Talk:God's Word Translation

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Copyright products have no place in Wikipedia. Neither does ANTHING ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Wetman 23:25, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I disagree. We have lots of copyrighted and trademarked article names in Wikipedia. And we use the capitalization that the owner uses. RickK 00:05, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Their site has the title in all caps. Other site that use GOD'S WORD as a source use caps as well. Examples:


 * e-sword
 * Crosswire
 * Asaisoft
 * SearchGodsWord
 * Olive Tree #1
 * Olive Tree #2
 * Crosswalk
 * StudyLight
 * Scripture.nl
 * GMPSoft
 * Palmshare

iHoshie 02:42, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The second section is blatant advertising. I propose it be deleted

A good deal of material has been lifted out of the "God's Word" Web Site, and is either plagiarism or an advertising attempt. see The forth paragraph under "History" and downwards has been lifted and reproduced.

--Osjknights 14:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Other words have been lifted out of internet pages advertising the GWT such as http://www.beyondbelief.com/g_biblehs.spl --89.240.225.187 15:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I am removing the {advert} lable as the text has now identified clearly material from the God's Word Website, and has balanced material dealing with the advertising claims. --Osjknights 17:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I have modified the page to reduce a lot of the POV criticism. There were a number of misspellings and the text did not flow well. I retained the two criticisms of the translation that were properly sourced. If the other criticisms can be cited, feel free to put them back.-- 67.240.138.239 (talk) 20:48, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Glad to see the article has been kept. What areas would benefit most from other citations, in order to avoid the "dependent on one source" flag? Heyjohnboy (talk) 14:04, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Google books citations to GWT
Used:
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=6Jmp-p-OP4cC&pg=PT85&dq=%22god%27s+word+translation%22&sig=ACfU3U1OdWnoweNpnA2lOvPWuvgu4kRuxg
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=a0wvw6zixikC&pg=PT79&dq=%22god%27s+word+translation%22&sig=ACfU3U2mlu33XKcQ2UtqLjUQ7-GU7ciOPg#PPT79,M1
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=a0kMci5JbYUC&pg=PA10&dq=%22god%27s+word+translation%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U2eDrbm54COpcp_cK6zo4Wi6okVDg#PPA11,M1
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=Rf9feOjuzz4C&pg=PA178&dq=%22god%27s+word+translation%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U3VcG_4Gmsub2eP9ufoGJZXaDIQ-g
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=4SYf0e_BZZYC&pg=PA31&dq=%22god%27s+word+translation%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U2BoYYpklkk57uaPMK-MYaIupK6yw
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=tUTp5berJ0cC&pg=PA8-IA2&dq=%22god%27s+word+translation%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U1U0Rv21GVJIJtQyn9lJHGp20iN7Q
 * ... and these go on and on. It's pretty clear GWT is quoted in current Christian devotional literature.

Listed:
 * listed alongside a set of clearly notable translations... although not a particularly important source
 * Again listed, better source than above
 * resource
 * Mentioned in the Christian Writers' Market Guide 2003

Also listed four times in Google Scholar, although none of the articles seem to be primarily about the GWT. Jclemens (talk) 04:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

References not working...
The links for references 1, 2, and 3 are not working (ie. they point to pages that do not exist). planksip® (talk) 20:25, 2 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I was able to find equivalent pages on their website for the first two, and have updated them. Although there is a page that might substitute for the third one, it does not contain the quote in the article. Someone will need to rewrite that section of the article. Indyguy (talk) 01:22, 3 March 2019 (UTC)