MyWiki:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Anti-Christian Bias
- The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.
The proposed WikiProject was not created. Archive due to insufficient interest. Ajpolino (talk) 22:07, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
Description
[edit source]Project against the Christian bias in comparative religious article Anti-Christian bias
Support
[edit source]Please specify whether or not you would join the project.
- Nakamura Mondo
Discussion
[edit source]In articles about religious concepts Christianity always has the most indepth, least confrontational, and longest section. Likewise, you can not even mention the fact that Judaism descends from Proto-Semitic mythology. I think a project to clear up the bias in religious article is needed, to make this encyclopedia more fair and less balanced towards one religious group. A task force might be need too. Nakamura Mondo (talk) 15:34, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Sheer nonsense. If there is ever any controversy, it is always described in full. A task force intended to make sure articles are 'confrontational' when there is no need for them to be, just sounds, well, confrontational. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 17:55, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- And for the record, I do not think we need a project called "Anti-Christian bias" nor "Anti-Buddhist bias", "Anti-Jewish bias", "Anti-Muslim bias", I think having a project "anti-anything bias" is totally the wrong approach. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 18:30, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
We may not need projects that counter biases of other religions, because this being a western wikipedia the religious bias is pretty much just Christian. And the fact that dismiss my concern as sheer nonsense is very revealing, and very rude; I think your view is nonsense, then. Look at the article on Salvation, as an example of Christian bias. Again the terminology is not neutral but Christian, it talks about Redemption being in other religions whilst also saying that it is the forgieness of sins and protection from eternal punishment; it isn't, that is only the Christian view. Most religions do not have eternal punishment.
Look at any generic, or comparative, religious article and you will find that the Christian section is detailed and indepth, almost the entire arictle, whilst all the other sections are mere summaries, despite the fact that ALL sections should be summaries. This is not a Christian encyclopedia but a secular one, all articles on religion should be fair and balanced. If people want to specifically learn about Christianity, they would visit one of the many Christian wikis or encyclopedias or look for the relevant article about that aspect of Christianity here.
And I fail to see how having a project based on being anti-bias is the wrong approach. The purpose of the wiki is to be non-biased. You cannot have more relevant projects than ones based on eliminating bias in problem categories.Nakamura Mondo (talk) 09:50, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
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