User:Wesley

Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test score: 34. Be afraid. :-)

I'm a computer programmer, but my biggest Wikipedia interest is the articles concerning Christianity and its various expressions. Disclaimer: counting childhood and adulthood both, my own journey has included non-denominational, Lutheran, Assemblies of God[?], United Methodist[?], Free Methodist, and Mennonite churches. A few years ago our family joined the Eastern Orthodox Church, and we are now part of the Orthodox Church in America. Naturally, I do my best to present things as neutrally as possible, aiming for historical accuracy and integrity.

Aside from those, my personal pet peeve is Wikipedia articles that use sentence fragments instead of complete sentences. So I enjoy hunting for those, and picking whatever other nits I can find.

Some of my other interests are classical and jazz music, good fantasy and science fiction, family life, and computer science, as I'm a programmer by trade, with a bent towards Open Source. I find I get more out of Wikipedia the more I put in, and think it's a fantastic collaborative effort. The longer I participate, the more I learn, both from reading other contributions and doing more research for my own.

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Table of contents 1 To Do 1.1 Create 1.2 Improve or expand 1.3 New articles or sections of articles needed 2 Need to Edit

To Do

Create

Edict of Milan[?] (Constantine calls off persecution of Christians)

Improve or expand

• Clergy -- add a section detailing Eastern Orthodox clergy; find out how much variation there is between Greek, Antiochian, Russian, American, etc., and changes in practice over time.
• Jesus Christ -- regarding Spong's theory of illegitimate pregnancy, compare with the old Pantheras story and its source.
• Great Apostasy -- need actual early church history, esp. regarding the Trinity
• Gregory Palamas -- expand article; need entries on hesychastic synods??
• Semipelagianism[?] -- too important to ignore.
• Jacob Arminius[?] -- the first Arminian. ;-)
• Trinity -- add link with explanation, possibly upload picture if permission can be obtained: http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/trinity
• Olga of Kiev -- deserves lots more detail; look into sainthood
• feast day[?] -- link to saint, include fixed feasts, movable feasts[?], fasting, Great Feasts[?], etc.
• liturgical calendar[?] -- redirect to liturgical year??

New articles or sections of articles needed

• Shang Ti
• China (Religion)[?] -- can't believe this hasn't been covered yet
• Tuskegee Institute -- verify spelling (Tuskeegee??), link to/from Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver
• Water -- add a section regarding religious significance. Remember the Ganges. also: Global warming and ice cap melting??
• Cathedral -- incorporate information on cathedrals in the history of the East; article currently focuses on England, Germany and France.

Should probably have at least a brief article on the Church Fathers, and the Desert Fathers[?]. Remember the mothers as well.

List of saints

• Gregory Palamas
• Emelia[?]
• Macrina[?]
• John the Evangelist -- needs more detail
• Theophan the Recluse
• John of San Francisco[?]
• Catherine of the Wheel[?] ( redirect to Catherine of Alexandria )
• John of Damascus
• Andrew
• Basil Fool for Christ[?]
• Theodore the Studite (is that his name? the one who defended iconography around the 7th or 8th century, with John of Damascus?)
• Perpetua

I tend to routinely monitor a number of articles related to theology and religion.

Need to Edit

• Christian anti-Semitism -- Research and add historical background regarding the church synods that are compared with Nazism.

talk:Christian anti-Semitism page.

• Saint_George -- change to George[?], with a redirect; edit entry on List_of_Saints; expand regarding "George and the Dragon", verify that he's Orthodox and Catholic as well.

Interesting... The_Phileleutheric_Creed[?]

Wesley, you ought to monitor the List of religious topics page and do some editing on that. I'm merely a person who occasionally reads a historical article on the web about how the Christian religion evolved; you seem to be someone who spends a lot of time on religion articles here. Most of the hundreds of articles that should be listed on that page are not. I created the page, and one other person and put most of the items there that are now there.

Heh. I think my watch list has a more complete list of religous topics. I'll see what I can do. ;-)