Talk:Jehoram

Just a note for 216.99.203.xxx :

I notice you've been adding a lot of stuff from Easton's Bible Dictionary. I imagine this is fine as far as it goes, but the source has two really serious problems: (1) it's really biased, and (2) it's really old (doesn't reflect the latest thought on Biblical scholarship). I don't think I'm saying anything you disagree with or didn't already know, I'm just hoping to persuade you to, in addition to uploading all this stuff, to put some really serious effort into finding some Biblical scholars to help update these (very many) entries. This would be a fantastic service. You could cover numerous newsgroups and mailing lists, and perhaps friends, and try to organize an invasion of Biblical scholars to help whip this material into shape.

The articles all are linked to from some Wikipedia page, right? (You could always find them by searching for "Easton's Bible Dictionary" I suppose.)

Thanks! --Larry Sanger

That would be me :-) Yes, you are definitely right, they are out of date and biased. I will see what I can do to enlist help in updating them. I did not make a specific index page, because the vast majority of the (almost 4000) dictionary entries are not useful for Wikipedia. --Alan Millar

Sounds good to me. I think it's always a good idea to find at least one other article from which to link to a new article you create, so there aren't any "orphaned" articles. But that's just me. By now I imagine we have hundreds of "orphaned" articles. We'll no doubt write a script sometime to identify them. Don't worry about it, I'm just making observations, that's all. --LMS