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

Scope

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The scope of this project will be the articles included in the Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church and its various subcategories. For a full list of categories, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Categories.

A list of articles in one reference work recently published specifically devoted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Missing articles. John Carter (talk) 18:08, 7 November 2012 (UTC)reply

Project banner

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To add an article to this WikiProject, please go to the article's Talk page, click on Edit, and enter the following code: {{WP Adventist}}

If done correctly, the project banner should look like this:

WikiProject iconSeventh-day Adventist Church (defunct)
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church, a project which is currently considered to be defunct.Seventh-day Adventist ChurchWikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist ChurchTemplate:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist ChurchSeventh-day Adventist Church

Participants

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(This list is transcluded from /Members). To participate, click here and add your name to the bottom of the list. Also add this page to your watchlist.

Userboxes

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You can add the userbox below to your user page. Doing this will help to coordinate project members, plus they look great! To use it, simply put

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

{{userboxtop}}
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Userbox}}
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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.

Note that "fair use" images (in particular, the church logo) are not allowed on templates. But you can create your own userbox not using the WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church userbox.

Requests for assessments

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If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity instead.

Interwiki

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There are other Wikimedia Wikis to which we can contribute Seventh-day Adventist related material, such as Commons (for free images, sound and other multimedia files), Wikisource (for primary-source texts and translations) and Wikiquote (for quotations). Add links between the projects, as demonstrated to the right.

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

(Note: Most of these guidelines were contributed by one or two authors only. Please be bold in suggesting alternatives, by discussing them on the talk page. Other specific guidelines appear in /Article requests.)

The Adventist News Network maintains a glossary of recommended terms for news reporting. The suggestions are generally to improve clarity, which is consistent with Wikipedia's aim.[1]

Church name spelling and abbreviation

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The spelling preferred by the church is "Seventh-day Adventist", note particularly the hyphen and lowercase 'd'. The phrase "Seventh-day Adventist Church" has a capital "C" when talking about the world church; this is abbreviated "Adventist Church".[2]

Be careful to avoid confusion regarding the term "Adventist". Generally, "Adventism" includes other groups which arose from the Millerite movement. (Literally, an "Adventist" is someone who awaits the Advent [meaning "arrival"] or Second Coming of Jesus to Earth). Write "Seventh-day Adventist" in full the first time to establish context, and then usually abbreviate afterwards to "Adventist". An exception would be in articles covering both the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Millerite/Adventist movement, where this usage would be ambiguous.

In general, the phrase "Adventist Church world headquarters" is preferable to "General Conference" or "GC". You can 'pipe' links like this: Adventist Church world headquarters, where the display text for the link is worded differently to the link location. Instead of "General Conference president", use "Adventist world church president".[2]

For regional organizations of the church, try to avoid the terms "Conference", "Union", and "Division". Instead, refer to the region being covered, as in "...Adventist Church in France" or "Smith is youth director for the church in Northern California." Use "region" instead of "Division".[2]

Names of Adventist people

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Articles about Adventist people should use the form of their name that most sources use (see WP:COMMONNAME). Early Adventists were typically known by their initials, e.g. "J. N. Andrews", rather than "John Andrews" as we would say today. Some encyclopedias use the following format: J.[ohn] N.[evins] Andrews (see page source), to indicate they were known by their initials, and this method still supplies their full given and middle names.

For more recent people, the reliable sources usually call them by their given name and surname. If disambiguation is needed (for instance, there are many notable "George Knight"s in the world), including the middle initial seems the norm, as in George R. Knight, and not the full middle name. Other options with disambiguation are including the full middle name, or adding a descriptor in parentheses, as for Joseph Bates (Adventist), whose middle name is apparently unknown or nonexistent.

See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies).

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At the end of the "External links" section in each article, add a link to the index of articles in Adventist magazines. This enables the reader to quickly locate other references. (Though links to internet search engines are not recommended, justifiably this index is obscure and would be otherwise unknown by most readers). Trim unnecessary parts of the URL.

For biography articles like Ellen G. White:
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For other topics, like Sabbath in seventh-day churches:
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Adventism template

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