Talk:Missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Any links here ought to be to articles about the missions, not the individual cities or states. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 211.221.125.170 (talk • contribs).
- The above comment was added to the article - I think the links should go to the mission pages if available and also to the cities - as on the List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --Trödel 11:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
The new table format looks great. Also, I removed the link to nonexistent pages. Please don't link a mission page unless you make one. Isaac Crumm 02:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
I've added information on "special" missions and on Salt Lake Temple Square Mission. Critic-at-Arms 16:15, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] links to mission websites
since Wikipedia is not a web directory - I don't think we should include links to mission home pages - they are added fairly frequently - However we should include a link to an existing web-director of such home pages if one exists - any thoughts? --Trödel 05:06, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- The LDS Mission Network [1] is an existing web-director of mission home pages. Links to current missions are on this page [2] --Crocoite 15:13, 26 November 2006 (UTC)--Crocoite
- Is there any objections to removing all the mission.net links from individual missions - and reference the site in the external links. --Trödel 04:35, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Although I am a fan of the links to the missions, I have to agree with Trödel, that they don't really belong on wikipedia, as explained. Please, everyone refrain from putting the links there, the one link is good enough.Isaac Crumm 00:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History of Missions
LDS mission efforts have a long and vibrant history, beginning with the first missionaries sent out when the church was organized, the Lamanite missions, and the first call to the apostles to Europe. The topic would make a large article in itself. So should we start a new one (what should we name it?) or introduce the topic here? Ideas welcome. WBardwin 05:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- You could put the list in "List of missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and leave the history/explanation here. Similar to what we did with Temples (Mormonism) and List of temples ... --Trödel 14:44, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- We would, of course, have to make a distinction between the missions of Church of Christ/Latter Day Saints and the post schism Latter-day Saints. Two history articles? The pre-schism section would have more available sources. Lots of work has been done on the Lamanite missions and the missions to England. Good information for the Utah Saints in the 19th century should be avaible but, offhand, I know of no 20th century examination of the growth and development of the missionary effort. Maybe we could find statistical information from Church headquarters? Charts/graphs showing number of missions, by worldwide location, over time might be very useful. Brainstorming on this would be helpful. WBardwin 03:03, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List Cleanup
Someone put the tag "Cleanup-list|December 2006" on the list portion. I disagree, in that the list is well defined, verifieable, and not indiscriminate in the least. It may be incomplete, but that can be remedied over time. Unless someone disagres, I plan on removing the tag soon. Perhaps someone can find a suitable (official) source or reference link to the list of missions. Just my thoughts on the matter.Isaac Crumm 00:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
As nobody has any comments on it, it has been removed.Isaac Crumm 03:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
