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Expand {{Infobox church/sandbox}} to cover all places of worship?

There is a proposal to convert the draft infobox template {{Infobox church/sandbox}} into a template that can be used for all places of worship. We would like your views on whether you think this is a good idea, and if you are able to help identify parameters that would be relevant to the religion that your WikiProject deals with. Do join the discussion taking place at "Template talk:Infobox church". — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 03:54, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Sassanid Empire

Sassanid Empire has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 05:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Zoroastrianism

Portal:Zoroastrianism, a page you created, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Zoroastrianism and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Zoroastrianism during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. meco (talk) 09:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Question of project and portal scope

As noted above, the Zoroastrianism portal is currently being considered for deletion. I have added some content to the portal, but am still far less than certain about the intended scope of the project and portal. Frankly, there weren't enough biographical articles on Zoroastrian clergy in good enough condition to fill the biography section, so I had to add some "secular" Zoroastrians. It seems to me to make sense that the project tag other related articles on "secular" Zoroastrians, to help make more articles available for the portal. Do the rest of you find it an acceptable idea to tag the various non-clerical adherents of Zoroastrianism for the project and portal or not? Also, generally, the projects themselves tend to decide which categories are subcategories of their parent category, and, as a result, which articles fall within the scope of the project. Would the members of this project be interested in specifically discussing, and ultimately deciding, which subcategories are and or should be subcats of the main category, which shouldn't, and, by extension, which articles and categories do and do not fall within the scope of the project? John Carter (talk) 02:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Also, it should be noted that there is some significance to portals in general. I remember having read some months ago that the members of the WikiProject Video Games found their portal got more hits than any other page they had. This would, seemingly, indicate that portals are of some substantial interest to readers, and on that basis of some significant importance. To ensure that the portal accurately reflects the relevant content, it would be useful to arrange things in such a way that both portal and project agree on what is relevant to them both. John Carter (talk) 14:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 21:35, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Simple English Wikipedia

This project has identified as its top-importance articles Ahuna Vairya, Ahura Mazda, Airyaman ishya, Amesha Spenta, Angra Mainyu, Asha, Atar, Avesta, Daeva, Gathas, Yasna, Yazata, Zartosht Bahram e Pazhdo, Zoroaster, Zoroastrian calendar, Zoroastrianism, and Zurvanism. I'm not sure how many of you have ever worked with the simple English wikipedia, but it right now has only a few of these articles at all. The only articles it does have in its simple:Category:Zoroastrianism are simple:Asura, simple:Avesta, simple:Zoroaster, and simple:Zoroastrianism. Anyone interested in helping develop the content in that wiki would be very welcome to do so. Feel free to contact either me or User:Eptalon if you would want any help in this matter. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 20:57, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Zoroastrianism

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:29, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Angra Mainyu

I've just abandoned, for personal reasons, a long discussion with another editor regarding the article Angra Mainyu. I don't have time to go on with it, and won't be on Wikipedia for some time. As I'm pretty sure that my absence will be misused, I would be glad if any third party takes a look at the case. --Anonymous44 (talk) 12:36, 28 September 2008 (UTC)