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Church name spelling and abbreviation
The church website specifies the correct spelling as "Seventh-day Adventist", including the hyphen and a lower-case "d" for "day". The abbreviation "Adventist" is preferred to "SDA", for reasons of disambiguation and to avoid any appearance of exclusivism. (For more information see the Use of the Church Name page on the church's official website.)

Be careful to avoid confusion regarding the term "Adventist". In its most general setting, the term refers to anyone who believes in the Second Coming (or "Advent") of Jesus (see Wiktionary entry). In articles, write in full "Seventh-day Adventist Church" or "Seventh-day Adventist" at the first occurrence to establish context before using the abbreviation "Adventist".

Adventism template
Adventism produces the following sidebar, which may be placed on Adventist articles (in the general sense of the term "Adventist"):

Stub articles
Place SeventhdayAdventist-stub near the bottom of stubs relating to this WikiProject. This will automatically place the article in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.

Categories
Articles should be added to Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church or, preferably, one of its child categories.

See also for additional category-specific guidelines.

Bible verses
Bible verses can be linked using the Bibleverse template, for example, which produces. See the documentation on the template's talk page. You can also view the debate at Citing sources/Bible.

Images
"Public domain" images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia itself. Add them to commons:Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church. "Fair use" images can only be uploaded to Wikipedia, and these should be added to Category:Images relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. One benefit of this is that if an image gets removed from a page, this project will not forget about it. (See WP:IMAGE for general guidelines).

Archives
Relevant archived materials General Conference Office of Archives & Statistics or the Loma Linda University Adventist Digital Library would often make good additions in the "External links" section of articles, or even integrated into the main text.

Disambiguation pages
It would be helpful to monitor various disambiguation pages, to ensure that articles do not link to these but to the correct page. To check for articles, just go to one of these pages and then click on "What links here" on the sidebar. This will show you which articles need to be changed. Pages: James White, Millerite (should link to Millerites instead), George Knight, Spirit of Prophecy, Review and Herald, etc. You can "pipe" links by typing James White, for example, which produces James White which links correctly.

Wikipedia 1.0 articles
Here is a summary of the Wikipedia 1.0 articles for this WikiProject:

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On the talk page of article in this project, WP Adventist should be placed at the top. This will include the article in Version 1.0 Editorial Team and also help to identify it as a part of this WikiProject. You may also include a "class" or "importance" tag, or both. "Class" indicates the quality of the article (see the proposed guideline for ranking of Adventist articles). "Importance" indicates the importance of the article within this WikiProject, and may be low, mid, high or top. For example,.

Proposed articles
This is a list of proposed Seventh-day Adventist related Wikipedia articles. Before creating, check that the article does not already exist under a different title by searching Wikipedia. WikiProject Christianity has a brief and helpful list of steps in creating a new article.

If you're looking for something to do you could also add to a stub article, as found in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.

Many articles belong in an appropriate subcategory of Category:General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists about the church by region, as well as other categories. They will typically belong to a subcategory of the very diverse Category:Categories by country.

Proposed articles (click "Show"/"Hide" to expand/contract)
 * Adventist Frontier Missions
 * "Elmshaven", Ellen White's home in St. Helena, California, U.S.
 * "Sunnyside", Ellen White's home in Cooranbong, NSW, Australia
 * Ministerial Association (or Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial Association)
 * Seventh-day Adventist logo – http://www.adventist.org/world_church/logo/index.html
 * Adventist Mission
 * Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians (ASDAH) One blogger linked to some articles from their recent meeting: Hobbes' Place May 2007 posts
 * article on camp meetings in the Adventist church? In Northern New South Wales conference, "Big Camp" is a major event and loved by many.

Church structure
Organizational divisions, as listed on General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. These belong in either Category:Organisational structures of the Seventh-day Adventist Church or (more likely) Category:General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
 * South American Division of Seventh-day Adventists
 * South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
 * Southern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
 * Trans-European Division of Seventh-day Adventists
 * West-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists

Adventist Church by region
Specific articles about the church in Europe, the church in Australasia, etc. Article titles could have a form either similar to (The) Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe or with the formal organizational title as in Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. This should be discussed. Add to Category:General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists or an appropriate subcategory if it exists. The Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia has detailed information on the church's work in a large number of countries. Also, there is probably detailed information about individual countries in other language versions of the article Seventh-day Adventist Church (there are at least 28 at the time of writing - see the sidebar "in other languages" on the left of that page). These could be translated to form an English article about a specific country or region.

