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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 Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Utah
Project Style Guidelines
See:
- Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (Latter Day Saints)
- Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)
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.
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).
Templates
- See Misplaced Pages: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
- {{Joseph Smith, Jr.}} - Articles about the life of Joseph Smith
- {{LDSInfobox}} - box for prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS
- {{LDSInfobox/JS}} - box for Joseph Smith only
- {{LDSTaskBox}} - the task box above
- {{LDS-stub}} - LDS stubs
- {{lds}} - formats scripture references and links to http://scriptures.lds.org
Requests for comment and Polls
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 08:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
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.
Recent Results
Articles in Progress
Besides the work below, there are dozens of LDS stubs that need to be filled out. See Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement/Articles needed and Misplaced Pages: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.
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 (talk) 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)
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 17:13, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- Sounds worthy to me. CaliforniaKid 03:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Cleanup
- Mormon Trail (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was just expanded by an editor, but much of the material seems to concern the early "chruch" 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)
Expand
- Hyrum Smith - Seems a little short for his importance. Could use some cleanup as well. Tijuana Brass 03:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
- Haun's Mill massacre - short and cites no references. --Lethargy 01:00, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
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)
Neutrality questioned
- Joseph Smith, Jr. Claims of a major NPOV dispute, NPOV tag keeps being removed while dispute still in progress from User:bcatt Trödel 03:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- Kirtland Safety Society claims of information suppression by User:Anon166 due to my assertion on documentation regarding Brodie quotation. WBardwin 22:01, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - See: Neutrality, "Members believe...", History, and Criticism and controversy section sources. --Lethargy 23:09, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Listed at Articles for deletion
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 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:Mormonism and controversy
Category:History of the Latter Day Saint movement
- Category:Notable people in Latter Day Saint history
- crossreferences to Significant places in Mormonism
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:Notable Latter Day Saints
- crossreferences to Notable people in Latter Day Saint history
Category:Organizations related to Mormonism
- crossreferences to Latter Day Saint denominations and Latter Day Saint hierarchy
Category:Significant places in Mormonism
Script-generated to-do lists
/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)
/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)
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
- vegasbright
- WBardwin
- Moogle
- Billlund
- Authr
- BankyEdwards
- Nereocystis
- Hathawayc
- MrWhipple
- KevinM
- Idono
- Antley
- RBurns
- Paul D. Anderson
Tijuana Brass- Taking a break from Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages - 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
Participant responsiblities
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)
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 Misplaced Pages 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.