Wikijunior talk:World Religions

Wikijunior:Religions
I need help I thought it would be a cool book idea but I need some more contributors —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gogreen (talk • contribs) 00:01, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Upgrades
I hope to make a few infrastructure upgrades here, in the near future. The three areas that seem to me to need work are:
 * The lead paragraph.
 * ✅ --Pi zero (talk) 21:57, 4 January 2011 (UTC)


 * The standard outline for articles. (Needs to be more flexible.)
 * ✅ a new set of questions, here. --Pi zero (talk) 20:28, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Resources of interest are --Pi zero (talk) 16:54, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The book outline. (In addition to more belief systems, there are historical suggestions for other kinds of sections besides belief-system articles.)
 * [ Wikijunior:Religions], an attempt to start this same book (from the same book proposal, that is) almost two years before this one. It looks like the author didn't link to it from anywhere, so no-one else knew it was there and it just got lost.  Not much there, but it has an interestingly different lead, and suggests some other belief systems to cover.  [Update: it's now been history-merged with this book, so I've adjusted the above link to point to a revision containing the relevant content.]
 * Wikijunior:New Title Suggestions/Archive
 * Wikijunior:New Book of the Quarter/2007-1st Quarter Vote
 * Wikijunior:New Title Suggestions

Divisions
If we're going to list "Catholic Christianity" and "Protestant Christianity" separately, we should probably do the same for Sunni and Shia Islam, as well as Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism. However, especially considering that this is Wikijunior, it would probably be best not to present it that way, and instead explain the internal divisions after outlining the generally shared tenets of the religion as a whole. Belteshazzar (talk) 18:40, 23 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, we're better off with just one unified section for Christianity. There seem to have been thoughts, once upon a time, of an extensive hierarchical structure; but that wouldn't make sense until there was already much more to this book than there is now, and there would still be only one top-level taxon for Christianity.


 * One wonders whether there should be a standard section heading in the article outline for sects. --Pi zero (talk) 21:32, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Ancient religions?
Are we allowed to add ancient religions?Qwerty number1 (discuss • contribs) 01:47, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * It's an interesting question. Did you have something particular in mind?  There used to be an item in the outline called "Folk", which I suppose was mean to be related to Shelf:Folk religions, but, iirc, the page was never created and in 2014 the item was removed . --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 02:25, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * There's certainly a theme of cross-religious understanding here, and ancient religions are, well, somewhat less directly relevant to that theme; so if we want the book to educate about current religions and thereby promote cross-religious understanding amongst existing communities, we approach the question of ancient religions one way. if we want to educate about the different kinds of things it's possible for people to believe, that's another. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:29, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Qwerty number1 (discuss • contribs) 15:54, 22 February 2019 (UTC).