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My name is Jonathan M. Gardner.
I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I am trying to make good NPOV contributions there. I'm open to corrections of any manner -- NPOV, grammar, etc.... I hope I don't affend the other "branches" of Mormonism with my ignorance. If I do, please correct me. But I also hope I don't misrepresent the LDS church's beliefs, history, and practices. If I do, please correct me.
I'm a True Blue Mormon (sometimes abbreviated TBM). That means I literally believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, that Joseph Smith really was what he claimed he was, that the priesthood authority lies only in our church, and that the Book of Mormon is an actual, accurate record of people that lived on the American continent. There are some who try to water down their beliefs and maintain their membership in the LDS church; I am not one of them.
If you want the real deal on the church, you'll have to invite some missionaries to give it to you personally. (see http://lds.org/) Otherwise, you'll be stuck with my attempts to document the factual history of the church, which, unfortunately, is not a foundation for real faith. The foundation of real faith is hearing the word preached by those who have the authority to preach, and then acting upon those words. That means you're going to have to find real missionaries, listen to their lessons, and do what they ask if you want real faith.
I served a mission in Seoul, Korea and neighboring Kangwon Province from 1995–1997. That's where I picked up Korean as a second language. I've been back several times for various reasons as my wife is a native Korean.
I live in Federal Way, Washington, which is in King County, Washington.
If you're into that sort of thing, you can read about my Politics.
I'm experimenting with stuff. See Works in Progress.
Open tasks I would like some help with:
Contact me on my talk page if you want to help out.
Part of what we are is our history. Wikipedia should be a historical record.
History is the study of three things:
We should be documenting:
People browsing Wikipedia should browse by following connections between events, people, places and periods.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint
I am trying to document names and dates and events for each of The Quorum of Twelve Apostles. Please contribute! I'm not that good of a writer, so you're welcome to edit it beyond simple fixes.
Notice: I am going to pay 2 coins via User:Bank_of_Wikipedia to anyone who writes a good article about any apostle with little or no previous documentation. Facts that absolutely must be present in an apostle article:
When you sign up via User_talk:Bank_of_Wikipedia, be sure to mention that I referred you there, as I get a small finder's fee.
I've set up a chronology that I am working on. Please contribute!
Significant years with lots of events may have their own year page. So far, the only candidates are 1830 and a few others.
Note: If fractional coins are allowed, I am going to give 0.01 coins for each event added to the timeline appropriately. You can add events while browsing the LDS history pages. Sign up for an account at User talk:Bank of Wikipedia, and be sure to mention I led you there as I get a small finder's fee.
I want to link the book of mormon throughout the site. I've put a few pages in the years/decades/century sections. There are a few links from significant historical or biblical events as well.
We can easily document the doctrines of the church, and link and such between them. Some work needs to be done to make it all useful.
I would like to see a section on the revelations of Joseph Smith. The one about the Civil War fascinates me. There are some other fascinating ones as well.
Reading through some of the documentation, I see too often hearsay mixed in with fact. Example: Danites. They were only alleged to be instituted by Joseph Smith. Facts have born out otherwise. I am trying to uproot and remove these false allegations and speculations and set everything straight.
I peeked over at the Korean translations of the LDS pages and they are terrible! I'm going to get my Korean keyboard working and make some badly needed fixes. Maybe I'll be able to practice my translation skills and get some awesome articles.
The priesthood articles are not very well correlated. Some ideas:
I should also like to see more effort to unify articles on prominent members of the church. I can think of a few: Archibald Gardner (my ancestor), B. H. Roberts, J. Golden Kimball, Mitt Romney, George Romney, etc... See here
These are vandals that I've caught.
These are pages I've seen vandalized.
Apparently, Mørmøn is the same as Nunh-huh. See this edit for proof.