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This WikiProject is for the development of articles related to Seventh-day Adventism on Wikipedia. The main aim of this page will be to promote collaboration on these articles and to organise a combined effort.




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Participants[edit]

To participate, just add your name to the bottom of the list below and add this page to your watchlist.

Inactive participants[edit]

Userboxes[edit]

We would like to encourage you to add one of these userboxes to your user page. They will help us to coordinate the project, plus they look cool! To use it, simply put

anywhere on your userpage. You may want to include it in an infobox: 

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{{User:Colin MacLaurin/Adventism}}
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This displays the default message "This user is interested in the Seventh-day Adventist Church", and can be easily changed by supplying a parameter text, as demonstrated to the right (see page source or documentation). Please don't make the text anything too polemic or critical of others.

Feel free to edit the source if you think you can improve it. If you can find a better picture than Image:William Miller.jpg then feel free to change it. Note that "fair use" images (in particular, the church logo) are not allowed on templates. Every page using it will automatically go into Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church participants, which someone renamed from the old Category:Wikipedians interested in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It will help to coordinate our efforts and to build our community of editors.

Interwiki[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Wikiquote has quotations related to Ellen G. White.

There are other Wikimedia Wikis to which we can contribute quotations, source materials (public domain materials, such as historic books and pamphlets), images (upload them to Commons if they are public domain which is preferred, or to Wikipedia if they are only fair use) etc., which relate to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Style guide for Seventh-day Adventist related articles[edit]

This is a style guide for articles relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is currently under development. The Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church contains templates, project userbox, stub articles etc. for editors.

Church name spelling and abbreviation[edit]

The church website specifies the correct spelling as "Seventh-day Adventist", including the hyphen and a lower-case "d" for "day". The abbreviation "Adventist" is preferred to "SDA", for reasons of disambiguation and to avoid any appearance of exclusivism. (For more information see the Use of the Church Name page on the church's official website.)

Be careful to avoid confusion regarding the term "Adventist". In its most general setting, the term refers to anyone who believes in the Second Coming (or "Advent") of Jesus (see Wiktionary entry). In articles, write in full "Seventh-day Adventist Church" or "Seventh-day Adventist" at the first occurrence to establish context before using the abbreviation "Adventist".

Adventism template[edit]

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Biographies
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Nelson H. Barbour
Joseph Bates
Sylvester Bliss
Elon Galusha
Apollos Hale
Joshua V. Himes
Josiah Litch
Rachel O. Preston
T. M. Preble
George Storrs
John T. Walsh
Jonas Wendell
Ellen G. White
James White
John Thomas
Theology
Annihilationism
Conditional immortality
Historicism
Intermediate state
Premillennialism
Denominations
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
Church of God (Seventh-Day)
Church of God General Conference
Church of the Blessed Hope
Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
Shepherd's Rod
United Seventh-Day Brethren
Branch Davidians
Primitive Advent Christian Church
Sabbath Rest Advent Church
Adventist Church of Promise
Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church
True and Free Seventh-day Adventists
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{{Adventism}} produces the following sidebar, which may be placed on Adventist articles (in the general sense of the term "Adventist"):

Stub articles[edit]

Place {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub}} near the bottom of stubs relating to this WikiProject. This will automatically place the article in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.

Categories[edit]

Articles should be added to Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church or, preferably, one of its child categories.

See also #Proposed articles for additional category-specific guidelines.

Bible verses[edit]

Bible verses can be linked using the {{Bibleverse}} template, for example, {{bibleverse||John|3:16|NIV}} which produces John 3:16. See the documentation on the template's talk page. You can also view the debate at Wikipedia:Citing sources/Bible.

Images[edit]

"Public domain" images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia itself. Add them to commons:Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church. "Fair use" images can only be uploaded to Wikipedia, and these should be added to Category:Images relating to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. One benefit of this is that if an image gets removed from a page, this project will not forget about it. (See WP:IMAGE for general guidelines).

Archives[edit]

Relevant archived materials General Conference Office of Archives & Statistics or the Loma Linda University Adventist Digital Library would often make good additions in the "External links" section of articles, or even integrated into the main text.

Disambiguation pages[edit]

It would be helpful to monitor various disambiguation pages, to ensure that articles do not link to these but to the correct page. To check for articles, just go to one of these pages and then click on "What links here" on the sidebar. This will show you which articles need to be changed. Pages: James White, Millerite (should link to Millerites instead), George Knight, Spirit of Prophecy, Review and Herald, etc. You can "pipe" links by typing [[James Springer White|James White]], for example, which produces James White which links correctly.

Wikipedia 1.0 articles[edit]

Here is a summary of the Wikipedia 1.0 articles for this WikiProject:

Seventh-day Adventist Church articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 4 4
FL 1 1
GA 2 4 6
B 6 20 15 20 9 70
C 4 13 54 89 41 201
Start 4 36 69 244 146 499
Stub 5 18 124 48 195
List 1 10 7 2 20
Category 256 256
Disambig 3 3
File 1 3 10 57 71
Project 14 14
Redirect 2 6 33 103 144
Template 19 19
Other 1 1
Assessed 14 78 177 536 453 246 1,504
Total 14 78 177 536 453 246 1,504
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 4,691 Ω = 4.81


You may also view the expanded list.

On the talk page of article in this project, {{WP Adventist}} should be placed at the top. This will include the article in Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team and also help to identify it as a part of this WikiProject. You may also include a "class" or "importance" tag, or both. "Class" indicates the quality of the article (see the proposed guideline for ranking of Adventist articles). "Importance" indicates the importance of the article within this WikiProject, and may be low, mid, high or top. For example, {{WP Adventist|importance=mid|class=stub}}.

