Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement

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Contents 1 Scope 2 Project Style Guidelines 2.1 Timeline 2.2 Templates 3 Requests for comment and Polls 3.1 Requests for comment 3.2 Polls 3.2.1 Recent Results 4 Departments 5 To do 6 Recognized content 6.1 Featured articles 6.2 Featured lists 6.3 Featured images 6.4 Good articles 7 Articles in Progress 7.1 Featured content nominations 7.2 For Peer Review 7.3 Create/Collaborate 7.4 Cleanup 7.5 Expand 7.6 Accuracy disputed 7.7 Neutrality questioned 7.8 Listed at Articles for deletion 8 How To Find WP:LDS Articles 9 Script-generated to-do lists 9.1 /Articles needed 9.2 /Requested stubs 10 Participants 11 Participant responsiblities 11.1 Tasks/projects accepted 11.2 Help wanted

Shortcut: WP:LDS WikiProject: Latter Day Saint movement (edit or discuss this box) Collaboration of the Month: Family Home Evening • Nominations for next month: Captain Moroni • Lehi, son of Helaman • Book of Mormon chronology • Family Home Evening • Apostle (Mormonism) Featured content Comments needed on the List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints nomination for Featured list status Articles in Progress See LDS WikiProject for more detail. • Request for Comment    What needs to be added to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints article? • Is the LDS Church article neutral • New article on Spirit existence proposed • Jesus in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Criticism of Mormonism • Peer Review:    Heavenly Mother • Restoration Branches • Common Latter-day Saint perceptions • Emma Hale Smith • United Order • William Clayton (Mormon Pioneer) • Daniel Webster Jones • Valeen Tippetts Avery • Thomas L. Kane • baby blessing • Culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Needed articles:    Second Coming (Mormonism); Mormon section in Dating Creation; Marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Utah Lighthouse Ministry • Mormonism Research Ministry • Cleanup:    Mormon Trail • First Vision • Anti-Mormon • To expand:    Hyrum Smith • Edmunds-Tucker Act • Celestial marriage • Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Korea • Temple Square • Haun's Mill massacre • Accuracy disputed:    Plural wives of Joseph Smith, Jr. Other things to do • Work on LDS stubs • Create new articles • Upload temple pictures (with permission) for List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Finding articles • Category:Mormonism • List of articles about Mormonism • Category:Latter Day Saint denominations • Category:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement templates

[edit] Scope

This is a WikiProject on elements of the Latter Day Saint movement, Mormonism, Latter Day Saint history, doctrine, practices, and other cultural effects inspired by Joseph Smith, Jr..

See also: List_of_articles_about_Mormonism

This project is closely related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Utah

[edit] Project Style Guidelines

See:

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Latter Day Saints)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)
• Standards for Temples

Some quick points to remember:

• Articles wholly pertaining to the Latter Day Saint movement should be parenthesized "(Latter Day Saints)", unless the article name is unambiguous without the parenthetical.
• Articles should not be limited to a single Latter Day Saint denomination, unless including the entire Latter Day Saint movement is impractical or awkward. For example, instead of "Restoration (Community of Christ)" or "Restoration (LDS Church)", you would call the article Restoration (Latter Day Saints).
• In article names, references to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should capitalize the initial The and include a hyphen and a lower-case "d".
• In general, use the term Mormon or its derivatives only when referring to people or denominations with historical ties to Utah-based The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Deadlinks are discouraged as they tend to attract POV material on religious subjects.
• Apply the {{LDS-stub}} boilerplate message at the end of stubs.

[edit] Timeline

There's a timeline based on LDS (1850s-on) and Mormonism (centuries and 1820s-1840s) in general. For specific dates (eg, June 1, 1944) you should link normally. You should also show a link to the timeline somewhere on the page (probably in "see also" or in See ... bits) as appropriate. You can start here to see the timeline: 19th century (Mormonism).

[edit] Templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement/Templates for more detail on the use and purpose of these templates.

