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Hi, about [1] I wanted to point out that the major focus of the work in creating wikipedia content has been internationally oriented so far. With some 200 countries it is a big world and only about half have been documented in wikipedia enough to have their own article related to the religion. In addition, while there are several volumes on the history of the religion in the US the problem of density actually arises - it would be a singularly huge body of work to distill into an article and could easily constitute a set of articles (already begun in the cases of South Carolina and Greater Boston.) At the same time the continental areas have been individually written up per country to some degree and then compiled into a continental region. So just wanting to fill in the perspective on the work so far. BTW did you know about Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bahá'í_Faith? --Smkolins (talk) 13:36, 27 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi, thank you very much for the feedback! I am pretty new here so it helps to know the most useful ways to help out. I see the rationale for not making pages for the religion in Canada or the US yet. Just to be clear, the idea is that making individual country articles is not a priority until more general topics have been covered thoroughly? Is it generally preferred to have a few quality pages rather than a lot of stub articles? Thanks again!ThomasEdistar (talk) 17:30, 27 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Also, just to confirm, was copying sections from other pages to make Belize and Panama sections on this page a good thing to do or would it be better to wait until there is more complete coverage of Baha'is in Central America? ThxThomasEdistar (talk) 17:31, 27 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Yes work on the other countries by all means. That is the priority I've been working on for some years now after consulting with a few active editors. I've grown the American section a bit more as a way of integrating other articles but really we have about a hundred odd countries waiting. As the other countries fill up then also add them to the continental divisions. Keep in mind that especially if a main article exists then the continental reference to that country shouldn't been very large because the main article covers all the details. I'd suggest just the header section of those articles. --Smkolins (talk) 23:25, 27 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

BTW I often take a similar country in the continent as a template and find particular entries for the relevant countries. Often the early history is close and the later history entirely distinct. --Smkolins (talk) 23:28, 27 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Okay very good. I'll keep this in mind.ThomasEdistar (talk) 03:08, 28 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Nice work on Baha'i Faith in Russia. Good to see things getting attended to. Thanks --Smkolins (talk) 14:17, 12 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hey, for the continental pages (mainly the ones for Africa, Europe, and Asia), I was wondering given the number of individual countries listed -- alphabetically, atm -- what you thought of organizing them regionally (I was thinking going off the UN geoscheme), and then alphabetically within each region? Just to reduce the clutter. And I'd add a section for Caucasus for the Europe one cause the UN puts them with the Middle East. ThomasEdistar (talk) 19:43, 2 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Also regarding the above, not a problem. It usually takes me less brainpower to fix citations, grammar, etc than add new content anyway. ThomasEdistar (talk) 19:43, 2 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

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