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Request for comment on Biographies of living people

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Request for comment on Biographies of living people

Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

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Adding Links

Hello, I am new to Wikipedia and am trying to understand how Wikipedia works, without disrupting anything or stepping on any one’s toes. My revisions on several pages have been removed and I am confused by these edits because I was not trying to self promote with my additions. Rather, I was adding a link to the Jewish Publication Society (JPS), the oldest Jewish publishing company in the United States and the authoritative English translation of the Jewish Bible. JPS has created a product called the Tagged Tanakh, which contains an online version of its most recent Bible translation.

You removed my links to the Tagged Tanakh, but Mechon Mamre, Bible Gateway, and the University of Michigan all have links in similar formats on Wikiperida pages related to the Bible. Please explain to me why these organizations are allowed to post and I am not. Additionally, I find it a little bothersome that Christian versions of the Bible (ie Bible Gateway and University of Michigan) are adding links to Jewish Wikipedia pages such as Torah and the Book of Genesis. Please advise me on the next step that I should take. Thank you, and I Look forward to hearing from you soon. Rrstern25 (talk) 14:00, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

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POV pushing

I have noticed that on articles like Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke, and Gospel of John, some editors are pushing a POV. They define a set universe of "mainstream scholarship" and used that to define what the "scholarly consensus" is. No evidence is ever given that this is what the "mainstream" is, it is just assumed and requests for evidence are ignored. Not only that, but this fake-mainstream is even often described as the "consensus". This universe just so happens to include and be personified by skeptics and atheists like Bart Ehrman or the ultra-controversial Jesus Seminar. Actually Ehrman and Jesus Seminar members are often the most heavily cited sources. Any scholars who deviate from this view are labeled "fringe" and their views dismissed. Most scholars actually deviate from what is defined by certain editors as "mainstream", but this nice little definition allows the majority to be dismissed as "fringe". Evidence that these people represent the "mainstream" is never given, editors just demand that one accepts it because "that's what everyone knows". With this, direct quoted evidence that they don't represent the mainstream is dismissed and never taken seriously. If they make claims that are well cited, these claims are deleted outright for no reason other than they don't fit in with this artificially defined universe of what is "mainstream". Wikipedia is ruled by what the majority of editors on a given article think about a topic, not what the "correct" or "mainstream" view is. These edits don't represent the "mainstream" view, but a heavily skewed POV. As such, these articles are badly biased on certain points, especially authorship.

I would like some non-involved editors to take a look at these pages and the talk pages to see what they think. RomanHistorian (talk) 20:43, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Leadwind is pushing neutrality, and you're pushing back with theologically conservative fringe views. Worse, you're editing against consensus to insert weasel words. This is not good. Dylan Flaherty (talk) 20:48, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Dylan is one of the editors defining "neutral" as the work of atheistic scholars.RomanHistorian (talk) 04:25, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Request for comment on Christian Lit category

Please visit Category talk:Christian narrative#Narrative should be a subcat of Literature and offer your input. Thanks, Aristophanes68 (talk) 17:45, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

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Given the closely linked subjects of the various religion, mythology, and philosophy groups, it seems to me that we might benefit from having some sort of regular topical discussion forum to discuss the relevant content. I have put together the beginnings of an outline for such discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/2011 meeting, and would very much appreciate the input of any interested editors. I am thinking that it might run over two months, the first of which would be to bring forward and discuss the current state of the content, and the second for perhaps some more focused discussion on what, if any, specific efforts might be taken in the near future. Any and all input is more than welcome. John Carter (talk)

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request for exper opinion on Books of Jeu

the Books of Jeu article is unsourced, except for the link to an online text of the book itself; is the information in the article reliable?--Melaen (talk) 16:18, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Book of Gad the Seer

Can anyone look this through, please. Not very reliable, the mention about "found lost book" only on one site and then translations... on DeviantArt. If looks genuine, please add some more scholarly-oriented comment what is legit and what could be not.

Szpawq (talk) 03:17, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Should we have articles that only repeat religious texts?