Adventist church buildings
These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist churches, and also in the appropriate subcategory of Category:Churches by country.

Education and schools
Schools belong in either Category:Academies and elementary schools affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church or Category:Universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Also add them to an appropriate subcategory of Category:Schools by country.


 * An article on education, maybe Seventh-day Adventist education, Seventh-day Adventist educational system or Educational system of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Place it in Category:Christian education among others. (Some info for article: In some Asian countries such as Hong Kong, Adventist schools are referred to as "Sam Yuk" or similar, literally meaning "threefold". This stands for threefold education, implying a holistic approach to education involving mind, body and spirit/soul. (Contemporary approaches commonly include a fourth component, social). )


 * Newbold College in England

Adventist media
Books, radio, television, magazines and so on belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist media. They will often belong in a subcategory or sub-list of one of the following as well: Category:Books about Christianity, List of books, List of books by title: A (or B, C,...); Category:Lists of writers; Category:Television networks by country; Category:Christian publishing companies etc.


 * Adventist World, the new magazine which avoids the North American focus of the Review
 * Adventist World Radio
 * Adventists Affirm - http://www.adventistsaffirm.org/
 * Andrews University Seminary Studies journal, http://www.andrews.edu/SEM/auss/
 * Collegiate Quarterly - http://cq.adventist.org/
 * College and University Dialogue - http://dialogue.adventist.org/index.htm. Add disambig link from Dialogue (magazine)
 * Loma Linda Broadcasting Network (LLBN) - http://www.llbn.tv
 * Ministry (magazine) - http://www.ministrymagazine.org/
 * Review and Herald Publishing Association
 * Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
 * Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia (perhaps should be merged with the Commentary article above)
 * Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal
 * Record (magazine), for Australian (or is it SPD?) church members. Also (formerly?) known as the Australasian Record

Ellen White books
These go in Category:Books by Ellen White. Write a stub for each of her major works, including:
 * Steps to Christ (currently just to a redirect to Ellen G. White)
 * Christ's Object Lessons
 * Education (book)
 * The Ministry of Healing
 * Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing
 * (The Story of) Patriarchs and Prophets
 * (The Story of) Prophets and Kings
 * The Desire of Ages
 * The Acts of the Apostles (Ellen White book)
 * The Great Controversy (book)
 * Selected Messages, include discussion on manuscript releases from the White Estate

Adventist hospitals
These belong in Category:Hospitals affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, an appropriate subcategory and probably others.

Theology
These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist theology. See also the page Seventh-day Adventist theology.
 * Seventh-day Adventists and the Sabbath or Sabbath and Seventh-day Adventists. In my opinion, there may be enough content to warrant this article. Perhaps about the history of the Sabbath in the Adventist church debate only. But for now, just add content to Sabbath in Christianity, Seventh-day Adventist theology or History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church -Col . This is strictly not a POV fork - do not simply rehash out arguments for and against Sabbath as this debate will be presented in the main in Sabbath in Christianity. What is the best name, Sabbath and Seventh-day Adventism or Sabbath and the Seventh-day Adventist Church (or anything else)?

Adventist people
These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventists, or preferably a subcategory of this one. Also place them in the appropriate subcategory of Category:People by nationality - just keep going down the subcategories until you reach the end. For example, Ellen G. White is in Category:People from Battle Creek, Michigan. Perhaps also add them to an appropriate subcategory of Category:Deaths by cause. They could be also added to List of Seventh-day Adventists.

The en dash "–" should be used for date ranges rather than the shorter minus sign "-", for example: John Byington (1798–1887)... The longer em dash "—" should be used for an open range, for example Desmond "Des" Ford (1928—)... Spaces are not generally included within the range. These are the first two of the big list of symbols below the edit box when you are editing.

Check if they have been interviewed by Dialogue (most of these don't look notable) or Julius Nam.

