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One of the reasons why the talk page of the
Methodism work group is a redirect to WT:X is to hope to get more attention to any questions raised about it. Unfortunately, the lack of activity can just as easily be demonstrated in projects like the Oriental Orthodoxy project, even with their name. Maybe the best thing to do in general, and I can and I think the other comparatively few remaining editors at WikiProject Christianity would probably be willing to help to the degree circumstances permit, would be to find sources which relate specifically to the topics covered in
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there is rather a lot of effort involved in the changeover of terminology. Certainly, if there can be demonstrated a sufficient number of editors to support the topic, it would probably be best to see an increase of the level of activity of the work group first. I rather doubt the editors at WikiProject
Christianity would necessarily oppose spinout of a separate group if the editors of the group were willing to undertake the effort in renaming on themselves. Regarding the amount of work possible for this topic, or, for that matter, the
900:. Because of the origins of Methodism being primarily a revival movement in 18th century Britain, of which Wesleyan Methodism, exported to the USA, became dominant primarily through the organisational abilities of John Wesley, I ought to produce a similar diagram showing these main branches of British Methodism. In particular, it is notable that Welsh Calvinistic Methodism grew out of the work of
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it is the number of editors willing to expend their time and efforts in the topic area that is of primary importance. As someone who has been really, really active in the religion topics for a long time, I regret to say that I can't remember ever seeing enough even intermediate term interest in any topic to continue to support the existence of a large number of them. Unfortunately.
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lot of effort in renaming relevant categories, pages, etc., to formalize the proposed name change. I would be interested in knowing in what ways people would think that a simple change in the name of the extant group would in and of itself help to develop the content or increase the level of collaboration on it.
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anything. SOme just like having their names on all sorts of lists. I could be counted as one of them, but for the most part the ones I've "joined" are the ones whose project pages I set up myself, and being a member makes it more likely I will get notified if the project is proposed for deletion or merger.
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BTW, one project waiting adequate time is to catalogue my private library of
Methodism, between 50 and 100 volumes, starting with 17 annual volumes of the Methodist Magazine, and one of the Primitive Methodist Magazine ranging from 1794 to 1891. Unfortunately, I don't have time to read them all, but
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I think you have a bit of a misconception about being "alone". Work groups are in general seen as being a part of the larger group, although, admittedly, in the field of
Christianity, there is a freaking huge number of extant and potential articles out there and not that many people working on them.
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traditions, or, for that matter, pretty much any denomination or group of denominations out there, I would agree that there is more than sufficient work to justify a separate project for each one. But it is not the amount of work involved which is the primary factor in the creation of a wikiproject,
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I feel that much like the group
Anglicanism above (which we split from, read our lovely lovely articles to find out more), we are a large enough group (28 of the Denominations or more have an article) and have an entire portal already. If we don't qualify for an entire new Project, then why do other
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I have been a bit out of touch regarding my contributions to
Knowledge because life has been a bit busy on other fronts over the past year, so I am a month late in picking up on this proposal. It would be good for me to focus my Knowledge interests on some aspects of Methodism, since that is in my
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As someone who has set up somewhere in the neighborhood of several hundred wikiprojects and work groups, I have to say that in my experience I have rarely if ever seen that in even the intermediate term the simple existence of a separate project in any way helps get more attention to the pages. And
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I guess the main question in my eyes is in which way the simple act of creation of a separate project would actually benefit the development of the topic area. For all practical purposes, the only difference between a WikiProject and work group is the name itself. And, honestly, there tends to be a
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Methodism. Those would probably be, in general, the most important articles and topics for wikipedia to cover. But, like history will show with a lot of other projects, the simple act of creation of a project doesn't mean that anyone who "joins" will actually do
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So much for an introduction. It may make life easier for those of us with interests in
Methodism to function as a separate group rather than as a sub-group of something else, so if pushed to a decision, I would favour this change, but my first instinct as to how to vote is "abstain".
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is one of the largest denominations, and could qualify as its own work group. Being able to have these two (and other) workgroups would help focus those. Most of the categories and pages already have the correct name, the trouble would be changing the template on them from WikiProject
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I'm hoping that this proposal will show the support needed. If it doesn't I'll continue my work regardless. I do plan to work on
Methodism. If I'm alone, I'm alone. If not, then hopefully this will get support enough to branch out.
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ancestry (a Gt gt gt gt grandfather was one of John Wesley's
Traveling Preachers). Reviewing my contributions (for another purpose) I found my "family tree" diagram of one of the Methodist Circuits,
769:- I support the project. Methodism and its various organizations is certainly a wide enough subject to warrant a WikiProject. I do not know how much time I could devote to such a project though.--
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