• {{LDSWelcome}} - welcome new users
• {{LDSWelcomeNPOV}} - welcome new users (and let them know you had to revert per NPOV)
• {{LDSproject}} - designates an article as part of the WikiProject
• {{LDS}} - Series of Info on Latter Day Saint Movement
• {{LDSInfobox}} - Infobox for prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS
• {{Joseph Smith, Jr.}} - Navigation for articles on Joseph Smith life/teachings/etc
  • {{JSJ navfooter}} - Navigation for biographical articles on Joseph Smith
  • {{LDSInfobox/JS}} - Infobox for Joseph Smith only
• {{Infobox LDS Temple}} - Infobox for use with The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS temples
• {{LDS-stub}} - LDS stubs
• {{lds}} - formats scripture references and links to http://scriptures.lds.org
• {{LDSTaskBox}} - the task box above

[edit] Requests for comment and Polls

[edit] Requests for comment

• New article proposal covering the following topics: Intelligences, our Spirit "body," Holy Ghost, Light of Christ, and consequential teachings. Request by --Trödel 19:30, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Jesus_in_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints cookiecaper (talk / contribs) 20:32, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Criticism of Mormonism - Took a shot at removing some POV and copyediting the first half of the article to make it more concise and encyclopedic. Would appreciate outside input. Tijuana Brass^¡Épa!-E@ 08:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
• Extermination Order -- this article is missing references. We need more the assistance of other editors to review, edit, and add references. Storm Rider ^(talk) 09:33, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Polls

Polls are used to create guidelines for this WikiProject and its corresponding articles by consensus of the contributors.

Vote on current issues at the Poll page.

If there is an issue you would like brought up, use the talk page to discuss it.

[edit] Recent Results

[edit] Departments

• Assessment - the assessment unit.

[edit] To do

• Place the {{LDSproject}} banner on all relevant articles.
• Place all relevant articles on the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement/Articles by category.
• Check recent changes for recent improvements, vandalism, and other changes.

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured lists

• List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

[edit] Featured images

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Articles in Progress

The current Mormon Collaboration of the Month is Baptism for the dead. Every month a different Mormon-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please help to improve the article any way you can.

Besides the work below, there are dozens of LDS stubs that need to be filled out. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement/Articles needed and Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement/Requested stubs.

To prevent duplication of effort, if you are working on an open task, PLEASE sign your name beneath the article's listing below, preferably with some sort of comment, so we know who is working on what, and what still needs to be done.

Once the task you have been working on is complete, please remove it from this list, and from {{Template:LDSinfobox}}.

Please put NEW requests at the BOTTOM of their respective list.

[edit] Featured content nominations

• List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints needs comments at nomination for featured status

