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I totally agree that the introduction is relatively poor, also being unstructured. So I've decided to put some of my thought process or potential edits about the introduction here.
I've restructured it so it was more concise and easier to understand.
Example of how I would edit it: "Jonestown, also know as Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by Peoples Temple, an American religious cult led by Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, it became the site of a mass murder-suicide in which more than 900 people died, most from cyanide poisoning. The deaths followed the killing of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and four others at the nearby Port Kaituma airstrip by Temple members, after Ryan had visited Jonestown to investigate reports of abuse and help residents who wanted to leave.
Jones and other Temple leaders framed the deaths as “revolutionary suicide,” presenting them as an act of protest against outside enemies and perceived persecution. However, later accounts have described the event as massacre, or mass murder because many victims were children, while some adults were injected with poison with armed guards were ordered to prevent people from escaping. The event made Jonestown internationally infamous and turned its name into a symbol of the danger associated with coercive religious authority, isolation, and extreme group loyalty." HappyAppleDragon (talk) 20:32, 29 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Wiki Education assignment: Religion 100 Introduction to Religion
I propose that this article be split into a new page about the massacre itself titled "Jonestown massacre", as both the commune and massacre are notable in their own rights. Pondering my orb (talk) 17:49, 2 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
There was a very long discussion about this that sort of petered out. I support it though, there is a lot of scholarship on the dynamics and history of the commune and a lot of coverage of the massacre. Better to split these, keeping them together frustrates attempts to improve coverage of both. But - it will require a lot of article writing. PARAKANYAA (talk) 13:23, 13 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 16 March 2026 and 6 May 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): HappyAppleDragon (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Dragonkingshum, Tongbb.
