Wikipedia:WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

This WikiProject seeks to do the following:


 * 1) Help create and maintain a comprehensive resource on all aspects of Quakers and Quakerism that are suitable for Wikipedia, including Quaker history, practices, theology, beliefs, biographies, writings, meetings, and organizations.
 * 2) Help maintain quality articles on issues that Friends have traditionally been concerned with, like peace/pacifism, gambling, Native American issues, and so on.
 * 3) Ensure that Friends are accurately represented in other Wikipedia articles, such as articles about religion or Christianity. E.g. Christian views of women

Scope
This project includes in its scope all things relating to The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). These articles should be placed in the Category:Quakerism or one of its subcategories.

An initial listing of articles included in other reference works regarding Quakers can be found WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)/Missing articles. We should definitely work to ensure that material related to Quakerism which is to be found in other reference works is also discussed somewhere here.

Current Collaboration
Create or complete articles for topics featured in the Quaker Tapestry. There is a list of the panels in the tapestry's article already, we should break out a list of what's needed and post that here.

You can find an archive of past collaborations here.

Categories
We keep an eye on the categories related to our work:

There are also the following two minor categories for the article tracking (see below):
 * Category:Quaker articles by quality
 * Category:Quaker articles by importance
 * List of

Templates
These templates will prove useful for labeling pages, use them well. See Category:Quaker templates.

List of articles
We need to keep the list of articles below in sync with the articles in the categories we watch (please note not all articles below should be in the Quakerism category).
 * Please add all articles by category to the WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)/Articles list.
 * Use the recent changes function to check these articles for improvements, vandalism, and other changes.
 * It might also be possible to create articles on all the pages in the Quaker Wikia site, a list of which can be found at WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)/Wikia articles.

Featured articles

 * George Fox
 * Ursula Franklin

Good articles

 * Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground
 * Smedley Butler

DYK (Did You Know)s

 * Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground - 26 June 2007.
 * Benjaminville, Illinois - 26 June 2007.
 * Michael Rowntree - 15 November 2007.
 * Cornwall Friends Meeting House - 1 March 2009.
 * Smith Clove Meetinghouse - 11 March 2009.
 * William Yardley - 17 August 2008.

Former featured articles

 * Shakers

Former good articles

 * Religious Society of Friends

Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections
The following articles have all been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.
 * George Fox
 * Religious Society of Friends

List of Quakers
Items on the List of Quakers and in the Category:Quakers need to be cross-checked to include all relevant people in both places. Any articles on the list page that are not in the category need to have added to the end. We also need to cross check those pages with the list of people in the article section below.


 * This list has now been deleted by an editor, without consultation. See Talk Page.

Friends Schools
Similar to List of Quakers, and List of Friends Schools page and Category:Quaker schools need to be cross checked, and the list of articles below updated.

Templates

 * putting our stub tag,, on pages that need it.
 * a YM template
 * a Quaker bio template

Illustrations

 * Have a look at Quaker and Portraits of Quakers illustrations on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Quaker star-T.svg Quaker star on Wikimedia Commons.

Cross-wiki collaboration?
It would be great to have the classic Quaker texts on Wikisource, and even greater to have more than just the classics. Also, the familiar quotes could be put on Wikiquote.

Articles
Articles for this project are broken into several groups. Articles on those pages are currently organized with the schema found here. The bot-generated list of articles and their rates can be found here, statistics on articles being tracked by the bot can be found in the table to the right.


 * Basic info and terms
 * Beliefs and Practices
 * Geography and YM's
 * History and events
 * Locations and Events
 * Meeting Houses
 * Organizations and Groups
 * People
 * Schools
 * Requested Articles

In addition to the groups listed here there are also lists of Quaker related pages at: List of Quakers, List of Friends Schools and List of Quaker businesses.

Procedures
This WikiProject should follow existing Quaker practices when possible. In particular, rather than voting on proposed actions that require a group decision, participants should comment as they are led, this is fortunately very compatible with Wikipedia's decision making process.

Currently there are no proposed group actions and no clerk but the need has not yet arisen.

Vocabulary

 * "Several of the articles I have worked on (Religious Society of Friends included), have had problems finding agreed upon vocabulary. I'd like to suggest that we include in this project a set of agreed upon vocabulary for use in the articles.  Hopefully this will promote constancy and clarity across the articles. To that end, I propose the first term to be listed be the name of the group, and my idea of a suggested format for listing. I don't mean to suggest this as the final answer, just a starting place." --Ahc

"Religious Society of Friends" versus "Society of Friends" versus "Friends" versus "Quakers"

 * Within articles about Friends we use the full traditional name Religious Society of Friends, or simply Friends for short.
 * Use of Society of Friends be restricted to use to discussions of groups that are not comfortable with the Religious titling.
 * Be aware that there are Friends that feel that "SoF" has its own meaning (see archived discussion of RSoF page title.
 * The term Quaker should be reserved for use in other articles as links to RSoF and when the history of the term is being explained.

non-credal, non-creedal?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, either form is used. Two es if you think it comes from "creed", one if you think it comes from the Latin credo. The more "current" form is with one e (the most recent use of "creedal" the OED lists is from the 1870s, while the other form is how the Economist spelt it in 1957).

We'll use the spelling "credal" and "non-credal" ("noncredal" looks funny ) when it comes up.

Participants
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