I've raised this issue about a specific article at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Islam#Al-Muzzammil. Dougweller (talk) 17:51, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Soliciting support for draft WikiProject Bibliographies

Fellow Wikipedians, I have taken the initiative, in consultation with a few others, to draft a WikiProject for Bibliographies. I hope it will be of interest to members of this project. The genesis of this effort has been a recent spate of AfD nominations of lists of publications. For the most part, the articles were not deleted, but that doesn’t mean many of them didn’t need work. A WP article entitled List of subject publications or any list of works, is by any other name, a Bibliography. Bibliographies within WP are specifically identified as a form of List in WP:List, are subject to List notability guidelines and the List Manual of Style. Unfortunately, many of the existing Bibliographies (or lists of publications) are not up to these standards. And there’s a high probability that new lists of publications or new Bibliographies won’t completely meet these standards as well, unless we as a community bring greater visibility to this genre of lists.

So the explicit goals of this draft project are to establish project-level advice for creating good bibliographies, gradually bring the existing set of bibliographies (400+) up to standard and to encourage editors to create bibliographies on topics and authors where appropriate. The goal is not to create bibliographies of everything or on everything.

I think the draft Bibliography project is logically connected to this project and members here would have a lot to contribute. If you are interested in participating, please sign up on the draft project page. If we get sufficient interest, I will move the draft into the Wikipedia space and we can press on. Also, please don’t hesitate to make suggestions on the draft here. I am sure it can be improved, will need some work to comply with Project guidelines and that it will evolve as this thing gets going. Thanks in advance for your support.--Mike Cline (talk) 19:39, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Proposed moves

There are discussions underway at the talk pages of Books of Chronicles, Books of Kings, and Books of Samuel as to whether or not to move those pages to article titles reflecting the singular nature of each of the works in the Masoretic text, rather than the current Septuagint-based titles. The input of any interested editor would be greatly appreciated. Evanh2008 (talk) (contribs) 05:27, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed MOS for Religion

There is now a proposed general Manual of Style for Religion and other articles relating to ethoses or belief systems at Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Manual of style. Any input would be welcome. I personally believe at least one of the reasons why many articles in this field have been as contentious as they have been is because of lack of such guidelines, and would very much welcome any input from others to help come up with some generally acceptable solutions to some of these problems. John Carter (talk) 22:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Paul Bedson's "pseudo-gnostic" nonsense

Paul Bedson, now banned, created several stubs in Category:Gnostic apocrypha and Category:New Testament apocrypha for texts with names that begin with "Pseudo-": Pseudo-Abdias, Pseudo-Ambrose, Pseudo-Crato, Pseudo-Dorotheus, Pseudo-Epiphanios, Pseudo-Gregory, Pseudo-Jerome, Pseudo-John, Pseudo-Linus, Pseudo-Luke, Pseudo-Marcellus, Pseudo-Mark, Pseudo-Melitus, Pseudo-Simon, Pseudo-Sophronius. Despite his contention that these somehow constitute "Pseudo-Gnostic Apocrypha" (see also template deletion discussion), it appears that while these are real texts, his categorisation of them is totally wrong - many or all of them are not Gnostic, they are not in any meaningful sense NT apocrypha, etc. I've fixed up Pseudo-Augustine (it's still a very brief stub, but at least is factually accurate now I believe.) The question with the remainder, is whether to fix them up to be accurate stubs about largely obscure texts, or just delete them. Given their obscurity, they may be destined to remain stubs for a long time if not forever. SJK (talk) 06:27, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Just my opinion (no more), but I would say they're not WP:NOTABLE. Evenssteven (talk) 06:47, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

