Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith

WikiProject Baháʼí Faith is a coordinated effort to create and maintain quality articles on Baháʼí Faith on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Scope
The Baháʼí Faith has several quality articles on Wikipedia as well as some that need further attention and maintenance. It is the task of this WikiProject to:
 * Standardize terminology related to Baháʼí Faith articles
 * Enforce neutrality on all coverage of the Baháʼí Faith.
 * Improve the quality and quantity of information, including updating well-written articles as new information is presented.
 * Add media - particularly pictures - where it would be helpful to the reader.

Members
Anyone who is interested to improve Baháʼí-related articles can join this project by adding their name to the list of members.

Assessment
A major component of any WikiProject is assessing the quality of its articles. One of the initial duties of this project is to assign ratings on all articles based on two scales: its present quality and its relative importance.

Tasks
As a consequence of assessing the strength of articles and the scope defined above, members are encouraged to perform the following tasks on articles:
 * Fixing formatting and spelling issues
 * Categorization
 * Avoiding redirects and using proper Baháʼí orthography where appropriate.
 * But also always making very friendly and searchable redirects (Bahai foo → Baháʼí foo, and Baha'i foo → Baháʼí foo)
 * Monitoring deletion and renaming discussions for articles, categories, templates, and other pages.
 * Using neutral language in articles that express excessively sympathetic or critical language to Baháʼí perspectives.
 * Translating articles into other languages.
 * Translating articles into simple English for the Simple English Wikipedia. At present, there are seven articles on the Baháʼí Faith in the Simple English Wikipedia.
 * Create redirects for articles whose names include diacritics.
 * Add appropriately-formatted citations to articles.
 * Expand stubs.
 * Archiving talk pages.
 * Splitting and merging pages as necessary.
 * Checking WikiProject Bahá'í Faith/Encyclopedic articles for any articles which might be contained in one or more reference books which Wikipedia might not yet have, or perhaps to see what other reference sources say on the same topics.

Collaborations
A common feature of many WikiProjects is a collaboration - an article selected by those users for special focus for a period of time. As assessment gets under way and users join the WikiProject, it is desirable to select collaborations for improving articles one at a time.

Article alerts
New articles

Hot articles

Templates

 * Baháʼí-stub – Used for stubs.
 * Baháʼí sidebar – Used along the side of articles to navigate basic topics related to the Baháʼí Faith
 * Baháʼí texts sidebar – Used along the side of articles to navigate select writings on the Baháʼí Faith
 * Baháʼí-2 – Used at the bottom of articles to navigate basic topics related to the Baháʼí Faith
 * Baháʼí texts – Used at the bottom of articles to navigate select writings on the Baháʼí Faith
 * Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh – Used along the side of articles to navigate between biographies of the apostles of Baháʼu'lláh
 * – Used on talk pages to mark and assess articles for this WikiProject
 * User WikiProject Bahá'í Faith – Used on userpages to denote that someone is a member of this WikiProject
 * The Bahá'í Faith Barnstar – Used for awarding editors on their user talk page for displaying great editing skills in improving articles related to the Baháʼí Faith

Related projects
The main project for standardizing articles having to do with religions is WikiProject Religion. There are several other projects that assess and index religious material on Wikipedia. WikiProject Religious texts might also have some overlap with the Baháʼí texts.

Sister Project links
There is coverage of the Baháʼí Faith on all of the Wikimedia Foundation sister projects. If you are a user on Wikipedia, you automatically have membership there as well and many of the policies and editing techniques are the same across several of the projects.


 * Wikibooks is collaborating on an introductory book about the Baháʼí Faith. You can add content or clean up the existing pages.
 * Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free media; it can host audio, images, or video and has several Baháʼí images that can be freely used. If you have any media that you can contribute, you may want to upload it there for use in all of the other Wikimedia Foundation projects.
 * Wikinews is a site citizen journalism with a few relevant stories. As news events occur related to persecution of Baháʼís, you may want to consider writing about them there.
 * Wikiquote has pages for quotations by and about persons and topics. Presently, there are pages in English on Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼu'lláh, the Báb, and `Abdu'l-Bahá.
 * Wikisource allows users to upload original documents. As of this writing, there are not any relevant documents uploaded there. Since many texts related to the Baháʼí Faith can be reproduced in the public domain, it is possible to upload them there. It is vitally important that you understand the proper copyright status of any document or text before uploading it to Wikisource.
 * Wiktionary provides dictionary definitions, including one on Baháʼí.
 * Wikiversity encourages collaboration on learning resources and has a topic on the Baháʼí Studies. You can add resources from other Wikimedia projects there, as well as direct readers to print and Internet resources that will help provide a more comprehensive view of the Baháʼí Faith.

In addition, all of these projects have multilingual components, so you are not limited to simply editing and strengthening English-language pages. There are simple English editions of Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wiktionary and none of them presently have any material related to the Baháʼí Faith.