Talk:Gospel of John/2013/January

Gospel Of John Side Box Chapters are Incomplete, Partial or "Links to Nowhere"

Hello. Looking for a page about an individual chapter from the book of John, (namely, chapter 16,) when I saw the "Gospel of John" Chapter box on the right side of the main page I first thought, "How convenient." So you can imagine my dismay when I hit the link for "Chapter 16" only to be re-directed back to "Gospel of John." Whoops!

Furthermore, on closer inspection it seems that only a minority of Chapters have their own page (while Chapters 9,11,12, 13, 14, 16, 18 and 19 all maddeningly refer one back to the "Gospel of John" overview page. Then, further adding to the confusion when you click Chapter 6 it's the "Bread of Disclosure" page. Chapter 17 brings up the "High Priestly Prayer." Well and good, but not the "chapters" one would be looking for, no?

Thus: what's the point of the John Chapter box? Hopeful anticipation that "someone" will come along and fill in the gaps, "eventually?" If so, the rather confusing way things are set up now may only discourage, rather than encourage, seekers of information from using Wikipedia as a reference site for Christian-related information. I mean, this is John, people, not some minor one-hit-wonder, but the basis of much of both ancient and modern Christianity's foundation!

But hey, I'm just a non-registered atheist offering my opinion. Thanks for your time, though. 114.146.78.231 (talk) 02:54, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

I agree. The concept of links to each chapter is great, but the current layout is very confusing. I'm very novice here, but maybe it should be set up with a set of standard guidelines for the content of individual chapters. Does that exist? Peterkp (talk) 11:17, 4 January 2013 (UTC)