Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion/Religious leaders work group

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[edit] Religious leaders discussion from Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals

Description: Many religious leaders, particularly founders of new faiths, arise from an existing religious tradition. However, the wikipedia content relating to this figures will generally be added in primarily by adherents of the faith the person founded, not those from the faith s/he arose from. On that basis, I am proposing a group which I anticipate would be a work group of either (or both?) WikiProject Biography and WikiProject Religion to help ensure that these articles are addressed in a comprehensive and NPOV manner.

Project page:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Religious leaders work group

User:

  1. Badbilltucker 15:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Scifiintel 23:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
  2. --$UIT 02:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  3. John Carter 23:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC) - We definitely need a biography group for religious figures.
  4. I would definitely support this as a task force of WP:Religion and WP:WPBIO, and help out as I am able. Perhaps it would help if we could first come up with a definite scope - i.e., what classifies a person as a "religious leader" (for our purposes). Pastordavid 18:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
  5. --HybridBoy 11:12, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Comments:'

  1. I agree and think this is very important and needs to be put in place in order to help facilitate others having a better understanding of different religions and cultures. Scifiintel 23:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
  2. I suppose we could use the functional definition of those affiliated with the "clerical" professions (possibly including rabbis, priests, and other ministers) as well as the more obvious "lay leaders", although no examples of the latter come immediately to mind. John Carter 00:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
There is now a rough temporary project page listed above. I can't believe how complicated these biography pages are. But if the group does get formally recognized, I will do everything I can to fill it out. John Carter 22:04, 19 May 2007 (UTC)