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Reviewer: Signedzzz (talk · contribs) 00:53, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
The article barely mentions the prophet-founder. The lead just says that he died. The (very short) "Before 1847" section wrongly claims that "When the Latter Day Saints migrated to Missouri, they encountered the pro-slavery sentiments of their neighbors. Joseph Smith upheld the laws regarding slaves and slaveholders, but remained abolitionist in his actions and doctrines."
This appears to be the official line of the Mormon church, which the (paid) nominator was no doubt instructed to promote, in contravention of policy. It seems highly unlikely that the editor will fix a problem they were paid to create, in any normal time-frame, so reluctantly I am forced to fail this.
A useful source, if at some point in the future a good faith editor wishes to expand the article, would be Matthew L Harris; Newell G. Bringhurst (15 November 2015). The Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09784-3. (which, surprisingly, is cited already throughout the article, although the book states that the period up to Smith's death was "a critical time for emerging Mormon attitudes and practices affecting African Americans", and defines Smith's stance very clearly as "support for slavery by the mid-1830s, evident in a strong anti-abolitionist position"), and the sources cited therein. zzz (talk) 00:53, 30 July 2017 (UTC)