h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm glad that you're back to work on this.

Wikipedia seems to think that The Britannica Book of the Year said:
"The Bahá'í Faith is the second most widespread of the world's independent religions in terms of the number of countries where adherents live"
and "It is established in 247 countries and territories throughout the world"

Thanks B Being

This an objective enough source? I'll figure out how to do that link-thing and link that to the article I think. Its not about the numbers of followers, but the disbursement of them that we're outlining here.

Keep passing open windows,

Kosh

I'd really love it if this managed to make its way into the Edited Guide - it's been in Peer Review for *so long* that it'd be lovely if all of our regulars could really lend a hand here and do whatever they can to help speed this article through the process!

Cheers!

Paully

Clearly there are different ways of defining 'widespread' in this context. Perhaps if Koshana added a footnote to the effect that this statement is based on the number of countries in which Baha'i followers live would clear up the point?

I think you also need to mention that a Baha'i is a follower of the Baha'i faith, too and briefly introduce that faith in a short paragraph. You only mention that they are followers of a particular religion in the final paragraph, and I think this needs to be explained near the beginning.

Other than that, I think it's almost there. I'm sure the sub will gladly do the GuideML, as you've broken it into nice sections already.


Keep passing open windows, Kosh

I made a lot of spelling/grammatical suggestions in this post: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F48874?thread=456076&skip=20&show=20#p6814461 I'll see if I can give some more help later.

Koshana, do you think you'll continue working on this?

Koshana doesn't appear to have posted since October.

Yeah, it's been two months, but I wanted to give a bit of a chance, as he'd been putting work in, and the Eds were keen to see it in the Guide. But if he's gone, he's gone.

It seems like what it really needs is a sub-editor to touch it up - are there actually any pending factual errors?

If not, I'd be willing to sub it and make it EG-ready.

If that doesn't work I guess I'll propose a move to Flea Market.

"The Baha'i Faith is the second-most widespread religion of the world (after the collective groups of Christianity)"

This bit was queried by reviewers. It apparently is from Encyclopaedia Brittanica, but the phrasing was still ummed and erred over, and there are some other things that do seem to be causing this to languish a bit.

I'd suggest that it needs someone who knows the subject to give it a good going over if the author isn't coming back. That the author had to explain things in detail in the threads so that people have a clearer idea of what he is trying to say makes me think that his replies should be in the entry. I've no idea whether the entry is right, or the reviewers are right, and I'm no good at the theology (is that the right word?) of it all. I think it would be a lot of work for a sub to add all that content, and still not be sure whether the entry would find agreement from the other reviewers - please post again to help us work out what is best to do with this entry!

There sems to be some confusion as to whether this entry is enough on its own, or if it needs a companion entry to be fully understood.

You could try picking it, and see what the Eds think?

I was one who questioned the 'widespread' claim - posting a link back in post #6 (over 17 months ago!)

At the time, I was trying to be polite, but maybe I was too subtle...


I suspect that the issue of geographic spread may well be wholly unremarkable - and if so, would suggest simply deleting the sentence. My rationale being that Bahai'i is a cultural thing and, maybe, the 'diversity' is a relection of the large number of ex-pat communities around the world - e.g. if these geographically widepread Bahai's are predominantly from middle-class Euro backgrounds then it's hardly news-worthy

However, if Bahai'i has been adopted by significant numbers of _indigenous_ people in these far-flung points around the world, then it really would be worth mentioning...

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My reading of U810002 suggests to me that Koshana is a woman

I've gone ahead and recommended it. I'd rather do the subbing than see it languish in the FM with no guarantee that it would ever be completed.

Your Guide Entry has just been picked from Peer Review by one of our Scouts, and is now heading off into the Editorial Process, which ends with publication in the Edited Guide. We've therefore moved this Review Conversation out of Peer Review and to the entry itself.

If you'd like to know what happens now, check out the page on 'What Happens after your Entry has been Recommended?' at EditedGuide-Process. We hope this explains everything.

Thanks for contributing to the Edited Guide!

Yay! I was nervous when I got the mail - since I really hadn't been in here for ages and certainly the "finnishing" of the piece happened without any input from me there are a few gramatical errors - The Baha'i Faith is the Pronoun and such, but all in all it turned out so well.

Thanks to all!

It really was an affirmation for me of not struggling with something I felt blocked with - so fabulous that the system in this forum has a momentum of its own.

thanks again all and congrats


Kosh

I'm glad you're satisfied, Koshana.

If you think you see errors, you should post to <./>Feedback-Editorial</.>, as I (the Sub-editor) don't have control over the entry anymore.