Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Taoism/Archive 3

Proposed deletion: Yo San University

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 21:18, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Expand Infobox church/sandbox to cover all places of worship?
There is a proposal to convert the draft infobox template Infobox church/sandbox into a template that can be used for all places of worship. We would like your views on whether you think this is a good idea, and if you are able to help identify parameters that would be relevant to the religion that your WikiProject deals with. Do join the discussion taking place at "Template talk:Infobox church". &mdash; Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 03:53, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Additional problem articles
Besides the already deleted Understanding Heaven and Hell and The Feast of Immortal Peaches discussed above, this same user created numerous articles without reliable references or sources. I've already started correcting some (like Qingjing Jing and Xishengjing), but others should perhaps be merged or deleted. Several articles have no references (other than the 天堂遊記) and dubious external links: A few other articles that he/she started have apparent references, but often irrelevant or repeated ones (citing "Robinet 1981, p. 13" under at least Taoism, Laozi, Neijing Tu, and Xiuzhen Tu): This is an incomplete list of the damages to Daoism-related articles. What are your opinions on what should be done? Keahapana (talk) 22:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Fulu
 * Disha 72 ways
 * Xiushen
 * Jingxiang
 * Tiangang 36 methods
 * Five Supremes
 * Xuanxuan Shangren
 * Chinese creation story
 * Souyuan [sic]
 * Xiuzhen
 * Jing Qi Shen
 * Xiuzhen Tu
 * Neijing Tu
 * Wuji (philosophy)


 * We need to engage the user in dialogue here and see if he can understand the aims of this project and work collaboratively to rectify the difficulties with the articles. He is obviously very interested in Taoism, energetic, and may know some sources. Itsmejudith (talk) 12:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi… I rarely post anything on Wikipedia because I am generally satisfied with most articles but I am quite disturbed by what ACHKC is doing these past few months. I agree a lot of the new articles warrant deletion (especially Xuanxuan Shangren, Five Supremes and Souyuan). His single unverifiable sources for most of his article came from a pre-dominantly Abrahamic website, not to mention he didn’t provide any proper citation in most of his contributions.


 * He didn’t create Chinese Creation Story but he added the same questionable material, it needs to be restore to the article before his contribution. The article on Taiji (Taiji article is now seriously misrepresented) and Chinese Mythology also require repair.Bio-capsule (talk) 17:58, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed that the above articles mainly seem to be in a bad way. As I don't read Chinese I feel a bit powerless to help. But I left a message at user:ACHCK's talk page for him to come to this project and engage in dialogue. If he responds, let's be really welcoming. Itsmejudith (talk) 19:29, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * user:ACHCK has accepted your invitation to join the project… I only recently found out about the changes he did to the Chinese Mythology & Jade Emperor article, now he is claiming Guan Yu is the new Jade Emperor, that is just unacceptable…  Bio-capsule (talk) 19:56, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

X ACHKC is back and could use some help. Keahapana (talk) 23:51, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Taoism => Daoism
There is an old requested move for Taoism => Daoism at Requested_moves, which I assume would probably interest some of you.  JohnnyMrNinja  17:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:24, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

A discussion
An important discussion on " Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ?  " is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) -, member of WikiProject Council. 14:38, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Requested moves of tai chi chuan-related articles
A number of requested moves of articles related to tai chi chuan, part of Category:T'ai Chi Ch'uan, are being discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Martial arts. Please feel free to join the discussion there if interested. —  AjaxSmack   00:54, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 343 articles are assigned to this project, of which 103, or 30.0%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:



If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Taoism
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:53, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

input and assistance, please
hey all,

I've gone through and rewritten the article tao; it's not perfect by any means, but I've weeded out the opaque prose and extensive tangents that were there before. I'd like some input on what needs to be added, removed, or restructured before I give it a spit-shine and back-burner it. Please jump in and fix what needs to be fixed, or open a discussion on the talk-page. -- Ludwigs 2 05:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)