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| title            = [[World Christian Encyclopedia]]
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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 Publishing|Brill]], and they are used with caution by reliable sources, including the [[Pew Research Center]], Oxford Handbooks, and [[Cambridge University Press|Cambridge reference works]] (some postdating the methodological critiques).

== Prior discussions ==
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<blockquote>''Please add links to other significant discussions.  When in doubt, read and rely on the discussions themselves, rather than the simple summary.''</blockquote>

* [[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'''

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==Notes==
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==References==
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== Original table row for comparison ==
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|- class="s-nc" id="WCD-WCE-WRD"
| ''World Christian Database'', ''[[World Christian Encyclopedia]]'', and ''World Religion Database'' <small>(''WCD'', ''WCE'', ''WRD'')</small> {{WP:RSPSHORTCUT|WP:WCD}} {{WP:RSPSHORTCUT|WP:WCE}} {{WP:RSPSHORTCUT|WP:WRD}}
| {{WP:RSPSTATUS|nc}}
| {{rsnl|395|RfC: deprecation of Gordon-Conwell's WRD/WCD/ARDA & Pew-Templeton's GRF|2022|rfc=y}} {{rsnl|428|RfC: WCE-WRD/WCD|2024|rfc=y}}
| {{WP:RSPLAST|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 Publishing|Brill]], and they are used with caution by reliable sources, including the [[Pew Research Center]], Oxford Handbooks, and [[Cambridge University Press|Cambridge reference works]] (some postdating the methodological critiques).
| {{WP:RSPUSES|worldchristiandatabase.org|referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/world-christian-encyclopedia-online|worldreligiondatabase.org}}
|}