Proposed articles[edit]

This is a list of proposed Seventh-day Adventist related Wikipedia articles. Before creating, check that the article does not already exist under a different title by searching Wikipedia. WikiProject Christianity has a brief and helpful list of steps in creating a new article.

If you're looking for something to do you could also add to a stub article, as found in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.

Many articles belong in an appropriate subcategory of Category:General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists about the church by region, as well as other categories. They will typically belong to a subcategory of the very diverse Category:Categories by country.

Proposed articles (click "Show"/"Hide" to expand/contract)


Church structure[edit]

Organizational divisions, as listed on General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. These belong in either Category:Organisational structures of the Seventh-day Adventist Church or (more likely) Category:General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Adventist Church by region[edit]

Specific articles about the church in Europe, the church in Australasia, etc. Article titles could have a form either similar to (The) Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe or with the formal organizational title as in Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. This should be discussed. Add to Category:General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists or an appropriate subcategory if it exists. The Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia has detailed information on the church's work in a large number of countries. Also, there is probably detailed information about individual countries in other language versions of the article Seventh-day Adventist Church (there are at least 28 at the time of writing - see the sidebar "in other languages" on the left of that page). These could be translated to form an English article about a specific country or region.

Adventist church buildings[edit]

These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist churches, and also in the appropriate subcategory of Category:Churches by country.

Education and schools[edit]

Schools belong in either Category:Academies and elementary schools affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church or Category:Universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Also add them to an appropriate subcategory of Category:Schools by country.

Adventist media[edit]

Books, radio, television, magazines and so on belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist media. They will often belong in a subcategory or sub-list of one of the following as well: Category:Books about Christianity, List of books, List of books by title: A (or B, C,...); Category:Lists of writers; Category:Television networks by country; Category:Christian publishing companies etc.

Ellen White books[edit]

These go in Category:Books by Ellen White. Write a stub for each of her major works, including:

Adventist hospitals[edit]

These belong in Category:Hospitals affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, an appropriate subcategory and probably others.

Theology[edit]

These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist theology. See also the page Seventh-day Adventist theology.

Adventist people[edit]

These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventists, or preferably a subcategory of this one. Also place them in the appropriate subcategory of Category:People by nationality - just keep going down the subcategories until you reach the end. For example, Ellen G. White is in Category:People from Battle Creek, Michigan. Perhaps also add them to an appropriate subcategory of Category:Deaths by cause. They could be also added to List of Seventh-day Adventists.

The en dash "–" should be used for date ranges rather than the shorter minus sign "-", for example: John Byington (1798–1887)... The longer em dash "—" should be used for an open range, for example Desmond "Des" Ford (1928—)... Spaces are not generally included within the range. These are the first two of the big list of symbols below the edit box when you are editing.

Check if they have been interviewed by Dialogue (most of these don't look notable) or Julius Nam.

Adventist pioneers (not all become Seventh-day Adventists)[edit]

These generally belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders:

Adventist theologians and preachers[edit]

These also generally belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders:

Former Adventists[edit]

These belong in Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists. They may also belong in Category:Protestant theologians or similar.

(Most references currently provided are from a single website. Please research other sources as well)

Resources for each of the following people may be found here [12]:

Sabbatarian Adventist denominations[edit]

Here are the links from List of Christian denominations, which may provide a starting point. They probably belong in Category:Adventist, a parent (more general) category of Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church

Some more ideas[edit]

  • Write a nice portal page about Adventism. In the long run there will be quite a number of articles. Such a portal page would be nice.
  • Make a graph of church membership over time, and place it on History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Data easily available on church websites. Don't just use one of their graphs because they are probably not in the public domain.
  1. One for the organizational Divisions of the church, colour-coded like the map on the bottom of this page on the church's website. Make it a linked image, like for Template:Australia Labelled Map. Put it on the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists page, and related pages about church structure.
  2. You could even colour a map by number of church members per country, or (better) as a proportion of population by country. This would be highly informative about world distribution. This could go on the main article Seventh-day Adventist Church and perhaps others. There is one for Christianity percentage by country:
  3. Percentage growth or decline per country, colour-coded. This could also go on the main article.
For instructions, have a look at Image:BlankMap-World-v5.png which contains not only the blank map but helpful links as well. (Old suggestion: Map for the countries and territories in which the church has an active presence. Not really useful as it would cover most of the globe, and point 2 renders it redundant)
  • Write an article List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals (or perhaps "magazines", a more common word; either way put a redirect on one). Order them by number of paying subscribers, which would be one indication of notability (gift subscriptions could be misleading as to notability, because people have a vested self-interest in getting their ideas heard). Otherwise order them by theology - from most liberal to most conservative or vice versa. That would be interesting! It could sound a little subjective, but Alden Thompson's classification (at the very end of the article, in the section XI. Alternate Publications) would be a start.
  • Expand 28 Fundamentals. A single sentence on each fundamental would work well. Keep in mind that the main theology article is Seventh-day Adventist theology, so we don't want overlap. Put articles discussing the church's beliefs in Category:Seventh-day Adventist theology. Just remember it is against Wikipedia policy to create separate pages discussing the same topic, so don't create a specifically Adventist page on baptism by immersion or what happens when you die, as those pages already exist in a more general setting. Perhaps a content fork (not POV fork) may be legitimate if there is enough distinctly Adventist content to justify it, but this would be the exception rather than the rule.
Someone has currently just copied text from the fundamentals on this page, which I assume is a copyright violation. This needs fixing.
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