Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Calvinism. Wikipedia articles on Calvinism-related topics are typically at or near the top of Google searches - so accurate, thorough, and - yes - comprehensive entries are imperative. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. All editors interested in Calvinist Christianity are invited and encouraged to participate. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list here. The goals of the project are:
- To improve the quality of Calvinism-related articles.
- To increase the number of articles related to Calvinism in Wikipedia
The WikiProject scope is generally the same as that of the Category:Calvinism. This includes any person having an impact on Calvinism, even opponents such as James I of England. Tagging an article indicates that the article needs attention from the WikiProject Calvinism.
Calvinists to be included:
- Theologians, philosophers, or some other important Christian worker, e.g. Bible translator, evangelist, etc.
- Politicians (kings, lords, whatever) that had an influence on the ability of Calvinism to spread, i.e. took in Calvinist refugees, were of help to Calvinism materially, and the like
- Ministers if they a have relevance to the wider Reformed tradition.
- Add our new {{Calvinism-stub}} template to the articles in Category:Stub-Class Calvinism articles
- When doing this, remove any generic Christianity stub templates (unless there's a clear non-Calvinist interest); they want to reduce the size of their stub category (see Category:Christianity stubs). OTOH, if it's a specific template (eg. Christian biography or Christian clergy, then leave it)
- Look for things to do mentioned on the /News page
- Go to work in one of our departments; Assessment could use some help at the moment.
- Assessment Department - These editors work to assess and categorize articles within the scope of the Calvinism project.
- Collaboration Department - Here we seek to identify articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort.
- Translation Department - These editors serve to enhance Wikipedia's Calvinism content by translating material from or to non-English articles and sources for use within the project. To coordinate this, it includes a staff of volunteer translators for various languages.
- Outreach Department - These editors work to recruit and welcome new editors to the project.
 Featured articles
 Good articles
Did You Know (DYK)s
Formerly recognized content
Former featured articles
These articles have been selected by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team for one or more release versions of wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.
The following templates can be used on pages in Wikipedia to associate them with the Calvinism WikiProject. Click on a template's title to see a sample of what it produces when included on a page. For a full list of Calvinism templates see the main template page.
Main templates
Stub templates
Portrait of John Calvin from The Hundred Greatest Men, 1885
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Creating a denomination article
10 step guide to creating at least a B-Class denomination article
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- Create a new page.
- Create an outline for the denomination article you started:
- Write {{subst:Christian Denomination|denomination=name|location=location}} as the content of the page, and save it. The "denomination" tag shouldn't have any Wiki markup in it, but the "location" tag can (ie. "North America and Japan)
- If the article already exists (presumably as a Stub or Start class article), put the tag specified above at the head of the article to give you your outline
- Type in some content for your article. It's generally better to edit one section at a time, as this reduces the chance of edit conflicts (ie. two people making different changes at the same time)
- Populate your article with images such as obtained from Wikimedia Commons, image list, or by posting a request for an image from other Wikipedians, or by getting your own from public domain or, if necessary, fair use sources
- Add the appropriate categories
- Since categories at the bottom of the other Wikipedia articles linked in your article may be appropriate to place in your article, go through each link in your article and review the categories at the bottom of the linked article for inclusion in your article
- Confirm that the internal links, footnotes, and external (non-wiki) links in your article go where you want them to go.
- For each broken (red) link in your article:
- Post an article request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Calvinism/Requested articles (if appropriate) or Wikipedia:Requested articles
- OR remove the double brackets around the broken link (these are your only choices)
- Publicize your article by ...
- Nominate your article to be featured; see "Collaborations" section below for details, but ONLY after you believe that you completed all the above steps.
- Relax! and take a break if you reached this point. But not too much. We are Calvinists, you know :-)
Naming conventions
- For people: [[John Calvin]], unless others by that name exist, in which case the activity for which the individual is best known should be bracketed, e.g., [[John Calvin (reformer)]] (not [[John Calvin (scholar)]], [[John Calivn (theologian)]], etc.)
- For clergy: (minister), (deacon), (priest), (bishop)
- For scholars: (theologian), (philosopher)
- Other possibilities: (author), (martyr), (missionary), (religious)
- For other subjects: The simpler the title the better, with redirects or disambiguation pages, as necessary.
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