Talk:Fictional religion

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A fact from Fictional religion appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that fictional religions, often described in speculative fiction, have in some cases inspired real religious movements?

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Just a note that this is a more narrow concept tha religion in fiction, and broader than religion in science fiction and religion in fantasy fiction (see also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of religious ideas in science fiction and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of religious ideas in fantasy fiction - the existence and deletion of those TVTropish listicles inspired me to start something more serious on this very important topic). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:06, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 12:31, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that fictional religions, often described in speculative fiction, have in some cases inspired real religious movements? Source: numerous sources cited and even quoted in the 'In real world' section
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Red team

Created by Piotrus (talk). Self-nominated at 13:49, 3 June 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Fictional religion; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I will review this. TompaDompa (talk) 15:58, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - See below.
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article converted from a redirect on 31 May, and is well beyond the required minimum length. Spotchecking sources turns out mostly okay; I have noted some issues below. There are no obvious neutrality issues. Earwig reveals no copyvio and I didn't spot any instances of unacceptably WP:Close paraphrasing. The hook is cited and interesting. QPQ has been done. Some comments on the content:

See MOS:REFERSTO.
Fictional religions can be complex and inspired by or build on existing religions. – I don't see that this is what the source is saying?
Religious themes have always been a significant theme of fiction. – that's a strong assertion, and it doesn't seem to be verified by the cited source.
"the official fictional religion of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, a grab bag for writers in need of unthinkably vast, and unthinkably indifferent, eldritch entities" – the source says "something like the official [...]" (emphasis mine), which makes a pretty big difference.
Star Wars-inspired Jediism, founded around 2001 – the source doesn't say it was founded then, but that it "gathered momentum" at that time.

Ping Piotrus. TompaDompa (talk) 01:25, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, TompaDompa, Those are relatively minor issues to hash out on the article's pages in preparation for raising its class to B/GA (review) and like, neither of them should affect the article's eligibility for being DYKed. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:33, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did a few last tweaks myself, and it is now

ready. On the subject of GA, I only took a fairly cursory look at the article and its sources but I think there is quite substantial work to be done before it is ready for that. The WP:Good article criteria have requirements that do not have a counterpart in the WP:DYK criteria, such as covering all major aspects without going into unnecessary details and being written clearly and concisely. TompaDompa (talk) 12:03, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]