahamic traditions. I've set up the portal page already but want to connect with the larger community, especially those with an interest in this field of study. Have experience with various branches of Wicca, Afro-Carribean traditions, Unitarian Universalism, women's spirituality, solitary eclectic practice.
