Talk:The Book of Mormon and the King James Bible

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 20 January 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

This page has recently been created from a large section in Linguistics and the Book of Mormon. I made this move after a recommendation from Dlugar on the talk page. Current issues are:

  • need to migrate relevant references from the original article
  • need to check the style guide to see what sort of case formatting we are supposed to use on our headings, which are currently quite inconsistent
  • need feedback on the current transclusion/embedding setup I made to get the two articles to share the summary section
  • POV on "In other cases, the source is not acknowledged, especially in the case of seemingly anachronistic borrowings." ???? It's pretty minor, but still...

If anybody feels that this move has been made without sufficient discussion, please make it known. Suggestions are welcome! --RockRockOn 07:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Well...

Wow... this article has some hard-core NPOV problems, as well as verifiability, NOR, and... well lots of stuff... It seems like a very bad example of a POV fork to me, but since it was decided to keep we need to do some major rewriting, restructuring and renaming of sections. gdavies 21:50, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I thought that the articles in this web site were neutral this one is strongly biased and is therefore disputable so why is it here?

Can you give some examples of "hard-core NPOV problems" (as opposed to softcore?) --Ķĩřβȳ♥♥♥ŤįɱéØ 00:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
The problems with this article (which aren't limited to NPOV...) stem from the fact that there are virtually no citations, just one reference from FARMS (which doesn't seem to be heavily relied on). This has resulted in basically an essay on this subject, rather than an encyclopedia article. I can't think of a good solution or even a reason to keep this article. If the subject is notable, certainly more reputable sources can be found and we can make something other than "a brief synopsis on arguments regarding the authenticity of the Book of Mormon with respect to similarities with the King James Bible." This is basically a minor element of common Mormon/Anti-Mormon debate that (IMHO) isn't very notable. gdavies 00:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced tag

I just added an "unsourced" tag, this article is in serious need of more referencing. There are plenty of scholarly LDS sources out there, but no real scholarly non-Mormon sources, so this is a very difficult subject to add appropriate sources. Unfortunately what we're going to end up with is what we have now (instead of an article): an aggregation of arguments and counterarguments against the church with regards to the Book of Mormon and the King James Bible. It also seems to read somewhat like an essay to me... well not exactly an essay, but a bunch of POV statements from both sides of a debate back and forth. Anyone else? gdavies 06:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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