Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church
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This WikiProject is for the development of Wikipedia articles related to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The main aim of this page will be to promote collaboration on these articles and to organise a combined effort.
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[edit] Participants
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If you see any new editors (for example, their talk page may be a redlink, i.e. it is uncreated) on Advenist-related articles, please welcome them to Wikipedia. One template you might use is {{Welcome}}. You may also wish to invite them to join this project, if they are editing related articles.
[edit] Userboxes
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You can add the userbox below to your user page. Doing this will help to coordinate project members, plus they look great! To use it, simply put
anywhere on your userpage. You may want to include it in an infobox:
{{userboxtop}}
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Userbox}}
{{userboxbottom}}
This displays the default message "This user is interested in the Seventh-day Adventist Church", and can be easily changed by supplying a parameter text, as demonstrated to the right (see page source or documentation). Please don't make the text anything too polemic or critical of others.
Every page using it will automatically go into Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church participants. Note that "fair use" images (in particular, the church logo) are not allowed on templates.
[edit] Interwiki
There are other Wikimedia Wikis to which we can contribute Seventh-day Adventist related material, such as Commons (for free images, sound and other multimedia files), Wikisource (for primary-source texts and translations) and Wikiquote (for quotations). Add links between the projects, as demonstrated to the right.
[edit] Style guide for Seventh-day Adventist related articles
This is a style guide for articles relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is currently under development. The Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church contains templates, project userbox, stub articles etc., for editors.
[edit] Church name spelling and abbreviation
In "Use of the Church Name", the Adventist church website specifies the correct spelling as "Seventh-day Adventist", including the hyphen and a lower-case "d" for "day". The abbreviation "Adventist" is preferred to "SDA", for reasons of disambiguation and to avoid any appearance of exclusivism.
Be careful to avoid confusion regarding the term "Adventist". In its most general setting, the term refers to anyone who believes in the Second Coming (or "Advent") of Jesus (see Wiktionary entry); usually or always in the tradition of the Millerites. In articles, write in full "Seventh-day Adventist Church" or "Seventh-day Adventist" at the first occurrence to establish context before using the abbreviation "Adventist".
[edit] Adventism template
{{Adventism}} produces the following sidebar, which may be placed on Adventist articles (in the general sense of the term "Adventist"):
[edit] Stub articles
Place {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub}} near the bottom of stubs relating to this WikiProject. This will automatically place the article in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.
[edit] Categories
Articles should be added to Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church or, preferably, one of its child categories. See also #Proposed articles for additional category-specific guidelines.
[edit] Bible verses
Bible verses can be linked using the {{Bibleverse}} template, for example, {{bibleverse||John|3:16|NIV}} which produces John 3:16. See the documentation on the template's talk page. You can also view the debate at Wikipedia:Citing sources/Bible.
[edit] Images
"Public domain" images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia itself. Add them to commons:Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church (?). "Fair use" images can only be uploaded to Wikipedia, and these should be added to Category:Images relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. One benefit of this is that if an image gets removed from a page, this project will not forget about it. Deprecated. Now tag the image with "{{WP Adventist|class=image|importance= }}" on its talk page.
See Wikipedia:Images for general information.
[edit] Church by area
I suggest we link to the Adventist structures not by their official name, but like this: [[Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists|Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia]], which produces: Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia. This improves readability and avoids elitism. Colin MacLaurin
[edit] Sources
Some editors want to ask what the "official" position is on a topic. Often, there is no official position. The 28 Fundamentals are the official beliefs of the church, and should be quoted or referenced in relevant articles. The key in articles is to present all major points of view, and in proportion - see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. There will often be different opinions about just how "major" certain points of view are - the talk pages are for discussing these and other questions.
As of October 2007, Adventist articles seem to have acquired a strong bias towards sources available online, with few citations from offline resources such as most books. Please include more referenced material from the best offline resources! The Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia is a good offline resource, however remember that it has an Adventist point of view whereas a neutral point of view is required for articles.
Some of the most helpful online resources are:
- Official church website
- Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI). Prioritize leading periodicals such as Adventist Review.
