Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism
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- Requests: Blambangan, Hindu Education Foundation, Hinduism in Hong Kong, Gargi
- Expand: Tantras, Treta Yuga, Hindu kingdoms in West Asia, Devi Mahatmya, Jnana, Gangga Negara, Kediri, Brahminicide, Brāhmanahatya, Vedanta Society, Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Yogoda Satsanga, Sarsanghachalak, Thommanon, Baksei Chamkrong, Phnom Bakheng, Phimeanakas, Phnom Krom,Banteay Samré, West Mebon, Kriyamana karma, Sanchita karma, Kama (Purusharthas), Hindu marriage Ceremony, Vedic metal, Kalpa (Vedanga),Parisada Hindu Dharma
This religion is known as Sanatana Dharma, "eternal religion," and Vaidika Dharma, "religion of the Vedas," although Hinduism is the most common English name for it.
These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the guidelines below may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!
- WikiProject Hinduism
[edit] Assessment
[edit] Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to promote better coordination, content distribution and cross-referncing between pages dealing with Hinduism and its sects, texts, terms, philosophies and eventually bring articles up to Featured article status.
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
- WikiProject Hindu Mythology - focuses on the deities and for the texts, it mostly focuses on the epics and the puranas
- WikiProject Vedanta - for coordination and improvement related to Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy.
- WikiProject Saivism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindu philosophy
[edit] Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Sikhism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Buddhism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Jainism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoroastrianism
[edit] Participants
- Anirudh (help correct errors and maintain neutrality)
- ॐ User:srkris ॐ
- Dangerous-Boy
- Sawantve
- Dosey
- Dehoqu
- Profvk
- Raj2004
- ॐ killerserv
- Subramanian
- Sam Spade
- DaGizza
- Tintin (will probably be just an observer !)
- elvenscout742
- Imc
- Rohitbd
- deeptrivia I'm managing the Portal:Hinduism, and would need a lot of support from here.
- Holy Ganga
- Deepak
- अमेय आरयन AMbroodEY
- Ganesh
- ஜெ.மயூரேசன் Mayooresan
- Tux the penguin
- Jayanthv86
- ell 21:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
- Rama's Arrow (talk • contribs)
- woodElf will improve english
- M.arunprasad (talk • contribs)
- NRS(talk to me,mail me or award me a barnstar) 13:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- Cygnus_hansa
- TBC I do not actually believe in Hinduism, though I am still interested in the subject
- (Arundhati Bakshi (talk • contribs)) 13:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Aupmanyav Contact me. I would be glad to help in all possible ways. I am getting used to Wiki.
- Sunil Vasisht will contribute to hindu philosophy/philosophers
- BorgQueen 20:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
- Mallarme
- Nobleeagle (Talk) can hopefully add on festivals/mythology.
- Sfacets 14:42, 29 March 2006 (UTC) I am not Hindu as such, but am very learned on the subject. Will attempt to help organize, categorize, and limit POV wars.
- Ashish Banerjee I am an Atheist and follow Advaita Vedanta
- ॐ Priyanath
- Chris
- Musicpvm
- Grammatical Error
- RaveenS Interested in folk Hinduism, village deities, hindu diaspora, temples and related history
- gadhagadha 03:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- bharath 10:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Mjr1224
- User:Snowgrouse Shakti and Shiva worshipper, vast knowledge of Tantrism, studying Hinduism at University level, can straighten out lots of stuff, such as fixing typos. But mainly Tantric helper, yes.--Snowgrouse 20:02, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- Mangonel 17:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC) -- For Portal Hinduism
- Netaji 17:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC) (will mainly police POV and racist anti-Hindu defamation)
- Ghostexorcist -- Will add occasional tid-bits about Hindu Mythology and Religion.
- Reppin the bay 07:51, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
- BakasuprmanBakaman%% 23:25, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
- nids 10:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- Yankee Rajput 13:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC) Indian expat in Lowell, Massachusetts
- Smithfarm 17:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- User:littlewing1 Hinduism has changed my life.
- VegScene My beliefs are based on Gaudiya Vaishnava
- Kshatriya knight-To work on hinduism and hinduism in kerala in particular.
- User:Milki - Will verify Stories ("Myths") and other facts regarding Hinduism
- Lactovegan
- Hkelkar I am not a Hindu by religion but would very much like to see the faith portrayed correctly,fairly and with NPOV (presently it is not and I fear that the editors are not doing enough to correct this).
- User: HeBhagawan I have been working on the Hinduism page recently to make it more organized and intelligible for people who may not have a background in Hinduism. I am also working to incorporate more citations into the article.
