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Most translated website in 2024

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The official Jehovah's witnesses website is the most translated website according to this source. Has it been noted in the body of the article yet? Wår (talk) 08:18, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A few issues:
  • The cited source is a blog, which isn't a suitable source for Wikipedia.
  • The cited source is a commercial venture rather than a source that independently researches translation efforts.
  • The company that runs the blog is privately owned, and it cannot be determined whether it has any connection to Jehovah's Witnesses (for example, the cited page refers to "Brother Geoffrey Jackson"); it cannot be established whether Watch Tower volunteers separately outsource paid translation work for Tomedes.
  • The detail is promotional in nature, and is not notable in the scope of this article.
  • The cited sources mentions Jehovah’s Witnesses 18 times but the actual publisher, Watch Tower Society, 0 times, further suggesting a promotional tone, or possible commercial relationships such as comment-for-pay or Watch Tower translators performing separate freelance work for Tomedes.
  • Most posts on the cited sources' blog get no engagement at all, with one or a few comments on the occasional post, but the post about the JW site has over 100 comments, almost all from JWs. This includes many within a month of when the post was first made.
  • The Watch Tower Society is a publishing company involved in translation with an unpaid labour pool, so it is not remarkable that they do more translation than companies whose primary business is not publishing and have to pay their staff.
  • The number of languages into which the JW site is translated is misleading, because for some of the languages, it is just a single landing page in the target language, or a site in English with some downloads available in the target language. It is not the case that all of the pages on the site are available in all the target languages.
  • The tone of the question with 'yet' suggests an expectation or demand that is not consistent with the requirements of the article.
But happy to hear the thoughts of others.--Jeffro77 Talk 21:46, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that's a claim that needs much stronger sourcing if we were to include it. A blog is not that. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:38, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

clarification question

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under demographics, there's a sentence that says: "In 2023, Jehovah's Witnesses reported a worldwide annual increase of 1.3%". the implication from the preceding paragraph is a 1.3% increase in membership, but i think it's still ambiguous, and was wondering if someone could pls clarify, ty SmolPetra (talk) 05:56, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It does refer to an increase in membership. More specifically, it is the rate of increase in the denomination's reported average publisher figures, where 'publisher' is their term for individuals who report preaching activity and are approved by the organisation to do so.--Jeffro77 Talk 08:51, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ah, gotcha! ty for clarifying, i appreciate it :) SmolPetra (talk) 17:26, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 24 October 2024

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In the first paragraph under "Background" I believe that the statement "the fleshly return of Jesus Christ" should be changed to something more neutral like "the physical return" or "the corporeal return". Blind-Guard04 (talk) 15:08, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I think all these variations are neutral, but I changed it to "physical return" because that sounds less archaic. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:10, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Japan section

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I asked elsewhere about the content cited to Japanese sources. There's one comment in particular I think should have greater visibility: [1] It looks like this was an internet survey instead of a criminal investigation, which would be important to clarify. Courtesy ping to Erynamrod. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:24, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]