- Office of Archives & Statistics (General Conference)
- Online Document Archives. You can link to a specific page in the document by adding "#page=42" to PDFs, for example, link to p.7 (I understand this is a server-side feature, so may not work if not implemented there. However it won't hurt to add the page in anyway, as it may work in the future if not now for certain links). For DJVU, append "?djvuopts&page=4", for example and possibly also "&zoom=width", to the end of the URL - example. Perhaps they have also embedded "named destinations", such as article titles??
- World Church Statistics (should get independent statistical quotes as well)
- Center for Adventist Research at Andrews University
- Ellen G. White Estate, the official Ellen White website
- Loma Linda University Adventist Digital Library
- maranathamedia.com has a large number of books etc. for download. It should generally not be referred to in articles, as it has a very conservative, "historic" point-of-view, and is generally not the original publisher
Major magazines such as Adventist Review, the Australasian Record and Spectrum have freely available online archives. Let's put up convenient citation templates on their talk pages - see example.
Overviews of sources:
- Arthur Patrick, Adventist Studies: An Annotated Introduction for Higher Degree Students. Excellent survey of sources, see the footnotes in particular.
- Compiled Adventist studies resources – books and theses by Jeff Crocombe, a lecturer at Helderberg College
- George Knight...
- Web sources: "Web Guide", p469–70 of Seeking a Sanctuary
Other suggestions:
- SDAnet.org - especially At Issue for scholarly articles, independent site
- Seventh-day Adventists at the Open Directory Project, the largest internet directory
- Seventh-day Adventists at AllExperts.com. Don't quote directly - it is apparently a self-published source. May be a good source for further resources, however
[edit] Disambiguation pages
It would be helpful to monitor various disambiguation pages, to ensure that articles do not link to these but to the correct page. To check for articles, just go to one of these pages and then click on "What links here" on the sidebar. This will show you which articles need to be changed. Pages: James White, Millerite (should link to Millerites instead), George Knight, Spirit of Prophecy, Review and Herald, etc. You can "pipe" links by typing [[James Springer White|James White]], for example, which produces James White which links correctly.
[edit] Wikipedia 1.0 articles
Here is a summary of the Wikipedia 1.0 articles for this WikiProject:
| Seventh-day Adventist Church articles |
Importance | ||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
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 FA |
1 | 1 | |||||
 GA |
1 | 1 | |||||
| B | 2 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 26 | |
| Start | 2 | 31 | 44 | 38 | 81 | 196 | |
| Stub | 12 | 37 | 111 | 104 | 264 | ||
| List | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Assessed | 5 | 54 | 85 | 154 | 195 | 493 | |
| Unassessed | 3 | 17 | 20 | ||||
| Total | 5 | 54 | 85 | 157 | 212 | 513 | |
You may also view the expanded list.
On the talk page of article in this project, {{WP Adventist}} should be placed at the top. This will include the article in Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team and also help to identify it as a part of this WikiProject. You may also include a "class" or "importance" tag, or both. "Class" indicates the quality of the article (see the proposed guideline for ranking of Adventist articles). "Importance" indicates the importance of the article within this WikiProject, and may be low, mid, high or top. For example, {{WP Adventist|importance=mid|class=stub}}.
Other WikiProjects: Many articles (schools, churches, hospitals etc.) should also be added to the appropriate regional WikiProject.
[edit] Recognized content
[edit] Featured articles
[edit] Good articles
[edit] DYK (Did You Know)s
[edit] Formerly recognized content
[edit] Former featured articles
[edit] Former good articles
[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections
[edit] Proposed articles
[edit] Published references to this WikiProject
This is a list of references by external, reliable sources to Wikipedia articles on the Seventh-day Adventist Church:
- Kenneth H. Wood. Wikipedia article cited in "The Life and Times of Kenneth H. Wood" interview by Sandra Blackmer. Adventist Review January 24, 2008. The cited statement in the Wikipedia article referenced in turn Seeking a Sanctuary by Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart
- Richard Rice. Michael Campbell(?) mentioned that Rice has a Wikipedia article in his introduction to Rice's talk (MP3 format) at the Questions on Doctrine 50th anniversary conference
- Standish brothers. "Church leader is killed in Mildura accident". Mildura Independent 5th May 2008. Ironically, this article reported Russell's passing and was based on the Wikipedia article, but that edit was not cited reliably in the first place!
See Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media, Wikipedia:Press coverage or Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2008.
