Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church

This WikiProject is for the development of Wikipedia articles related to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The main aim of this page will be to promote collaboration on these articles and to organise a combined effort.

Scope

The scope of this project will be the articles included in the Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church and its various subcategories. For a full list of categories, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Categories.

A list of articles in one reference work recently published specifically devoted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Missing articles. John Carter (talk) 18:08, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

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Interwiki

There are other Wikimedia Wikis to which we can contribute Seventh-day Adventist related material, such as Commons (for free images, sound and other multimedia files), Wikisource (for primary-source texts and translations) and Wikiquote (for quotations). Add links between the projects, as demonstrated to the right.

Style guide for Seventh-day Adventist related articles

This is a style guide for articles relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church contains templates, project userbox, stub articles etc., for editors.

(Note: Most of these guidelines were contributed by one or two authors only. Please be bold in suggesting alternatives, by discussing them on the talk page. Other specific guidelines appear in /Article requests.)

The Adventist News Network maintains a glossary of recommended terms for news reporting. The suggestions are generally to improve clarity, which is consistent with Wikipedia's aim.

Church name spelling and abbreviation

The spelling preferred by the church is "Seventh-day Adventist", note particularly the hyphen and lowercase 'd'. The phrase "Seventh-day Adventist Church" has a capital "C" when talking about the world church; this is abbreviated "Adventist Church".

Be careful to avoid confusion regarding the term "Adventist". Generally, "Adventism" includes other groups which arose from the Millerite movement. (Literally, an "Adventist" is someone who awaits the Advent [meaning "arrival"] or Second Coming of Jesus to Earth). Write "Seventh-day Adventist" in full the first time to establish context, and then usually abbreviate afterwards to "Adventist". An exception would be in articles covering both the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Millerite/Adventist movement, where this usage would be ambiguous.

In general, the phrase "Adventist Church world headquarters" is preferable to "General Conference" or "GC". You can 'pipe' links like this: Adventist Church world headquarters, where the display text for the link is worded differently to the link location. Instead of "General Conference president", use "Adventist world church president".

For regional organizations of the church, try to avoid the terms "Conference", "Union", and "Division". Instead, refer to the region being covered, as in "...Adventist Church in France" or "Smith is youth director for the church in Northern California." Use "region" instead of "Division".

Names of Adventist people

Articles about Adventist people should use the form of their name that most sources use (see WP:COMMONNAME). Early Adventists were typically known by their initials, e.g. "J. N. Andrews", rather than "John Andrews" as we would say today. Some encyclopedias use the following format: J.[ohn] N.[evins] Andrews (see page source), to indicate they were known by their initials, and this method still supplies their full given and middle names.

For more recent people, the reliable sources usually call them by their given name and surname. If disambiguation is needed (for instance, there are many notable "George Knight"s in the world), including the middle initial seems the norm, as in George R. Knight, and not the full middle name. Other options with disambiguation are including the full middle name, or adding a descriptor in parentheses, as for Joseph Bates (Adventist), whose middle name is apparently unknown or nonexistent.

See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies).

External links

At the end of the "External links" section in each article, add a link to the index of articles in Adventist magazines. This enables the reader to quickly locate other references. (Though links to internet search engines are not recommended, justifiably this index is obscure and would be otherwise unknown by most readers). Trim unnecessary parts of the URL.

For biography articles like Ellen G. White:
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• Articles by White and about White as cataloged in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)

For other topics, like Sabbath in seventh-day churches:
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• Sabbath articles as cataloged in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)

Adventism template

{{Seventh-day Adventism}} produces the following sidebar, which may be placed on Adventist articles (in the general sense of the term "Adventist"):

Stub articles

Place {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub}} near the bottom of stubs relating to this WikiProject. This will automatically place the article in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.

Categories

Articles should be added to Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church or, preferably, one of its child categories. See also #Proposed articles for additional category-specific guidelines.

Bible verses

Bible verses can be linked using the {{Bibleverse}} template, for example, {{bibleverse||John|3:16|NIV}} which produces John 3:16. See the documentation on the template's talk page.

