Talk:Thomas S. Monson

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March 2006 - May 2008

Contents 1 Redundancies 2 Question about recent edits made by 208.186.134.105 3 Page reorganization 4 Infobox modifications

[edit] Redundancies

I noticed in just rereading this article that there are redundancies. The beginning of the article talks about the circumstances surrounding his becoming President of the Church, then under the President of the Church section, the information is restated. I would think the article would be more readable if this information only appeared once, but don't know where the best place for this information would be. Any thoughts? --Jgstokes-We can disagree without being disagreeable (talk) 23:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

The intro should be a summary of sorts, highlighting the most important aspects of the article. Therefore, there may be some information which is repeated t some degree. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 07:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Wikipedia:Lead section discusses how Introductions should summarize the body, so some repetition may occur, but if it is that blatant, then we should do more research for supplementary information in the body. --Eustress (talk) 13:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question about recent edits made by 208.186.134.105

I didn't want to be the "bad guy" in this matter, but I'm not altogether convinced that the word and phrase changes made by 208.186.134.105 recently make the article any more clear or readable. I think I would be more in favor of the way the page stood before 208.186.134.105 made the recent changes, but I wanted to get some input before I did anything. Any thoughts? --Jgstokes-We can disagree without being disagreeable (talk) 21:14, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

You're right, those edits don't make much sense. I checked the reference though, and it's a bad link. In fact, the text of the talk cited is not even available online. As a result, I removed the sentence (and reference) entirely. --TrustTruth (talk) 21:19, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Page reorganization

I recently modified some sub-headings in the article per FA biography best practices (see Category:FA-Class biography (politics and government) articles, namely Emma Goldman and Max Weber). Some of the prose still needs to be updated, especially in the church leadership sections, to make this sound like a true biography. I envision a main Biography section, a Legacy section, and a Works section (possibly including teachings and criticism). Hope we can get this up to GA soon. Thanks. --Eustress (talk) 19:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox modifications

I added a Person Infobox to help supplement the sparse information fielded by the LDS Infobox. I contemplated modifying the LDS Infobox to include more fields, but I think it would have turned out a mess (especially with all the Parser functions), would have perhaps messed up the infoboxes of other articles, and really would have yielded virtually the same end result. If there are any objections, would you please consider discussing them here first so all can see the modifications on the page first? Anyway, hope this helps. Thanks. --Eustress (talk) 15:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)