WikiProject Christianity Coordinators : The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.The Lead Coordinator bears overall responsibility for coordinating the project; the Assistant Coordinators aid the Lead Coordinator and focus on specific areas that require special attention.
The nomination period for coordinators is currently ongoing at Election 2008
Nominations for open positions will be open through 23:59 (UTC) on April 30 and project members should vote for any candidates they support by April 11 2008.
The election will be conducted using simple approval voting. Any member of the project may support as many of the candidates as they wish. The candidate with the highest number of endorsements will become the Lead Coordinator (provided he or she is willing to assume the post); the next four candidates will become Coordinators.
Our membership continues to expand. It is currently at 184 users. 86 new users have joined the WikiProject since last issue. Please make them feel welcomed!
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WikiProject Christianity Coordinators : The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.The Lead Coordinator bears overall responsibility for coordinating the project; the Assistant Coordinators aid the Lead Coordinator and focus on specific areas that require special attention.
The following Coordinators were elected after Elections 2008
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Our membership continues to expand. It is currently at 223 users. 39 new users have joined the WikiProject in the month of April 2008. Please make them feel welcomed!
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Article requests : Abundant Living Christian Fellowship; African Universal Church; Alpha and Omega Christian Church and Bible School; Altar Fellowship; American Catholic Church, Archdiocese of New York; American Christian Commission; American Missiology Society; American Mission for Opening Churches; Antiochan Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Mexico; Apostolic Faith (Hawaii); Apostolic Faith (Kansas); Apostolic Faith Bible College; Asian-American Protestants; Assemblies of Yahweh (Michigan); Assembly of the Called Out Ones of Yah; Assembly of Yahvah (Alabama); Assembly of Yahvah (Oregon); Associated Churches of God; Association of Fundamental Gospel Churches; Association of Seventh Day Pentecostal Assemblies; Association of United Baptists (Green River, Kentucky); Banner Herald (Progressive); Baptist Missionary Association; Barefoot Ministries; Benjamin Fay Mills; Berean Bible Society; Bible Holiness Movement; Bible Protestant Church; California Evangelistic Association; Calvary Ministries, Inc.; Christian Holiness Association; Christian Identity Church (currently a redirect); Christian Millenial Church; Christianity and the American Revolution; Christ's Church (Mormon); Church of Antioch (Liberal Catholic); Church of Christ (Holiness); Church of Christian Liberty; Church of God Evangelistic Association; Church of God (Jerusalem Acres); Church of God of the Mountain Assembly; Church of God (Sanctified Church); Church of God (Seventh-Day, Salem, West Virginia); Church of God (World Headquarters); Church of the Bible Covenant; Church of the Living God (Christian Workers for Fellowship); Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of Truth; Church of the Trinity (Invisible Ministry); Churches of God (Independent Holiness People); Community of the Love of Christ (Evangelical Catholic); Congregational Bible Church; Davis Swing; Defenders of the Faith (page currently is for a Judas Priest album); Deliverance Evangelical Centers; Divine Science Federation International; Edward Scribner Ames; Emmanuel Association; Emmanuel Holiness Church; Emmanuel's Fellowship; Evangelical Friends Alliance; Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region; Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church; Evangelical Methodist Church of America; Evangelical Orthodox (Catholic) Church; Federation for Authentic Lutheranism; Federation of St. Thomas Christian Churches; Forked Deer Association (Regular); Frank Nathan Daniel Buckman; Free Church of Berkeley; Free Will Baptist Church of the Pentecostal Faith; Friends United Meeting - Western Yearly Meeting; Full Gospel Minister Association; Fundamental Fellowship; General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church; General Council of the Churches of God; Gospel Assemblies (Sowder); Gospel Mission Corps; Grace and Hope Mission; Grace Gospel Fellowship; Herbert Lockwood Willett; Holiness Christian Church (currently a redirect); Holiness Today; Holy Synod in Resistance; House of Prayer for All People; Hungarian Reformed Church; Independent Assemblies of God International; Independent Christian Churches International; International Evangelism Crusades; International Ministerial Fellowship; James Harvey Garrison; Jesus People Church; Johan Conrad Beissel; John William McGarvey; Kehukee (North Carolina) Association (Predesinarian); Kentucky