Portal talk:LDS Church

Hello everybody
I have created this portal. I think this is a very nice portal. I´m NOT a Mormon but I created this portal because I think that on wikipedia should be more portals about western religions.DAde 21:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Featured content
We should have a list of featured and good content to feature here, this is what I can think of right now: --Lethargy 05:10, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Mormon handcart pioneers
 * Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr.

I also think it would be a good idea to write content about the 'Doctrine and Covenants" and the "Pearl of Great Price" which are other books the Mormons follow, or shall i say, the original "Book of Mormon".

I don't see any of the controversial aspect of Mormonism that is covered on most other controversial religions, ie: Plural Wives, Joseph Smith marrying other mens wives, history and conviction as a glass looker, anti-banking company failure, Book of Mormon claims of Native American ancestry with Israel, BH Roberts controversial concerns, letter from Smithsonian Institute about BofM unaccepted as historical document, etc. Does this belong on another page? Do we need a separate section for this? Its not complete without it. Preceeding signed by: Bnaur Talk 04:44, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * This is just a portal. You'll find all of that and more covered in the various Latter Day Saint movement articles. Don't forget, though, that Wikipedia strives for a neutral point of view, which includes avoiding giving undue weight to sidebar issues. If you're looking for a pro-Mormon tract, you probably won't find it. If you're looking for an anti-Mormon tract, you probably won't find that either. --TrustTruth (talk) 21:15, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Book of Mormon navbox
We really need a BofM navbox to organize articles like Historicity of the Book of Mormon, Origin of the Book of Mormon, Archaeology and the Book of Mormon, Linguistics and the Book of Mormon, Three Witnesses, Eight Witnesses, Book of Mormon, etc. --TrustTruth (talk) 17:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

News
I automated the news section, but the section will be empty until the next bot update. —Eustress talk 17:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC) Where is the news section? I came here to suggest one, and it says that one was made, but I don't see it anymore... EDIT looks like there's not much by way of LDS news on WikiNews. If someone wanted to work on submitting news articles, we could have a news section, but otherwise I see why it's not a part of the portal. I may try to do this...--Chilangosta (talk) 22:23, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Portal selections
I am currently trying to get together some lists of articles relevant to each Christianity-related portal which could be used, at least potentially, to help bring all the extant portals up to Featured Portal status. The current, admittedly incomplete, list of articles, images, etc., relevant to each portal can be found at User:John Carter/Christianity portals. I also think that, at least in theory, we would probably best use a single article only in a single portal, and that we probably have enough articles to do that, although there might be a few exceptions. I would welcome input from anyone on the associated talk page regarding which articles and other materials they would like to see associated with which portal(s), any suggestions for additional portals or changes to existing portals, etc. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 15:46, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Duplicate portals?
Portal:Latter-day Saints, Portal:Book of Mormon, should they be merged? 99.162.156.99 (talk) 09:44, 22 January 2011 (UTC) Probably. The Book of Mormon Portal could be made a subportal, if there is such a thing.--Chilangosta (talk) 22:43, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (this page has substiantially been improved and is good for wikipedia) --Broter (talk) 05:54, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Clarification on Wikipedia MOS vs. LDS Church MOS
Hello again, everyone! I find it more than a little disconcerting that we have had to address this issue on the talk page of every article about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but here we are again. I need to make it clear here that the Wikipedia manual of style for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is different, separate, distinct, and governed by an entirely distinct set of rules than the updated MOS released by the Church. For that reason, conventions that may be correct according to the updated guidelines issued in conjunction with his statement may not be stylistically on par with the rules governing the LDS MOS here on Wikipedia. If anyone has a problem with the current Wikipedia LDS MOS, there are pages to which such individuals can go to discuss making changes across the entire Wikipedia board, and any change not in harmony with Wikipedia's style guide as it currently stands should be avoided.

But this issue goes much deeper than that. There are some editors who mean well (and of whom I assume they are acting in good faith) that seem to think it appropriate to change every reference to the Church to include the full name thereof. And since the LDS MOS and the Wikipedia MOS for the Church both agree that the Church's name should only be included on the first reference thereunto, then any subsequent references need to utilize a shortened version of the Church's name after that.

Again, for any that see problems in the current Wikipedia LDS MOS, I'd highly recommend your participation in the discussion of such changes. Additionally, until the official websites of the Church have completely switched over to their new URLs, the old website URLs need to be utilized across the Wikipedia board. I hope that these clarifications are helpful and useful to all who read them. Thank you for taking time to help everyone else ensure that articles about the Church correctly utilize Wikipedia's LDS MOS, rather than the updated guidelines to the Church's MOS. Please post here with any questions you have or if anything needs to be clarified. --Jgstokes (talk) 00:27, 11 March 2019 (UTC)