Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Reformed Christianity/Archive 4

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RfC - prefixes in article title of Eastern Orthodox officials
An RfC is currently open (Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(clergy)) regarding the appropriateness of having position titles in the article title of religious Eastern Orthodox officials. Commentary would be welcomed, as the WP:NCWC talk page has a low level of activity.--Labattblueboy (talk) 21:07, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Ammended: The proposal currently tables is to remove of all prefix religious titles, positions and/or honours from the article title.--Labattblueboy (talk) 21:07, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Siege of Godesberg FAC
The 1583 Siege of Godesberg has been nominated for Featured Article. The war resulted in the suppression of Calvinism, and all Protestant groups, in the Electorate for another 200 years or so. A sister article Cologne War has already passed FAC. The present nominee could use additional reviewers. auntieruth (talk) 17:48, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa article name change
The article on the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa is currently at Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk. It is my understanding that English Wikipedia's article titles should be in English. On the English website of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, the name is given as simply Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). However, as there is the older and no longer extant Dutch Reformed Church, which is this church's parent, the title would need a disambiguation. The article is already redirected from Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. Would that be the correct way to disambiguate or would Dutch Reformed Church (South Africa) be correct? Please contribute to this discussion at Talk:Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk. Thank you. Ltwin (talk) 03:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Calvinism articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Christianity portals
I am currently trying to get together some lists of articles relevant to each Christianity-related portal which could be used, at least potentially, to help bring all the extant portals up to Featured Portal status. The current, admittedly incomplete, list of articles, images, etc., relevant to each portal can be found at User:John Carter/Christianity portals. I also think that, at least in theory, we would probably best use a single article only in a single portal, and that we probably have enough articles to do that, although there might be a few exceptions. I would welcome input from anyone on the associated talk page regarding which articles and other materials they would like to see associated with which portal(s), any suggestions for additional portals or changes to existing portals, etc. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 15:33, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Proposal to merge Edith Schaeffer and Francis Schaeffer
An editor has proposed merging the Edith Schaeffer and Francis Schaeffer articles. See Talk:Francis_Schaeffer. -- 202.124.72.236 (talk) 13:44, 1 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Some of the edits and deletions at L'Abri, Edith Schaeffer, and Francis Schaeffer also bear some scrutiny. -- 202.124.72.155 (talk) 16:20, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Opinion sought regarding Eternal Life
We are having a 3 way discussion on the issue of Eternal Life in Christianity.

The specific issue at hand is that of eternal life being only "here and now" vs having a component "in the future" as well.

A few informed comments based on suitable sources will be appreciated. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 12:49, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Proposed redirection of Christianity subproject talk pages
I have recently started discussion about possibly eliminating the use of a separate talk page for it here. Input from any interested editors is very welcome and encouraged. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 22:17, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Redundant member lists
We should merge WikiProject Calvinism/Participants and WikiProject Calvinism/Members. – Lionel (talk) 09:31, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Help needed: Chalcedon Foundation
Editors familiar with Christian Reconstruction may wish to join the discussions at Chalcedon Foundation, which is undergoing a rewrite. StAnselm (talk) 22:22, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Cfd discussion concerning Wikiproject Calvinism
I proposed deletion of Category:Reformed Christians in accordance with the text at Category:Calvinism, which states the terms should be used synonymously in the cat tree (also see WikiProject Calvinism/FAQ). If you would like to contribute, please do so here: Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 26. --JFHutson (talk) 21:53, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

George Kendall (theologian)
Hello everyone! There is an article (stub) being started at User:Hamamelis/sandbox about George Kendall (provisionally titled "George Kendall (theologian)") which would fall under the scope of this project. He was a critic of John Goodwin (preacher), among others. It was suggested to me by Jfhutson that I might bring this to your awareness here, in the hope of raising the article's notability by attracting comments, and/or contributions, before moving it into article space. Please feel free to edit it as you see fit, and/or comment on it's talk page (which doesn't yet exist); all are welcome. Thanks, Hamamelis (talk) 19:54, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Portraits of 42 protestant reformers
Hi everyone! You may want to have a look at this recently uploaded high resolution picture with portraits of 42 protestant reformers. Beat Estermann (talk) 22:52, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

RfC on Gary North
Question: Regarding two of the subsections in Gary North (economist) -- which are cited by original sources rather than secondary soures, and decribe his views on homosexuality and Native Americans (which largely stem from his conception of Calvinist theology) – are they proper? Please see the discussion here. Steeletrap (talk) 05:43, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

GAN for New Brunswick Theological Seminary
If anyone from this WikiProject wants to take a whack at a GA review for New Brunswick Theological Seminary, the Reformed Church in America's seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey, I'd appreciate it. --ColonelHenry (talk) 14:44, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Calvinist doctrine on Template:Comparison_among_Protestants
There is currently an ongoing discussion on Template_talk:Comparison_among_Protestants concerning substantial changes to the summary of Calvinist doctrine in Template:Comparison_among_Protestants. This template is used on multiple pages. I invite all to join.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 17:47, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Calvinism articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 06:27, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Presbyterian Church in the USA Good Article nomination
I've nominated Presbyterian Church in the United States of America for Good Article status. Please check it out if you might be interested. Thanks. Ltwin (talk) 23:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Great Apostasy
Hi. I'd like members to have a look at and the accompanying discussion at Talk:Great Apostasy. It seems to me that they alter the in a POV way, giving undue weight to fringe Protestant views of the Catholic Church such as idol-worship, worship of Mary, and the hybrid "pagan Mother-Son worship". And not only that, but these fringe views are copied to the, totally skewing it. The citations are a collection of far-out Christian websites: http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_end-time_paganism_Catholic_sun-worship, https://www.sabbathtruth.com/sabbath-history/how-the-sabbath-was-changed, https://www.gotquestions.org/worship-saints-Mary.html, http://www.the-ten-commandments.org/catholic_church_idolatry.html, https://bible.org/question/it-okay-worship-statues-jesus, and a self-published 1914 pamphlet, The Practice of Idolatry, none of which come anywhere near satisfying WP:RS. Any input into the discussion is welcome. I'm copying this to other Christian WikiProjects. Scolaire (talk) 15:20, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

New England theology/New Divinity
Anyone with knowledge of New England theology or the New Divinity should take a look at these articles. They need a lot of work. Ltwin (talk) 04:13, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Ichthus May 2018 is available

 * Project News: An admin is admonished
 * Achievements: Ralph Abernathy promoted
 * Featured article: Missionaries in the rainforest
 * Did You Know: Ioan C. Filitti sentenced to death
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Portals are being redesigned.

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At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

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Ichthus June 2018 is out now!

 * Project News: Is Genesis History? See the RFC.
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A new newsletter directory is out!
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Anna Pauw deletion
See Articles for deletion/Anna Pauw. Epiphyllumlover (talk) 03:48, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * "The result was keep. A few undisputed sources that were offered late in the discussion carry this to a keep."--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 23:51, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

RfC on ecclesiastical titles
There is a proposal for a new subsection on ecclesiastical titles being conducted at MOS:BIO. Interested editors are encouraged to participate. --Slugger O&#39;Toole (talk) 02:05, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Category:Calvinism articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion
Category:Calvinism articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 06:40, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

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