Mountain Holiness Association; Ketocton (North Carolina) Association (Regulars); Last Day Messenger Assemblies; Liberal Catholic Church, Province of the United States; Liberty Fellowship; Lillenas; Maranatha Christian Churches; Mariavite Old Catholic Church - Province of North America; Megiddo Mission; Metropolitan Church Association; Mid-American Yearly Meeting; Midwest Congregational Christian Church; Miracles Experiences, Inc.; Mission Corp; Missionary Methodist Church; Mount Zion Sanctuary; National Association of Holiness Churches; National Council of Congregational Churches; National Holiness Association; Nazarene Compassionate Ministries; Nazarene Youth Conference; Nazarene Youth International; New Bethel Church of God in Christ; New Order of Glastonbury; North American Old Roman Catholic Church; Ohio Bible Church; Old Catholic Church (Hamel), Congregation of St. Paul; Old Catholic Church in America; Old Holy Catholic Church, Province of North America; Oriental Missionary Society Holiness Conference of North America; Orthodox Church of Canada - Orthodox Church of the New World (USA); Pacific Yearly Meeting; Pan African Orthodox Christian Church; Pentecostal Church of Zion; Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church; Phoenix Institute (Church of Man); Prophetic Bible Conference of 1914; Prophetic Herald Ministry; Renaissance Church of Beauty; Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting; Seventh Day Baptist General Conference; Seventh Day Church of God; Soldiers of the Cross of Christ; Sons Ahman Israel; Sucarnochee River (Mississippi) Association (Black); Sudat School Ministries; Syro-Chaldean Church of North America; Tayu Fellowship; True Church of Christ, Restored (Roberts); Union Association of Regular Baptist Churches; Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ; United Church of Jesus Christ (Apostolic); United Church of Religious Science (currently a redirect to a list); United Evangelical Churches; Universal Christian Spiritual Faith and Churches for All Nations (National David Spiritual Temple); Universal Industrial Church of the New World Comforter (One World Commune); Universal Peace Mission Movement; Upper Country Line (North Carolina) Association (Predestinarian); Walter Scott (Disciples of Christ); Wesleyan Tabernacle Association; Wesleyan Tabernacle Association of Churches; Youth in Mission;
Archives of previous newsletters can be found here. To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, add your name here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, let ~The Newsletter Editors know. This newsletter is automatically delivered by Addbot (talk) 15:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC) .Reply[reply]
What is usual, as is clearly said at the start of the section, is an older bearded God the Father, a younger Christ, and a dove. Johnbod (talk) 19:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I must have been dreaming - I can't find any ref. to him in Arabic mythology. There are plenty of instances of it as an Arabic name, and lots of 'Islamic' ads for 'Samson charms'. Sorry about that - I usually do some research before undoing stuff! Please feel free to revert. Nick Michael (talk) 21:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
What's This? Shalom aleichem sports fans, and welcome to the first of what I hope will be a monthly newsletter with the need-to-know information about our fair WikiProject. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to recommend a story for the newsletter, click here to leave a message on the Newsletter Coordinator's talk page. In the News
WikiProject Good Articles is doing sweeps over all our current good articles to ensure they still meet criteria. For more information and how you can help, check out WikiProject Good Articles Sweeps.
GA status for the article Jew has been put on hold pending a few minor revisions. A list of things that need to be done to return this top importance article to its proper status can be found here.
Jerusalem is a Featured Article Candidate! Go forth, my people, and !vote!
To Do
One new Judaism-related article was created this month, the long requested Hebrew Punctuation. Thanks to Epson291 for creating it. Remember, folks, there are over forty standing requests for Judaism articles, so whenever you get the opportunity make sure to go create a few.
In the right column you will see a listing of our most popular articles. All of these articles got 170,000+ page hits in the past month, and they should be on everyone's watchlist so we can keep them vandalism-free.
Spread the word! No, not the Word... (well, you can do that too) I'm talking about inviting knowledgeable users to join the project. You can proclaim your undying love of WikiProject Judaism in methods mild to wild, check the project template page and member list for examples. We also now have a flashy advertisement, to use it add ((Wikipedia ads|ad=148)) to your userpage.
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Now with 200% more Jewishness!
