Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith

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WikiProject Baháʼí Faith
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WikiProject Baháʼí Faith is a coordinated effort to create and maintain quality articles on Baháʼí Faith on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Scope

The Baháʼí Faith has several quality articles on Wikipedia as well as some that need further attention and maintenance. It is the task of this WikiProject to:

  • Standardize terminology related to Baháʼí Faith articles
  • Enforce neutrality
    on all coverage of the Baháʼí Faith.
  • Improve the quality and quantity of information, including updating well-written articles as new information is presented.
  • Add media - particularly pictures - where it would be helpful to the reader.

Members

Anyone who is interested to improve Baháʼí-related articles can join this project by adding their name to the list of members.

WikiProject Bahá'í Faith members

If you are interested in joining, simply add your name below by inserting *~~~~. If you would like, you can add any explanatory notes about what you are interested in doing or any kind of academic background you may have with the Bahá'í Faith. Please also list other languages you know and your level of proficiency if you are available to translate articles.

  1. Justin (koavf)TCM☯ 05:23, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. AlmightyClam 16:18, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Smkolins (talk) 01:16, 22 June 2008 (UTC), I'm a researcher. Right now most focused on Category:Bahá'í Faith by country but I'm pretty limited to English though most of the countries themselves have other languages![reply]
  4. John Carter (talk) 16:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC), only know German I'm afraid[reply]
  5. T0lk (talk) 20:40, 13 September 2008 (UTC), I'm happy to help[reply]
  6. Fellow traveller (talk) 18:26, 6 December 2008 (UTC) Would love to contribute[reply]
  7. Spool 26 (talk) 03:11, 11 December 2008 (UTC) Ready to contribute! English is my first language, I also am fluent in Latin and can translate it.[reply]
  8. Soroush (talk) 05:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC) Can Contribute both in Persian and English language[reply]
  9. Peter Deer (talk) 11:15, 10 November 2009 (UTC) English-only with smatterings of Arabic (cannot translate), Islam-related article focused but able to contribute on all fronts.[reply]
  10. dragfyre (talk 16:19, 11 November 2009 (UTC) Can contribute in English and French. I'm also interested in filling out "by country" articles.[reply]
  11. UltraBibendum (talk) 00:05, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Jonah Winters (talk) 04:26, 15 July 2010 (UTC) I run the Baha'i Library Online; Wikipedia editor since 2007.[reply]
  13. And Adoil Descended (talk) 01:13, 8 August 2011 (UTC) Me too![reply]
  14. Talismanart (talk)Paula Bidwell I'm writing the early history of Native Bahai's.My website is: nativebahais.com [1]
  15. User:I'm nonpartisan Candace Hill Very pleased to see this list. Please take a look at the page for my book about the Baha'i Temple for Arcadia Publishing
  16. IBE (talk) 18:26, 24 December 2011 (UTC) Can translate with difficulty from French. Interested in Mirza Abul Fadl, especially helping to translate any of his works. Don't know any Farsi, but can help on the proofreading/ editing side, if anyone is interested in doing it for Wikibooks.[reply]
  17. Sen Mcglinn (talk) 19:44, 24 December 2011 (UTC) Interested mainly in Bahai social teachings and the transmission and authenticity or corruption of texts and ideas. See http://senmcglinn.wordpress.com/[reply]
  18. Theseus1776 (talk) 05:38, 4 April 2012 (UTC) Theology, Baha'i World Order, comparative religion, sociology[reply]
  19. Harachel22 (talk) 03:14, 5 April 2012 (UTC) I know English and French well. I can read stuff. Decent at copy-editing[reply]
  20. Jetstream423 (talk) 19:54, 11 April 2012 (UTC) Jay Tyson-Christian prophecy related to the Baha'i Faith[reply]
  21. Theseus1776 (talk) 19 April 2012 (UTC) General interest in the history of the faith, its teachings, and some other speculative concepts related to the Baha'i Faith
  22. --Barackfa (talk) 18:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC) Hungary and the Bahá'í Faith[reply]
  23. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 05:24, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Edict of Toleration 1844.[reply
    ]
  25. Buzzinglibrary (talk) 23:27, 5 December 2013 (UTC) I am a librarian.[reply]
  26. Gplittle (talk) 08:08, 29 December 2014 (UTC) General knowledge with an interest in the Badi calendar[reply]
  27. Farooq (talk) 16:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC) Mainly interested in working on the Arabic version of articles on the Baha'i Faith[reply]
  28. Nadeem.navidi (talk) 23:31, 27 February 2016 (UTC) Keen to help out with anything that needs attention. Good at English, decent at Farsi! Living in Cook Islands. Would love to help with that.[reply]
  29. Buster Seven Talk 16:16, 20 March 2016 (UTC) Rekindled interest and reawakened challenge.[reply]
  30. A35821361 (talk) 01:12, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Illuminator123 (talk) 22:12, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  32. talk) 05:42, 30 August 2017 (UTC) Interested in helping fill out stubs, provide sources, and improve grammar[reply
    ]
  33. Serv181920 (talk) 15:36, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  34. AlphaOmegaEtc (talk) 00:00, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Asad29591 (talk) 00:22, 1 May 2021 (UTC) Hi. I am a Orthodox Baha'i and I am keen and happy to be a part of this project and looking forward to make a positive impact on the Baha'i pages.[reply]
  36. Leejordan9 talk
    sandbox
    19:50, 26 February 2022 (UTC) Hi! I’m a Baháʼí who is willing to help make articles better, especially through my knowledge of the Baháʼí system of transliteration/grammar with names of people and places.[reply]
    Interesting re "transliteration". Transcription as used by Shoghi Effendi (technically not transliteration) is a topic that I have spent a lot of time on. Trying to find like minded people is difficult. I have compiled a 270 A4 page (9-point sized font) transcription list and glossary for our editing work that is posted on two web sites. https://www.miscellanie.com/transcription/index.html Withiel (talk) 02:40, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  37. Doughbo (talk) 05:30, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  38. rpnman (talk) 17:07, 24 November 2023 (UTC) Strong focus on harmony of science & religion, evolution in particular -- ABS / Wilmette Institute[reply]

