User:Vernon39/Quaker Biography project

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Quaker Biography project

[edit] Aim of project

The aim of this project is to improve the "encyclopaedic" standard of Wikipedia articles on Quakers and to manage useful lists of them.

[edit] Discussion

Vernon: Someone has converted this page to a rediredct to "The Religious Society of Friends", without any consultation. Is this desirable? Was the List of Quakers useful? It often got invaded by jokers and ill-informed promoters. Vernon White . . . Talk 19:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

WPProject Quakers members may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of nontheists, in view of the arbitrary deletion of List of Quakers.Vernon White . . . Talk 07:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

SamBC:Somehow, I only just noticed this. Given that the conversion-to-redirect cited a discussion that wasn't actually about the page in question, reversion would seem in order. SamBC(talk) 09:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Vernon: Perhaps, before re-instating, we could give some thought to whether an alphabetical list of large proportions is as helpful as a list arranged by various categories, e.g "Beginnings", "Later period" . . . . by geographical region or some other division.

Other thoughts might be -

  • Criteria for inclusion - NOT people who had Quaker parents or grandparents or attended a Quaker school or college or were known to have attended a Meeting for Worship on at least one occasion but little else known of any "active" membership.
  • Talking to the Biography Wikiproject
  • Talking to ODNB
  • Talking to Friends House Library, Woodbrooke Library and U.S. Quaker Academic Quaker Libraries, who have a vast typescript Dictionary of Quaker Biography.
  • Consider other sources
  • How to police the list to discourage jokers and to politely inform enthusiastic but poorly-informed "Quaker-labellers"?
  • To make it clear that we are not dealing with Breakfast cereals, parrots or Pennsylvania diners.
  • To have a systematic approach to improving stubs and avoiding redlinks and checking Category:Quaker subcategories
  • anything else . . .?

Vernon White . . . Talk 12:37, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

MHM-en: On the French Wikipedia, a discussion aroused also on the so called Lists of .... The fr:Liste de quakers was given as an example. See fr:Discuter:Liste de quakers and fr:Discussion Wikipédia:Prise de décision/Admissibilité des listes. In the end, the list is always here. I tried to make it more interesting. I understand that the concept of List (a collection of ...) is not acceptable in any encyclopedia. More relevant is to give information on the existing lists. MHM-en 12:05, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Vernon: Thanks for that, MHM. May I suggest that we define a "List of Lists of Quakers" to include links to separate lists:

  • List of Qs who died before 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, and after 2000
  • List of notable Quaker families
  • List of notable Quaker women
  • List of notable people with Quaker roots but not themselves practicing Qs
  • List of Categories on Quaker people
  • List of Quaker Wikipedians
  • etcetera . .
It will be necssary to define entry criteria for each list and standard formats for entries and order in which they should be listed.
It will be necessary for each list to be watched, to avoid unfortunate entries. This should be easier than trying to maintain a massive A-Z list.
Vernon White . . . Talk 22:48, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

SamBC: Makes sense. I'm sure there'd be plenty of us prepared to stick them on our watchlists. Is it worth creating them sandboxed under the project to develop the criteria and format, and give them initial populations, before moving to mainspace? This should help prevent listophobes trying to get them deleted during development at least. SamBC(talk) 23:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

MHM-en: I suggest instead of List of ... the following headings:

  • Prominent early Quakers, 17th century i.e. born in 17th century
  • Prominent early Quakers, 18th century i.e. born in 18th century
  • Notable Quaker families
  • Notable Quaker women or even simpler Quaker women

Each page could provide a list, but - more important - also general information on the period or the subject. About Quaker Wikipedians, we can better use the Category:Quaker Wikipedians. MHM-en 19:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Useful links:

[edit] To do:

It is suggested that - - - we should:

  • Acquire a "Sense of the Meeting" from Wikiproject:Quaker members and appoint a Nominations Committee to find who is willing to do what work and who might give "oversight" to it.
  • To identify articles about Fds which are eligible to be in the proposed chronological lists and the list of Quaker Women
  • To construct a List of Quaker Lists, drawing all lists together in a useful sequence, with explanatory material where necessary.
  • To ensure that the standard of all biographies in the list is "A" or "B".
  • To overhaul the "Quaker History"` article to make use of the Lists

[edit] Deleted List of Quakers

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This is a list of notable people associated with the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers.

The first part consists of individuals who are known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some point in their lives onward.

The second part consists of individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting.

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  • Rufus Jones, Quaker theologian
  • T. Canby Jones, Quaker peace activist, theologian, and professor emeritus at Wilmington College

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