User:Rachel Helps (BYU)/sandbox4

Guidelines for editing Wikipedia as a paid WiR

 * don't write pages for anyone currently employed at BYU (what about employed by the LDS church?)
 * what about alumni/ae? emeritus profs?
 * add COI paid connected contributor template to talk page and mention COI in edit notices to pages connected to BYU or AML. Just err on the side of caution. Mention it for anyone who attended BYU or even if their spouse did. Mention it for any LDS author or author who wrote about LDS topics.
 * a talk page notification before starting edits is what Wikiedu recommends for their students, and seems like a good way to tell people what you're up to.
 * add COI template (paid connected) to all pages you ever edit
 * send new page drafts through AfC


 * advice from rnu over on wikipediocracy (seems overly cautious but also, a good way to avoid conflict):
 * "If something is not mentioned by mainstream non-LDS sources assume that it is UNDUE. Start talk discussions if you're not sure. Err on the side of caution. Avoid publications by LDS associated organizations and publishers." (avoiding all those publications seems... difficult) sennalen's reply to rnu stating that scripture shouldn't be interpreted as literature: "It's totally appropriate to treat scripture as literature on Wikipedia. It's only if it the article starts sounding like its saying something supernatural or ahistorical was an actual fact, then the secular academic literature has to come down on it like a ton of bricks."
 * wisdom from Kelly Martin: "the reality is that all sources are biased, and anyone who does research has to learn how to recognize bias and how to account for it in evaluating how the bias of the source applies, or not, to the claims made by that source. Wikipedia's "reliable source" rules generally reject doing any sort of analysis of this sort, instead imposing a vast array of contradictory and incoherent brightline rules declaring individual sources as either "reliable" or "not reliable" (as a binary matter, which is also analytically suspect, as iii correctly points out above). This is because almost all arguments over reliable sources in Wikipedia are really attempts by someone involve to impose (or oppose) a particular point of view. The reality is that a huge fraction of Wikipedians are editing to advance an ideological position of some sort, and many of these editors will actively game policy in order to advance their ideological position at every opportunity, with no intellectual concern toward whether the policy forms they advocate for are consistent or advance Wikipedia's purported status as an encyclopedia. Remember that, almost always, in a Wikipedia policy dispute, the winner is determined not by who is "correct", in an academic, intellectual, factual, or moral sense, but rather by which of the parties to the dispute shows greater loyalty to the Cause. As a result of resolving this dispute in favor of that party, who will win for reasons not related to anything related to truth, policy will be twisted in some way that permits whatever the winner was doing to be "allowed", whether or not that twist makes any sense from the broader context of "writing an encyclopedia". The result of this per-conflict outcome-driven process of policy development is that almost all of Wikipedia's core policies are incoherent, having been repeatedly tugged and twisted over and over again to facilitate specific outcomes, with very little if any regard to whether any of this makes sense from a broader perspective."

Mormon Drama notes
Mormon Drama or Mormon theatre


 * Melissa Leilani Larson
 * Eric Samuelsen


 * Brigham Young was really into theater and participated in a show in Nauvoo.
 * Saturday's Women dissertation by Nola Smith
 * Sunstone article by OS Card (pseudonymous) in Spring 1976 Sunstone
 * Contemporary Mormon Pageantry

Mormon philosophy; Mormon theology notes
Articles
 * related pages/sections: Christian philosophy, Jewish philosophy, Sophic and mantic, Mormonism, God in Mormonism, Mormon cosmology
 * Mormonism and the Possibility of a Materialist Apostasy

Guide to depicting religiously sensitive material
Sometimes members of a religious group have beliefs about people and places that they believe shouldn't be photographed. Wikipedia is not censored, but we also want to be respectful to those of other religions. What are the best practices for editors of pages with religiously sensitive material?

The current practice for photographs of prophets is to limit their presence to a section in the article, which is clearly labelled. What do anthropologists do? The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has a code of ethics, which emphasizes the researcher's obligation to the population being studied. Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology pg.100

Pages with previous religious photo controversies or edit wars

 * Bahá'u'lláh - members of the Baha'i faith wish to view a photograph of Bahá'u'lláh only in a special, sacred religious experience
 * Muhammad - from the talk page's FAQ: "There is a prohibition of depicting Muhammad in certain Muslim communities" Britannica article does not have a likeness.
 * Orthodox Judaism - Some Orthodox Jews object to have their photo taken on religious grounds source--find better source? blog post about a case where an orthodox Jew protested his photo being taken in a public place; the court ruled with the photographer
 * Endowment (Mormonism) - photographs of people performing temple ceremonies are unexpected, since photography is not allowed in temples, especially not during the endowment ritual; Sealing (Mormonism) has outdated, exact wording of the sealing.
 * Christopher Blythe's argument in favor of esotericism
 * photography is not allowed in the inner part of a Buddhist temple
 * other religious places where photography is not allowed?

Photographs in private places
Laws about this? Does Commons enforce it? deletion request denied https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Salt_Lake_Temple_Garb_In_Sealing_Room.jpg
 * -privacy laws for identifiable people https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people (vs. country laws https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_consent_requirements)
 * --"unreasonable intrusion" -an example on the above page; "Long-lens images, taken from afar, of an individual in a private place (unreasonable intrusion)" (only for identifiable individuals?)
 * deletion policy

Holding area for incomplete Brigham Young info
Joseph Smith also introduced the early doctrine of sealing children to parents, and later, some unrelated young men were sealed to Young through the law of adoption.

Info from Second anointing: Brigham Young changed the ceremony with the wife ordained to be a "queen and priestess unto thine husband." https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/V52N01_hanks.pdf#page=27