Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Buddhism

Buddhism articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 4 3 8 FL 3 3 A 1 1 GA 5 10 24 28 67 B 28 73 91 245 21 458 C 44 80 188 920 27 1,259 Start 40 85 435 2,069 18 2,647 Stub 2 10 123 1,614 14 1,763 List 3 1 8 92 1 105 Category 2,136 2,136 Disambig 15 15 File 23 23 Project 12 12 Template 139 139 NA 4 4 15 57 72 152 Other 23 23 Assessed 126 264 889 5,031 2,421 80 8,811 Total 126 264 889 5,031 2,421 80 8,811 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 30,358 Ω = 4.89

Chinese Buddhism needs reviewing

The article Chinese Buddhism needs to be expanded and reviewed. As the largest population of Buddhists in the world I think that Chinese Buddhism deserves a better article. At the current state it is quite messy, with many bare urls and unreliable sources.--Aethelwolf Emsworth (talk) 13:08, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Proposal to add some religious events to ITNR

There is currently a proposal to add some religious events at WP:ITNR. If adopted some or all of the listed events could be added to ITNR and be automatically posted to the main page conditional on the overall quality of the relevant articles. Interested editors are encouraged to join the discussion here. -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:11, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Rather odd to close the discussion there on the same day of posting this request, Ad Orientem. Why the rush? I thought we were working for Wikipedia, not Wall Street. On a practical note, I think you should also add the Supreme_Patriarch_of_Thailand to the Buddhism list. The death of the last Supreme Patriarch there, as well as the subsequent nomination of the new Patriarch, received much coverage in news outlets worldwide. There is one other country with a similar office, that is Cambodia, but I don't believe he has received the same interest.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 14:02, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Farang Rak Tham. The proposal was withdrawn because it had no support and the arguments against it were in my opinion cogent. ITNR is for events that occur with some degree of regularity and can be almost guaranteed to garner sufficient news coverage to pass GNG. While most of the events listed in the proposal would certainly pass GNG, none were regularly occurring. All of these events could be nominated via the normal process at ITNC and presuming adequate article quality would be very likely to pass. Lastly I have no idea what Wall Street has to do with this. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:09, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Never mind the Wall Street, but thanks for trying anyway, Ad Orientem.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 15:12, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Section Recent Articles is no longer being updated

The section Recent Articles is no longer being updated automatically. Or shall I just add my new article there?--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 14:46, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Added it myself. Also tagged the project as semi-active, pending a non-active tag. It is becoming a sleepy hollow place here, guys.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 15:43, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

that can be a very skewed perception of what a project is doing or not - just because recent articles is not being updated does not mean some part of the project is still being worked upon or not JarrahTree 23:06, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Indeed. But there has been a pattern of lack of activity for a while, both on the WikiProject itself and the talk page here. Try comparing with other WikiProjects.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 06:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

There is the potential to start asking questions or seeing if any one wants to discuss items JarrahTree 08:36, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

There have been many, JarrahTree. See for example below here. But no response. I noticed there is discussion at Talk:Buddha and Talk:Buddhism. So there are editors interested in editing and discussing Buddhist articles, but they don't use the WikiProject. That's why I have tagged it, to start a discussion as to why the page is no longer used.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 13:14, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes it take time before editors either return or get interested - it varies between the quiet projects as to what happens to them to revive JarrahTree 13:16, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Indeed.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 13:25, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

facetiousness (as it can be taken), and impatience - are neither part of the buddhist ethic for a start, or editing wikipedia for that matter, - there is an item above which shows you sked another editor regarding urgency over issues. Try patience, and politeness, and we are way in the right direction JarrahTree 13:29, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I am not certain what the connection is with marking a Wikiproject as semi-active. This is a useful tag, that will attract more people to take care of the WikiProject.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 17:57, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

that rarely happens -it goes back to the Template:Be bold style as promoted ten years ago - all it takes is an adventurous editor to take the tag off , update the maintenance issues (project tagging - adding to talk pages), assessing some pages, and the basic machinery of government of a project is slowly moving again, as to whether others ever actually take up the signs of life is another thing again... inactive tags usually put people off, specially if they are not into project maintenance JarrahTree 23:26, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Holy days, holidays, days of observance or what?

There is a discussion about the word that should be used for religious days in Buddhism. Please weigh in.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 11:33, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Requested article: Tibet House, London

Would anybody care to create a stub for Tibet House, 1 Culworth Street, London, which "aims to reflect the aspirations of the Tibetan community ... based on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s principles of truth, non-violence and genuine democracy." http://www.tibet-house-trust.co.uk/aboutus/ (We already have an article on Tibet House in NY, NY, so this should be at Tibet House, London ? or Tibet House (London) ?) (Not sure about naming conventions.)