WikiProject Religious texts aims primarily to organise and condense the series of articles on religious texts. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please add yourself to the members list.

Scope[edit]

The scope of this project is all articles in the Category:Religious texts. Specifically, this project hopes to deal with all articles which relate or are a religious text.

• (1) We will assist in the assessment of articles in the field of religious texts, particularly those articles which have not yet been assessed.
• (2) We will assist in getting articles featured
• (3) We will assist in getting articles upgraded to good status
• (4) We will do what is on the to do section below

To do[edit]

• Add all articles within the direct scope of this project to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Religious texts/watchlist list by category.
• Check recent changes for recent changes to these articles.
• Provide assessments listed under "Requesting an assessment", following the project standards.
• Improve current GA-class and A-class articles to FA standards so they may pass a featured article review.
• Improve B-class or A-class articles to GA standards that have not passed a GA review.

Tasks[edit]

• Create article for Sefer Chasidim.

Recognized content[edit]

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Religious texts/Recognized content.

Templates[edit]

Use {{WikiProject Religious texts}} to add articles to the project:

WikiProject Religious texts		Religious textsWikipedia:WikiProject Religious textsTemplate:WikiProject Religious textsReligious texts articles
Religion portal This page is within the scope of WikiProject Religious texts, a joint subproject of WikiProject Religion and WikiProject Books, and a project to improve Wikipedia's articles on Religious texts-related subjects. Please participate by editing this article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details.  ???  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.

Related Wikiprojects[edit]

• Religion WikiProject
• WikiProject Literature
• WikiProject Books
• WikiProject Judaism
• WikiProject Bible
• WikiProject Quran
• WikiProject Philosophy
  • Philosophical literature task force
  • Philosophy of religion task force

Work groups[edit]

Departments[edit]

• Assessment - our assessment department.
  • We also now have a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Religious texts/Assessment/Top-importance articles where I hope we can come to some degree of consensus as to which articles should be held as being of top importance to the project, and possibly concentrate some effort on them.

• Deletions

• The translation of the Holy Quran (via WP:PROD on 14 December 2007)
• The Gospel according to Simon of Cyrene (via WP:PROD on 28 September 2007) Deleted
• Mausola Purva (via WP:PROD on 24 September 2007) Deleted

Members[edit]

All interested parties should feel free to add their names below, and if they wish to add the {{User WPRT2}} or {{User WikiProject Religious Texts}} to their userpages. Also, please indicate any fields of specific knowledge or interest if you see fit. We may in the future be interested in setting up subprojects, and it would be useful to know early if there is any interest in any particular fields.

1. --Java7837 03:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
2. --Dauster 10:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC), who writes on Torah
3. --John Carter 15:23, 5 September 2007 (UTC) - various texts
4. --Fennessy 00:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
5. --Alastair Haines 07:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
6. --zeuspitar 01:30, 15 March (UTC) Hindu-Sri Vaishnava Priest/Brahmana, Pujari of now defunct Radha-Govinda temple in Venice California U.S.A., studying the Vedic/Hindu scriptures since 1997, and practicing Ashtanga yoga for more than a decade.
7. --Vicar98230 (talk) 19:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC) - particular interest in texts of Christian mystical & monastic tradition
8. --Observer99 (talk) 00:35, 7 April 2008 (UTC) - interest in Jewish and Christian texts.
9. --Olorin3k 12:00, 16 April A.D. 2008 (UTC) Christian, Islamic, Gnostic, Mormon texts for 26 years.
10. --Covinben (talk) 00:06, 18 November 2008 (UTC) Biblical Texts (both modern translation and Greek/Hebrew fragments), Exegetical Traditions, Early Christian Monastic Writing, Early Church Fathers, Textual Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Early Relationship of Christianity and Culture.
11. --Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 06:53, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
12. --Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 15:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
13. --FimusTauri (talk) 12:48, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
14. — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 08:48, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
15. CanonLawJunkie (talk) 21:19, 24 August 2010 (UTC) Have "expertise" (interest/knowledge) in Catholic Canon Law. Any Catholic text.
16. rinduzahid^(talk) 16:31, 13 November 2011 (UTC) have (intereset/knowledge) in Islamic texts especially Tafsir
17. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 18:04, 2 May 2013 (UTC) General ancient languages
18. Alan Hooker (talk) 13:58, 24 June 2013 (UTC) PhD student in Biblical Studies, focusing on the Hebrew Bible and its presentation of Yahweh. Interest in other ancient Near Eastern comparative literature.

Specific interest is in the maintenance of true neutrality within all articles, but with special interest in religious topics as they are the most open to abuse.

Statistics[edit]

Barnstar[edit]

Barnstar for this project

Proposed Religion barnstar

I think that's a great idea. Steve Dufour (talk) 16:30, 8 July 2009 (UTC)