Images

"Public domain" images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia itself. Add them to commons:Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church (?). "Fair use" images can only be uploaded to Wikipedia, not Commons. For these, add them to this WikiProject by placing "{{WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church|class=image|importance=}}" on the top of its talk page.

See Wikipedia:Images for general information.

Church by area

One suggestion is to the Adventist structures not by their official name, but like this: [[Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists|Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia]], which produces: Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia. This improves readability and avoids elitism.

Sources

Some editors want to ask what the "official" position is on a topic. Most often, there is no official position. The 28 Fundamentals are the official beliefs of the church, and should be quoted or referenced in relevant articles. The key in articles is to present all major points of view, and in proportion. There will often be different opinions about just how "major" certain points of view are - the talk pages are for discussing these and other questions.

• Adventist Review (and Adventist World) are the preeminent Adventist magazines. The Australasian Record for instance is also significant. These have mostly online archives
• Ministry is the official magazine of the Ministerial Association, also sent to non-Adventists
• Andrews University Seminary Studies is a peer-reviewed journal (the only one?) published by Adventists. It and Ministry appear in Christian seminaries worldwide, apparently

As of October 2007, Adventist articles seem to have acquired a strong bias towards sources available online, with few citations from offline resources such as most books. Please include more referenced material from the best offline resources! The Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia is a good offline resource, however remember that it has an Adventist point of view whereas a neutral point of view is required for articles.

Some of the most helpful online resources are:

• Official church website
• Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI). Prioritize leading periodicals such as Adventist Review.
• Office of Archives & Statistics (General Conference)
  • Online Document Archives. You can link to a specific page in the document by adding "#page=42" to PDFs, for example, link to p.7 (I understand this is a server-side feature, so may not work if not implemented there. However it won't hurt to add the page in anyway, as it may work in the future if not now for certain links). For DJVU, append "?djvuopts&page=4", for example and possibly also "&zoom=width", to the end of the URL - example. Perhaps they have also embedded "named destinations", such as article titles??
  • World Church Statistics (should get independent statistical quotes as well)
• Center for Adventist Research at Andrews University
  • Links
• Librarian Gary Shearer's bibliographies
• Ellen G. White Estate, the official Ellen White website
• Loma Linda University Archives and Special Collections includes Adventist Digital Library
• maranathamedia.com has a large number of books etc. for download.
• Adventist Biblical Research Institute Has a number of articles and documents relating to Adventist Theology, run by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Overviews of sources:

• Arthur Patrick, Adventist Studies: An Annotated Introduction for Higher Degree Students. Excellent survey of sources, see the footnotes in particular.
• Compiled Adventist studies resources – books and theses by Jeff Crocombe, a lecturer at Helderberg College
• George Knight...
• Web sources: "Web Guide", p469–70 of Seeking a Sanctuary

Other suggestions:

• SDAnet.org - especially At Issue for scholarly articles, independent site

Quoting Ellen White

Multiple times in Wikipedia articles, editors have made claims regarding Ellen White's point-of-view on various topics. Even though specific citations have often been provided, some of these claims are dubious. This is because White produced a very large body of material, so quotations can be selectively chosen to justify the editor's claim. Additionally, most or all Adventism scholars believe she changed some views or emphases over time, notably from a harsher God to a more loving God. One editor suggests she would be better treated as a primary source, thus on contentious issues, better to cite what reliable secondary sources claim she taught, as well.

"Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources. Secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability and to avoid novel interpretations of primary sources, though primary sources are permitted if used carefully." (From WP:PRIMARY section of "Wikipedia:No original research")

Disambiguation pages

It would be helpful to monitor various disambiguation pages, to ensure that articles do not link to these but to the correct page. To check for articles, just go to one of these articles and then click on "What links here" on the sidebar. This will show you which articles need to be changed. These articles include: James White, Millerite (should link to Millerism instead), George Knight, Spirit of Prophecy, Review and Herald, etc. You can "pipe" links by typing [[James Springer White|James White]], for example, which produces James White which links correctly.

