Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church

This WikiProject is for the development of Wikipedia articles related to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The main aim of this page will be to promote collaboration on these articles and to organise a combined effort.

Scope
The scope of this project will be the articles included in the Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church and its various subcategories. For a full list of categories, please see WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Categories.

A list of articles in one reference work recently published specifically devoted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church can be found at WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Missing articles. John Carter (talk) 18:08, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

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Userboxes
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anywhere on your userpage. You may want to include it in an infobox:

This displays the default message "This user is interested in the Seventh-day Adventist Church", and can be easily changed by supplying a parameter text, as demonstrated to the right (see page source or documentation). Please don't make the text anything too polemic or critical of others.

Every page using it will automatically go into Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church participants. Note that "fair use" images (in particular, the church logo) are not allowed on templates. But you can create your own userbox not using the WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church userbox.

Requests for assessments
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it go to WikiProject Christianity instead.

Interwiki
There are other Wikimedia Wikis to which we can contribute Seventh-day Adventist related material, such as Commons (for free images, sound and other multimedia files), Wikisource (for primary-source texts and translations) and Wikiquote (for quotations). Add links between the projects, as demonstrated to the right.

Style guide for Seventh-day Adventist related articles
This is a style guide for articles relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church contains templates, project userbox, stub articles etc., for editors.

(Note: Most of these guidelines were contributed by one or two authors only. Please be bold in suggesting alternatives, by discussing them on the talk page. Other specific guidelines appear in /Article requests.)

The Adventist News Network maintains a glossary of recommended terms for news reporting. The suggestions are generally to improve clarity, which is consistent with Wikipedia's aim.

Church name spelling and abbreviation
The spelling preferred by the church is "Seventh-day Adventist", note particularly the hyphen and lowercase 'd'. The phrase "Seventh-day Adventist Church" has a capital "C" when talking about the world church; this is abbreviated "Adventist Church".

Be careful to avoid confusion regarding the term "Adventist". Generally, "Adventism" includes other groups which arose from the Millerite movement. (Literally, an "Adventist" is someone who awaits the Advent [meaning "arrival"] or Second Coming of Jesus to Earth). Write "Seventh-day Adventist" in full the first time to establish context, and then usually abbreviate afterwards to "Adventist". An exception would be in articles covering both the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Millerite/Adventist movement, where this usage would be ambiguous.

In general, the phrase "Adventist Church world headquarters" is preferable to "General Conference" or "GC". You can 'pipe' links like this: Adventist Church world headquarters, where the display text for the link is worded differently to the link location. Instead of "General Conference president", use "Adventist world church president".

For regional organizations of the church, try to avoid the terms "Conference", "Union", and "Division". Instead, refer to the region being covered, as in "...Adventist Church in France" or "Smith is youth director for the church in Northern California." Use "region" instead of "Division".

Names of Adventist people
Articles about Adventist people should use the form of their name that most sources use (see WP:COMMONNAME). Early Adventists were typically known by their initials, e.g. "J. N. Andrews", rather than "John Andrews" as we would say today. Some encyclopedias use the following format: J.[ohn] N.[evins] Andrews (see page source), to indicate they were known by their initials, and this method still supplies their full given and middle names.

For more recent people, the reliable sources usually call them by their given name and surname. If disambiguation is needed (for instance, there are many notable "George Knight"s in the world), including the middle initial seems the norm, as in George R. Knight, and not the full middle name. Other options with disambiguation are including the full middle name, or adding a descriptor in parentheses, as for Joseph Bates (Adventist), whose middle name is apparently unknown or nonexistent.

See also Manual of Style (biographies).

Adventism template
Seventh-day 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.

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, not Commons. For these, add them to this WikiProject by placing " " on the top of its talk page.

See Images for general information.

Church by area
One suggestion is to the Adventist structures not by their official name, but like this: Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia, which produces: Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia. This improves readability and avoids elitism.

Quoting Ellen White
Multiple times in Wikipedia articles, editors have made claims regarding Ellen White's point-of-view on various topics. Even though specific citations have often been provided, some of these claims are dubious. This is because White produced a very large body of material, so quotations can be selectively chosen to justify the editor's claim. Additionally, most or all Adventism scholars believe she changed some views or emphases over time, notably from a harsher God to a more loving God. One editor suggests she would be better treated as a primary source, thus on contentious issues, better to cite what reliable secondary sources claim she taught, as well.


 * "Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources. Secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability and to avoid novel interpretations of primary sources, though primary sources are permitted if used carefully." (From WP:PRIMARY section of "Wikipedia:No original research")

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 articles and then click on "What links here" on the sidebar. This will show you which articles need to be changed. These articles include: James White, Millerite (should link to Millerism 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:

You may also view the expanded list.

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,.

Other WikiProjects: Many articles (schools, churches, hospitals etc.) should also be added to the appropriate regional WikiProject.

Featured articles

 * William S. Sadler
 * Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi

Featured lists

 * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

Former Featured articles

 * Christianity

Good articles

 * Patrick Allen
 * William Harrison Anderson
 * Thomas H. Branch
 * Heidi Cruz
 * Heather Knight
 * Manuel Noriega
 * Usain Bolt

Former Good articles

 * Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Larry Geraty
 * Southern Adventist University

On this day

 * Great Disappointment
 * Desmond Doss
 * Manuel Noriega
 * Ellen G. White

DYK (Did You Know)s

 * Tualatin Valley Academy
 * St Michael and All Angels Church, Lowfield Heath
 * Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie
 * Patrick Allen
 * William Harrison Anderson
 * Thomas H. Branch
 * Obed Dickinson
 * Larry Geraty
 * Heather Knight
 * Joe Lutcher
 * Amos Tirop Matui
 * Floyd Morris
 * Roman Tmetuchl
 * Sverre Valen
 * Florida Hospital Oceanside

Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections

 * Christianity
 * Protestantism
 * Seventh-day Adventist Church

Proposed articles
/Article requests

Published references to this WikiProject
This is a list of references by external, reliable sources to Wikipedia articles on Seventh-day Adventist related topics. Please add any you discover:
 * Kenneth H. Wood. Wikipedia article cited in "The Life and Times of Kenneth H. Wood" interview by Sandra Blackmer. Adventist Review January 24, 2008. The cited statement in the Wikipedia article referenced in turn Seeking a Sanctuary by Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart
 * Richard Rice. Michael Campbell mentioned that Rice has a Wikipedia article in his introduction to Rice's talk (MP3 format) at the Questions on Doctrine 50th anniversary conference
 * Standish brothers. "Church leader is killed in Mildura accident". Mildura Independent 5th May 2008. Ironically, this article reported Russell's passing and was based on the Wikipedia article, but that edit was not cited reliably in the first place!
 * 1919 Bible Conference. Cited in For the Sake of the Gospel by Desmond and Gillian Ford, footnote on p223
 * Open theism (this belief founded by an Adventist). Cited in Kwabena Donkor, "Open Theism – A Review of the Issues". Biblical Research Institute, October 2006, p3 footnote 2

Simbagraphix (talk) 09:32, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Forthcoming article by User:Colin MacLaurin, will be submitted to Spectrum, about Adventism in Wikipedia. I was a very active editor a few years ago. I am interested in what's been happening the last few years, as research for my article. Please share your experiences as editors. [Message posted here, because the talk page redirects]. Thank-you! -Colin I set up a page for posting for any editors from Wikipedia, Adventist or otherwise for input. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simbagraphix/sandbox

See Wikipedia in the media, Press coverage or Wikipedia as a press source 2008.