User:Ben P L

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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.