Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Falun Gong work group

Welcome to the Falun Gong work group. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Falun Gong and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Scope

 * The scope of this group is all articles dealing substantially with Falun Gong and related subjects. All these articles should be included in the Category:Falun Gong or one of its subcategories.

Goals

 * Create, improve and maintain articles dealing with Falun Gong and related subjects.
 * Maintain NPOV and a neutral reporting tone in Falun Gong articles.
 * Develop project guidelines for article content and quality.
 * Provide a central discussion forum for editing matters related to Falun Gong.
 * Facilitate dispute resolution and collaboration in the Falun Gong topic area.
 * Attact neutral outside editors for feedback and participation in the Falun Gong topic area.

Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
 * 1)  Good at setting up pages, pulling up resources from databases, and some review/copyediting. Will try to go over some applicable sources, but I probably will have less time available than I would like.
 * 2)  I here to help out in mediating discussions, recruiting outside editors, posting noticboard requests for input, project administration, and related tasks.
 * 3)  I will check that sources are not misrepresented and will do my best to steer focus back to the content of the articles.  21:07, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 4)  I will try my best to participate in discussions/decisions. I will also try to add content to the articles.23:34, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 5)  My intent is to ensure that sources are given due weight, and that the content reforms adhere to the Wikipedia core policies. I will also take part in discussions. 06:35, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 6)  I enjoy the challenge of writing a good encyclopedia entry on a subject dominated by pro and contra propaganda.
 * 7)  I can help ensure the material presented is, on the whole, in-line with the perspective of mainstream academia ( and Human Rights community) on the topic(s) and is also well-sourced.
 * 8) . I am interested in improving the articles. 22:47, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 9) I am  really interested in improving the articles. 14:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 10)   I will verify sources, propose and implement structural changes, participate in constructive discussions and practice "writing for the enemy". 01:43, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * 1)  I specialise in cleaning up problematic articles concerning Hong Kong, China, and any others which happen to grab my attention. 15:24, 11 August 2009 (UTC) no longer interested in anything related to Falun Gong  Ohconfucius  ¡digame! 12:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) (tentatively joining) I am interested in the articles' being well-structured, concise, and comprehensible. 23:52, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) I've done some work on the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident FA, and have David Ownby's Falun Gong and the future of China as well as Maria Hsia Chang's Falun Gong – The End of Days on my bookshelf (as well as a stack of generic NRM literature). -- J  N  466  17:42, 14 August 2011 (UTC)


 * 1)  (I am interested in working on Falun Gong articles because I have created Falun Gong related article (Free China:The Courage to Believe and it hasn't been assessed yet, this is also my first WikiProject i have joined, talkback on my talkpage. ) 11:36, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Guidelines
Articles in the Falun Gong topic area have been a persistant hotspot of disruptive disputes. This project recognizes pre-existing guidelines and will draft further guidance for the Falun Gong subject area.
 * Articles should follow the principles outlined by the Arbitration Committee in the June 2007 Arbitration regarding Falun Gong and related articles.

Proposed guidelines
''Please link to userspace or project subpages, rather than posting your proposal here directly. ''

Tagging articles
Articles related to this task force should be marked as part of the Falun Gong topic using the WPReligion project banner at the top of its talk page. This will automatically place it into Category:Falun Gong articles.

An example of template usage, for an article of start-class quality of middle importance for WikiProject Religion and high importance within the Falun Gong topic:

DYKs
The following articles have been included in the main page's DYK section.
 * Jennifer Zeng - 16 August 2009.
 * Sima Nan - 27 October 2009.

Improvement drives
A collaborative effort to bring an article up to solid B-Class quality.
 * Cleanup

An attempt to raise an entry up to "GA" article quality.
 * Good articles

A team effort to refine an article to our highest standards.
 * Featured articles
 * Tiananmen Square self-immolation is now a Featured Article

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Falun Gong-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
 * Jennifer Zeng
 * List of Falun Gong practicioners now merged to Falun Gong
 * Sima Nan

Assessment

 * WikiProject Religion Assessment

Peer review
For more information about peer review, see: Peer review.

To request a peer review for an article, please list it below:

Outside reviews
Outside editors are also encouraged to provide reviews in the spirit and model of good article reviews to identify problem issues and suggestions for improvement. Please link any reviews of this nature below:
 * User:User/Falun Gong Review 1 TITLE OF FALUN GONG ARTICLE REVIEWED
 * User:User/Falun Gong Review 2 TITLE OF FALUN GONG ARTICLE REVIEWED

Categories

 * Category:Falun Gong
 * Category:Falun Gong practitioners
 * Category:Critics of Falun Gong

Templates

 * WPReligion - the project banner, to be placed on talk pages of relevant articles. See #Tagging articles above for more information about template usage.

Resources
There are several thousand articles on the subject of Falun Gong and related subjects on various subscription databanks. I do not claim to have access to all such subscription databanks, but I do have access to at least a few. If anyone else does not have easy access to such resources, please feel free to drop me an e-mail with an indication of the subject that you want articles on, and I will forward to you all the articles I can access from such databanks. I cannot and will not guarantee that each and every one of those articles will necessarily be particularly useful, as some can be quite short and be summarized reproductions of other existing articles, and I do not think I will necessarily have time to review all the articles and remove those which are such wireservice pickups. John Carter (talk) 17:52, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I have a repository of articles I have come across which may be of use in articles. Feel free to add to this list. Ohconfucius  ¡digame! 08:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)