Adventist pioneers (not all become Seventh-day Adventists)
These generally belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders:
 * Martha Byington Amadon (1834–1937)
 * Sylvester Bliss
 * Daniel T. Bourdeau
 * John Byington
 * Merritt E. Cornell
 * Michael Belina Czechowski - former Catholic priest, first un-official SDA missionary to Europe (1864)
 * Charles Fitch
 * William Ellis Foy - Black minister, received visions prior to Hazen Foss and Ellen White
 * Hazen Foss, claimed to receive and reject visions which were later given to Ellen White
 * Stephen N. Haskell (1833–1922)
 * Alonzo T. Jones (A. T. Jones)
 * Charles M. Kinney - first Black ordained (1889) SDA Minister
 * Anna Knight
 * John Norton Loughborough
 * William Warren Prescott (W. W. Prescott), early progressive thinker. (One reference: Gilbert M. Valentine, W. W. Prescott: Forgotten Giant of Adventism’s Second Generation. Review and Herald, 2005)
 * George Storrs Storrs brief bio, 6 sermons
 * Ellet J. Waggoner (E. J. Waggoner)
 * Joseph Harvey Waggoner
 * Luther Warren
 * Frederick Wheeler (1811–1910)
 * James Edson White, known as "Edson", Ellen White's son. Rejected the faith for a while, but Ellen won him over, he built a boat and ministered from it in the southern U.S.

Adventist theologians and preachers
These also generally belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders:
 * Roy Allan Anderson, one of the authors of Questions on Doctrine
 * David Asscherick, speaker at General Youth Conferences, etc.
 * Samuele Bacchiocchi, conservative theologian known esp. for his research regarding the Sabbath. It has been suggested that he is the most well known Adventist theologian amongst non-Adventists
 * Ivan Blazen, influential theologian; at Andrews University for some time
 * Charles Bradford
 * Graeme Bradford, retired Australian evangelist, known recently for writing three books about Ellen White
 * John Carter (evangelist) Carter Report
 * Raymond Cottrell (middle initial "F.") (1912–2003) eulogy, major recent figure who worked as book editor and in many other mainstream positions. Progressive
 * Molleurus Couperus, founding editor of Spectrum
 * Steve Daily, outspoken progressive Adventist
 * Raoul Dederen
 * Bonnie Dwyer, present editor of Spectrum
 * J. H. Denis Fortin, dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University. One editor of a forthcoming encyclopedia on Ellen White
 * John M. Fowler
 * Clifford Goldstein, church apologist, book chapter interview with Julius Nam
 * Fritz Guy
 * Gerhard F. Hasel, known for competent scholarship and strong conservatism. A recognised authority on the "remnant" theme in Scripture (the OT? He wrote the article for one Christian bible dictionary), he expanded the Adventist understanding considerably. Cottrell described him as "the ruthless personification of Adventist obscurantism" Need other POVs as well :-)
 * Edward Heppenstall, one of the most foremost theologians. Looked at areas such as soteriology (salvation), the investigative judgment and others. Crosscurrents in Adventist Christology by Claude Webster; chapter IV, "The Christology of Edward Heppenstall". Also
 * Siegfried Horn, a formerly prominent archaeologist.
 * George R. Knight
 * Sakae Kubo, respected scholar
 * Hans K. LaRondelle
 * Jerry Moon homepage, chair of church history at Andrews University
 * Julius Nam, also known as Juhyeok Nam
 * Dwight Nelson
 * Arthur Patrick, significant Australian researcher on Adventist history and Ellen White studies
 * Jon Paulien (not to be confused with president Jan Paulsen!)
 * Gerhard Pfrandl, a member of the Biblical Research Institute
 * Jack Provonsha
 * Walter E. Read, one of the authors of Questions on Doctrine
 * Richard Rice, progressive thinker known for books such as Believing, Behaving, Belonging and The Openness of God (with Clark Pinnock and others). One person suggested he will become the most respected Adventist scholar from our time
 * Randy Roberts
 * Ángel Manuel Rodríguez, conservative theologian, head of the Biblical Research Institute. One Adventist called him the best defender of traditional Adventist belief in the church
 * Richard W. Schwarz, historian who wrote the classic book Light Bearers to the Remnant
 * Danny Shelton, president of 3ABN broadcasting ministry
 * Russell R. Standish and Colin D. Standish (brothers), Australian born historic Adventists
 * Alden Thompson
 * T. E. Unruh, one person who met with evangelical Walter Martin
 * George Vandeman
 * Morris Venden
 * Norman H. Young, talented Australian scholar. Studied under F. F. Bruce, and published a supplement to Gordon Wenham's book on NT Greek
 * Article for each former General Conference president, as listed in List of Presidents of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists: George A. Irwin, Charles H. Watson, James Lamar McElhany, Reuben Richard Figuhr.

