Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion/Interfaith work group/Archive 1

Scope
Better come up with a scope for this project.--Sefringle 23:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Jew/MJ
This category is something that is probably of interest to this TF. &hArr; ChristTrekker 18:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Inter-religious content discussion from WikiProject Council/Proposals

 * Description: There are a number of articles which relate to religion which clearly deal with more than one religion. Unfortunately, the majority of the religion projects deal specifically with only a single religion, and may not be qualified to provide a fair view of a given inter-religious article. This proposed group would attempt to deal with these subjects by trying to bring together good editors familiar with a variety of religions who could try to hammer out a way to present all the faiths involved in these articles, in a fair, non-POV, accurate way. I acknowledge that this may be rather difficult to do, but that is all the more reason that the attempt should at least be made.


 * Temporary page: WikiProject Religion/Inter-religious content task force


 * Interested wikipedians (please add your name)
 * 1) John Carter 16:26, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) C.Logan 02:02, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Sefringle 01:29, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) George 15:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Richard 17:54, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Itsmejudith 22:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Fullstop 08:52, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments


 * How is this any different from WikiProject Religion?--Sefringle 22:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The project you mentioned deals with this content, but also deals with several other kinds of content as well. I think this proposal would actually best fit as a subproject (task force) of that project. Its specific goals would be more focused than those of that project, specifically dealing exclusively with content that crosses religious lines. John Carter 13:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I have created the page. Why don't you expand the task force page.--Sefringle 01:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, this would probably work best as a TF of WP Religion. Pastordavid 15:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I've long been wanting to create a WikiProject Philosophy of religion to unite theist and atheist Wikipedians who want to work on neutral and high quality articles on issues related to the existence of God. I'm currently very busy in real life, but I still wonder what people think about this idea. It's a bit related to inter-religious content, but the focus would be on the intersection of philosophy and theology, so it would be a sub-project of WikiProject Philosophy. Any comments? --Merzul 17:07, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Please see WikiProject Council/Proposals below. John Carter 17:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Given that WikiProject Religion is not a large project in terms of members or frequency of postings to its forum. Suggest having one and only one place where issues of concern affecting other religions can be addressed. Not all Wikipedians interested in religion are also interested in inter-religion issues. Having multiple small and specialized task forces to address various sub-concerns would likely confuse general editors, who wouldn't know where to take a concern to, could lead to overlapping forums for the same issues, and could exclude essential points of view, resulting in administrative POV forks with folks of particular views coalescing into particular groups. Right now WikiProject religion, while not moribund, doesn't have such a large amount of activity as a forum for discussion of issues to make subdivision practical. Best, --Shirahadasha 16:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Could the proposers of this project identify a single specific example of a problem that such a proposal could solve and why this approach could solve it better than present methods? Currently each religion more or less has autonomy over its own issues, with cooperation on obvious joing articles like Abraham and Bible. How would the proposed approach create an improvement? Best, --Shirahadasha 16:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Saint contains material relevant to a variety of religions, but is to date tagged with the banners of few if any of them, leaving the remaining content handled by people who could easily misstate something. Also, there will be specific cases where, from for example my field of saints, a statement regarding the subject's previous religious affiliation, which might be non-Christian, could be stated in sources in a way which is less than completely clear in sources. This might be particularly relevant if that religion has no specific attendant WikiProject, and a lot of faiths qualify in that area. It would also allow for editors who are primarily interested in a given faith, which may or may not have its own separate project, to address these religion-specific matters, without also having to deal with articles dealing with Santeira, Bahai, and some of the other specific religions the parent project deals with. John Carter 17:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)