World Christian Encyclopedia

World Christian Encyclopedia
Type	website
Shortcut	WP:WRD
Status	No consensus
Deprecated	no
Blacklisted	no
Recency	2024
Domain worldchristiandatabase.org
	In source code; External links in articles; Spamcheck tool
RfC
Link	Rfc
Date	2022

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This source in a nutshell: There is

no consensus on the reliability of World Christian Encyclopedia. See § Summary.

World Christian Encyclopedia is a source that has been repeatedly discussed at the Reliable sources noticeboard. This page collects and links information about previous discussions and current consensus, and summarizes it here for convenience.

Summary

Additional considerations apply to the use of the World Christian Database, World Christian Encyclopedia, and World Religion Database. Editors should attribute factual information derived from the sources and they should generally not use them if other reliable sources are available. Scholars have advanced strong methodological critiques of the sources. However, they are published by Oxford University Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Brill, and they are used with caution by reliable sources, including the Pew Research Center, Oxford Handbooks, and Cambridge reference works (some postdating the methodological critiques).

Excerpt

World Christian Encyclopedia is a reference work, with its third edition published by Edinburgh University Press in November 2019. The WCE is known for providing membership statistics for major world religions and Christian denominations including historical data and projections of future populations.

Discussions

Links

RSN

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 395#Association of Religion Data Archives and World Religion Database

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 428#World Christian Encyclopedia and World Religion Database/World Christian Database

Recency

2024

Rfcs

2022 Rfc

2024 Rfc

Notes

References

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Perennial sources
Source	Status (legend)	Discussions			Use
Source	Status (legend)	List	Last	Summary	Use
World Christian Database, World Christian Encyclopedia, and World Religion Database (WCD, WCE, WRD) WP:WCDWP:WCD 📌 WP:WCEWP:WCE 📌 WP:WRDWP:WRD 📌		2022 2024	2024	Additional considerations apply to the use of the World Christian Database, World Christian Encyclopedia, and World Religion Database. Editors should attribute factual information derived from the sources and they should generally not use them if other reliable sources are available. Scholars have advanced strong methodological critiques of the sources. However, they are published by Oxford University Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Brill, and they are used with caution by reliable sources, including the Pew Research Center, Oxford Handbooks, and Cambridge reference works (some postdating the methodological critiques).	1 2 3