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I agree that this page should be titled Joseph Smith since, the short summary is, arguably temporary, as users add more content, it can become a full article. To keep things uniform, I think we should have a system where we concentrate on one main article on any given topic instead of many small articles and name them with short titles preferably the name of the person or entity. --[[User:Prab|Prab]] 16:45, 26 July 2006 (PDT)
:Yep, the name was too long and unwieldy, I agree with you Tom. I've renamed it Joseph Smith and Mormon doctrine (G.G). Is that a more appropriate name or do you still feel it should be shortened? Its just that it addresses both a little about Joseph Smith and a little about doctrine. Prab, I know what you mean, and I think you are probably in the majority, when you feel that there should be one main article instead of many small articles. I think however that perhaps that is not the best way to structure a religious wiki like this. If we do I find that the site becomes like wikipedia and becomes a pure encyclopedia. That's what I think we need to try and avoid. The ''topic (overview)'' (e.g. [[Mormonism (overview)]]) is the one main article on the topic of Mormonism; There is also space then for allowing the smaller personal opinion topics. Take a look at the [[Justification]] page to see what I mean. [[Justification]] is the contents page; [[Justification (overview)]] is the main article - or will be once it is more than a [[Stub]] that provides a more neutral and encyclopedia point of view; and then under the ''Discussion and opinion articles'' section there are three different articles, one is mine [[Grace - Justification by faith alone (G.G.)]]; another by some user called J.S. [[A look at justification by faith and good works in Luther's theology (J.S)]]; and the other by a user called Benjamen Meng [[Justification (Benjamen Meng)]]. Now the thing is, all of these three articles are talking about the topic from the authors person point of view, and in each case, a Protestant point of view - it just happens to be the point of view I agree with and the one I believe is true, however, a Catholic or Eastern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox point of view is very different. So this is one reason why I do not believe that concentrating on just one main article is a mistake. For another example, take a look at [[Islam]]. You'll see there is the overview article [[Islam (overview)]], which unfortunately is still small and is stub, but hopefully will eventually grow. Now, you'll also see that there is the ''Testimonies'' heading with a personal testimony of conversion [[Al-Gharib's testimony]]. Again, if we only concentrated on one main article on [[Islam]] like wikipedia does, then where would this personal testimony fit it? --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 17:43, 26 July 2006 (PDT)
