Talk:Agency (Mormonism)
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[edit] "Free" agency
In light of the last paragraph of this article, should this article be renamed to "Agency (Mormonism)"? Val42 05:31, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- I second the motion. Cathryn 11:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Since it has been a while and there was no opposition, I'm moving the article. Val42 05:38, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Definition
I've just read the definition given in the first paragraph. Considering it... isn't this but another name for "free will"? --euyyn 16:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
- They are very close. But they should be discussed in different articles because they cover different contexts and will have different coverage of the issue. Val42 05:38, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
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- For example? --euyyn 01:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
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- I read the free will article, and it has a religious section. But the "free will" article is already rather large. If this article were combined with that one, it would become even larger. I'm actually planning on going the other direction, when I get time, maybe this weekend. I will make a short summary in the "free will" article, move any information in that article to here, and restructure this article. Val42 03:43, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Restructure of article
I just restructured the article. I started by rewriting the Mormonism section of the free will article with a prominent "See also" to this article. I then copied the summary paragraph (mostly intact) to become the introductory paragraph for this article. I then broke this article in to sections that I thought would be appropriate and started writing text for said sections. This worked to help me figure out what information should go in each section even though little of my original text survived to the final edit. I then moved existing text to the appropriate sections.
I think that the article is much improved, but there are some problems that I don't think I can fix right now:
- The rewrite has POV problems. I tried to write it such like "LDS beliefs are", but I detect some places where it reads like "this is the way it is."
- This article needs more references. I was more interested in fixing the structure right now than in looking for references.
- The section titles are the best that I could come up with right now, but I'm not quite satisfied.
- Does the text flow well? After such a rewrite, I have to take a few days vacation before I can come back and fix such problems myself.
Someone else please look at the entire article and these points in particular and fix the article. Val42 01:33, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- I think this could help us deal with the POV: WP:WAF. Our article isn't strictly about "fiction", but, after reading the policy, I think it's applicable (easily, indeed) to a belief. I'll try to help in it. --euyyn 07:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Original research
We need a lot more references and inline citations, which you should be able to find in abundance at the Gospel Library. For now it probably needs the original research tag. See Wikipedia:No original research. --Lethargy 05:48, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- I added references for the introductory paragraph, which had the only OR tag, so I removed the tag. I also have gone through the article and added a few references. We still need more references, but those should be flagged with "CITE" tags (IMHO).
- If somebody has time, I suggest the scripture references be placed in footnotes and use wikisource to link to the actual scripture. Anybody up to that? wrp103 (Bill Pringle) 18:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] References
The quote from the Temple Preperation manual does not have an end quote punctuation mark. 65.7.232.42 03:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- I added the quote. Thanks for catching that. wrp103 (Bill Pringle) 02:34, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
