Talk:Religion in Lebanon/Archive 1

Archive 1

Proposed section about religious conflict

I saw a rather eye-grabbing story the other day - see: Colorado News Day, Gulf News, News.au.com, New Straits Times and Yahoo News. It got me thinking...if we can find multople reliable sources establishing the general problem of religious/sectarian strife in Lebanon, would we be able to create a separate section starting with a sentence like "Religious conflict has been an ongoing problem in Lebanon"? I'm tagging @User:FunkMonk since I discussed this with them previously. MezzoMezzo (talk) 05:22, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Statistics

I came across this map, which gives the percentage of Christians as 21.8 %: http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/images/maps/Lebanon_Religion_lg.png --Vitzque (talk) 06:32, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Religion in Lebanon

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Religion in Lebanon's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "CIAFFB-Leb":

• From Christianity in Lebanon: "CIA World Factbook, Lebanon". Retrieved 7 October 2014.
• From Demographics of Lebanon: CIA World Factbook, Lebanon

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 06:08, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Religion in Lebanon

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Religion in Lebanon's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "CIATONGA":

• From Religion in India: "ASIA:: INDIA". CIA The World Factbook.
• From Religion in Pakistan: "South Asia ::PAKISTAN". CIA The World Factbook.
• From Christianity in Lebanon: "Middle East :: LEBANON". CIA The World Factbook.
• From Religion in Yemen: "Middle East :: YEMEN". CIA The World Factbook.
• From Religion in Cyprus: "Middle East :: CYPRUS". CIA The World Factbook.
• From Religion in Iran: "Middle East :: IRAN". CIA The World Factbook.
• From Religion in Afghanistan: "South Asia ::AFGHANISTAN". CIA The World Factbook.
• From Religion in Syria: "Middle East :: SYRIA". CIA The World Factbook.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 13:10, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Charts and statistics

We seem to have a lot of statistics of varying quality in the article. I've just revamped the pie chart to use the CIA Factbook (which is probably as reliable as anything though I'm not sure what its source is [the CIA is not doing its own surveys in Lebanon]). I also removed two other charts (one an image) neither of which gave sources and whose information can be contained in the pie chart. I'm not too happy about the historic charts in the Lebanese Muslim and Christian sections since I'm not sure of the reliability of the sources. I am strongly inclined to remove the second chart in each of those sections since it duplicates info from the pie chart. Thoughts?--Erp (talk) 02:06, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

I'd be inclined to remove those charts, I don't think they add much.

If not I would at least take out the 1985 figures, for which I can't find any sourcing. There are various versions of that image around, it looks like some thing that's been uncritically replicated, often in places with an agenda (both pro and neg) to show a significant increase in Muslim population. It's a massive outlier, and to then revert to the more recent figure implies massive displacement of population, which hasn't happened.Heliotom (talk) 05:38, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

I agree, remove the two charts. JimRenge (talk) 06:10, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

I've removed though I'll list the sources here (other than the unknown one)

• "Contemporary distribution of Lebanon's main religious groups". The Library of Congress. 1988. Retrieved 27 March 2018. claims to have info on 1932 and 1985
• Najem, T. (1998). "The collapse and reconstruction of Lebanon" (PDF). Working Paper. University of Durham, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
• "International Religious Freedom Report 2010: Lebanon". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
• "2012 Report on International Religious Freedom: Lebanon". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 10 July 2016.</ref>

for future mining. --Erp (talk) 14:03, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

On the 1985 and other info, I wonder when the figures include refugees and when they do not. Certainly the voting registration figures listed in one article source would not include refugees. However we should certainly remember that getting firm data for Lebanon is currently impossible. --Erp (talk) 14:21, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

I'm almost inclined to remove all the current charts and tables unless they have proper cites. --Erp (talk) 01:57, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

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