Portal talk:Hinduism

Originally from my talk page

Religion portals

I've noticed you've created quite a plethora of religion-based portals. In accordance with the conventions currently being discussed at WPT:P, I would like you to confirm that you intend to maintain all of these portals (I believe at least 6 are accredited to you at present), and that you intend to improve them in order to bring them up to the standard that is requested and required in order to maintain their presence in the namespace. While major religions are fairly high-volume and require suitable portals, several of the recent ones you have made are fairly irrelevant and definitely not high volume. While you have clearly put work into their creation, I feel obliged to let you know that several are liable to be removed from the namespace unless they demonstrate their necessity through extensive links either by articles or through the category system.

Finally, I must also point out that most of your portals are not listed at either WP:P or Portal:Browse, both of which are requirements stated at WP:P. Please feel free to contact me should you wish to discuss these matters further.

All the best, Deano 18:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Religion Portals

Someone said that he will delete the religious portals I set up if I don't do this and that. Will you please update the religious portals to confirm to whatever standards. Also, please help maintain the portals. Any advice, suggestions, etc are appreciated. Maybe I shouldn't have wasted my time with creating the portals. While creating the portals, I ensured that all information was accurate. These are the religious portals I established. -> Islam · Buddhism · Hinduism · Sikhism · Bahá'í Faith · Jainism · Shinto · Confucianism · Taoism · Zoroastrianism --JuanMuslim ^1m 21:21, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Update

How long should each of the sections in the Portal be updated? DaGizza ^Chat 06:40, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

weekly to monthly?--Dangerous-Boy 06:56, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Ravi Varma-Ravana Sita Jathayu.jpg

put this pic on the featured pic section. It looks awesome.

--Dangerous-Boy 07:17, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Festivals section

This constantly needs to be updated. It will be good if a sub-page with a comprehensive list is created so it is easier to update. Gizza^{Chat ©} 11:48, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

maybe List of Hindu festivals?--Dangerous-Boy 17:57, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I started making a separate list for Hindu festivals. Click the above link.--Dangerous-Boy 23:08, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Temple pictures

If possible, please someone upload good quality major temple pictures like Akshardham and Tirupati with proper Licensing. These pictures are required in many Hinduism, India and religion related articles. Thanks. - Holy Ganga ^talk 21:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Should list this on the noticeboard.--Dangerous-Boy 22:23, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Category:Dharmic Religion stubs proposed for deletion

Category:Dharmic Religion stubs has been nominated for deletion (see the discussion. The principal argument offered for deletion is that the category currently contains only 4 articles. A number of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism etc. stubs deal with topics that are common to all Dharmic religions. These stubs might be profitably moved to Category:Dharmic Religion stubs rather than those of a specific religion. If you have opinions on whether any particular stub article should be recategorized, or whether you would approve of a recategorization on your behalf, please discuss at Category talk:Dharmic religions#Category:Dharmic Religion stubs proposed for deletion. --BostonMA ^talk 01:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• This category was kept and renamed to Category:Dharmic religion stubs. ~ Amalas rawr ^{=^_^=} 16:39, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Selected Hindu ?

Perhaps the section title should be changed from "Selected Hindu" to "Selected biography". The latter sound better to me and leaves open the option of including non-Hindu figures who may have played an important role with respect to Hinduism, e.g. Max Muller, or Theosophists like Annie Besant, Jiddu Krishnamurti etc. Abecedare 19:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and made the change. Abecedare 23:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Why so quickly?

It is my opinion that the selected quotes, articles and images change too quickly. Kkrystian 10:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Why is there only one portal?

If there are five portals about Christianity and two about Islam why must all other religions only have one portal? IMO we should create: Portal:Vaishnavism, Portal:Shaivism, Portal:Shaktism, Portal:Smartism and Portal:Hindu scriptures. What do you think about it? Kkrystian 18:30, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually in my opinion, that would be a good idea. ~ 01er 18:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

The sub-portals do not necessarily have to be about denominations. Other possibilities include specific texts, schools of philosophy, deities and historical periods. Gizza^{Discuss ©} 06:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

BC/BCE

Hello. Sorry to bother you, but is anyone interested in stating their opinions as Hindus on the use of BC/AD and BCE/CE for a discussion on the subject here? Thanks -- spin^control 20:15, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Krishnaism

Hello, I am from the West and I speak English. Obviously, Krishnaism is the most recognisable form of Hinduism to me. I am curious, as I cannot find the word Krishnaism on the portal, under which category does it actually belong? ~ R.T.G 14:18, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

See Krishna and also look under Vaishnavism. For future reference, WT:HNB is a better venue to get help regarding Hinduism related articles, and WP:RD/H is useful for asking general questions regarding Hinduism and other topics under Humanities. Not many editors have this page watchlisted. Abecedare (talk) 14:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Anyone who wants to make articles in wikipedia better, can use this utility to add diactrics (automatically) to many sanskrit words. See: [1] Automatically will not work, but semi-autocally may do. One has to check links etc to be proper. Also if there is some admin here - he can use this to make all names of pages in wikipedia realted to Vedas to be with diactrics in right spelling. This is automatical, so manual efforts are also needed. Maybe someone has a lot of time and want to volunteer - he can do this. "Utility: Automatically Add Diacritics to 94,000 Different Sanskrit Words!"[2]

--- Proposal : to merge both Hindu mythology portal and Hinduism into one. Mythology sounds wrong, because there are many mistakes calling asuras to be gods etc, while Vedas (Hinduism portal) say that asuras are demons. So mythology portal articles are to be verified to be in accordance with Vedas.