- BhaiSaab talk
- Seadog.M.S 18:04, 12 October 2006 (UTC)--I used to be Littlewing1 and I am now Seadog, I am very interested in Hinduism and am prepared to do whatever is requested of me (I am very busy in real life though!)
- Woodenbuddha 18:57, 17 November 2006 (UTC) (will fix up articles and vandalism)
- Ekantik 01:12, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Creating new articles and improving present ones with NPOV.
[edit] Userbox
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Userbox enthusiasts can put this {{User WikiProject Hinduism}} to show that you are a member of this project.
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If you follow the Hindu religion, you can put this {{User hinduism}} to show that you are a Hindu.
[edit] Awards
The Shri Medal
The 'श्री' Medal, introduced by User:Srkris is a special award, and unlike Barnstars, is granted through nomination and acclamation by the participants of this project.
Attention Wikiproject Hinduism participants: to nominate, or vote upon the nomination of another participant of this project whom you feel has contributed in an extraordinary way to the improvement of Wikipedia's Hindu articles, click here.
Current Nominees: User:Rama's Arrow, User:Raj2004, User:Dangerous-Boy (More information click here).
[edit] Hall of Fame
In special recognition by their fellow participants, for exemplary contributions to the presentation of Hinduism on Wikipedia which go above and beyond all expectations, the following extraordinary Wikipedians have been presented the Wikiproject Hinduism's highest award, the Shri Medal:
[edit] Templates
Template:Infobox Hindu teacher/leader has been created for use by this project. It is a first draft and does not use parsing or other fancy code, so it should be easy to use and adapt. If changes are needed, I'll be happy to help (just drop me a line on my talk page), or go ahead and make them to meet the needs of this project. Nightngle 18:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Discussion
[edit] Article Construction
Example: Hinduism
Please feel free to add more suggestions.
We should probably discuss article types, which may have different parameters. For example, some of these types may be:
[edit] Texts
Articles on texts should include:
- Authorship, if known. If the supposed authorship of a text is not established by scholarship, list it as an attribution: "The text is attributed to such-and-such.";
- Date (use common era (C.E) or before common era (B.C.E.) notation);
- Place of origin (if known);
- A rough overview of the contents of the text;
- Separate sections for particularly important ideas in the text. Alternatively, short descriptions and links to articles on said ideas;
- Whatever caveats regarding disputes over readings of the text, etc;
- Associated sect(s) (Indicate, where appropriate, whether the text originated within the sect or was adopted by it after the time of writing.);
- A "See also" section for internal links;
- An "External links" section for articles about the text and electronic versions of the text (or perhaps these could be in separate sections);
[edit] Formatting
[edit] Naming and Transliteration
Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Dharmic) for the proposed policy.
[edit] Categorizing
- If an article is already in a subcategory within Hinduism, there is no need list it in the main Hinduism category.
- When categorizing people, sort by their last names.
[edit] External links
It's easy to get carried away with links (notably the Hinduism page) - especially with several topics being interlinked with each other.
For the Hinduism page specifically,
- External links should be generic links, that are relevant to Hinduism as a whole. Everything else, i.e. specialized material, can go in the related pages - some of the related stub-pages have few links and these links could enhance those pages. In short, if it can go on another Hinduism-related page, it needs to be there and not on the Hinduism page.
[edit] Links to external resources
- Pāli Text Society Dictionary (Commonly and delightfully abbreviated "PTSD", or more commonly "PED")
- Online interface to itrans. Choose "roman" for your language, and "html" for your output.
- For Windows users who deal in devanagari and/or romanization on a regular basis, Itranslator could prove to be useful.
[edit] WikiProject Hinduism notice
Place this WikiProject notice Template:WikiProject Hinduism at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the WikiProject Hinduism for guidelines.
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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hinduism, an attempt to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referencing between pages dealing with Hinduism. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.
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To use it, place {{WikiProject Hinduism}} at the top of an article's Talk page.
[edit] Stubs
For stubs about Hinduism, use {{Hinduism-stub}}. This will automatically place the article the Category:Hinduism stubs category.
There are also a number of stub subcategories that can be used when appropriate.
- {{Hindu-myth-stub}} for stub articles relating to Hindu mythology
- {{Hindu-temple-stub}} for stub articles relating to Hindu temples
- {{Hindu-philo-stub}} for stub articles relating to Hindu philosophy.
- {{Hindu-theo-stub}} for stub articles relating to Hindu theology
- {{Hindu-bio-stub}} for stub articles relating to Hindu biographies.
[edit] Templates for Articles
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[edit] Noticeboard
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