[edit] For Peer Review

• Heavenly Mother - --Trödel - Rewrote to make it clear that it is not official doctrine. Needs references. --Trödel 16:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
• Restoration Branches - still kind of working on this. I might also contribute some articles on organizations within the Restoration Branch movement and maybe some wikinews on the Conference of Restoration Branches meeting in April. --NERD42  EMAIL  TALK  H2G2  UNCYC  NEWS  01:14, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• Common Latter-day Saint perceptions This still needs major help!!! Tom Haws 22:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Emma Hale Smith - Listed for collaboration over a year ago - looks tremendously better, but I would like to run it through Peer Review before we let it go from this page. --Trevdna 15:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
• United Order: Some changes have been made, including classification of the system as Christian communism. I'm not sure that's entirely appropriate, but I don't know all that much about it, so some other people need to go over this. cookiecaper (talk / contribs) 16:01, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• William Clayton (Mormon Pioneer): recently expanded. Comments welcome. WBardwin 22:42, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• Daniel Webster Jones: Created first draft, Ryan Reeder 22:19, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
• Valeen Tippetts Avery: expanded existing stub due to historian's death. WBardwin 06:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
• Thomas L. Kane: New article, needs another eye please. WBardwin 19:38, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Portrayals of Mormons in popular media 15:42, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Temple Square - An important article, but short. I need input on anything that can be done to improve the article. --Lethargy 23:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
• Life of Joseph Smith, Jr. from 1827 to 1830 — it's essentially complete, and needs some editing and input by people other than me. COGDEN 04:17, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
• Haun's Mill massacre I've added added more material and citations. Needs review / editing by others.74s181 13:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• Mormonism Unvailed: I created a stub from an existing red link on the Salamander Letter page...and kept writing. I'm continuing to work on this, but would welcome input from other editors. So far, it's driving Wiki proofreaders nuts as they attempt to correct the misspelling of "unveiled" in the title.:-) Bochica 05:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Limited Geography Model (Book of Mormon): This page was created as the result of discussion about the reorganization of the Archaeology and the Book of Mormon page. Still working on this one as well, but would appreciate it if others could take a look at it. Bochica 05:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Zelph: Expanded to full article with citations. Bochica 17:34, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
• Studies of the Book of Mormon: Created article. Bochica 17:34, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
• Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet: Expanded stub to full article. Bochica 17:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
• Warren Parrish: Expanded to full article with citations. Bochica 05:05, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Perfection (Latter Day Saints) A discussion of how Faith, Works, and Grace form a cycle leading to Perfection. Intended as a 'spinout' article for other LDS articles that discuss Faith, Works, Grace or Perfection and are too long, I've already moved some material from the Mormonism and Christianity article. Review, comments, suggestions, enhancements are welcome, but I hope to keep confrontation / comparison to mainstream Christian beliefs on these topics out of this article, such discussion belongs in the M&C article. 74s181 11:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Revelation (Latter Day Saints) A discussion of the different kinds of revelation and how they are supposed to work within the LDS church. It is CoJCoLDS specific, cites GAs, but that is only because I don't know how other LDS movement churches are different. Still somewhat in progress but review, comments, suggestions, enhancements are welcome, note that I hope to keep confrontation / comparison to mainstream Christian beliefs out of this article, such discussion belongs in the M&C article. I've already added links to several other LDS movement articles, borrowed some material from the LDS section of the Revelation article. Eventually will move some material from the hugely bloated Mormonism and Christianity article, but not until I know this new article isn't going to get deleted. 74s181 20:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Create/Collaborate

• Second Coming (Mormonism) - Not much in the LDS article, I think it deserves some attention (maybe it's just me:))The Scurvy Eye 01:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll try to get this thing started sometime next week (I'll get it done, no worry)-The Scurvy Eye 19:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Maybe Eschatology (Mormonism) would be a better title? CaliforniaKid 03:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

What the heck does that mean? I don't think it would be a better title because nobody would understand it. --Pahoran513 03:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Eschatology is the study of the end times or last things. It encompasses not only the second coming, but also any beliefs about antichrist, tribulation, rapture, resurrection, new creation, etc. I suggest it because while the second coming is a worthy topic, I think these other things are worthy topics also. You could make Second Coming (Mormonism) a redirect page that points to Eschatology (Mormonism). But it's just a suggestion, and I realize that Latter-day Saints often try to avoid technical theological terminology. CaliforniaKid 03:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed that the Eschatology article contains a section on Mormonism. Perhaps this could serve as a precedent, and rather than creating a new page, we could add to the Second Coming article a subsection on the doctrine's form, role, and function in Mormonism. CaliforniaKid 03:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• I've recently done quite a bit of research concerning the 1826 "trial" of Joseph Smith, Jr. This is mentioned in Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr., but there is much detail not included. Sound like a worthy endeavor? uriah923^(talk) 17:13, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Sounds worthy to me. CaliforniaKid 03:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

• Mormon Trail (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) was just expanded by an editor, but much of the material seems to concern the early "chruch" [sic] rather than the trail per se. There are also POV problems, not to mention the grammar and spelling mistakes. -Will Beback 08:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I recently reverted/removed this LDS history material as it was not not directly applicable to the article as presently constituted. But the article is very brief and quite incomplete. I hope to work on it in the next few months, and would love help. WBardwin 05:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

