Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Article requests

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of proposed Seventh-day Adventist related Wikipedia articles. Before creating, check that the article does not already exist under a different title by searching Wikipedia. WikiProject Christianity has a brief and helpful list of steps in creating a new article. Almost everything here will belong in a subcategory of Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church. See also Category:Establishments by year and Category:Disestablishments by year.

If you're looking for something to do you could also add to a stub article, as found in Category:Seventh-day Adventist stubs.

Contents

[edit] General

[edit] Adventism by area

Organizational divisions, which belong in Category:General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists or a subcategory. Some article will also belong in a parent/child-category of the very diverse Category:Categories by country. I suggest we add a church locator link to each article (a new locator is being developed now, as of November 2007). Discuss this category structure here.

  • Adventist Church by region: articles about the church in a particular country or area. I have been naming them by their formal titles, but wikilinking to them by a non-elitist name, e.g. Adventist church in Australia (links to article under the formal title). If anyone disagrees, please discuss on the talk page. Col
  • in Madagascar: reference The Road to Clarity: Seventh-day Adventism in Madagascar by Eva Keller (Review in AUSS 44 by Stefan Höschele; Spectrum review; interview)
  • New Zealand-Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. One source In And Out of the World: Seventh-day Adventists in New Zealand, ed. P. H. Ballis

Add to Category:General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists or an appropriate subcategory if it exists. The Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia has detailed information on the church's work in a large number of countries. The Historical Dictionary of Seventh-day Adventists is an excellent concise source. Also, there may be good information about individual countries in the many other language versions of the article Seventh-day Adventist Church, which could be translated to form an English article about a specific country or region.

[edit] Church buildings

These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist churches, and also in the appropriate subcategory of Category:Churches by country. Perhaps additionally add to WikiProject Architecture.

I am working on two in my userspace (per WP:COI) for possible mainspace migration later. Please contribute to them, or move them into the mainspace if you think they are NPOV and notable. Colin MacLaurin (talk):

[edit] Education and schools

Schools belong in either Category:Academies and elementary schools affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church or Category:Universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Also add them to an appropriate subcategory of Category:Schools by country. On the talk page, add them to this WikiProject, and also to WikiProject Schools (primary and secondary schools) or WikiProject Universities.

  • Adventist Students Association website [14] (exists in Australia, perhaps wider) (previously deleted for non-notability. Get good sources before recreating). Local chapters: Newcastle[15][16], Sydney[17], Queensland[18] (there are others too)
  • Madison College/Madison School

[edit] Adventist media

Books, radio, television, magazines and so on belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist media. They will often belong in a subcategory or sub-list of one of the following as well: Category:Christian studies books, Lists of books; Category:Lists of writers; Category:Television networks by country; Category:Christian publishing companies etc. Additionally add them to one of the culture WikiProjects such as WikiProject Television or WikiProject Radio Stations. Others such as WikiProject Media or WikiProject Journalism may suit.

[edit] Ellen White books

These go in Category:Books by Ellen White. Write a stub for each of her major works. Additionally add them to WikiProject Books.

  • Christ's Object Lessons
  • Education (book)
  • The Ministry of Healing
  • Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing
  • (The Story of) Patriarchs and Prophets
  • (The Story of) Prophets and Kings [21]
  • The Acts of the Apostles (Ellen White book) [22]
  • Selected Messages, include discussion on manuscript releases from the White Estate

[edit] Adventist hospitals

These belong in Category:Hospitals affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a subcategory of Category:Hospitals by country, and probably others. Also add to WikiProject Medicine.

  • Wildwood Lifestyle Center and Hospital (website)

[edit] Theology

These belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist theology. See also the page Seventh-day Adventist theology. Add an external link to a chapter of the online books Questions on Doctrine and Seventh-day Adventists Believe... if one is relevant.

[edit] Adventist people

Individuals must be notable. The Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI), particularly the Obituary Index (which catalogues notices published in Adventist periodicals), may provide a middle name for an individual, or birth/death dates. Additionally, add them to WikiProject Biography.

