Talk:Freemasonry in Asia

Old notability issue
The following is copied from the talk page of the seperate article on the Grand Lodge of Armenia... which was deleted per AfD. That article has now been redirected/merged with this page. As such, the issues raised below are now obsolete. Blueboar (talk) 15:56, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * What makes this orgainization notable?


 * WP:ORG, (and specifically WP:ORG) is the notability guideline that governs this topic. It does indicate that organizations that are national or international in scope can be considered notable... but does this really apply here. According to its website, the Grand Lodge of Armenia consists of only 4 lodges... now the typical masonic lodge consists of 20 - 50 members... which means that the Grand Lodge has a total membership of perhaps 200.  In other words, it seems a stretch to say that it is national in scope.


 * More importantly, WP:ORG states (repeatedly) that notability is established by reference to reliable sources that are independant of the subject. At the moment this is not the case with this article... the only source provided is the organization's own webpage (hardly independant).  A google search turned up no other references to the organization, which leads me to think that there are no independant third party sources that discuss the organization.  If this is the case, the Grand Lodge of Armenia does not meet the criteria for notability... and must be considered non-notable. Blueboar (talk) 13:10, 16 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Nominated for deletion. Blueboar (talk) 14:41, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Turkey
An age old question... should Turkey be discussed under Asia or under Europe? Not that this is a firm determinant, but UGLE lists the Grand Lodge of Turkey under Europe. Blueboar (talk) 16:00, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Good point, same goes for Armenia. Shall we park the question until there's a "Freemasonry in Europe" or "Freemasonry in the Middle East"? JASpencer (talk) 16:17, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. It isn't a major deal (except for some Turks)... I just thought I would raise the issue now, since it will probably come up later.  We have time to think about it while we work on the rest of the article. Blueboar (talk) 16:37, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there, as there is some talk about the Europe/Asia thing, I have re-categorised Armenia into the Caucuses as there should be no doubt about that. As for the Europe question, well that's something to think about... despite Armenia having a European Telephone Country Code (List of country calling codes), being in the Council of Europe (Member states of the Council of Europe), and its history etc.. for now putting it in the Caucasus should be ok.

Armenia
The Grand of Lodge of England lists Armenia under Europe here. Armeniki (talk) 04:07, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

We need better sources
I think we have the same problem here that we do in other "Freemasonry in x" articles... a lack of reliable independant secondary sources that discuss the topic. At the moment, the vast majority of references are to various self-published Grand Lodge websites. While these sites do fit the "Self-published sources in articles about themselves" criteia of WP:V and WP:RS, we do need to search for more scholarly sources. Blueboar (talk) 13:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

External links modified
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Israel
There were at least 7 lodges (5 Arabic, 3 English, 2 Hebrew and 1 French speaking) belonging to the Scottish Masonic Constitution and 4 to the English (all English speaking) in Mandatory Palestine in 1942.--ארינמל (talk) 12:22, 23 April 2017 (UTC)