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The U.S. government's decision to revoke Juan Mari Brás renunciation of U.S. citizenship

This new distributed by the The Associated Press copyright on June 7, 1998 by the San Juan Start clearly use the work revoke.

The acceptance I think was on 1995, and the revoke on 1998.

BERRIOS: DECISION ON MARI BRAS SHOWS P.R. STILL A COLONY

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Regarding the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS)

Hey Richwales,

I'm not sure if I have explained myself clearly, I don't want to bog down discussion at The Church page.

To give you a context it is really important people understand the church name changes in order.

1. The church in 1830 was named "The Church of Christ" (all off-breaks will share that common history like it or not (Latter-day Saints included)

2. The name of the Church was renamed to "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" (No hyphen capital 'D' Day). All off-breaks likewise share that common history and name, like it or not (LDS included).

3. In 1851 the Church was named to its present title, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" hyphen/lower case 'd'. This is the point at which the Church had divided and therefore it could be seen as insensitive to write that Joseph Smith founded/organized "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

But it is entirely fair, neutral, well-documented, and appropriately courteous to state that Joseph Smith founded The Church of Christ (later named The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). This is much more appropriate than the present state in which Joseph Smith founds a movement.

As the article states already,

"The church teaches that it is a continuation of the Church of Christ established in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. This original church underwent several name changes during the 1830s, being called the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church of God, and then in 1834, the name was officially changed to the Church of the Latter Day Saints. In April 1838, the name was officially changed to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. After Smith died, Brigham Young and the largest body of Smith's followers incorporated the LDS Church in 1851 by legislation of the State of Deseret under the name The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which included a hyphenated "Latter-day" and a lower-case "d"."

Please reconsider what I have perceived as attacks on both me and my position.--Canadiandy talk 06:05, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

I do, in fact, understand the above history (as I mentioned before, I am LDS).

I will continue to say that the expression "Latter Day Saint movement" is considered acceptable, and neutral, by a long-standing consensus of editors who have been working on this related set of pages. The naming issues have been the subject of discussion for a long time, the current set of compromises are summarized in the "manual of style" page (MOS:LDS) which I cited earlier, and we are all expected to honour and apply these compromise decisions as we work on articles under this broad topic. Any significant change in the naming policies (and I believe what you are proposing will be seen as a change in emphasis falling into this category) needs to be done with the support of the people who have worked on the MOS. If it turns out that the editors working on "WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement" and the associated manual of style page can be convinced to agree with your argument, it will give your position far more credibility and protect it significantly against subsequent change — but, contrariwise, if you don't work within the system and instead try to push a change of this sort against an evident consensus going another way, the end result is not likely to be nearly as good.

And when I cautioned you not to jump in and modify the current MOS text without first involving yourself in discussion and achieving a revised consensus, I was not trying to attack or belittle you in any way; I was merely offering a friendly piece of caution which I felt was appropriate given what appears to be your relatively new involvement here. Indeed, I believed it would have been a disservice to you for me to have pointed you at the MOS:LDS page without warning you to be careful in the way you might approach the disagreements I assumed you would probably have with that material. If, in fact, you already understand this, then I'll gladly retract my warning (though not the constructive motivation with which I offered it). Richwales (talk · contribs) 06:57, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the insight, Richwales. I was not aware of the function of MOS. I assumed it was merely a WP policy page. I'll go there and see what happens. Thanks for the heads up.--Canadiandy talk 01:58, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

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Task force WP:RFA2011 update

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Haiducii

See the reply on my talk page. — AdiJapan 03:08, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Again. — AdiJapan 12:29, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

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