Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism/2011 organization categories proposal

This is a proposal by JorgePeixoto and Roscelese for reforming the categories on Catholic organizations.

• Create Category:Organizations of Catholics for any religious organization of self-identified Catholics. This will replace Category: Roman Catholic Church organizations as a subcat of Category:Christian organizations by denomination.

• Rename Category:Roman Catholic organizations by century and its subcats to Category:Organizations of Catholics by century, etc.

• Create Category:Official Roman Catholic Church organizations. Make it a subcat of Category:Organizations of Catholics. This category would include only official organizations. The Catholic League for example would be excluded - they may not be dissident, but they are unofficial.

• Create Category:Dissenting organizations of Catholics as a subcat of Category:Organizations of Catholics. This would include organizations of self-identified Catholics who are identified by reliable sources, eg. mainstream newspapers and academic books, as publicly dissenting against Catholic Faith (as in the Catechism) or Catholic discipline (as in the Canon Law), as long as the dissenting persists and has generated significant coverage. The threshold of coverage to include an organization in this subcat will be decided on a case-by-case basis. This shouldn't generate controversy, because dissenting organizations are often proud of their dissent.

• Affirmative sourcing will be necessary to include an organization either in the "official" category or in the "dissenting" category. Such sourcing being absent, the organization will remain in Category:Organizations of Catholics.