Assessment

A major component of any WikiProject is assessing the quality of its articles. One of the initial duties of this project is to assign ratings on all articles based on two scales: its present quality and its relative importance.

Recognized content

WikiProject Bahá'í Faith recognized content

Featured articles

Article FA nom date
Baháʼí Faith 2004-12-30
Jesus 2015-08-15

Good articles

Article GA nom date
Baháʼu'lláh 2012-06-06
Carole Lombard 2014-04-06
Marie of Romania 2014-05-08

DYKs (Did You Knows)

Article DYK date
Baháʼí Faith in Brazil 2008-03-18
Baháʼí Faith in Cameroon 2008-04-04
Baháʼí Faith in Denmark 2008-04-10
Baháʼí Faith in Haiti 2010-02-25
Baháʼí Faith in Kenya 2008-04-12
Baháʼí Faith in Mongolia 2010-06-20
Baháʼí Faith in New Caledonia 2008-08-03
Baháʼí Faith in Niger 2008-05-10
Baháʼí Faith in Panama 2008-07-08
Baháʼí Faith in South Africa 2008-03-30
Baháʼí Faith in the United Arab Emirates 2008-06-12
Baháʼí Faith in the United Kingdom 2008-02-22
Garden of Ridván, Baghdad 2011-04-29
Isabella Grinevskaya 2009-03-31
Prayer in the Baháʼí Faith 2008-05-02

Wikipedia Version 1.0

The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has deemed Baháʼí Faith a vital and featured article.

As of 2008-06-13, there were 571 articles, categories, images, portal pages, and templates in Category:Bahá'í Faith (excluding the subcategories of Category:Manifestations of God in the Bahá'í Faith.) Only seven had been assessed:

Selected articles

Article sources

Good sources for Bahá'í-related articles
Finding good sources is key to developing Bahá'í-related articles.

This page offers a list of suggested sources for articles relating to the Bahá'í Faith.

The sources below are classified according to their type: Either they are primary, secondary, or tertiary sources. Reliable, published secondary sources are preferred on Wikipedia, especially in establishing the

original analysis
of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors.

An additional concern when selecting a source for an article is its

independence
: Sources must be intellectually independent of their subject in order to prove that they are notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. In this case, it means that relying solely on Bahá'í sources (or, conversely, on "anti-Bahá'í" sources) is not sufficient to establish notability.

Primary sources

The following can be considered as

WP:PSTS
), but they can be used to support statements within articles.

General collections

  • Bahá'í Library Online – Unofficial library of Bahá'í materials from various sources
  • Ocean – Downloadable collection of writings from a variety of religious traditions
  • BahaiResearch.com – Collected writings from a variety of religious traditions
  • Holy-Writings.com – Collected writings from a variety of religious traditions

Topical collections

Secondary sources

The following can be considered as

notability
of a subject.

General collections

Bahá'í studies

Individual collections

Tertiary sources

The following can be considered as

due weight
, especially when primary and secondary sources contradict one another.