To take Pseudo-Augustine as an example - it's probably not notable enough for an independent article, but might belong as a section in Augustine of Hippo bibliography, or deserve a mention in the history section of Order of Saint Augustine. The same is likely true of the other "Pseudo-" articles - probably not notable enough for an independent article, could be notable enough for a mention in an existing one. However, absent someone volunteering to research the true facts regarding these articles (I don't have the time to do it for more than one or two), maybe it is best to just delete them. SJK (talk) 07:38, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm really no expert in this topic, so maybe I shouldn't be venturing an opinion. However, you're welcome to take it for what it is: a broader perspective. Agreed: not notable enough for separate articles. Perhaps a mention in other articles, as you suggest. But I would keep in mind that the writings are spurious, intended to deceive. In the Augustine bibliography, a one-liner in a section titled "Spurious Writings" (or some such) indicating clearly that he is NOT the author would be enough. In the Order's article, a mention in order to refute dubious claims (only if those claims are notable enough in themselves). But it has to be worth something to mention it at all. Were the claims historically significant in some way that affected other events or people's lives? - That sort of thing. Otherwise it's just the kind of attention-getting rubbish that litters all periods of history including our own, and it deserves only consignment to the round file. And here's another indicator: no one has infinite time or energy, and this stuff falls beyond your cutoff line. Let someone step up here and say they have enough interest to take it on, that they have enough confidence that their own time wouldn't be wasted on the effort. If no one appears, the project is just impractical, and then it may be impractical for other good reasons too. Good enough for deletion in my book. But I'm perfectly content to have someone take action based on a contrary view; the field is then theirs. Let my lack of interest be no barrier to someone else's interest. But let WP not be cluttered by things no one is interested in. Evenssteven (talk) 16:12, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of many "Pseudo-" stub religious texts

Please see here. SJK (talk) 11:07, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Help needed with Sefer haYashar

Greetings! The Sefer haYashar disambiguation page has had over a dozen links pointing to it for several months. Any help in fixing those links would be appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:34, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

The non-deliberate links in article space are now dealt with. This leaves talk and project links, and the "see also"s, still an extensive list which I don't feel empowered to shorten. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 14:33, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Incorporation of Whole chapters in Wikipedia

I have seen articles on Quran incorporating the whole verses of the chapters in the corresponding Wikipedia article. I think Wikibooks/Wikisources are there to publish verses. Can we just move the verses to the respective Wikisource/Wikibooks pages and concentrate more on writing what,why and how's of the verses in the article. - Vatsan34 (talk) 06:08, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Book of Isaiah era consensus

Hello, A discussion is taking place for era-style consensus for article Book of Isaiah so see the article's talk page. Era-style is inconsistent, and ignore the recent era changes done in the article because there was no consensus approved yet. -- JudeccaXIII (talk) 02:59, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Ezra–Nehemiah era consensus

Hello, A discussion is taking place for era-style consensus for article Ezra–Nehemiah so see the article's talk page. The era-style is inconsistent. -- JudeccaXIII (talk) 23:40, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

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Book of Elchasai

I would like to add article: Book of Elchasai to the project. Please give some feedback. --Cheers-- JudeccaXIII (talk) 17:53, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Anyone can add any article to any project at any time, provided that the article reasonably falls within the scope of the project. That seems to be the case here, and I can't see any real reason for it not to be included. The easiest way to do that is to add the relevant project banner, with some assessment, to the article talk page. John Carter (talk) 19:27, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

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New task force proposal

I am thinking about setting up a task force within this WikiProject to deal with Jewish works, primarily the Talmud and Mishna, similar to the WikiProject I suggested before. Despite the importance of written works in Judaism, many of the articles devoted to Jewish works, including articles on specific tractates of the Mishna and Talmud, are in desperate need of attention. They are poorly written, lack sources, and don’t convey enough information. If you would be willing to join such a task force, please indicate below. Any feedback about this idea would be appreciated. — Puzzledvegetable (talk) 18:45, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

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Sirach listed at Requested moves

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FAR for Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches

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Marking Wikiproject as defunct

Hello all,

Unsure if anyone's still paying attention to this talk page since the last genuine human-to-human conversation (as opposed to notification) seems to be from years ago, but I'm considering upgrading the tag from "inactive" to "defunct". It seems clear to me that this project is just a duplicate - religious texts "in general" should be part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion, and religious texts specific to one specific religion should be part of that religion's wikiproject (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism, etc.). Any objection to this? The long years of inactivity seems to have proved that this project can safely be marked as historical. SnowFire (talk) 18:27, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I agree to this WikiProject change from "inactive" to "defunct". Chongkian (talk) 04:28, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

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