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Welcome to the Taoism WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Taoism. This page contains only the suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you should not feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!


Goals
  • The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Taoism, by creating, improving, and maintaining articles on the history, ideas, principles, and people of Taoism.
Scope
  • The scope of this project will consist of all articles within the Category:Taoism.

Contents

[edit] Guidelines

We will try to follow the Manual of Style in the construction of our articles.

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Taoism: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. AQu01rius (talk · contribs)
  2. Badbilltucker 02:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC) - Will probably help (to the degree that I do) with templates, assessment, and other directly project-related matters.
  3. Zeus1234 07:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC) - I just wrote an article on the Celestial Masters and have completely rewritten the Taoist sexual arts article. I am interested in creating and editing articles on Daoism from the Han to Tang period.
  4. Itsmejudith 00:54, 23 December 2006 (UTC) - Would like to help out with wikifying, grammar, spelling, boring bits really.
  5. iluvkdc (talk · contribs)
  6. Gatewaycat (talk · contribs)
  7. Teardrop_onthefire (talk · contribs) would like to add Taoist views to other now mostly western interpreted religious concepts
  8. Vassyana 10:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC) Particularly interested in expanding and cleaning up articles about Taoist internal alchemy, qigong and related arts and individuals.
  9. TheRingess (talk) 14:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Mostly interested in copyediting, wikifying, peer reviewing, etc.
  10. Keahapana (talk · contribs) is interested in early philosophical Daoism.
  11. Maintainerzero (talk · contribs) Interested in the philosophical aspects of Taoism. Also, editing and checking of Taoism-related articles.
  12. William P. Coleman (talk · contribs) Interested in early philosophical Daoism.
  13. The Hippie (talk · contribs) - Will mostly just check out books on Taoism from my local library and help cite as many articles as I can, or just copyediting for grammar. And I take a liking to this kind of philosophy. The Hippie 22:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
  14. Oisin Allen (talk · contribs) Grammar and some early history.
  15. Warlordjohncarter (talk · contribs) - Pretty much useless in general, but like collecting userboxes. Might be able to contribute with assessment and peer review, with any luck may be able to improve some articles as well.
  16. Saimdusan Talk|Contribs 06:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  17. Shimawa zen (talk · contribs) Particular interests include early medieval Daoism, hermits and sages, immortality, etc.
  18. Simonm223 (talk · contribs)
  19. Emishi (talk · contribs) 14:20 26 March 2007 - I will help expand sections on taoist philosophy and taoist deites.
  20. Tyciol (talk) 01:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC) relations to tai chi, taoist immortals in mythology
  21. AlexNebraska
  22. Bio-capsule (talk) 18:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC) interested in philosophical Taoism
  23. YouLiOu historical Daoist figures, gods and immortals; Wudang daoism; Daoist developments in China and outside
  24. ACHKC (talk) 06:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)}} on orgin and what Taoists believe on Xiuzhen; the part of Taoism without English sources

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Taoism}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

[edit] Articles

[edit] FA Featured articles

Articles on Taoism-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

[edit] FAC Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
None at this time.

[edit] GA Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Taoism-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box of the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Taoism, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Taoism/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles Former featured articles
Delisted Good Articles Delisted Good Articles

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections

The following articles have been selected for one or more release versions of wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.
Collaboration of the week
Peer review

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stubs

None at this time. NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

[edit] Other templates

{{WikiProject Taoism}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them within the scope of the project.

{{WikiProject Taoism}} looks like this:
Taoism Portal
This article is supported by the Taoism WikiProject.

This project provides a central approach to Taoism-related subjects on Wikipedia.
Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the WikiProject page for more details.
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[edit] Awards

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Tao Barnstar {{subst:The Tao Barnstar|message ~~~~}} May be awarded to an editor who contributes, spreads, or posts helpful information about Taoism.

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[edit] Categories

[edit] Resources

"[1], Taoist discussion board

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