Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Swaminarayan

Review BAPS Lead Paragraph Edits

I have placed an edited lead paragraph for the BAPS article in my sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Apollo1203/sandbox. I invite you all to review and suggest any improvements ahead of editing the article. Thank you. Apollo1203 (talk) 05:35, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Proposed Merger of Swaminarayan Sampraday

There's a proposed merger being discussed between Swaminarayan Sampraday and Swaminarayan (spiritual tradition). If anyone is interested to comment, please do so here. Thank you. Moksha88 (talk) 03:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for doing this merge. However, it would have been beneficial to merge into the Swaminarayan Sampradaya page since "Swaminarayan (spiritual tradition)" is not a common phrase/term. I placed the merge request on the page, but it will be helpful for members of this project to put their comments regarding the page merge: move request

Additionally, after repetitiously reading and reviewing the merged article, I think it needs to be re-structured, organized, and re-written to avoid confusion and maintain validity. @Moksha88:, can you start working on an outline of a future state Swaminarayan Sampradaya article? You can create one in your sandbox and we can comment and iterate on it. This will help improve the article tremendously. Thank you! Apollo1203 (talk) 03:01, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Vachanamrut Article Re-Write

After reviewing the current Vachanamrut article, I believe it needs significant improvements. Besides the tag that was placed in 2007, indicating the article is confusing and hard to understand, the article lacks reliable secondary sources. Additionally, it does not comprehensively describe the Vachanamrut. Therefore, I will begin researching and re-writing the article. I will update my sandbox with my revisions and edits. Apollo1203 (talk) 19:02, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Apollo1203: I agree and look forward to your rewrite. When you get a chance, please comment on the merger thread about parts of the article that need to be removed. I posted several excerpts on my sandbox. Thank you. Moksha88 (talk) 04:18, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

I'll begin populating the content in the outline that is in my sandbox. Look forward to your input and edits. Apollo1203 (talk) 19:25, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Apollo1203: I took a look at what you have so far and looks good though we may need to cut down on the number of quotes to keep the article concise. I fixed a few details and updated the page number for one of the sentences. I can start working on the Content section. Moksha88 (talk) 01:16, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Finally have some time on my hands - I would agree with the numerous quotes that should be removed - I'll take a detailed look at this soon. ThaNDNman224 (talk) 14:13, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

ThaNDNman224, great. In addition to cleaning up the text, we also need a lead paragraph. Moksha88 (talk) 03:24, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

I've moved the Vachanamrut article from my sandbox to the live article. Thank you all for the help and collaboration on this article! Looking forward to working with you all on future article improvements. Apollo1203 (talk) 03:19, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Status

Hi all, I noticed this WikiProject has been tagged as "inactive." However, I think activity has increased on this project by a select few users and could merit a status change to active. Does anyone have objection to changing the status to "active"? Apollo1203 (talk) 17:27, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Apollo1203, between the recent merger of the Swaminarayan articles and the subsequent cleanup as well as the proposed rewrite of the Vachanamrut article, I feel there's sufficient activity to reactivate the project. Moksha88 (talk) 03:18, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Renaming Templates

Apollo1203, with the recent merger of the Swaminarayan Sampraday article into the tradition article, do you know how to rename these templates? I fixed the text in the templates last week, immediately after the merger, but I think we may need to set up the same request like we did for changing the page title.

1. Swaminarayan Hinduism->Swaminarayan Sampraday
2. Swaminarayan Sampraday->Nar Narayan Dev Gadi & Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi

Moksha88 (talk) 00:59, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

I will look into this Apollo1203 (talk) 15:48, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

ThaNDNman224, can you please comment on the proposed template changes? Thank you. Moksha88 (talk) 05:33, 10 February 2020 (UTC)