Talk:Christian diet programs

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List selection criteria

This page is halfway between an "article" and a "list". These are the Wikipedia:List selection criteria for the list portion:

The program must be marketed by its authors as a Christian diet program (e.g., not for a different religion, not a secular program that happens to be written be a person who self-identifies as a Christian, etc.). Other diet programs can be listed at the List of diets.
The program must be mentioned in Wikipedia:Independent sources that mention more than one diet program. This criteria helps us find secondary sources and sources that have broader knowledge of diet programs. It also helps us avoid sources that are largely the result of press releases and other forms of promotion.
The program must be described at some length in Wikipedia:Independent sources. Hopefully, we will be able to maintain the current standard of 100% independent sourcing for this article.
Creating a "complete" list of all books or programs is an explicit anti-goal. We want the biggest, and biggest variety, of programs, but we do not want to try to list every single one of the hundreds of known diet programs. It's better to have the oldest, the biggest during each decade, one marketed as a church-growth project, etc. instead of a complete list of many very similar programs. Given the sources I've looked at, a list target length of around 20 programs total seems about right to me.

WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:26, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Brief descriptions

Separately from the criteria for including/excluding diet programs, the "brief descriptions" of individual diet programs need to stay brief. Most of them need about three sentences: It is an X, it was created by Y, it is unusual because Z. If a description goes beyond about six sentences, then it should be reduced.

Looking at the various articles about diets on wiki, it seems to be tempting to provide very detailed descriptions on what to eat in the first few days, what to eat during the second week, how many things to do each day, all the permitted and forbidden foods, etc. It is often {{How-to}} content written by an enthusiast of the program.

So if you see this sort of content creeping in, please WP:Be bold and reduce it to the essentials. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]