Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Anabaptist work group

message: ; Description: There seem to be quite a few Baptist editors in Wikipedia, but no real central organized group to deal with such articles. If it should take off, this would be such a group. The group would also deal with articles of related Anabaptist groups. 
; Proposed project page
*Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Anabaptist work group
; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
#Magnus animum
# SonPraises 20:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The project page is now active. John Carter 21:53, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Baptists

message: I polished up the page and created a new user box. Cheers. -- SECisek 22:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Overhaul

message: Hi, I hope this is an appropriate page on which to request references for the English church/denomination Ichthus Christian Fellowship. - Fayenatic (talk) 22:08, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for refs: [[Ichthus Christian Fellowship]] 

message: I'm a bit concerned whether the Anabaptist faith tradition fits within the scope of a Baptist work group.  Certainly there are similarities, but the Baptists and Anabaptists are distinct enough "streams" that I'm not sure they should be grouped together.  Furthermore, it appears to me from the category list that more is being done with Baptist topics than Anabaptist.  I don't mean to step onto anyone's toes, but should Anabaptist be spun off into its own group? (Szdfan (talk) 15:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason for the existing name was that :Category:Anabaptism includes :Category:Baptist and is one of the main subcategories of :Category:Christian denominations, and it was an attempt to ensure that most of these churches receive some more specific coverage than just that which can be provided by the main Christianity project. Having said that, there wouldn't necessarily be any objections from me for the creation of a separate Baptist group, or, for that matter of a separate Methodist group, Nestorian group, Restorationist group. or potentially any number of others, if there were sufficient interest in such a group to justify the changes to the templates, creating the additional pages, etc. Any other responses out there? The major denominations which to my eyes still don't have groups are, by categorization, as follows:
*:Category:Anabaptism
**:Category:Anabaptists
**:Category:Amish
**:Category:Baptist
**:Category:Mennonitism
*:Category:Anglicanism is within the scope of the separate Wikipedia:WikiProject Anglicanism
*:Category:Eastern Christianity is all also already contained within one or more projects, possibly inadequately in regards to the Assyrian Church of the East
*:Category:Oriental Orthodoxy is within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy
*:Category:Protestantism
**:Category:Arminianism
**:Category:Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
**:Category:Community of Christ
**:Category:Local Church movement
**:Category:Methodism
**:Category:Moravian Church
**:Category:Orange Order (probably more related to WikiProject Northern Ireland)
**:Category:Plymouth Brethren
**:Category:Puritanism
**:Category:Radical Pietism
**:Category:Reformed Church
*:Category:Restorationism
**:Category:Christadelphianism
**:Category:Restoration Movement
**:Category:Unitarianism 
***:Category:Oneness Pentecostalism
***:Category:Unitarian Church of Transylvania
*:Category:Roman Catholic Church is already within the scope of WikiProject Catholicism.
If there is sufficient interest in any of the above topics for the creation of a separate subproject, the idea would certainly be considered. John Carter (talk) 16:52, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anabaptist vs. Baptist 

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replies: text: Much to my surprise, the period for the factual elections of the new coordinators has started a bit earlier than I expected. For what it's worth, as the "instigator" of the proposed coordinators, the purpose of having them is not to try to impose any sort of "discipline" on the various projects relating to Christianity, but just to ensure that things like assessment, peer review, portal maintainance, and other similar directly project-related functions get peformed for all the various projects relating to Christianity. If there are any individuals with this project who are already doing such activities for the project, and who want to take on the role more formally, I think nominations are being held open until the end of the elections themselves. And, for the purposes of this election, any member in good standing of any of the Christianity projects can either be nominated or express their votes at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Coordinators/Election 1. Thank you for your attention. John Carter (talk) 00:27, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinator? 

message: There has been some recent discussion at the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/General Forum page about what to do with all the articles relating to baptism in the various Christian churches. A list of the articles invovled can be found at User:Pastordavid/workpage. Some of these articles relate specifically to baptism and the baptist/anabaptist traditions. I think we would all welcome any input from members of this project regarding what if anything to do with the articles, which might include keeping them separate, merging them, or otherwise dealing with them. Thank you for your attention. John Carter (talk) 15:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baptism in the Baptist churches 

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thread_title:  Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Baptist work group 

message: Any comments regarding the structure and function of Christianity related material are welcome at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/General Forum#Project organization. Be prepared for some rather lengthy comments, though. There is a lot of material to cover there. John Carter (talk) 17:35, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion regarding project organization 

message: I noticed that, as present, we don't have a navigation box to easily link the most important articles on that subject, like, for instance, Template:Roman Catholicism2, which is used for Roman Catholicism. Would anyone like to help create such a navbox, and what articles do you all think should be included in it? Ideally, the articles to be included would be those which give a broad, comprehensive look at the subject. Those articles would also likely be counted as the most important articles on the subject, as they are linked to from the main anabaptist page through the navbox. Thoughts? John Carter (talk) 15:41, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We have  right now. --Secisek (talk) 02:08, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anabaptist navigation box 

message: There is a request to move Maundy Thursday (talk) to Holy Thursday; see discussion. —Angr 20:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move: [[Maundy Thursday]] to [[Holy Thursday]] 

message: I would like to collaborate on the Menno Simons article. I have added an infobox and a bibliography stub section. I have also created a category on Wikimedia Commons. Please join me in the effort to improve the Start-class article to C or B-class! Rubenescio (talk) 10:36, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Menno Simons 