Former Adventists
These belong in Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists. They may also belong in Category:Protestant theologians or similar.

(Most references currently provided are from a single website. Please research other sources as well)


 * Dale Ratzlaff
 * J. Mark Martin
 * Walter T. Rea , known for rejecting Ellen White's inspiration and leaving the church

Resources for each of the following people may be found here :
 * Owen Russell Loomis Crosier (O. R. L. Crosier)
 * Gilbert Cranmer
 * B. F. Snook
 * William H. Brinkerhoff
 * Albion Fox Ballenger (his book here or here)
 * Robert Brinsmead, a controversial Australian figure who had a diverse theological journey; Desmond Ford debated with him, book

Sabbatarian Adventist denominations
Here are the links from List of Christian denominations, which may provide a starting point. They probably belong in Category:Adventist, a parent (more general) category of Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Branch Davidians
 * Branch Seventh Day Adventists
 * Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church
 * Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Association
 * General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists
 * International Missionary Society of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement
 * People's Christian Church
 * Adventist Church of Promise (Brazilian Pentecostal Adventists)
 * Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
 * Sabbath Rest Advent Church

Some more ideas

 * Write a nice portal page about Adventism. In the long run there will be quite a number of articles. Such a portal page would be nice.


 * Expand Blue law about Sunday laws.
 * Expand Ronald Numbers' with his history in the Adventist church


 * Make a graph of church membership over time, and place it on History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Data easily available on church websites. Don't just use one of their graphs because they are probably not in the public domain.


 * Colour-code world maps, as on the page Human Development Index or Image:World population.PNG:
 * One for the organizational Divisions of the church, colour-coded like the map on the bottom of this page on the church's website. Make it a linked image, like for Template:Australia Labelled Map. Put it on the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists page, and related pages about church structure.
 * You could even colour a map by number of church members per country, or (better) as a proportion of population by country. This would be highly informative about world distribution. This could go on the main article Seventh-day Adventist Church and perhaps others. There is one for Christianity percentage by country: [[Image:Christianity percentage by country (2008).png|200px]]
 * Percentage growth or decline per country, colour-coded. This could also go on the main article.
 * For instructions, have a look at Image:BlankMap-World-v5.png which contains not only the blank map but helpful links as well. (Old suggestion: Map for the countries and territories in which the church has an active presence. Not really useful as it would cover most of the globe, and point 2 renders it redundant)


 * Write an article List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals (or perhaps "magazines", a more common word; either way put a redirect on one). Order them by number of paying subscribers, which would be one indication of notability (gift subscriptions could be misleading as to notability, because people have a vested self-interest in getting their ideas heard). Otherwise order them by theology - from most liberal to most conservative or vice versa. That would be interesting! It could sound a little subjective, but Alden Thompson's classification (at the very end of the article, in the section XI. Alternate Publications) would be a start.


 * Incorporate the old church logo into History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.


 * Expand 28 Fundamentals. A single sentence on each fundamental would work well. Keep in mind that the main theology article is Seventh-day Adventist theology, so we don't want overlap. Put articles discussing the church's beliefs in Category:Seventh-day Adventist theology. Just remember it is against Wikipedia policy to create separate pages discussing the same topic, so don't create a specifically Adventist page on baptism by immersion or what happens when you die, as those pages already exist in a more general setting. Perhaps a content fork (not POV fork) may be legitimate if there is enough distinctly Adventist content to justify it, but this would be the exception rather than the rule.
 * Someone has currently just copied text from the fundamentals on this page, which I assume is a copyright violation. This needs fixing.