Talk:List of Latter Day Saint periodicals

A couple of suggestions
This is a nice list. I suggest adding Seventh East Press. If on-line periodicals are in scope, there's also Meridian Magazine and Vigor. BRMo (talk) 03:06, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I tend to think of periodicals as periodically printed and distributed. Meridian doesn't look like a periodical, since I don't see that it releases periodic issues identified in annual volumes. I think new articles are posted individually as events happen or when each columnist wants. I don't consider blogs to be periodicals for the same reason. I can't tell if Vigor was ever printed, but it looks periodic, so I suppose it may fit. I might put in Seventh East Press, successor Student Review and others, but I'm concerned about how lengthy this gets. Are there appropriate ways to seperate a large stand-alone list? Rich jj (talk) 19:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I understand that you'll need to define and limit this list to keep it manageable. I suggested Seventh East Press because they regularly published articles on the LDS Church (organization, history, culture) and those articles helped to define the publication.  I'm not as familiar with Student Review, but the criterion I'd focus on is whether a periodical was defined by its coverage of the Latter Day Saint movement (as compared to a periodical that simply occasionally runs articles on Latter Day Saint topics). BRMo (talk) 04:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I think including Student Review in the list is reasonable, but borderline. Its main purpose was to get non-journalism students involved in producing news of interest to students, as opposed to news of interest to faculty, the goal of the journalism lab newspaper on campus, The Daily Universe. BUT, it is clearly true that articles about the LDS Church and Mormon issues are a dominant issue in BYU campus life. FWIW, I removed the links that indicated that Student Review was an informal replacement for Seventh East Press. As one of the founders of Student Review, I can assure you that we had no intention of succeeding Seventh East Press. In fact, we sought to avoid the errors that it made by trying to fill a different role. I did the same thing for the notes about the Collegiate Press because I doubt that it was trying to fill the role that Student Review left.  Kent Larsen (talk) 21:52, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your very helpful contributions. I admit I'm the one who noted a chain of succession from 7th East Press to Student Review to Collegiate Post, but I don't remember why.  They seem similar (independent student publications willing to cover controversy) and followed one another in succession.  I do not know this, and if I read it somewhere I should have cited it.
 * I'm surprised I haven't found much information about the Student Review, even though the paper made some impact and was well known. I can't even figure out exactly when it ended.  The BYU library has holdings of the Review into 1999, and new issues were mentioned on the website until it went down in late-2000 or early-2001 (according to the Internet Archive).  As a personal rant, I really like having free online access to the archives of Dialogue, Sunstone, BYU Studies, Journal of Mormon History, etc., and I wish the same were available of independent Mormon news, like 7th East Press, Student Review, and Sunstone Review.  —— Rich jj (talk) 20:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Regarding the earlier discussion with BRMo about Vigor in June 2008: since reorganizing the article, I felt we could incorporate some of the more "periodical-like" electronic publications. This shouldn't apply to blogs or websites, but I included Vigor because of (1) its notable publisher, (2) its original content (not re-hashed summaries from the full articles), and (3) its intended physical re-distribution by readers.
 * The same could be said of The Mormon Review, as well as its kinship with other academic LDS periodicals. I guess periodicals are becoming more and more common via the web.  ——Rich jj (talk) 16:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I have broken out and listed the "New-York Messenger" separately from "The Prophet" after examining both publications. They are wildly different in format and content. "The Prophet" is very much a local weekly newspaper -- similar to "The Wasp" and "Nauvoo Neighbor". In contrast, the "New-York Messenger" is more a religious or spiritual magazine, like "Times and Seasons" or the "Millennial Star". Kent Larsen (talk) 14:29, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Length and organization
This list seems long, yet there are still other notable periodicals that could be added. Would the list be too unwieldy to keep adding?

If the list should be divided into smaller categorized lists, what should the criterion be? Here are some of my ideas: Some of these taxonomies could place a specific publication in more than one list. Should a periodical only be in the list that describes its original state (such as Millennial Star being listed in Church of Christ, instead of LDS Church)? Rich jj (talk) 18:04, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Denominations: 1. Church of Christ 2. LDS Church 3. Community of Christ (RLDS) 4. Other LDS groups
 * Periods: 1. Up to 1847 2. 1848–1890 3. 1891–1970 4. 1971–current —— Or by another set of logical time periods
 * Locations: 1. Eastern United States 2. Western United States 3. Southern United States 4. Midwestern United States 5. Utah 6. International
 * Durations: 1. More than 50 years 2. 20–50 years 3. 10–19 years 4. 5–9 years 5. Less than 5 years


 * One year later and no objections, so I took the liberty of reorganizing as it seemed proper:
 * Joseph Smith era (before the schism)
 * LDS Church official publications (ala Template:LDSChurchpubs)
 * LDS Church affiliated publications (ala Template:LDSChurchpubs)
 * Independent, unaffiliated publications (ala Template:LDSChurchpubs)
 * Non LDS Church publications (I know this is LDS-Church-centric but they've published way more than all others combined.)
 * Non-English (any affiliation or era)
 * I'm still open to suggestions. ——Rich jj (talk) 22:16, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * It looks good. Thanks. BRMo (talk) 04:08, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

RfC on journal list names
There is an RfC regarding the standardization of journal lists names. Please comment at Talk:List of journals. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:37, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Unless I've misunderstood somehow, this RfC seems only relevant to the page title, not to the content. If I'm right, Headbomb's proposal wouldn't even require that we change the title of the page.


 * Have I misunderstood? Kent Larsen (talk) 21:40, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


 * For proposal 1 you're right. Proposal 2 didn't pass, but it would have made this article into "List of periodical published by the Latter Day Saints".  That would have require us to verify that the publishers of independent journals be Latter Day Saints, possibly excluding the Sons of Utah Pioneers, the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, the Claremont Mormon Studies Student Association, or others (depending on how you define Latter Day Saints).  And what if we decided to include anti-Mormon publications, like the Salt Lake City Messenger, or secular newspapers, like the SL Trib.  Anyway, it doesn't matter now since I think the discussion is over and Headbomb changed all the nonconforming titles.——Rich jj (talk) 22:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)