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thread_title:  [[Portal:Baptist]] 

message: I just finished my thesis on what caused Anabaptist persecutions in the 1500s, and I was severely disappointed when I discovered the lack of comprehensive Anabaptist history on Wikipedia.  The current state consists mainly of isolated events and people, for example Sattler's trial and Simon's development, without providing any comprehensive history to link the different articles together.  With a wealth of literature and resources fresh on my mind, I plan on updating the Anabaptist history section currently located under "Anabaptism," and I would appreciate comments and help in my effort.  My thesis focused on Switzerland, Hesse, and the Hapsburg territories in Austria, so I am in need of people who thoroughly know the history of Anabaptism in other regions, especially Dutch Anabaptism.  I also wanted to know if I should just create an entirely new article since there is a lot of content to cover.
Etennisdude (talk) 14:22, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: First, thank you very much for being willing to take on this task. This is a subject which, for whatever reason, clearly is not covered to a great degree here yet. My own personal choice would be to create a separate article on the subject, because it is like you say a rather complicated matter and there is a lot of material to cover. This is not to say that a short section called, perhaps "History of the Anabaptist movement" could not be included in the main Anabaptist article, and move the rest of the content currently there to the separate article, with your own additions regarding your field of expertise. But even I, who am comparatively unfamiliar with this particular subject, know that there is enough material to make a more than substantial separate article. Regarding the material for the history in other areas, while I do hope and pray we will get people to add that content shortly, we should still encourage you to add your own material now anyway. There is no good reason for you to delay your doing what you want to do, and are clearly qualified to do, now. John Carter (talk) 22:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Need to Update Anabaptist History

message: I just tagged the article with your project. APK straight up now tell me 21:32, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to tag any article in the :Category:Baptists or any of its reasonable subcategories as well. That's the best way to let the articles' creators and the project itself know that the articles in question are there. John Carter (talk) 16:37, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Southeastern Free Will Baptist College]] 

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thread_title:  Coordinator elections 

message: Hi. The Bethlehem Baptist Church (Minneapolis) page has survived deletion, but if anyone would like to rate it on its discussion page that would be great.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:49, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baptist church

message: I have proposed the deletion of Clancularii. If anyone can find a verifiable source and additional information on this Anabaptist group, it may be salvageable. ✤ JonHarder talk 15:08, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion of Clancularii 

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message: I'm a bit surprised that baptists and anabaptists are considered in the same work group. Baptists and Anabaptists are surely different from each other. Anabaptists derive for instance from the radical reformation and teach nonviolence. Both are protestant groups, but with different theological and historical background. --Mennojan (talk) 18:38, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Baptists and Anabaptists in one work group ?

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thread_title:  Relevant AFD discussion page - The Most Hated Family in America 

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thread_title:  NEW ARTICLE on Mennonite Archives 

message: Hi. An editor has suggested deleting (redirecting) the article Baptist beliefs on its talk page.  It is pretty bad but I doubt you want to lose it all. Alanscottwalker (talk) 14:54, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Baptist beliefs

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message: According to the Criswell_College page it is supported by this workgroup. If someone has some time, the page could use some cleanup and a neutral 3rd party to help out. As the primary contributor to this page for the last few years (since around 2006/7) I am at the end of my time and obviously meager skill. --Hungus (talk) 06:40, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criswell College 

message: I've just created an article about this lady, who is probably the most notable female american baptist pastor at present. I see someone's marked it as being of high-importance to this work group, so I'm glad to have helped. I think I've got it to a reasonable state now, and hopefully others will feel able to contribute. Sidefall (talk) 18:23, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Julie Pennington-Russell]] 

message: I would like some comments on the Spirituality section of the Anabaptist page. I started a new section on the talk page. My proposal is to totally redo the section, eliminating the two points and replacing them with more appropriate points about Anabaptist spirituality. I am placing this notice here, since this is the work group associated with that page. :-) Mikeatnip (talk) 02:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFC on Spirituality section of the Anabaptist article 

message: I've requested Anabaptist be moved to Anabaptism.
--JFH (talk) 14:50, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Anabaptist]] 

message: Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_5#Baptist_clergy – Fayenatic London 18:20, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baptist clergy -> Baptist ministers 

message: Here is a documentary from Vice:
* "Ghost Rapes of Bolivia." September 23, 2013. - Part 1, Part 2
See where the info can go
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replies: text: It's already documented at Mennonites in Bolivia#Rape cases of 2013. – Fayenatic London 00:01, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 06:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rapes in the Mennonite colonies of Bolivia 

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