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WikiProject Lutheranism

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Some Wikipedians have gathered together to improve the quality and organization of information on Wikipedia relating to Lutheranism. This page - and its related subpages - contain some suggestions for how to go about this task. If you are interested in helping but don't know where to begin, you can look at the "To-do list" below or the Project talk page. As always, please sign up as a participant so that we know who is helping.

Background

Scope

This goal of this WikiProject is to improve quality of the information available on Wikipedia about Lutheranism. This includes articles on famous Lutherans, Lutheran churches, and Lutheran theology. It is a further goal of this Wikiproject to help to make this information as well-organized and accessible as possible. Most articles covered under the scope of this Project can be found in Category:Lutheranism and related sub-categories (see the category tree below).

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Helping out

Current To-Do List:

1. Lutheranism articles in Draft: Current list is here.
2. Invite new editors to be participants in the project.
3. Category:Lutheranism and the sub-cats need some dedicated work (see talk page).
4. Write a stub - or better yet a full article! - for one of the suggested articles or one of the articles found in other reference sources, but not here. A list of some such pages can be found here.
5. Continue to check that {{WikiProject Lutheranism}} is on all relevant articles.
6. Continue to re-check article importance & quality, and re-assess as necessary.
7. Regularly review the recent changes in this project's articles for improvements, vandalism, and other changes.

Pictures to be added

• There are still plenty of unused pictures in c:Category:Lutheranism.

Translations

If you happen to notice a great article in different language Wikipedia, list it here with a link to the original, and a note about the topic. We will then find translators as we need them (the German Wikipedia is probably not a bad place to look for some good Lutheranism articles). If you know of a German article you'd like someone else to translate, you can post it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki/German#Missing article directory, under either the Cultural, Buildings, Biography topics.

List articles that could be translated here:

• Hermann Sasse has a small English article, while de:Hermann Sasse is over 1,000 words. The German one could be translated and added to the English article.

• The following Lutheran Martyrs have articles in the German Wikipedia but lack articles in the English Wikipedia:

• Caspar Tauber (de:Caspar Tauber)
• Heinrich von Zütphen (de:Heinrich von Zütphen)
• Leonhard Kaiser (de:Leonhard Kaiser)
• Antonius Corvinus (de:Antonius Corvinus)

• The following Lutheran women have articles in the German Wikipedia but lack articles in the English Wikipedia:

• Ursula Cotta, see article in the German Wikipedia: de:Ursula Cotta (c. 1450–1511), influenced Martin Luther's attitude toward women
• Johanna Eleonora Petersen, article in German: de:Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644-1724), Pietist writer
• Elisabeth Schmitz, article in German: de:Elisabeth Schmitz (1893-1977), unsuccessfully attempted to prod the Confessing Church to take a stance in favor of Jews during the Nazi era.
• Eva von Tiele-Winckler (1866-1930), article in German: de:Eva von Tiele-Winckler, deaconess who founded a deaconess house
• Henriette Maria Luise von Hayn, article in German Henriette Maria Luise von Hayn, wrote "I Am Jesus' Little Lamb"--The original text in German begins with "de:Weil ich Jesu Schäflein bin"

• German hymn articles without English versions. For more candidates for possible translation, see the list of hymns in the Protestant Songbook (in German))

• de:So nimm denn meine Hände

• de:Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade

• Norwegian hymn articles without English versions. For more candidates for possible translation, see List of hymns in the Norsk salmebok 2013 (in Norwegian)

• no:Tillæg til den evangelisk-christelige Psalmebog

• no:Evangelisk-christelig Psalmebog til Brug ved Kirke- og Huus-Andagt

• no:Norsk Salmebok (1985)

• no:Norsk salmebok 2013

• no:Gir'ko-sál'bmagir'ji (Sami)

• no:Salbmagirji (Sami)

• no:Jesus_lever,_graven_brast

• no:Jeg_råde_vil_alle

• no:Jeg_har_så_lun_en_hytte

• no:Ånd over ånder, kom ned fra det høye

• no:Hill_deg,_Frelser_og_forsoner (also in Danish)

• nn:Jesus_liver,_gravi_brast

• "Mighty God, to thy dear name be given"[1] has an article in Norwegian: no:Herre_Gud,_ditt_dyre_navn_og_ære, but not in English

