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This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoroastrianism page.

Hi, I'm the first member. Glad to have you here.

Amir85 (a Sassanid lover glad to join this project)

Hi, welcome Amir. Feel free to add the Zoroastrianism wikiproject image to your home page.
--Amin123 13:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Cool, I thought of starting this myself, but didn't think anyone else was interested. Where on earth do we even begin?! Khiradtalk 00:50, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I've expanded this page using the other religious WikiProjects (WikiProject Hinduism, etc.) as guidance. I'll continue trying to organize this just to get it started; after all, it can be changed later. Khiradtalk 15:48, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Resources

I thought it might be a good idea to list our resources, so we can coordinate, pool and discuss information better. The resources I use (from most to least, roughly) are:

  • Avesta: Zoroastrian Archives
  • Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, Mary Boyce
  • Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism, Mary Boyce
  • The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism, R.C. Zaehner (also read Teachings of the Magi, but don't have my own copy)
  • Persian Mythology, John R. Hinnells
  • Zoroastrianism, Paula R. Hartz
  • Persian Myths, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
  • Man's Religions 5th ed. ch. 12, David S. Noss
  • Religions of the Silk Road, Richard C. Foltz
  • Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies
  • Farvardyn
  • Vohuman
  • Traditional Zoroastrianism (for the Conservative Parsi POV)
  • various other random sites and books with some useful information, but not worth mentioning - Plus things like the Shahnameh, Book of Daniel, Rig Veda, etc.

Khiradtalk 16:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Adding to the above:

  • Parsiana - bi-monthly magazine of the Parsi community. Back issues available online. The Conservative Parsi POV (see above) considers the Parsiana "heterodox". :)
  • I have a hard copy of a 1400 page 2-volume work "Parsi lustre on Indian soil" published in 1939 which has tons of biographical material on the who-is-who of living (at the time) and dead Parsis. It also has a few short articles such as "Parsis and shipbuilding" (written by a Wadia, so you can guess which POV that comes from), and plenty of photographs, but of poor quality. It also contains descriptions of a couple of curiousities, such as a picture and description of the first bomb shelter (supposedly the first known construction built with that purpose in mind) - built by a Parsi in London in 1914.
  • I have a hard copy of 1979 edition of "What a Parsee should know" by an Ervad (priest) Jal Rustamji Vimadalal. Its a mess structurally (some paragraphs are four or five pages long and cover a multitude of topics), has a poor index, is (mostly) weak on citation, but contains some great passages on themes such as Dualism and (the lack of) a doctrine of reincarnation.
  • I also have access to the books/periodicals one would expect to find in a well-stocked university library.

-- Fullstop 13:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zoroaster

I think this article is actually not of good quality.. It doesn't mention much about where Zoroaster lived (I added a link), what is that stuff about Aryan theory being wrong, etc? Lol..I don't have enough time/info to fix it up at the moment --Kash 00:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Would someone please go over ...

I've made the following edits in the last two weeks. Would someone please go over them?

I've rewritten:

Significant rewrites:

  • Jamshid (the mythological part)
  • Faravahar - previous article was a copyvio of the Boyce article

To do:

Also... Someone please say something to my comment on Talk:Norouz. :)

-- Fullstop 16:12, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] tried organizing

I tried organizing the articles. --Dangerous-Boy 01:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zoroastrians in Iran

I am working on this article, if anyone has any opinions about the style, info, go a head and let me know. Much thanks, --K a s h Talk | email 16:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Huma, Homa

Does anyone know anything about the Huma 'bird of paradise?' Is it Zoroastrian? Or is it Muslim? Or are there two myths confused here? See dicussion at Talk:Homa (mythology). Chris 14:31, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

A lot of Persian mythology is based on Zoroastrianism, and the fact that there is a Zoroastrian ritual called Homa as well, to me it looks like its most probably a Zoroastrian thing. I have never heard of it connected to Islam. --K a s h Talk | email 14:51, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Key articles for Wikipedia 1.0

Hello! We at the Work via WikiProjects team for Wikipedia 1.0 would like you to identify the "key articles" from your project that should be included in a small CD release due to their importance, regardless of quality. We will use that information to assess which articles should be nominated for Version 1.0 and later versions. Hopefully it will help you identify which articles are the most important for the project to work on. As well, please add to the Zoroastrianism WikiProject article table any articles of high quality. If you are interested in developing a worklist such as this one (new) for your WikiProject, or having a bot generate a worklist like this one automatically for you, please contact us. Please feel free to post your suggestions right here. Thanks! Walkerma 04:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Stub_types_for_deletion/Log/2006/December/6#.7B.7Btl.7CZoroastrianism-stub.7D.7D_.2F_.7B.7Bcl.7CZoroastrianism_stubs.7D.7D

it's up for deletion —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dangerous-Boy (talk • contribs) 23:14, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Category:Religious leaders

The current organization there is abit muddled, and needs some discussing how to deal with. A general proposal for cleaning it up is posted at Category talk:Religious leaders#Organization proposal, and more input would be great. It doesn't address the issue of Religious leaders/religious workers/religious figures, but that is another issue that exists. Badbilltucker 21:57, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Religion

The group indicated above was recently revitalized for, among other things, the purpose of working on those articles whose content is such that the article does not fall within the scope of any particular denomination. To most effectively do this, however, we would benefit greatly if there were at least one member from this Project working on those articles. On that basis, I would encourage and welcome any member of this Project willing to work on those articles to join the Religion WikiProject. Thank you. Badbilltucker 14:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] To Do List Needed

Hi everyone. I believe we need to create a to do list for this project same as Wikipedia:WikiProject Iran, in order to organise this project and find out what article needs immediate attention, and so on and so forth. Surena 13:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I also welcome contributions to the portal. Shabdiz 13:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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