User:Rollidan/sandbox/LDS Biography

This is an essay which I hope will provide some consensus regarding the notability of Latter Day Saint movement biographies, especially those regarding individuals from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Note that these views are solely held by Rollidan.

Leadership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The most important measure of notability is WP:GNG, and its corresponding guideline for biographies WP:BASIC. To restate here:

People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published[4] secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.

This is the underlying guideline for all biographies here on Wikipedia. If the subject does not pass this, then they almost always do not deserve an article here. Some additional specifics regarding this:
 * The president of the LDS Church, (Russell M. Nelson as of July 2019), is the leader of a 16 million member worldwide church and as such may be presumed notable.
 * Members of the LDS Church's First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, or other individuals who received the title of "apostle," have always generated enough coverage to pass WP:BASIC. The most recent time this was questioned was regarding Ulisses Soares (the most junior apostle as of July 2019), with the result of the discussion being keep.
 * Members of the Presidency of the Seventy and General Auxiliary Presidencies (heads of the Relief Society, Primary, Sunday School, etc.) have had very mixed results, with a few being keep (L. Whitney Clayton), some being no consensus, and many being delete.
 * General Authorities most often have not received enough coverage outside of the church, and thereby are not notable unless they pass another notability criteria, such as WP:ACADEMIC or WP:POLITICIAN.
 * General Officers (relief society presidencies, etc.) most often have not received enough coverage outside of the church, and thereby are not notable unless they pass another notability criteria.