Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-34753919-20180730191219/@comment-5175866-20180730213502

Hi there and welcome to Bible Wiki. I am glad you asked about this, but I am not sure if you learned this from our policy page or from trying to create a verse article (didn't see anything in the log). Regardless, we typically don't allow articles on verses. For one, verses are artificial to the text of Scripture- they are very helpful additions made by some editors for quoting and referencing. They are a universal standard, but they are imperfect. Often they are misused and to certain content out of context (intentionally or unintentionally). Scripture is best understood in light of a passage as a whole. The same applies with chapter numbers, thus its best to treat each passage of Scripture as one literary unit. In many cases this will be the entire book, or some books such as Psalms it will be the individual Psalm. I can talk about how to discern specific literary divisions within a book if you'd like.

All that being said, due to differences in translations, misuse of verses and false copying we don't usually allow articles about specific book or verses in Scripture. Again, they aren't original to the Bible and are meant as reference and reading aides, not to capture the content of Scripture (infact, if overused they can hinder the proper understanding of certain biblical texts). If you explained what you wanted to create I could give you feedback on whether or not that would be allowed.

You can create a blogpost, which allows you to express your ideas in whatever format you choose. You could definitely create a blogpost about a certain verse. The article content is meant to be encyclopedic, thus something about one verse is not usually appropriate. There are a couple of exceptions regarding chapters (see Book of the Generations of Adam and Parables of the Missing).

This is a complicated issue and I am just trying to give you a high level overview- the short answer is probably not, but I'm willing to hear your idea for an encyclopedic article entry. If you just want to express your ideas a blog post would be the best route.