Talk:Lynn G. Robbins

Presidency of the Seventy

How do we get Robbins' Presidency of the Seventy assignment to show up on the template that lists his callings? I tried to do it, but just messed up the template. HELP! --Jgstokes (talk) 02:08, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Should be set now. ChristensenMJ (talk) 02:36, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Whatever you did fixed the problem. As usual, I owe you one. Thanks again. --Jgstokes (talk) 02:45, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Typically, at the end of infobox sections, there is a double }} - which signifies the last item. This was still up in above the new section you'd added. As always, thanks for your efforts! ChristensenMJ (talk) 02:57, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Openly gay son

Edits are repeatedly being made that Robbins has an openly gay son: see e.g. This may well be true, but twitter, facebook, and personal profiles on mormon.org are not reliable sources by any stretch of the imagination, so I don't see how we can add the information. The standard is not plausibility, it's verifiability. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 23:51, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Okay, let me break this down. Go to [1] and review his mormon.org profile. See: "I was excited about moving to Uruguay when I was nine years old, where dad was the mission president for Uruguay. I loved moving every few years to new places, back to Utah, then Guatemala City where dad was an area seventy for Central America." Also see: "My unique dilemma is I'm gay." Further, see [2] and [3]. Lynn G. Robbins was indeed a Mission President in Uruguay (see lds.org article on LGR: [4] ("served as president of the Uruguay Montevideo Mission"). Tkfy7cf (talk) 00:04, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

I understand where the information is coming from. But mormon.org personal profiles and facebook are not a source of information that Wikipedia can rely upon for article content. They are not reliable sources for Wikipedia content. (I'm not exactly sure how being gay in the LDS Church could be considered to be a "unique" dilemma, but that is neither here nor there.) Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:09, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Additionally, as I said in one revert, nowhere in that post does the writer say that his dad is Lynn G. Robbins. This is an unwarranted and illogical assumption. Because of this and all the reasons Good Ol’factory mentioned, I would be unalterably opposed to adding this information to this article, unless and until a more reliable source can be found. Thanks for discussing this rather than turning it into an edit war. --Jgstokes (talk) 06:23, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Well, I found this https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200358626441290&set=t.1623829563&type=3&theater (a photo of Will, on the right, with President Hinckley and Lynn to the right of Pres. Hinckley. This photo can be accessed by clicking on Will's mormon.org http://mormon.org/me/7626 profile, clicking on his Facebook link on the mormon.org profile, and then going to the photos section. There is also a photo of Elder Scott and Lynn, along with Will https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200358629801374&set=t.1623829563&type=3&theater. Do you think we've made some headway? Tkfy7cf (talk) 04:52, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

What we need is a reliable source. Have a look at this link: Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 05:10, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

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