• First Vision - Needs wikifying mostly. Could probably be shortened some. Any significant changes, though, should probably wait until the Joseph Smith, Jr. controversy dies down, since it'll probably just get dragged into it. Tijuana Brass 02:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expand

• Hyrum Smith - Seems a little short for his importance. Could use some cleanup as well. Tijuana Brass 03:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Accuracy disputed

• Plural wives of Joseph Smith, Jr. - see my comments at Talk:Plural wives of Joseph Smith, Jr. --Nerd42 15:33, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Page has been renamed Joseph Smith, Jr. and Polygamy for NPOV reasons -Visorstuff 22:55, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality questioned

[edit] Listed at Articles for deletion

• Portrayals of Mormons in popular media (AfD discussion)

[edit] How To Find WP:LDS Articles

Category:Mormonism – See also: List of articles about Mormonism

Category:Latter Day Saint art and culture – should we add literature? To me it is included in "art," but then so do films and music to me.

Category:Latter Day Saint films

Category:Latter Day Saint music

Category:Latter Day Saint denominations Category:Latter Day Saint doctrines, beliefs, and practices

Category:Latter Day Saint doctrines regarding deity

Category:Latter Day Saint hierarchy

crossreferences to Latter Day Saint leaders

Category:Latter Day Saint ordinances, rituals, and symbolism

Category:History of the Latter Day Saint movement Category:Latter Day Saint leaders

Category:Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Category:Presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Category:Latter Day Saint texts

Category:Book of Mormon

Category:Latter Day Saint periodicals

Category:Organizations related to Mormonism

crossreferences to Latter Day Saint denominations and Latter Day Saint hierarchy

Category:Significant places in Mormonism

Category:Mormon temples

[edit] Script-generated to-do lists

[edit] /Articles needed

553 red links compiled from nearly all of the articles in the Category:Mormonism hierarchy. I've listed the Mormonism-related articles that employ each red link because many of them are obvious mistakes that should be fixed on the page. Some should also be redirects to prevent similar mistakes in the future. I've also listed the number of main namespace links-to.

Many of these have nothing whatsoever to do with the Latter Day Saint movement, but I believe this list is interesting. Many secular links need to be fixed anyway.

Make intentions to write articles known on the project page — Cool Hand Luke 07:36, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] /Requested stubs

This list compiled from Category:LDS stubs, listed in order of number of links-to, excluding wikilinks from user pages and wikipedia namespace. Note that the {{LDS-stub}} template causes every LDS stub to have a self-referential link. Therefore, every article has one less link-to than this list shows. Thus, articles listed her have one less link-to than it would appear. Therefore the articles with "1" link-to are in fact orphans. Cool Hand Luke 07:36, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Heh. this dif shows that Mormon (prophet) is now beating Spencer W. Kimball for links. Meanwhile, Hyrum Smith has gained nine links since November, jumping up into the top ten. Cool Hand Luke 07:45, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

The LDSM project is currently seeking new project members, please join and add to your watchlist if this topic is of interest, regardless of whether you are a Latter Day Saint or not.

