Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Taoism/Archive 4

Coordinators' working group
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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:45, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Taoism and Death - A School Project
Please note that there are several students presently creating the article, "Taoism and Death" as a part of a school project. Any help you might give them or edits you might contribute to this page are graciously welcome. Also, please note that a couple of antagonistic editors have been interfering in these students' work, and so an assistance with this would also be appreciated. Thank you.Vote Cthulhu (talk) 01:59, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Naming issues, once again
I just happened to look at the article on Te only to find that it actually used the pinyin De for its article name. Wikipedia as a whole needs to be consistent (at least within the unified sphere of tao/dao-related issues) on whether of not it's going to use pinyin spellings. I don't care which way it goes, personally (I prefer pinyin, but I understand the case for WG), but it ought to be one way or the other. I made the case for changing De to Te on that talk page, which an editor objected to; I'm asking for other opinions here. failing that, I may just be bold and move all T* pages to their D* equivalents unilaterally. -- Ludwigs 2 16:01, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell, everything associated with Daoism on Wikipedia is done in Pinyin, except for 'Daoism' itself, which is in Wade-Giles. Personally, I would prefer everything in Pinyin, but you will never reach consensus if you try to move Taoism to Daoism.Zeus1234 (talk) 01:08, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * well, Tao is WG also - I think I can change that without any serious conflicts. I'll see what I can do about Taoism.  -- Ludwigs 2  01:35, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I fully support changing Tao, Taoism, and Tao Te Ching to pinyin, but before you propose it, please review the results of previous discussions like this. While some hidebound editors consistently oppose renaming for consistency, eventualism favors the change. Keahapana (talk) 02:47, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * For what little it's worth, as a relative outsider to this discussion, I very much urge that the discussion be given as long to reach a conclusion as is required. Naming disputes have a long history of festering for a long time, and premature action can and often does cause hard feelings among those involved. As someone who knows virtually nothing about the subject, I think I have, admittedly inaccurately, seen "Tao" written significantly more often than "Dao", so my own inclinations would be toward the "T" spelling. Take that for however little it might be worth. John Carter (talk) 13:28, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Here's a suggestion – Let's first rename WikiProject Taoism to WikiProject Daoism. What do you think? Keahapana (talk) 19:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * that works for me. do you think it will fly with others?  it's not like people will seek out the wikiproject itself without already having some exposure to the naming issues, so that argument shouldn't hold much water.  go ahead, and do it, or raise the issue, or I'll do one of those if you prefer.  -- Ludwigs 2  19:25, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * If I might be so bold, I think maybe the best way to do that would be to send messages to all the members regarding the proposed renaming and ask them their comments. Also, it would certainly be possible to file a move request at Requested moves for either renaming the project or article and see what kind of response is gotten. It would probably take at least a week or two to get enough comments to judge though. John Carter (talk) 19:38, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Popular pages
User:Mr.Z-man has a new service available to various requesting WikiProjects which gives the project a monthly update of the number of hits on the 1,000 most frequently accessed articles for that project. An example of such a listing can be found at WikiProject Christianity/Popular pages. Would the members of this project be interested in getting such a list for their use? John Carter (talk) 18:50, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Islam has an outline in the OOK, but Taoism does not
See Outline of Islam.

For instructions, see Outlines.

Also see WP:WPOOK.

Thank you.

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist 00:02, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Call for editors to help manage religion related content
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 19:10, 19 September 2009 (UTC)