Talk:E. B. Grandin

message: Please help me out about his birthplace if you know where he was born.
:I found it appropriately enough at familysearch.org.--John Foxe (talk) 00:41, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Inquiry

message: The following text was removed by User:John Foxe (see diff) and should probably not be restored unless it can be supported by citations. --Eustress (talk) 22:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I saved some of it as a footnote. But Eustress is right; it would be helpful if someone would provide the source of this information.--John Foxe (talk) 22:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

text: I found some documentation about the printing press and moved that material into the text.  Anything else in this undoucmented "removed text" is footnote fodder at best.--John Foxe (talk) 14:52, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree.  This article is about Grandin, who is noted only for the first printing the Book of Mormon. Therefore, any relevant discussion about its printing is germane.  To remove information as you have done, without discussion, is improper. Please explain any change you would like to make one change at a time.--John Foxe (talk) 15:53, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, we should discuss first before making such drastic changes to the article. This article is about Grandin, "known for publishing the first order of the Book of Mormon" and information about the printing is relevant. --J.Mundo (talk) 15:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I did offer a rationale for each change in the edit history. I would prefer you pick the edits you disagree with to discuss, but I guess we'll have to do this the inefficient way. (P.S. When you rollback, you can't input an edit summary.) --Eustress (talk) 16:10, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good. Item by item is the most sensible way to go. Ultimately, it's also the most efficient.--John Foxe (talk) 18:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed text

message: *"He overcame his scruples" is POV and speculative--it's not stated in the source, and we don't know if perhaps he "came to himself" or was convinced in some other way.
:Givens, a noted (and gifted) spokesman for the LDS Church, says, "Realizing the work would proceed anyway, Grandin apparently overcame his scruples or his reservations and agreed to publish the work in Palmyra."  What's in the article at this moment is pretty close to the source—nearly plagiarism. But I'll be glad to include the "apparently" and some quotation marks.John Foxe (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for the clarification. Let's include the entire sentence and put it in quotes. --Eustress (talk) 21:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Harris financed Grandin's printing by putting up (and losing) his farm and his wife.  Whether or not the information "slights the LDS Church" is irrelevant. In fact, everything being equal we should ensure that such an article does not become a piece of Mormon puffery.John Foxe (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you about the irrelevancy of slighting the Mormon Church, and I shouldn't have included that in my argument. But I still think this stuff about Martin Harris is irrelevant to Grandin. It didn't affect him however he got the money. --Eustress (talk) 21:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Here are some things you evidently believe are more important than the Harris's payment or the setting of the manuscript into type: the name of the inventor of the press and his birth and death dates, recent auction prices of first edition BoM copies, the opening date of the shop restoration and the fact that it offers free tours. None of these affected Grandin either. To complain about the former two items, especially after noting that they were unfavorable to the Church, lays you open to the charge of attempting to censor the article.--John Foxe (talk) 23:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think your point is a logical fallacy, suggesting that this irrelevant information should stay in the article because you purport some other information in the article is also irrelevant. --Eustress (talk) 23:50, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You drew up the list and might have selected anything in the article you believed to be irrelevant.  You chose only two items and then helpfully provided reasons for those particular choices: that in your view, they tended to discredit the LDS Church. Q.E.D.--John Foxe (talk) 14:08, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

text: The information discusses turning a handwritten manuscript into a printed book. Whether or not it tends to "discredit the BoM" is irrelevant. The information is pertinent to the printing done by Grandin's shop.John Foxe (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I still think this part goes into unnecessary detail. --Eustress (talk) 21:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: See comments above.--John Foxe (talk) 23:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

text: OK.  How about something like "Grandin Print Shop and the first publication of the Book of Mormon"?John Foxe (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  That sounds good. Thanks. --Eustress (talk) 21:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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