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The Christianity project banner has been adjusted to include separate parameters for this work group, although the categories haven't yet been created. Looking at the list of categories, though, I'm thinking that we probably have quite a few articles. There often is discussion after creating a new group about creating a portal for it as well. Do we think it would be a good idea to have such a portal, and, if yes, what all would be included in it? John Carter (talk) 20:36, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

A portal, in time, could indeed be helpful. One problem, the categories under Category:Christian theology are a mess. Some definitely belong, but some are redundant, some are tangentially related, and some are entirely unrelated. There are certainly a fair noumber of articles, but not as many as the page currently shows. We definitely need to have a discussion about the category organization. I'm headed off-line, but maybe later this week.
As to content on the portals - I'd be glad to help - but am also more than willing to follow your lead. Pastordavid (talk) 20:41, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category proposal

Following up the above, here is a proposal for re-working the categories. Comments, suggestions encouraged. Pastordavid (talk) 17:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I think that with these as the overarching cats, we can organize all the sub-cats and articles currently floating around in Category:Christian theology. It is a mess at the moment, and it will probably take a little while, but I think this might make things a little more intuitive. Pastordavid (talk) 17:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Looks good to me. I'm going to try to myself continue working on the Category:Syriac Christianity and its subcats right now, but when I finish that I'll start work on this. The one question which comes to mind, which might be a dubious one, is maybe whether it might be better to not have Category:Christian theology by denomination as an immediate subcat, but maybe replace it with something like Category:Christian theology by tradition or something similar, using the traditions as outlined in the diagram Image:ChristianityBranches.svg. John Carter (talk) 16:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Sounds good. I have adjusted the above accordingly, and made a couple of other minor fixes. Pastordavid (talk) 17:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)