Tasks

As a consequence of assessing the strength of articles and the scope defined above, members are encouraged to perform the following tasks on articles:

  • Fixing formatting and spelling issues
  • Categorization
  • Avoiding redirects and using proper Baháʼí orthography where appropriate.
    • But also always making very friendly and searchable redirects (Bahai foo → Baháʼí foo, and Baha'i foo → Baháʼí foo)
  • Monitoring deletion and renaming discussions for
    other pages
    .
  • Using
    neutral language
    in articles that express excessively sympathetic or critical language to Baháʼí perspectives.
  • Translating articles into other languages.
  • Translating articles into simple English for the Simple English Wikipedia. At present, there are seven articles on the Baháʼí Faith in the Simple English Wikipedia.
  • Create redirects for articles whose names include diacritics.
  • Add appropriately-formatted citations to articles.
  • Expand stubs.
  • Archiving talk pages
    .
  • Splitting and merging pages
    as necessary.
  • Checking
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith/Encyclopedic articles
    for any articles which might be contained in one or more reference books which Wikipedia might not yet have, or perhaps to see what other reference sources say on the same topics.

Collaborations

A common feature of many WikiProjects is a collaboration - an article selected by those users for special focus for a period of time. As assessment gets under way and users join the WikiProject, it is desirable to select collaborations for improving articles one at a time.

Article alerts

Categories for discussion

New articles

New Baháʼí-related articles (bot-detected)

This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2024-04-27 19:38 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.



Hot articles

Hot Baháʼí-related articles (bot-detected)
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4 edits Baháʼí Faith by country
4 edits Noah
4 edits Abrahamic religions
3 edits Acre, Israel

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last six days. Last updated 28 April 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

Templates

  • {{Baháʼí-stub}} – Used for stubs.
  • {{Baháʼí sidebar}} – Used along the side of articles to navigate basic topics related to the Baháʼí Faith
  • {{Baháʼí texts sidebar}} – Used along the side of articles to navigate select writings on the Baháʼí Faith
  • {{
    Baháʼí-2
    }} – Used at the bottom of articles to navigate basic topics related to the Baháʼí Faith
  • {{Baháʼí texts}} – Used at the bottom of articles to navigate select writings on the Baháʼí Faith
  • {{Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh}} – Used along the side of articles to navigate between biographies of the apostles of Baháʼu'lláh
  • {{WikiProject Baháʼí Faith|class=|importance=}} – Used on talk pages to mark and assess articles for this WikiProject
  • {{User WikiProject Bahá'í Faith}} – Used on userpages to denote that someone is a member of this WikiProject
  • {{The Bahá'í Faith Barnstar}} – Used for awarding editors on their user talk page for displaying great editing skills in improving articles related to the Baháʼí Faith

Categories

Category Baháʼí Faith not found

Related projects

The main project for standardizing articles having to do with religions is

Baháʼí texts
.

Sister Project links

There is coverage of the Baháʼí Faith on all of the Wikimedia Foundation sister projects. If you are a user on Wikipedia, you automatically have membership there as well and many of the policies and editing techniques are the same across several of the projects.

  • Wikibooks is collaborating on an introductory book about the Baháʼí Faith. You can add content or clean up the existing pages.
  • Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free media; it can host audio, images, or video and has several Baháʼí images that can be freely used. If you have any media that you can contribute, you may want to upload it there for use in all of the other Wikimedia Foundation projects.
  • Wikinews is a site citizen journalism with a few relevant stories. As news events occur related to persecution of Baháʼís, you may want to consider writing about them there.
  • Wikiquote has pages for quotations by and about persons and topics. Presently, there are pages in English on Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼu'lláh, the Báb, and `Abdu'l-Bahá.
  • Wikisource allows users to upload original documents. As of this writing, there are not any relevant documents uploaded there. Since many texts related to the Baháʼí Faith can be reproduced in the public domain, it is possible to upload them there. It is vitally important that you understand the proper copyright status of any document or text before uploading it to Wikisource.
  • Wiktionary provides dictionary definitions, including one on Baháʼí.
  • Wikiversity encourages collaboration on learning resources and has a topic on the Baháʼí Studies. You can add resources from other Wikimedia projects there, as well as direct readers to print and Internet resources that will help provide a more comprehensive view of the Baháʼí Faith.

In addition, all of these projects have multilingual components, so you are not limited to simply editing and strengthening English-language pages. There are simple English editions of Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wiktionary and none of them presently have any material related to the Baháʼí Faith.