User talk:Brad Heff

Welcome!
Hello, Brad Heff, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 00:48, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
I wanted to post here to clarify the reasons your changes to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were reverted. I too am a member of the LDS Church, and rejoice in belonging to a Church that can trace its origins back to Jesus Christ. However, I am also a Wikipedia editor, and as such am duty-bound to uphold Wikipedia policies, including making every effort to ensure an article maintains a neutral point of view. This means that, for Wikipedia purposes, we must consider Joseph Smith as the founder, since it cannot be proven by physical evidence that the LDS Church is the exact same church Christ established in His day and time. I have had to clarify this discrepancy for many zealous LDS editors like you, who want Wikipedia to tell the truth. Wikipedia isn't concerned so much with truth, which can be proven or disproven fairly easily as it is with verifiability, or the existence of sources proving a certain point of view to be correct. And even as we seek for a correct point of view, we must still strive to be as neutral as possible. One can be a Wikipedia editor and a vibrant believer in the LDS faith. I have been LDS all my life, and a Wikipedia editor for the last eight years. I hope that better explains why your edit had to be reverted. Finally, may I add my welcome to the one already provided by C.Fred. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Wikipedia needs people like you and me, active, vibrant Latter-day Saints, to ensure accuracy in pages about Church-related topics even while Wikipedia policies are followed. It's a beautiful process, and now you get to be part of it. Welcome! --Jgstokes (talk) 02:48, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement
Hello. I noticed you've made an edit to an article related to the Latter Day Saint movement and thought you might be interested in participating in the WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement. This project aims to serve as a hub for collaboration on elements of the Latter Day Saint movement, Mormonism, Latter Day Saint history, doctrine, practices, and other cultural effects inspired by Joseph Smith. You don't have to be a member of the Latter Day Saint movement to participate. Best wishes! — Asterisk *  Splat → 17:57, 13 October 2014 (UTC)