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[edit]Hello Operarioribeiro, and thank you for starting the article Interfaith studies. Here are a few suggestions for how it could be improved. In general, Wikipedia tries to maintain consistent styles for its articles, to make the articles easier to read. There's a general overview of this at Wikipedia:Manual of Style. More specifically, here are a few things that can be improved at Interfaith studies:
- Wikipedia:External links: there are many inline external links in the article at the moment, and these are discouraged in articles, apart from a few special cases. Inline external links should be replaced with WP:Red links, to encourage other editors to create articles about notable subjects, or with a reference.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout: it's better to use sections and sub-sections than to add a lot of boldface text to the article. There is a great deal of boldface and italic throughout the article, which can be jarring for some readers. It's best used sparingly: see MOS:BOLD.
- Focus: much of the article is about relevant topics related to Interfaith studies, such as Interfaith studies#Institutions. To maintain focus and readability, it's better to move lists like that, which aren't directly about interfaith studies, to related articles such as List of interreligious organizations. If no adequate article exists, then we can create one.
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view: this is one of the WP:Five pillars of Wikipedia. I completely agree with you about the importance and urgent relevance of interfaith studies, but on Wikipedia we must always try not to assert our opinions in WP:WIKIVOICE. On the other hand, it's fine to quote someone notable in the field in an article, saying "Scholar X wrote in "Journal Y" that interfaith studies are of urgent relevance because...", with an appropriate reference for the quote.
I hope you find these suggestions useful. Happy editing! Wikishovel (talk) 09:19, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you very much, Wikishovel.
- MOSL: I was able to change the bold parts to subtitles.
- NPOV: I tried to solve the NPOV issue as well, bringing the UNAOC UNOCT quote first. Please let me know what you think about it.
- Focus: Due to the complete lack of understanding of the theme, I'd ask to please keep a short list of institutions and bibliography in the article itself (with a link to a larger article as you suggests), as I've seen in some articles.
- External Links: Due to being really busy with urgent interfaith diplomacy works I won't be able to format the external links to references.
- Can you, or someone else, please review what couldn't be fixed so that we may take the warnings out of the article?
- PS: I created a "Needed Improvements" section in the article's talk, so if you want you may post this and further messages there to register our participation better. Operário Ribeiro (talk) 16:22, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
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[edit]Thanks for your contributions to Interfaith studies. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability, it is promotional and reads like an advertisement and 50% of the article is unsourced.. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. scope_creepTalk 18:18, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Interfaith studies (March 2)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Interfaith studies (March 29)
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