  • Ranges. The en dash "–" should be used for numerical ranges rather than the shorter minus sign "-", for example: John Byington (1798–1887)... The longer em dash "—" should be used for an open range, for example Desmond Ford (1928—)... Spaces are not generally included within the range. These are the first two of the big list of symbols below the edit box when you are editing.
  • External links. If they have published articles in Adventist journals, add a link like:
Be careful that the search criteria are neither too general nor too specific. Surname+Firstname is usually fine, but please check! You might try just using the surname at first, and then seeing how specific you have to be by seeing how many entries match the person in mind. Keep the link tidy - don't just copy and paste from the URL bar in your browser.
Also check to see if they are included in the Manuscript Collections at the Center for Adventist Research. The indices have brief biographies as well (at least the ones one user has seen).

[edit] Adventist pioneers (not all became Seventh-day Adventists)

Articles on pioneers may belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders, Category:Adventist or Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists. Check the pioneer biographies from the White Estate website, and add it as an external link if existing.

  • Martha Byington Amadon (1834–1937)
  • Merritt E. Cornell
  • Michael Belina Czechowski - former Catholic priest, first unofficial SDA missionary to Europe (1864)
  • Charles Fitch
  • William Ellis Foy - Black minister, received visions prior to Hazen Foss and Ellen White. See The Unknown Prophet by Delbert Baker. [29] [30]
  • Hazen Foss, claimed to receive and reject visions which were later given to Ellen White
  • Stephen N. Haskell (1833–1922) [31] [32]
  • Charles M. Kinney - first Black ordained (1889) SDA Minister
  • Anna Knight
  • Anna Phillipps, Anna Rice-Phillips or Anna Rice Phillips, claimed prophetess [33] Anna Rice Phillips, Battle Creek prophetess: A bibliographical guide to sources in the Heritage Room, Pacific Union College Library by Gary W. Shearer
  • George Storrs Storrs brief bio, 6 sermons
  • Joseph Harvey Waggoner
  • Luther Warren
  • Frederick Wheeler (Adventist) (1811–1910) [34]
  • James Edson White, known as "Edson", Ellen White's son. Rejected the faith for a while, but Ellen won him over, he built a boat and ministered from it in the southern U.S.

[edit] Adventist theologians and preachers

These also generally belong in Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders:

[edit] A–H

  • Roy Allan Anderson, one of the authors of Questions on Doctrine
  • Ivan Blazen, influential theologian; at Andrews University for some time
  • Charles Bradford - preacher
  • Graeme Bradford, [35] retired Australian evangelist, known recently for writing three books about Ellen White
  • Roy Branson. In a 1985 questionnaire of North American Adventist lecturers, Branson tied for tenth place among the Adventist authors who had most influenced them.[5]
  • C. D. Brooks - preacher [36]
  • John Carter (evangelist) Carter Report. Book: John Carter: The Authorised Biography by Phil Ward
  • Steven W. Case, more progressive culturally, e.g. he re-evaluates certain old beliefs about jewellery. Involved with Valuegenesis surveys. Add disambiguation links from Steve Case and Steven Case, or create a disambiguation page
  • E. E. Cleveland - preacher [37][38]
  • Molleurus Couperus, founding editor of Spectrum
  • James Cox. In a 1985 questionnaire of North American Adventist lecturers, Cox tied for tenth place among the Adventist authors who had most influenced them.[6]
  • Steve Daily, outspoken progressive Adventist
  • Raoul Dederen. In a 1985 questionnaire of North American Adventist lecturers, Dederen tied for seventh place among the Adventist authors who had most influenced them.[7]
  • Bonnie Dwyer, present editor of Spectrum
  • J. H. Denis Fortin, dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University. One editor of a forthcoming encyclopedia on Ellen White
  • John M. Fowler
  • Clifford Goldstein, church apologist, book chapter interview with Julius Nam Erwin Taylor called him "the most visible and vocal exponent of the ATS agenda"[39] (ATS = Adventist Theological Society) another book chapter, and brief bio
  • Earle Hilgert, third-most influential Adventist author according to a 1985 questionnaire of North American Adventist lecturers.[8]
  • Siegfried Horn, a formerly prominent archaeologist. In a 1985 questionnaire of North American Adventist lecturers, Horn tied for seventh place among the Adventist authors who had most influenced them.[9]

[edit] I-P

[edit] Q–Z

Former General Conference presidents, as listed in List of Presidents of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists:

  • George A. Irwin
  • Charles H. Watson
  • James Lamar McElhany
  • Reuben Richard Figuhr
  • Neal C. Wilson (deleted in December 2007 apparently because of a copyright violation)

[edit] Other Adventists

[edit] Former Adventists

These belong in Category:Former Seventh-day Adventists. They may also belong in Category:Protestant theologians or similar.

