User talk:Robbiefl58

Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello , and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your recent edit to Reform Mormonism, one of the articles that is part of the Latter Day Saint movement WikiProject. I regret that in order to help Wikipedia continue to maintain a Neutral Point of View part (or all) of your edits may have had to be reverted. However, we welcome your contributions and hope that you will stay and contribute more. Here are some links that I found helpful:
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And finally, if you have any questions or doubts, don't hesitate to contact me on my Talk page. Once again, welcome! =)
 * - Trödel

- Please consider rewriting some of the information that you put in the Reform Mormonism article so that it can't be viewed as advertising or prosylyting. I also made some changes to other contributions you have made. Please read the neutrality policy to understand my motives. Welcome again!! -- Trödel 18:58, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Edits to Joseph Smith, Jr.
Hi! I'll add my welcome to Trödel's above. I noted your recent additions/edits to the Joseph Smith article and, I'm afraid, reverted them. This was primarily because you deleted some hard won material in the article and not necessarily because you added inappropriate material. Joseph Smith is a popular but controversial and inflamatory topic and so there is a tendency to revert more frequently than on other less controversial subjects. Editors find that concensus is rather hard won on LDS practices and topics, so we make significant use of discussion pages and small edits to achieve a moderately NPOV and editor concensus. In addition, there is a tremendous amount of source material on the Prophet and on the history of the early LDS movement. The group of LDS oriented editors here are always trying to keep the Smith article (and other major LDS articles) at a reasonable length. Sub-articles on various and sundry topics have been created to try and contain the growth. I would suggest you discuss your edit concerns on the talk pages so you can work with the editors to incorporate your ideas and sources. Remember that concensus and accuracy is the Wiki goal. I also encourage you to come to the project page and get oriented to the LDS effort here. See: WikiProject_Latter_Day_Saint_movement, Latter Day Saint movement and List of articles about Mormonism. I look forward to working with you. WBardwin 01:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)