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Service abroad[edit]

The sentence: "Smith did, however, at times take church assignments abroad." is non sequitur. Obviously some preceding text has been deleted that refers to him spending most of his time at home. Should this text be restored or should this sentence be chopped right out? Tctwood (talk) 09:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's related to the sentence above it in the preceding sections which states: "Smith spent most of his time as an apostle living in Salt Lake City"; the section then goes on to talk about his church work in Utah. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 09:58, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Creationist placement[edit]

This sentence: "Smith spent some of his years among the Twelve Apostles as the Church Historian and Recorder and was a creationist." makes it seem as if being the Church Historian and Recorder and somehow connected to his being a creationist. I'm not sure the latter even belongs in the introductory portion anyway, but I really don't like that sentence as presently constituted. Also, "creationist" is a rather vague term and --- I just don't like it dropped into the introduction without comment like it is. What is the reason? This should be changed. The only reason I'm not doing it myself is because I've never worked on this article before and it's well sourced, so obviously other people have already given it a lot of thought. But I suspect this one-sentence paragraph was not where all that thought was expended. If you'll excuse the supposition. Thmazing (talk) 21:25, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should go ahead and change it as you see fit. I agree that it is awkwardly phrased. If I remember correctly, the "and was a creationist" phrase was tacked on to the pre-existing sentence about being a church historian by another user. I agree that if the "creationist" stuff is going to be included, it should be expanded upon. Much of the information for such an expansion could be found at Mormonism and evolution, I believe. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:30, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm utterly dissatisfied with my solution. (But at least I fixed what I intended to.) Please feel free to improve it. Thmazing (talk) 01:14, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cause of Death?[edit]

There is no mention of how President Smith died. The death section seems a tad short to be truly informative. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seansto (talk • contribs) 19:50, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Oldest man to be LDS president[edit]

"When he became president of the LDS Church, he was the oldest person to hold that office until Gordon B. Hinckley reached Smith's equivalent age in June 2006 . . ." This sentence is inaccurate, as David O. McKay held the office to the age of 96 years, 4 months. The only man to continue to a more advanced age was Gordon B. Hinckley, who lived to 97 years, 7 months. Perhaps the author meant to write that Pres. Smith was older than any other man at the time he became president of the church, which is true. to2602:306:25E4:B0E9:3800:744A:E742:F3D3 (talk) 07:25, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Revised here. How is that? Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 09:36, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We should not have idle speculation[edit]

That is all Bergera's ideas on why Brown was not retained in the presidency are. He has no sourcing that supports his suggested ideas. Also, in light of Uchttdorf being released from the First Presidency recently, this is not as unusual as claimed, and I have seen way to much baseless speculation to credit it. The fact that Begera is able to publish his ideas in printed form does not remove the fact he has no sources at all for putting them forward.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:28, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

John Pack Lambert, you entitled this section "We should not have ideal speculation", by which I assume you meant "idle speculation". See this link for insight on that. I took the trouble to correct it for you, but you can revert that change if what you really meant was "ideal" speculation. Thanks. --Jgstokes (talk) 03:30, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]