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Latter Day Saint church
The Latter Day Saint church is one single church, not many churches. Hence, the title "Latter Day Saint" was removed to improve clarity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Westonkyle (talk • contribs) 06:26, 25 January 2011


 * No you are incorrect: the Latter Day Saint movement contains many churches who claim to be the successor/continuation of the church that Joseph Smith, Jr. established in 1830 (see Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)), and many of those churches use "Latter Day Saint(s)" in their name (see List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement). All people falling under this broad category are designated Latter Day Saints by academics engaged in Mormon studies, and that is the standard we use here at Wikipedia. Wikipedia articles cannot take sides about who is the "correct" successor/continuation, even though individual editors may have personal beliefs about this matter. However there is only one The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (note the hyphen & lowercase letter d), whose members are called Latter-day Saints (note again the hyphen/d). Please see wp:MOSLDS and wp:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints) for more information. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 16:09, 25 January 2011 (UTC)