Excellent Wikipedia primer, Bill. Do you also agree with the following?
Therefore, you will read things like "Joseph Smith claimed to have a vision ..." A faithful LDS person would rather read "Joseph Smith had a vision". However, that would not be permitted. It works the other way as well: "Cirtics claim ..." when anti-Mormons would probably want things like that stated as facts.
The only improvement to this, using the idea of sympathetic tone, would be to use the word "said" "Joseph Smith said he had a vision ..." "Critics say ..." Any visitor can, with judgement and skill, make small changes that bring tone more into neutrality. -- Tom Haws Have a beautiful day.
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