World Christian Encyclopedia

World Christian Encyclopedia

(not part of original row)
other names	WCD, WCE, WRD
source type	foobar (not part of original row)
publisher	Fooland (state-funded media) (not part of original row)
classification	No consensus, unclear, or additional considerations apply

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).

Prior discussions

Please add links to other significant discussions. When in doubt, read and rely on the discussions themselves, rather than the simple summary.

• 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

• Simple summary of prior discussions: TBD

Notes

References

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Perennial sources

Source	Status (legend)	Discussions			Use
		List	Last	Summary
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