Talk:General conference (Latter Day Saints)

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[edit] Conducting Conference

Gordon B. Hinckley has personally conducted sessions as Church President, while as Second Counselor in the last years of Spencer W. Kimball he was at times the only member of the First Presidency in attendance.

I took this out because I thought it was confusing. Not sure what is trying to be communicated by this sentence Trödel|talk 14:00, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Title of the Article

I propose this article renamed to General conference (Latter-day Saints) and remove the section on the Community of Christ conference (or just have a "See Also" entry for it. It seems no other Latter Day Saint organizations are mentioned in the article. Bytebear 19:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

As it stands that's true, but our policies disfavour articles for individual sects. General conferences are shared by many faith in the Latter Day Saint movement, so the LDS-heavyness is something that can and should be rounded out. Cool Hand Luke 00:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Topics

In the sample of the topics, I think there ought to be more talks under each topic than there currently are. I know that President Faust spoke on Forgiveness last Conference, and there are other examples. In my opinion, since the official Church website General Conference section has conferences from April 1997 onward, I think perhaps that should be the limit we go in finding Conference talks on the subjects listed. I've run a few searches and been surprised how many results I came up with for each topic in General Conference under those restrictions. I think there is definitely room for expansion here. Otherwise, perhaps if there are to be restrictions, they should be for only the most recent conference in which each topic was discussed. Any thoughts? --Jgstokes-We can disagree without being disagreeable 22:52, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Since the "list" is provided simply as a sample of possible topics, I think it should just list 4–5 sermons on a variety of topics. There's really no need for a massive or comprehensive list of topics, in my opinion. I think the point is to give the reader a flavor of what kinds of things are spoken about, and that can be done with listing less than half a dozen sermons. –SESmith 23:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)