  • Keith Lockhart (journalist) [43], who co-authored the book Seeking a Sanctuary with Malcolm Bull (see below)
  • Malcolm Bull, Malcolm J. Bull staff page. Oxford University lecturer

Resources for each of the following people may be found here. Please research other sources as well:

  • Albion Fox Ballenger (A. F. Ballenger) (his book here or here). One reference: Gary Land and Calvin W. Edwards, Seeker After Light: A. F. Ballenger, Adventism, and American Christianity (Andrews University Press, 2000)[44]
  • William H. Brinkerhoff
  • Gilbert Cranmer
  • O. R. L. Crosier - Owen Russell Loomis Crosier
  • Robert Greive, former New Zealand conference president
  • B. F. Snook

[edit] Sabbatarian Adventist denominations

Some of these links are from List of Christian denominations, which may provide a starting point. They probably belong in Category:Adventist, a parent (more general) category of Category:Seventh-day Adventist Church. Additionally add them to WikiProject Christianity or WikiProject Religion (?)

  • Branch Seventh Day Adventists
  • General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists
  • International Missionary Society of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement
  • People's Christian Church
  • Adventist Church of Promise (Brazilian Pentecostal Adventists)
  • Sabbath Rest Advent Church
  • United Sabbath-Day Adventists, an African-American breakaway group. Book James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists by R. Clifford Jones (publisher's page); dissertation defense; related blog by Adventist lecturer

[edit] Some more ideas

  • Write a nice portal page about Adventism. In the long run there will be quite a number of articles. Such a portal page would be nice.
  • Create a navigation box for Adventist universities, for example perhaps one, "Template:Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities in North America" or differently named. Compare Category:Education navigational templates.
  • Expand Blue law#Seventh-day Adventist Church about Sunday laws.
  • Expand Ronald Numbers with his history in the Adventist church
  • Make a graph of church membership over time, and place it on History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Data easily available on church websites. Don't just use one of their graphs because they are probably not in the public domain.
  1. One for the organizational Divisions of the church, colour-coded like the map on the bottom of this page on the church's website. Make it a linked image, like for Template:Australia Labelled Map. Put it on the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists page, and related pages about church structure.
  2. You could even colour a map by number of church members per country, or (better) as a proportion of population by country. This would be highly informative about world distribution. This could go on the main article Seventh-day Adventist Church and perhaps others. There is one for Christianity percentage by country: and a Catholic image.
  3. Percentage growth or decline per country, colour-coded. This could also go on the main article.
  4. Possibly a world map with countries coloured by date of first Adventist church presence
For instructions, have a look at Image:BlankMap-World-v5.png which contains not only the blank map but helpful links as well. (Old suggestion: Map for the countries and territories in which the church has an active presence. Not really useful as it would cover most of the globe, and point 2 renders it redundant)
  • Write an article List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals (or perhaps "magazines", a more common word; either way put a redirect on one). Order them by number of paying subscribers, which would be one indication of notability (gift subscriptions could be misleading as to notability, because people have a vested self-interest in getting their ideas heard). Otherwise order them by theology - from most liberal to most conservative or vice versa. That would be interesting! It could sound a little subjective, but Alden Thompson's classification (at the very end of the article, in the section XI. Alternate Publications) would be a start.
  • Expand 28 Fundamentals. A single sentence on each fundamental would work well. Keep in mind that the main theology article is Seventh-day Adventist theology, so we don't want overlap. Put articles discussing the church's beliefs in Category:Seventh-day Adventist theology. Just remember it is against Wikipedia policy to create separate pages discussing the same topic, so don't create a specifically Adventist page on baptism by immersion or what happens when you die, as those pages already exist in a more general setting. Perhaps a content fork (not POV fork) may be legitimate if there is enough distinctly Adventist content to justify it, but this would be the exception rather than the rule.
Someone has currently just copied text from the fundamentals on this page, which I assume is a copyright violation. This needs fixing.