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This account is part of a religion project I'm doing at BYU this semester. To get started on my project I decided to start small by adding some referenced material to the article on BYU ( these are the changes).

Adding more references and expanding Louise Y. Robison ( before and after) and William Jennings ( before and after), who were both involved in the ZCMI (which I also improved).

I also expanded the article Bishop (Latter Day Saints) by adding a section on the traveling bishops who collected tithes during the early history of the Church. Additionally, I worked to expand the article on the 1963 film The Windows of Heaven ( before and after) and started to become more interested in the history of tithing.

For my final doctrinal product, I noticed that there was an article about tithes in all religions, but no specific article for tithing in the LDS Church. I started working on creating this article in my sandbox and worked to expand it until I published it into the Wikipedia main namespace under the title Tithe (Latter Day Saints). I posted a notice that this article was created on the LDS Wikiproject talk page and some editors improved the article. I also submitted a fact from the article to get featured on the main page on Easter Sunday under Wikipedia's " Did You Know?" feature, as can be seen here. The fact was "Did you know... that tithing in the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could be done using property, labor, produce, livestock, or cash?" During this time, it garnered about 1,300 page views.

Nevertheless, the article is still a work in progress, and anyone is welcome to improve upon it by following this link.