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I've expanded the description to include the fact that Bountiful is a polygamous community, and that it's located in the Creston Valley. I also replaced the two external links (which were both to news articles) with one link to a more general piece on the community.
Perhaps it is simply due to lack of interest, but I can't find any category (other than Category:British Columbia communities, of course) to put this community in. There don't seem to be any existing categories relating specifically to polygamy or polygamous communities.
The article is still very much a stub. I'll try to add more information later. -- Azkar 19:41, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Were his 2005 visits before or after the local church split with the FLDS? MrZaius talk 20:21, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
There's something wrong with the first sentence in the second paragraph; I'm not sure what the author is trying to say. Also, I don't think an article about a BC town should have 1/3 of its content taken up by an American former fugitive. Bountiful is not Warren Jeffs, and even though his apprehension is fascinating, it shouldn't make up such a large part of this article. Anchoress 16:56, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Right now, the Bountiful article is very heavy on Church information, and the main FLDS article is very thin on information regarding the BC branch, so I have posted a request for guidance on condensing the BC article and expanding the main FLDS article. Any input/help is welcome. Anchoress 10:30, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
The article states that only one third of Bountiful are members of the polygamous group. I wonder what their source is, because it is heavily implied in other online sources that the entire town is part of the church. And one of the sources cited in for this article is this one [1] that says most if not all the residents belong to the church. So that's something that definitely has to be straightened out.
What seems strange to me is that Bountiful doesn't seem to exist in anything that we would normally call on as a reliable source when we're writing a BC community article. There's no results on google maps here. There's no postal code apparently. Good thing for BCGNIS or I wouldn't have even found the coordinates. [2]. But even BCGNIS's info is at odds with the article's. BCGNIS says it was settled in the late 60's by Joseph Blackmore. The article say 1947 and doesn't mention Joseph Blackmore. CindyBo talk 19:30, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I started a stub on Lister, British Columbia. I kind of suspect that there is a bit of confusion here and that the population stats mentioned in this article are about Lister. One third of Lister's population of 500-1000 people being members of a polygamist group seems to ring true and in several sources online, Lister is mentioned as being home to the group. I'll poke around. I didn't put anything about Bountiful into Lister yet. CindyBo talk 21:20, 7 August 2007 (UTC) Here's a source that says "In the mid-1940s, a small group of excommunicated Mormons from Utah and Alberta bought land in Lister, B.C" [3]. CindyBo talk 21:29, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
fyi - the article could be updated about the special prosecutor's recommendations to ask the courts about the constitutionality of Canada's polygamy laws. [5] Canuckle 23:17, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
See B.C. court to rule whether polygamy is constitutional [7] - Legaia ( talk) 05:15, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi there, I added a few sentences updating details from the Blackmore / Oler convictions as of August 2017/ August 2019 as this information is out of date. It may be clearer to change some of the heading names, as the "Allegations of Abuse" section is turning into more of a historical record, and certainly these convictions are not merely allegations. Cheers, Uninspired Username ( talk) 05:57, 4 May 2020 (UTC)