User:Edonovan/Biblelinks

Standard system of linking for Bible references?
(Perhaps this has already been implemented or proposed, but I couldn't find it. For a newcomer like myself, the Wikipedia help system is quite scattered and takes a long time to master.  Considering that editing itself is so easy, it would be good if the help system were simplified, and the search facilities improved.)


 * Yes, I agree. The help is system is rather difficult for a newcomer to navigate. Someone has just started a project at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide to improve it. Wikipedia search is well known to be ... er ... unimpressive. You may get more helpful results if you do a site-specific search with Google. Matt 02:54, 10 November 2005 (UTC).

Anyway, to get to my actual proposal, I noted on viewing the articles Word of faith and Full Gospel that some of the only significant discussion of theological beliefs was presented in the form of a list of Bible references. These references, however, were unlinked, and so, unless one either
 * has a Bible on hand while looking at Wikipedia(unlikely)
 * is willing to enter all the verses into Bible Gateway or a similar site manually (inconvenient at best)
 * or has perfect memory recall of the Bible (highly unlikely)

such article's content is not very informative. There should be a standardized system of linking Bible references, making use of a site such as Bible Gateway - either manually (as a suggestion in the Manual of Style) or automatically (using some kind of bot that would search for Bible references). Evan Donovan 01:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC)


 * A template can mark text as being a Bible reference, show it in a desired format, and perhaps create a link. However, I hesitate to suggest a link to a specific external site.  I didn't create a template right now because there could be a dozen other people already doing just that.  (SEWilco 05:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC))

There's a request for this in Wikimedia Bugzilla:. Someone's even submitted a patch that will do it for the KJV translation. &mdash; Matt Crypto 15:04, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * In the long run we will hopefully have articles on all these verses. I'm continuing to work my way throught the Gospel of Matthew, but the OT project seems to have ground to a halt at Genesis 1:6. - SimonP 16:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)


 * See WikiProject Bible and bibleverse for some work that's already been done on this. &mdash; Catherine\talk 01:26, 12 November 2005 (UTC)