You also may not be aware there is a robust and active "Wikiproject
Latter Day Saint Movement" that has many LDS members and watches over
the LDS area of Wikipedia and can always use more help.
It's here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:LDS
Tom
On 4/3/07, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/3/07, Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think that's an excellent idea, and would probably be very well-received by
those who are interested in NPOV and clear exposition of the known facts.
Those whose agenda is to confuse wouldn't like it, but they'd have a hard
time arguing agains
On Monday 02 April 2007 20:06, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> I wonder how those involved in that article would feel about splitting
> the article into primary vs. secondary information.
I think that's an excellent idea, and would probably be very well-received by
those who are interested in NPOV and cl
The general authorities can't do it, nor is it worth their time.
One should probably not confuse the concepts of "general authority"
and "expect in church history". They aren't the same thing. I would
guess that many GA's have not read all the disparate accounts of the
first vision. It doesn'
Jesse Stay wrote:
My issue is it seems wikipedia is taking an anti-mormon slant lately.
Some of the critical items that this Church is based on have now been
seized by anti-Mormons to give an anti-Mormon slant to those topics.
The main example I give is the topic "First Vision". Wikipedia seems
It appears that since I've posted this on this and a few forums, based
on the history, it's been changed several times today. The last time
it was changed before that was March 23. I think it's important we
keep watch of these Mormon-related articles, and as missionary work,
ensure they are dist
Jesse,
As I read through the pages I felt that the page was very fair and pretty
academically rigorous maintaining a civil tone (definetly not the tones of the
ANTI-Groups). I've read much of our own scholars analysis of the First Vision
accounts and they seem to follow the same lines, seems t
I have a lot of Wikipedia experience, particularly in the LDS area, and I
have system administrator privileges there. I know at least one other
participant on this list is an experienced Wikipedian.
The Wikipedia community stalwarts are fiercely committed to a non-negotiable
policy of non-bias.
rch maintains a privately controlled and copyrighted
website. ;-)
Steve
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Fry
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:04 AM
To: LDS Open Source Software
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] wikipedia becoming anti-mormon?
First of al
First of all, I think that you misrepresent the issue. This is not about the
Wikipedia itself taking an anti-mormon slant. It is about an imbalance in
contribution levels by those who have negative verses positive feelings
about the Church.
I think it is reasonable for any of us who stumble acros
On 4/1/07, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I raised this question on the mormonapologetics.org forum recently,
but it seems no one has a good answer on how to fix it. I figure with
this list having so many at church headquarters, and other smart
people that have used wikipedia way more tha
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