Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Bible

message: It is extremely hard to follow what exactly is being proposed here. There seems to be no summary of the proposal. I took 5 minutes and decided it would be simpler to make a suggestion of my own rather than try to understand the one here.
I think we should do something analogous to what we now do with ISBN. The link should go to a page of linked choices that first lists any relevant Wikipedia article for the book, chapter, or verse, then lists the various versions of the Bible with links to where these are accessible on line. This would also allow (for example) links to Hebrew, Latin, and Greek texts, and possibly even texts in other languages.
For verses, if, using a free resource, we have a way to get actual text or texts into that page as well (under one or more translations), great. For chapters, it might be useful to do this for the first verse (and follow with an ellipsis). - Jmabel | Talk 18:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very complicated, hard to follow 

message: Please review the discussion here
:Wikipedia_talk:Bible_citation#Requested_move
and comment on whether the page should be moved back to article space. Thanks. -Ac44ck (talk) 22:10, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call for participation in discussion 

message: Template and documentation:   click here!
Wanted to let you all know in case you find it useful; I've created a Template:Biblesource to make it easier to cite translations from Wikisource.  Usage is basically .  Example:
 
gives the following:
I'm a little mortified to discover that I created this template without seeing that it had been done before, as the above "Sourcebible" discussion reveals - apparently that one has since been deleted (...gulp!)  so I'd like to illustrate the differences and ask for some feedback.
* The motive here is to make it easier to cite things.  I was looking at a whole article full of disparate citations (almost none of them with links; the user would have to manually look each one up) and I wanted a way to cite something under the Wiki umbrella so that there's no copyright issues.  Realizing that I'd have to manually link each one gave me the jibblies, and I decided it would be easier to create a template to do it for me :).  Now I wish I'd happened upon this talk pagebeforehand...anyway :)
* Biblesource can be used for any translation available on Wikisource.  This is not KJV-only, and is not intended to push any POV.
* Biblesource is not based on Template:Sourcetext - although if I'd known about it it probably would have made my work a lot easier :O.  Anyway, this isn't a fork; I made all the code myself (but I'd be happy for someone to improve it)
Please give feedback.  This template is open to modification by people that actually know what they're doing, unlike me :) so please hack away.  Would appreciate criticisms/suggestions.  Thank you!  Joren (talk) 16:18, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Biblesource for citing available Wikisource translations 

message: Are there any templates that show quoted text from verses/chapters/books of the Bible? This would show "For God so loved . . ." and the book/chapter/verse reference (in this case "John 3:16"). Thank you for your help. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 21:29, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not aware of any templates that will show the verse as part of the main text of an article by entering the reference. However, there are tools that will show it in a popup. As far as I know they are not used in Wikipedia, but this page at another wiki currently lists alternative tools for this function. Click on the links there to see demonstrations: http://wiki.catug.org/Bible_Reference_Taggers – Fayenatic London 21:53, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Templates to show quote of passages?