Wikipedia 1.0 articles

Here is a summary of the Wikipedia 1.0 articles for this WikiProject:

Seventh-day Adventist Church articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				4			4
FL				1			1
GA			2	4			6
B	6	20	14	20		10	70
C	4	13	59	92		42	210
Start	4	36	69	250		148	507
Stub		5	18	124		46	193
List		1	10	8		2	21
Category					264		264
Disambig					3		3
File					70		70
Project					14		14
Redirect		1	6	32	105		144
Template					20		20
Other					2		2
Assessed	14	76	178	535	478	248	1,529
Total	14	76	178	535	478	248	1,529
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 4,755			Ω = 4.80

You may also view the expanded list.

On the talk page of article in this project, {{WP Adventist}} should be placed at the top. This will include the article in Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team and also help to identify it as a part of this WikiProject. You may also include a "class" or "importance" tag, or both. "Class" indicates the quality of the article (see the proposed guideline for ranking of Adventist articles). "Importance" indicates the importance of the article within this WikiProject, and may be low, mid, high or top. For example, {{WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church|importance=mid|class=stub}}.

Other WikiProjects: Many articles (schools, churches, hospitals etc.) should also be added to the appropriate regional WikiProject.

Recognized content

Featured articles

• William S. Sadler
• Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi

Featured lists

• List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

Former Featured articles

• Christianity

Good articles

• Patrick Allen
• William Harrison Anderson
• Thomas H. Branch
• Heidi Cruz
• Heather Knight
• Manuel Noriega
• Usain Bolt

Former Good articles

• Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Larry Geraty
• Southern Adventist University

On this day

• Great Disappointment
• Desmond Doss
• Manuel Noriega
• Ellen G. White

DYK (Did You Know)s

• Tualatin Valley Academy
• St Michael and All Angels Church, Lowfield Heath
• Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie
• Patrick Allen
• William Harrison Anderson
• Thomas H. Branch
• Obed Dickinson
• Larry Geraty
• Heather Knight
• Joe Lutcher
• Amos Tirop Matui
• Floyd Morris
• Roman Tmetuchl
• Sverre Valen
• Florida Hospital Oceanside

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections

• Christianity
• Protestantism
• Seventh-day Adventist Church

Article Alerts

No Article alerts at this time.

Proposed articles

/Article requests

Published references to this WikiProject

This is a list of references by external, reliable sources to Wikipedia articles on Seventh-day Adventist related topics. Please add any you discover:

• Kenneth H. Wood. Wikipedia article cited in "The Life and Times of Kenneth H. Wood" interview by Sandra Blackmer. Adventist Review January 24, 2008. The cited statement in the Wikipedia article referenced in turn Seeking a Sanctuary by Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart
• Richard Rice. Michael Campbell mentioned that Rice has a Wikipedia article in his introduction to Rice's talk (MP3 format) at the Questions on Doctrine 50th anniversary conference
• Standish brothers. "Church leader is killed in Mildura accident". Mildura Independent 5th May 2008. Ironically, this article reported Russell's passing and was based on the Wikipedia article, but that edit was not cited reliably in the first place!
• 1919 Bible Conference. Cited in For the Sake of the Gospel by Desmond and Gillian Ford, footnote on p223
• Open theism (this belief founded by an Adventist). Cited in Kwabena Donkor, "Open Theism – A Review of the Issues". Biblical Research Institute, October 2006, p3 footnote 2
• Forthcoming article by User:Colin MacLaurin, will be submitted to Spectrum, about Adventism in Wikipedia. I was a very active editor a few years ago. I am interested in what's been happening the last few years, as research for my article. Please share your experiences as editors. [Message posted here, because the talk page redirects]. Thank-you! -Colin I set up a page for posting for any editors from Wikipedia, Adventist or otherwise for input. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simbagraphix/sandbox

Simbagraphix (talk) 09:32, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media, Wikipedia:Press coverage or Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2008.

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