Yes, folks, we're moving on up. This newsletter is now the newsletter for both WikiProject Judaism, WikiProject Jewish History, and WikiProject Kabbalah. In the future, I may split them, but for now I think we'll be just fine with one. As always, any questions or comments should be directed to me, L'Aquatique.
A Special Dispatch
Just a note, not aimed at anyone in particular. By order of the administrative cabal, it is officially not cool (and possibly dickish) to call someone an anti-semite when they aren't being anti-semitic. Anti-semitic is a very charged word, and it's important only to use it when you're absolutely sure it applies, lest it become the subject of a Godwin-esque law. Remember Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. In the News
A new class on the importance scale has been added- C Class- which covers articles better than start but not quite to B Class yet. It is up to the WikiProjects to decide whether to adopt them or not. Currently, there has been little discussion within our Projects, so if you feel strongly either way be sure to note so at your Project[s].
Thanks largely to the efforts of Xyz7890, a new navbox has come into being featuring Halakha topics. See: Template talk:Halakha to join in the conversation about how it can best be improved.
To Do
The Simple English Wikipedia is beginning a project of creating and improving articles related to religion, including Judaism. At the present time, volunteers are needed to propose our most important subjects for articles to be created. The official working list is here and a more extended list is here. If you are unsure of proper topics, you might try checking our lists of top importance level articles: Judaism and Jewish History. (WikiProject Kabbalah currently doesn't have such a list)
[Simple English] WikiProject Christianity is considering running a monthly drive wherein two or three top importance articles from English Wikipedia are simplified and moved over to S.E. They have extended an offer to work with us in creating a similar project for Judaism related articles. For questions or volunteer opportunities, please contact User:John Carter.
WikiProject Kabbalah is in dire need of an article rating system for quality and importance. If you are familiar with that system and have some time on your hands, please create one. It could also use some infoboxes...
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"Censorship" of names of G-d
There is an interesting discussion currently taking place regarding whether or not it is acceptable to censor (i.e. G-d, HaShem->YodHey) names of G-d in articles to protect Jews who may be reading or editing the article. You can weigh in here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Yahweh.
Article Cleanup Lists User:B. Wolterding has generously offered us use of his bot to generate lists that show which articles of ours are tagged for cleanup. You can read more about this service here: User:B._Wolterding/Cleanup_listings and if you would like to take him up on his offer, contact him on his talk page.
WikiProject Kabbalah's only Featured and Good articles have been removed from the WikiProject, on the grounds that neither article (Diane Keaton and David Beckham, respectively) actually mention the subject's affiliation with Kabbalah. If you have sourced information linking either of these people to Kabbalah, please add it so the articles can be returned to the WikiProject.
After a rather heated discussion, there are now two barnstars for use by the Jewish WikiProjects, ((The Jewish Barnstar)) and ((The New Jewish Barnstar)), and you can choose which one you would like to use.. Remember: barnstars are for rewarding users who are doing good work on the project or on Judaism, Jewish History, or Kabbalah articles, and anyone can give anyone else a barnstar. If you see a user who you thinks deserves a thank you, give them a barnstar!
To Do/Help Requests
If you have some spare time on your hands, we could use an article about a Kabbalah scholar named Moshe Idel. According to HG there are quite a few sources easily available, you can contact him if you have questions. Be sure to nominate it for DYK if the finished article is eligible.
The folks at Shimon Peres need some assistance from someone familiar with both the Hebrew calendar and language to help them figure out the subject's birthday. If you can help, please see Talk:Shimon_Peres#Birthday.
We get a lot of articles that are being created and not announced! By announcing new articles, you attract attention to them, and the more people looking and editing the better they will get. If you would like your new article to appear in the newsletter, add it here for Judaism and Kabbalah and here for Jewish History.
There are some 40 odd standing requests for Judaism related articles. Please make them! I would, but I'm too busy writing this. .
This newsletter was automatically delivered because you are a member of one or more Judaism related WikiProjects. If you would like to opt out of future mailings, please remove your name from this list. As always, please direct all questions, comments, requests, barnstars, offers of help, and angry all-caps anti-semitic rants to my talk page. Thanks, and have a great month. L'Aquatique[approves|this|message] 20:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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