Talk:Cultural Mormon

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Contents 1 Wiktionary 2 Merges suggested 2.1 Humanistic Mormonism 2.2 Practicing Cultural Mormon

[edit] Wiktionary

I appreciate that a few people have put time and effort into creating this page, but frankly I think this should be a wiktionary entry rather than an actual article. Seems to me that this article really shouldn't exist. It doesn't cite sources, because you really can't for an article of this nature. The reason you can't cite sources is because it's more or less a fringe issue without third party resources. "Cultural Mormon" seems like a neologism to me... here's wikipedia's guidelines regarding neologisms

"Some neologisms and protologisms can be in frequent use and it may be possible to pull together many facts about a particular term and show evidence of its usage on the Internet or even in larger society. It may be natural, then, to feel that Wikipedia should have a page devoted to this new term, but this is not always the case. There are several reasons why articles on (or titled with) neologisms may not be appropriate:

The first is that Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and so articles simply attempting to define a neologism are inappropriate.

The second reason is that articles on neologisms frequently attempt to track the emergence and use of the term as observed in communities of interest or on the internet — without attributing these claims to reliable secondary sources. If the article is not verifiable (see Reliable sources for neologisms, below) then it constitutes analysis, synthesis and original research and consequently cannot be accepted by Wikipedia. This is true even though there may be many examples of the term in use.

In many cases, articles on neologisms get deleted (either via proposed deletion or articles for deletion). Articles on protologisms are almost always deleted as these articles are often created in an attempt to use Wikipedia to increase usage of the term.

As Wiktionary's inclusion criteria differ from Wikipedia's, that project may cover neologisms that Wikipedia cannot accept. If you are interested in writing an article on a neologism, you may wish to contribute it to that project instead." gdavies 06:56, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merges suggested

I have suggested two articles be merged into this article. Both articles cover cultural issues dealing with Mormonism that can be better explored in a single article, rather than several small stub articles that give little reference to the cultural issues involved in Mormonism.

I totally agree, is there anyone who really thinks that this should remain separate? There are no third party sources (which is a great indicator that the article shouldn't exist) cited... I'd imagine there are a couple out there, but certainly not enough to support these three articles individually. gdavies 22:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Humanistic Mormonism

This seems a bit sketchy as a movement, but could be covered in this article in that it is not the doctrines of the church, but the culture that drives the movement

[edit] Practicing Cultural Mormon

This is a small stub that should be included in this article. Not to mention that the C in cultural should not be capitalized.