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Current status: Good article

Semi-protected edit request on 14 October 2024

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I suggest that note b should be changed to include the fact that the vast majority of Latter Day Saints followed Brigham Young. FluxIntegral (talk) 20:45, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Bowler the Carmine | talk 17:21, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Number of children

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The article mentions the children he had with Emma, but does not mention if he had children with the other women he was involved with. Is there a hard and fast number and can we get that included in the article? JustAChurchMouse (talk) 10:36, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Children with other women have been suggested but many that can be checked via genetics have been disproven. A table of a few of the suggested and disproven candidates is included at List of Joseph Smith's wives#Allegations of children born to polygamous wives. --FyzixFighter (talk) 13:11, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Child wives

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Any reason we aren't discussing this guy's interest in marrying children? We use words like "woman" to describe 14 year olds. 174.171.79.146 (talk) 05:08, 6 February 2025 (UTC) IP sock of blocked user. FyzixFighter (talk) 18:57, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's a valid question to raise. There's is extensive debate on this issue, including criticism of Smith, but whether or not this could be expressed encyclopaedically, or even whether the article would benefit from such an addition, is difficult to gauge. Obscurasky (talk) 15:15, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
FyzixFighter, what makes you say that? Obscurasky (talk) 22:00, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline

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Overall, I like the addition, since Smith just had so many things happening in his life, sometimes it’s hard to keep them straight.

That said, I’m concerned with the POV evident in the curation and phrasing of the points as listed. It seems like something out of a Sunday School manual. There’s: a credulous mention of the visits of the angel Moroni; not a word about polygamy or Fanny Alger; “financial difficulties” is code for credible accusations of illegal banking and fraud leading to a collapse of his church; and probably more I haven’t had time to really comb through.

Normally I’d see about doing it myself but time constraints preclude me from really jumping into it as I’d like. Trevdna (talk) 17:36, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]