Talk:Todd Compton

Status @ lede as current go-to expert on JS wives
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 * the trib's Rolly: "'I wrote in Wednesday’s column about the LDS Church-owned [Hodgdon: ie editorially sectarian] Deseret News’ refusal to run a Signature Books ad promoting two of its books on polygamy, 'In Sacred Loneliness' by Todd Compton and 'Mormon Polygamy' by the late Richard Van Wagoner. Signature’s marketing director, Tom Kimball, was told that polygamy was just too hot of a topic. 'That’s funny.  'The Huffington Post ran a story Nov. 26 by Carol Kuruvilla about the history of polygamy in the Mormon church.  'Kuruvilla wrote that church officials could not provide her with a comprehensive list of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith’s wives, but the church’s public affairs department directed her to Todd Compton (yes, that Todd Compton) author of 'In Sacred Loneliness,' the book the Deseret News thought was too controversial to advertise.'"link
 * "...The church’s public affairs department directed HuffPost to Todd Compton, a Mormon researcher whose 1997 book In Sacred Loneliness compiles a list of 33 well-documented wives of Joseph Smith...." HuffPo
 * etc --Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 23:20, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * None of this directly supports the statement that he is "generally considered the premiere living expert on the plural wives of ... Joseph Smith"; the only way they could, would be via wp:SYNTH or wp:OR interpretation. — Asterisk *  Splat → 20:49, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Have now rephrased lede to say subject's "an" expert on Joseph Smith Jr.'s plural wives. Thanks, Random.--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 21:25, 12 December 2014 (UTC)