Wikipedia:WikiProject Saints
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A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about saints. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!
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[edit] Background
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily at standardizing the articles about people venerated by some Christians as saints or the blessed and making sure that they maintain a NPOV.
In the Roman Catholic Church the term "saint" refers to a person in heaven—however, since the 10th century, the title "Saint" is only given to persons who have been officially recognized (canonized) by the Church. Those given the title informally, prior to the establishment of the canonization process, are generally still considered both "saints" and "Saints."
The Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Anglican Communion and Lutheran Churches maintain liturgical calendars commemorating individuals they consider to have lived according to the will of God, although they do not so often or explicitly use the word "saint". "Canonization" in all of these groups is far less legalistic than is the Roman Catholic. Also, in these churches, lack of "official recognition" in no way, shape, or form, prevents someone from being a full-fledged Saint. This project will include within its scope those individuals formally recognized as saints or included in the liturgical calendars of one or more Christian denominations.
Non-Christian Saints If there is an interest in including saints from religions other than Christianity, please propose those changes on our talk page and we can integrate them into the wikiproject. The three saints of Cao Dai, specifically, Sun Yat-sen, Victor Hugo, and Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, have been tagged with the project's banner and are at least for now included within the scope of the project, pending approval of such from the members. Please feel free to discuss this issue on the project's talk page.
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Saints is one of the religion related WikiProjects.
The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Biography.
[edit] Participants
For the list of the participants and their specific interests -- or to add yourself to the list -- see our members page
[edit] Helping out
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[edit] Assessment
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
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 FA |
4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | ||
| A | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | ||
 GA |
3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |
| B | 21 | 35 | 33 | 26 | 96 | 211 | |
| Start | 18 | 68 | 162 | 379 | 731 | 1358 | |
| Stub | 5 | 87 | 600 | 513 | 1205 | ||
| Assessed | 45 | 116 | 287 | 1010 | 1345 | 2803 | |
| Unassessed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Total | 45 | 116 | 287 | 1010 | 1347 | 2805 | |
- Assessment – Our rating system
- Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
- V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc
[edit] Recognized content
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Featured articles
- Cædmon - featured on the Main Page on July 7, 2006
- Charles I of England - featured on the Main Page on January 30, 2006
- Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc - a Featured List
- George Fox - featured on the Main Page on March 30, 2005
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
- Joan of Arc - featured on the Main Page on April 16, 2006
- Leonhard Euler - featured on the Main Page on November 11, 2006
- Maximus the Confessor - Requested to be featured on the Main Page on August 13 (comment)
- Søren Kierkegaard - featured on the Main Page on June 11, 2006
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Good articles
- Bede
- John Calvin
- Edwin of Northumbria
- Isaac
- Pope John Paul II
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
- Martin Luther
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
- Óscar Romero
- Oswald of Northumbria
- Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
- Thomas Aquinas
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Did you knows (DYKs)
The following items all appeared in the Wikipedia:Main page's Did You Know section:
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[edit] Formerly recognized content
[edit] Former featured articles
[edit] Former good articles
[edit] Article suggestions & translations
List suggestions for new articles, or articles to be translated from another Wiki, below:
- List your suggestion here
[edit] New articles
- Hereswitha - 9 Feb 2007
- Eithene - 9 Feb 2007
- Elizabeth of Reute - 10 February, 2007
- Amaro (saint) - 27 February, 2007
- Theodore Romzha - 2 March 2007
- Fothad - 5 March, 2007
- Thyrsus (saint) - 6 March, 2007
- Ernan - 9 March, 2007
- Gérard of Brogne - 9 March 2007
- Godeberta - 12 March 2007
- Eurosia - 12 March 2007
- Valerius of Saragossa - 12 March 2007
- Saint Piatus - 12 March 2007
- Ansbert - 20 March 2007
- Varvara Yakovleva - 21 March 2007
[edit] Article Style
For suggestions and discussion about how to format and arrange articles on saint-related topics, see our style guidelines.
[edit] Infobox & Templates
- Where appropriate, the "Saint" infobox should be added to articles. If help is needed, see the instructions for use of the infobox (includes information about the various parameters).
- For other suggested Templates - including the WP Saints Userbox - see the WikiProject Saints Templates page.
[edit] See also
- List of saints
- Category:Saints
- Saint
- Beatification
- Patron saint
- Calendar of saints
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
- Symbology of the Saints
[edit] External links
1913 Catholic Encyclopedia. (public domain source, see: Catholic Encyclopedia)- Patron Saints Index
- Catholic Online list of saints
- List of Saints proclaimed during the Pontificate of John Paul II
- On the Canonizations of John Paul II
- Church of England Common Worship calendar
- http://wordbytes.org/saints/names.htm
- http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/ss-index.htm
