Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism/Manual of Style

message: I've expanded the guidance on sources - identifying some sources that are standard in biblical research and adding some information about modern trends in biblical criticism.  The material needs citations but I've got a wiki backlog and its going to take time for me to get around to preparing proper footnotes.  I thought it was important though to add them even sans citations since they largely support what should be a truism from 4th grade on - don't write an essay relying on a single source. 
I also think my writing is a bit wordy and complex. I'd be grateful if someone wanted to copy edit what I've written.Egfrank 06:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biblical text 

message: added it to a couple of places but maybe too prominently.  perhaps it should just be included in the list of medieval commentaries?  I hope others will figure ou the best thing to do, Slrubenstein   |  Talk 16:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zohar 

message: Hi there. Some articles on Jewish matters use "G-d" rather than "God". Obviously that's correct in quoted material, but otherwise, I feel this violates WP:NOTCENSORED. The G-d article-section would suggest it does. Any comments? Regards, jnestorius(talk) 18:23, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If I understand that section correctly, it means that you should not censor other people's material, not that you can't be respectful in your own. But I personally would spell it out, because it is electronic.Mzk1 (talk) 20:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  G-d 

message: Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Capitalization_of_messiah  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mzk1 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question on capitalization of messiah 

message: I have added WP:EN, a little concerned that the Manual of Style as it stands is actally counter general Wikipedia guidelines. Also other sections appear to need a review in regard to whether the Manual promotes CONTENTFORKS vs other Abrahamic religions, which is okay, or tends to POVFORKS? But it's mainly WP:EN which was missing In ictu oculi (talk) 05:57, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:EN]] added

message: The policy on the usage of "Yahweh", "G-d" and "Jeho-va" etc. is not very consistent in my opinion. Reading one of the only other religious manual of style, the one on Islam, we read:
Currently it seems like we have some double standards here - Islam articles mustn't have "Allah" (except in quotes) whilst Judeo-Christian articles use "Yahweh" or names of God with letters missing, which may I add is done for religious reasons (respect) similar to the Muslim honorifics AS, SA etc. that they give to their prophets.
So my opinion is we should adopt the same policy as MOS: Islam, i.e. we must use the word "God" without missing letters and without using "Yahweh" etc. unless the page is about that name of God or unless it is used as part of a quote. I see no reason to uphold these different standards - in my opinion the usage of both Islamic honorifics and Jewish literary jurisprudence has no place on Wikipedia (again, outside pages on those topics, or quotes) as they connote non-neutrality. Hesnotblack (talk) 09:19, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of God