Portal talk:Saints

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The portal has had no content for this year. I will convert it to a random portal ASAP. -- Secisek (talk) 07:28, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Done. Once the calendar is filled in, I will nominate it for featured portal. -- Secisek (talk) 13:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

If we could fill in the calendars for selected saint days I think we could pass featured portal. We have almost 25 bios, 17x3 DYKS and a dozen pictures. ANy help importing saints from the different calendars would be welcome. -- Secisek (talk) 23:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

• I can't believe how this was negelected ... can you restore the old archives? Philly jawn (talk) 18:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

The archive are all there. How we present them is the only question. The subpages were not deleted. -- Secisek (talk) 18:54, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

• Suggestions? Philly jawn (talk) 20:16, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
  • "sole tribulation" in Featured topics? Also, adding a few more "saints of the day" where possible might help balance the columns. I can maybe try to find a few more there, although choosing which to include might be a problem. Otherwise, it looks very good to me. Great work, again! John Carter (talk) 23:06, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Soul? April Fools day vandalism. Reverted. More saints of the day would be ggod. It is Anglican heavy right now, but only a specialist would probably notice that. I aske for additions above. I will nominate in a short time, if anyone wants to add anything, please do so. -- Secisek (talk) 18:45, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

One question. How many names do you want included? A look at April 3#Holidays and observances, for example, shows 3 names. The Orthodox church calendar would add a lot more. If you were to select just one, how would you do so? Quality first, then maybe choosing the most important at that quality level? John Carter (talk) 18:52, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I don't think we want to go over board.Jan and Feb both have 24 total. As good a number as any. I would go importance of quality. ANy help would be great! -- Secisek (talk) 21:51, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

If it helps, I've just uploaded 8 hi-res illustrations of Protestant martyrs. Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Kronheim's_Illustrations_to_Foxe's_Book_of_Martyrs is probably the easiest page to view them on. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 03:27, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Fantastic! --Secisek (talk) 00:39, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Harriet Monsell

I hesitate writing here because the stream seems to have gone elsewhere. But I've just uploaded a proposed article about Harriet Monsell, who's on the Anglican calendar for March 26, but never had a wikipedia article before. I used the page creation wizard, which might not have been a great idea, both because of the backlog and because the only other time I used it, the assigned reviewer had no apparent background in history or saints. I'd like to get the article at least up, so others can edit it, but it may have silly errors because of my inexperience (turns out the last one had an unknown carriage return as the first character, which is a defect with my cut and paste methods, but hadn't been noticed nor corrected til I attended wikimania20120. Jweaver28 (talk) 04:23, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Your draft at User:Jweaver28/sandbox looks pretty good to me, but I am no kind of expert in reviewing articles. Why not click the "submit" link? -- John of Reading (talk) 05:35, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Request for consensus for editing Template:Catholicism

You are invited to join the discussion at Template_talk:Catholicism#Edit_request_on_7_December_2012 to edit the list of Doctors of the Church to add John of Avila and Hildegard of Bingen and do this by embedding Template:Churchdoctor. --Jayarathina (talk) 12:25, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Feast day listed at Redirects for discussion

I have asked for a discussion to address the redirect Feast day. You might want to participate in the redirect discussion.--Jayarathina (talk) 11:44, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Discussion: add 'Catholic saints' Navbox template?

Greetings, while doing article assessments for WP Catholicism, I found the template {{Catholic saints}}. Rather than being bold on this visible portal, I'm wondering if it would be helpful to place this template at the bottom of this portal page? To me 'Catholic saints' it looks to be exactly on-topic, so my answer would be: Yes. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 16:13, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

King St Ladislaus

All comments and suggestions would be highly appreciated here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ladislaus I of Hungary/archive2. Thank you for your time in advance. Borsoka (talk) 12:26, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Non-Christian Saints

I think Saint is just not specific for Christians right?. Please add muslim, hindu and sikh saints section in this portal or rename this portal as "Christian saints". Thanks in advance--39.50.231.3 (talk) 13:43, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Means no respect for other religions? please change this wikipedia name from english wikipedia to christianpedia!39.50.146.140 (talk) 13:10, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

The Islamic equivalent of a Christian Saint is called a "Wali" which has its own article; likewise Bodhisattva for the Buddhists, and I'm sure the other religions have their own terms for their respective equivalents. While the word "saint" does have secular usage meaning "a good person", in the religious section we should be careful to use the proper terms to avoid confusion. Mediatech492 (talk) 17:39, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

You are wrong brother! tell me one thing, what english-speaking muslims Use Isa or Jesus for same person? they use Jesus even english-quranic translation contains Jesus!. Same for Wali, the term is used by arab muslims, and english muslim uses Saint (this is english wikipedia not arabic wikipedia). And Rename this portal or add other religion saints and wait i think saints are also Body of Christ in the bible. I think term Saint is'nt specific for christians 39.50.224.123 (talk) 13:57, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Please rename this portal "Christian Saints" or add non-christian saints section--Thanks--39.50.224.123 (talk) 14:12, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

The Wali article is on English Wikipedia. Pleas provide a Reliable Source to show Muslim use of the word "Saint". Otherwise this appears to be only your Point of View. The fact that you use a word incorrectly does not make the word wrong. Mediatech492 (talk) 16:41, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Brother i am not asking about the page or term i am requesting that "please add non-christian saints section" in this portal or rename the portal "Christian saint". [1], [2] these are some evidence about term saint, they all are using Muslim saints instead of Wali. That means the entry of non christian saints in this portal is necessary and according to your wikipedia Neutral point of view the existence of non christian saint's section is necessary -- 39.50.140.242 (talk) 17:35, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Add or make non-christian saints section. Thanks 39.50.140.242 (talk) 17:44, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

If you want this change made you will need to provide a source to support your assertion. Mediatech492 (talk) 22:01, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

You was saying that Wali is specific for muslim saint, no brother check this quranic verse the term "أَوْلِيَاءَ" (Awliya) plural of Wali. In that verse the meaings are different. Western muslim uses Saint instead of wali (the meaning of wali in this link-quranic verse is diferent from saint that is allies of Christian or Jews). I am not interested in any type of controvercies and i am requesting again please add non christian saint section in this portal. The wikipedia page Saint is neutrally distributed for all religions but what about this portal?---39.50.239.133 (talk) 15:04, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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