• and the Children's songs, "Jesus is mine and I am his" : no:Jesus_er_min_og_jeg_er_hans and "Thy Little Ones, Dear Lord are We": no:Her kommer dine arme små

• Many Swedish hymn articles can be found in this list in Swedish: sv:Lista_över_psalmer_efter_innehåll Some of the ones that haven't been translated yet include:

• sv:Nu_kommen_är_vår_påskafröjd

• sv:Detta är den stora dagen

• sv:Låt oss fröjdas, gladligt sjunga

• sv:Låt_oss_nu_Jesus_prisa

• sv:Nu låt oss fröjdas med varann

• sv:Uppstånden är vår Herre Krist alles vår frälserman förvisst

• sv:Vad ljus över griften

• For Finnish hymn articles to translate, see the List of hymns in the 1986 Finnish hymnal (list is in Finnish)

• For Danish hymn articles to translate, see the List of hymns in the 2003 Danish Songbook (list is in Danish)

Article suggestions

Sometimes, you just have to find a nice, quiet place to settle in and get to work.

A good place to look for article ideas, and also articles to be translated, is the German-language Wikipedia, especially the Category Martin Luther and the Category Lutheranism. Another good place to look is the Wikiproject Lutheranism Prospectus.

Theology

Writings of Martin Luther

More articles are needed on the pivotal writings of Martin Luther, some suggestions:

• List of Martin Luther's works
• Lectures on Galatians (Martin Luther)
• Two Kinds of Righteousness
• Wittenberg Postil or Eight Sermons from Wittenberg or Invocavit Sermons
• Others?

People

16th and 17th Centuries

• • Anton Otto, played a role in the Antinomian controversy
  • Simon Musaeus, played a role in the Flacian controversy
  • (lacks a German article) Katharina Elizabeth – in 1698, Catholic village leaders of Radibor attempted to have her disciplined for attempted Lutheranization of the population.[2]

20th Century

• Jürgen Diestelmann
• Jobst Schöne (de:Jobst Schöne)
• Gene Edward Veith
• Arthur Carl Piepkorn
• William Frederick Arndt

Liturgy

• Nuremberg-Brandenburgian church order(?) by Andreas Osiander and Johannes Brenz (maybe important also as an background for Prussian Old Lutherans and their resistance)
• Lutheran use of Catholic hymns
• O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid (Catholic first verse and tune by the same name from 1628, expanded by a Protestant in 1641)

Religious Communities

• Alsike convent (sv:Alsike kloster) [3]

Lutheran Church Bodies

Articles on various Lutheran churches/denominations are needed, some suggestions:

• Illinois Lutheran Conference

Articles are needed for many of the synods of the ELCA and ELCIC

Lutheran Theology Journals

• Lutheran Quarterly
• Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology
• Dialog: A Journal of Theology
• Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology
• Lutheran Forum
• Forum Letter

Pan-Lutheran Organizations

• American Lutheran Publicity Bureau
• Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology

Sources for articles

• Nordisk familjebok
• Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
• Christian Cyclopedia (2000)
• Concordia Cyclopedia (1927)
• The Lutheran Cyclopedia (1899) (Google Books)
• Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
• Martin Luther (resources)
• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
• Christian Authors Database
• Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Essay File (Over 2000 essays)
• U.S. religious statistics by county
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Special collections (a directory featuring academic libraries and denominational archives)
• Encyclopaedias disciplinarum realium ideae by Calov in Latin, 1673

Assessment

• the table below is missing a small number of items, which are included at Category:Lutheranism articles by quality

Lutheranism articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	3	6			12
FM					7		7
A				1			1
GA	2	5	7	10		1	25
B	34	21	58	81		39	233
C	33	34	96	268		136	567
Start	43	23	258	983		342	1,649
Stub	1	9	106	871		534	1,521
List	1	2	28	24		2	57
Category					880		880
Disambig					10		10
File					2		2
Project					7		7
Redirect	5	1	34	18	75		133
Template					70		70
NA					1		1
Other					3		3
Assessed	121	96	590	2,262	1,055	1,054	5,178
Total	121	96	590	2,262	1,055	1,054	5,178
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 20,389			Ω = 5.09

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• Institute of Lutheran Theology by JimMcG89, 8 September 2018
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