Talk:List of Book of Mormon people
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[edit] Guideline for additions
- Please insert names in alphabetical order
- Please use superscripts for individuals with duplicated names
- Please use names for listing, rather than titles; "Benjamin" rather than "King Benjamin". But...
- Feel free to enter alternate identifications but please reference them to the common name. For example:
- King Benjamin (see Benjamin).
- Add enough information to uniquely identify the character but save most information for articles.
- If the individual or group doesn't need a separate article but does deserve some mention please add them to Various Book of Mormon people.
- Don't add people merely mentioned in the Book of Mormon. For example, don't add Moses.
- Exception: Add Hebrew prophets mentioned in the Book of Mormon but not found elsewhere, such as Zenock.
[edit] Table??
These articles are also lists of BofM folk -- merge?? common format??
Would a table such as the format below be of any use? What columns would be best for reader reference? Would we want chapter and verse for source/reference material? Distinction between Nephite and Lamanite? The example below is only a suggestion. WBardwin 03:10, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
| Name | Date | Description | BofM Source | |
| Nephi | circa 600 BCE | son of Lehi | I and II Nephi | |
| Jacob | circa 590 BCE | son of Lehi | Jacob | |
- My two cents: I think we can ultimately merge the list of BofM prophets and BofM rulers into this list, but perhaps with markers (special font, color, char?) to indicate which are prophets and/or rulers. On the other hand I don't think we should rush into it -- I'd rather wait for this list to settle into a preferred format and content.
- I don't have any objection, per se, to a table format BUT at the moment I see it as more trouble than it's worth. Part of the problem is the relative inflexibility of a table -- some entries might need different information than we build into the table. It seems to me that an alphabetic TOC would be helpful though. I just don't know how to do that.
- The one big thing I'd like to add to the current listings is a spread of dates rather than the "circa" date (which is taken from the LDS index). But that will take more time than I've got at the moment.
- Finally, I'd like to see a Book of Mormon chronology article. There would be a lot of shared content with this list but in chronological rather than alphabetical order.--andersonpd 18:25, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Formatting
I suggest the following --
- Prophets -- bold font
- Rulers -- italic font
- Prophet Rulers -- bold italic font
- BofM writers -- underline
--andersonpd 19:24, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Mission Accomplished!
I think I've got all the entries in place. Some are still missing dates, etc.
I split off the groups to a separate article since this one was so big.
--andersonpd 21:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Good work on this article/list. -Visorstuff 21:29, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Table of Contents?
How about standardizing the Table of Contents? OneWeirdDude 03:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
