Talk:Religion in Ethiopia/Archive 1

Discrepancy in Numbers
"According to the national census conducted in 2007, over 37 million people or 43.5% were reported to be Ethiopian Orthodox Christians"

"The government's most recent 2007 census, Christians constitute 62.8% of the total population, with the largest group being Ethiopian Orthodox Christians at 33.5%"

Chris Martin (talk) 16:05, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Numbers
An unregistered user repeatedly added a pie-chart regarding the Ethiopian religions that combines the population numbers of orthodox, protestant and catholic Christians under the label Christianity. Although the intent of this edit is clear and understandable, such an edit constitutes original research. This means that facts are added to the article that contain information that is not stated directly by the cited sources. In this case, the cited source (the population census from 2007) gives the numbers for orthodox, evangelicals and catholic Christians separately. The user now took these numbers and added them to a total number not directly stated by the source. Of course, this is the correct result of simply adding the three numbers, but the assertion that these three religions constitute what can be called Christianity in Ethiopia is something that is not stated by the cited source, and may or may not be found objectionable by readers. Therefore, figuring out the sum for Ethiopian Christians needs to be left to the discerning reader of this article, unless a different reliable source is given that clearly provides this sum. Landroving Linguist (talk) 15:13, 28 October 2019 (UTC)