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Many of these wives are not historically important and may never need an article, so I think most of them should be de-linked. Moreover, it might be more useful to list the wives based on what sort of documentation for them exists. Compton reports this, right? Also, as discussed on Talk:JS, it should read that "Emma publicly opposed polygamy until the end of her life" — she appears to have been complicit in some of the marriages. Cool Hand Luke 06:53, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I put the names in a list, rather than in just one overwhelming para. The intro to the list says that it's Compton's, but there are 34 wives rather than 33. Disputed names should probably also be added. Dates of marriages or sealings should be added too. Zora 22:24, 9 May 2005 (UTC) (a newcomer to this topic, but did work on article Muhammad's marriages)
This article is so completely and totally out of line that I must say I have never seen anything on Wikipedia so out of phase with its principles. Unlike Brigham Young, Joseph Smith, Jr.'s possible involvement in the promotion of polygamy is hotly debated to this day.
Either Wikipedia should recognize the fact that this accusation is not true OR it should at least recognize the incredibly fiery controversy over this issue! -- Nerd42 15:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh yes, definitely. I agree. That's why I didn't try to put this article up for deletion. -- Nerd42 18:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
What I really need to do is look up when exactly it was that the Community of Christ started changing their story ... I'm betting it was after the split in 1984. -- Nerd42 01:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Everything I've ever heard that alleges that Smith led this kind of double-life (family man and religious leader in one life, bigamist and adulterer in the other) has been put forward by unrelated people. But who knows, I haven't read through all of the sources for these articles yet (though I plan to). Speaking of unrelated people: What people think today is irrelevant to whether Smith was a polygamist in the 1830s, since the man himself consistently denied it, and so did his immediate family, and most other people who would be in a position to know what he was up to who weren't involved in polygamy themselves. The man himself makes such a compelling case that his ghost can almost argue with you on it's own. (That was a colorful metaphor, I don't believe in ghosts) A good example of this is one of the quotations Price beings his article with:
"I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I am innocent of all these charges.... What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers." —Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6:410–411
Please be patient while I read through these sources, make some contacts and/or get some more sources together. -- Nerd42 01:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)