Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Bible

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[edit] Very complicated, hard to follow

It is extremely hard to follow what exactly is being proposed here. There seems to be no summary of the proposal. I took 5 minutes and decided it would be simpler to make a suggestion of my own rather than try to understand the one here.

I think we should do something analogous to what we now do with ISBN. The link should go to a page of linked choices that first lists any relevant Wikipedia article for the book, chapter, or verse, then lists the various versions of the Bible with links to where these are accessible on line. This would also allow (for example) links to Hebrew, Latin, and Greek texts, and possibly even texts in other languages.

For verses, if, using a free resource, we have a way to get actual text or texts into that page as well (under one or more translations), great. For chapters, it might be useful to do this for the first verse (and follow with an ellipsis). - Jmabel | Talk 18:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

oh dear, this is really in bad need of unification. Ultimately, we want a single standardized way to link to reference a bible verse. The link should then take the user to a navigation page where he is presented with further option (wikisource, various off-site sources, various versions and translations), much like we are doing it with the {{coor}} family of templates. dab (𒁳) 08:16, 24 April 2007 (UTC)