Talk:Casey Nelson Blake

Beloved Community

"Beloved Community" redirects to this article, though (I believe) the book by this person is not the primary topic. I was familiar with the topic in the context of the Civil Rights movement (see this source, for example) but the idea goes back to Josiah Royce. One of the things I'd like to do if/when I have the time, is to turn the "Beloved Community" redirect into an article about the broader concept (with a hatnote that would direct readers back to this article). I'm rather surprised that the article doesn't already exist. I figure I'd mention this first, as I'm wondering whether perhaps this had come up in the past. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:59, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

I haven't seen it come up but if you have the sourcing for it, sounds good. From my cursory reading, anyone writing about the phrase appears to be connecting multiple people who used the phrased rather than the continuity of a specific idea, e.g., it might be better to cover the concept within specific biographies and disambiguate between them unless there is a singular concept to cover as a dedicated article. Even the Royce article is unsourced or sourced to primary sources so would require cleanup. czar 15:25, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I got to thinking about it when I saw the term in John Lewis's March series (though I'm sure I had seen it before that). Now that I've checked, Beloved community was previously deleted via WP:PROD ("more than six months and no citations; ambiguous phenomena categorized under one term"). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:29, 17 January 2025 (UTC)