• Cool Hand Luke
• Cookiecaper
• Visorstuff
• Frecklefoot
• COGDEN
• User:Bccomm
• Tom Haws Generational and lifelong LDS member. WP admin. Conservative in practice, liberal in doctrine (the Hindu, pacifist, temple Mormon?)
• Jgardner
• Gilgamesh
• Josiah
• Storm Rider
• Tech the Guru Floyd - unable to contribute for at least 2 years (beginning the end of 2006) ;)
• Val42
• wrp103 (Bill Pringle) - Talk
• John Hamer
• JonMoore
• Alai
• 74s181 I live in KC, MO so I'm working on articles relating to Mormon / Missouri history.
• vegasbright
• WBardwin
• Moogle
• Billlund
• Authr
• BankyEdwards
• Nereocystis
• Hathawayc
• MrWhipple
• KevinM
• Idono
• Antley
• RBurns
• Paul D. Anderson
• Tijuana Brass - Taking a break from Wikipedia for the time being.
• TheScurvyEye I just found this project on 11/6/05, let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
• Nerd42 (RLDS/Restoration Branch member)
• Trevdna After skirting around the edges for a few weeks, I am finally deciding to join today, on January 12, 2006.Have regrettably left Wikipedia - see user page for details.
• Sue Anne
• bhludzin
• Reaverdrop
• RobertC - I spend most of my time at the feastupontheword.org wiki, but would like to help out here occassionally.
• Cathryn Sign me up!
• Ryan Reeder
• Epsiloon - Lifeless, robotic, laptop-user seeking brutal overlord. Finds LDS movement interesting.
• Trödel 15:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Pahoran513
• Lethargy
• CaliforniaKid
• Noldoaran
• OneWeirdDude
• FishUtah (talk • contribs)
• Badbilltucker - Probably only directly project-related activities.
• Bochica - Particularly interested in adding references and addressing NPOV
• Chiros Sunrider
• Rojerts
• yovinedelcielo Will help where he can.
• Vassyana 10:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
• JonRidinger lifelong LDS member from Ohio with particular interest in LDS History and structure.
• Jorbian Interested deeply in the subject and desire to make sure that all LDS realated articles are objective.
• TomasBat
• Austinsimcox Faithful member for most of my life

[edit] Participant responsiblities

[edit] Tasks/projects accepted

I've decided to start tackling the temples list. Does anyone know of someplace that offers fair use pictures of any of the temples? Sue Anne 22:57, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

• Liberty Jail - I've added a lot of material to this recently, still have a couple more sections to add. 74s181 13:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I apologize - I was negligent in adding my projects to this list. For anyone interested in critiquing, reviewing or editing, I have been working on the following tasks:

1. Expansion of stub Nahom to full article.
2. Expansion of stub Bountiful (Book of Mormon) to full article.
3. Complete reorganization of Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
4. Created article Limited Geography Model (Book of Mormon)
5. Created article Mormonism Unvailed
6. Expansion of article An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
7. Creation of stubs for Shazer and Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet

Bochica 20:13, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help wanted

• Jgardner is looking for help in writing biographies on the church leaders. Contact him on his talk page if you want to help. He can show you what he is doing and where to go to get information. Even if you aren't a good writer, there is plenty of other work needed in correlating dates and various things.

• bhludzin - thank you for everyone who has done such a great job on the List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There are now articles on all of the existing temples. Now we need properly licensed pictures of all of the temples uploaded to Wikipedia so that they can be added to the articles and also to the list (check out the list - it is looking great!) I have gone to web sites, found some pictures, and asked the owners for permission via e-mail, and uploaded them. Please do not upload pictures without permission, the bots will just remove them. If you have any photos, or have friends with photos, please upload them. Thank you!

• DAde - He needs help because his Portal:Latter-day Saints is sometimes vandalised. Please look on his portal and correct vandalism.

• Jerry Crimson Mann is translating the article Mormon handcart pioneers into Chinese. He wants to know about the title of a book listed in the references, which is "Hafen and Hafen". What does "Hafen" mean in this case? Does it refer to "heaven"? Or does it mean "harbor" in the German language? He's looking forward to your reply. :)

• The Book of Mormon page is sometimes vandalised with anti-mormon bias. Please look on this page and revert anti-mormon bias.

• Mormon pioneers is the current collaboration of the month. I would like to add the non-commercial LDS movies, Legacy: A Mormon Journey to the external Links section.I think to upload this movie on http://video.google.com/ would not be a problem because LDS movies like The Restoration (Google Video) are also on http://video.google.com/ .But I can not upload this movie because I do not have it and I´m from Europe and I´m not a mormon. So please, is there someone out there who can upload this movie on http://video.google.com/ and share it with us?Daniel3 17:02, 8 February 2007 (UTC)