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I've listed this article for peer review because it is an important topic of WikiProject Christianity, and I found it humbling and rewarding to populate as a Good Article. Since I have never significantly contributed to an article about a religion-related topic before, help from editors knowledgeable on the subject will surely be needed. I intend to keep this PR open for as long as many will respond to it.

Thanks, SLIGHTLY^mad 15:46, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Display name 99

I was asked by the OP to comment on this review. Here's what I have. Display name 99 (talk) 20:21, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

You can get a lot of information at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. Basically, the lead is intended as a cohesive summary of what is to come later in the article. Any detail that is in the lead should be explained again, and usually in greater detail, down below. There's a lot of information about demographics that is only mentioned in the lead, and thus does not conform to Wikipedia guidelines. Display name 99 (talk) 20:21, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On that subject, the information about demographics is all too modernistic. We know in detail how many Christians there are now and where they live, but we know nothing of where they came from, where they lived throughout history, or any of that. This applies to the main section as well, where it should be explained in more detail. Display name 99 (talk) 20:21, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The ideal length for a lead is 4 paragraphs. This article has 5. Display name 99 (talk) 20:21, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

General

All content needs to be cited. There are several sentences clearly without a source. Display name 99 (talk) 20:21, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
As I touched on in the lead, there isn't enough about the history of who the Christian people are. That Christians were once considered to belong only to a sect of Judaism before branching out on their own, and the different times of Christians there are, isn't talked about. Display name 99 (talk) 20:21, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A "History" section would do well in this article to cover the things that I've mentioned. Display name 99 (talk) 20:21, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]