Talk:Don Alden Adams

message: See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Jehovah's_Witnesses#Notability--Jeffro77 (talk) 01:22, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: Outside sources may call him "religious leader of Jehovah's Witnesses", but that's not true. Don Adams is not a religious leader. The leader of Jehovah's Witnesses is the Bible. So the statement should be deleted. (See paragraph "Watch Tower presidency") --Mengenstrom (talk) 09:36, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence was added here by an editor who wished to add some external sources to allow the article to meet Wikipedia standards of notability. You may be correct that those newspapers are wrong, but I have never heard of a book being described as a leader of a religion. Perhaps you could leave a message with that editor on his talk page to ask him whether he, as a presumed Jehovah's Witness, shares your objection to the description. BlackCab (talk) 11:10, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

text: The leaders of the organization in terms of establishing doctrines and activities are clearly the Governing Body. It is they who are described in the September 15, 2010 Watchtower as "taking the lead" and "leading and directing" members of the religion. Adams clearly has an administrative role only. I doubt that anything he says about doctrines and activities has any more weight than anyone else in the organization and is therefore not a religioius leader. I'll delete the reference. BlackCab (talk) 00:05, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The description of Adams as the "religious leader" of the Jehovah's Witnesses is, for better or for worse, well documented in the popular press.  It's not appropriate to remove factual information that's clearly referenced.  If Adams is indeed not the religious leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses, then we need to find reliable sources which say that, not just remove well-cited claims from the existing article. Tim Pierce (talk) 13:12, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

text: The claim so far rests on the Rulers.org website, whose credibility and reliability is anyone's guess, and two articles in Canadian newspapers. No bylines are provided for the newspaper articles and judging by the similar headings on the stories and their publication dates, they may well be the same story. I'd suggest that's a poor basis on which to make the claim that Adams is the Witnesses' religious leader. It seems more logical to request better sources for the claim than news sources denying it. BlackCab (talk) 04:55, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A minor smattering of relatively minor sources saying he's the religion's 'leader' doesn't make it a notable point. Even if he's 'occasionally' cited as the leader, unless a particularly notable source makes that claim, it's not particularly worth stating.--Jeffro77 (talk) 08:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Religious Leader

message: Why has an unregistered person (from merely an IP address) been DROPPING or abbreviating information and abbreviating that information from actual calendar dates, to years only?
cf.President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
1884–1916
MaynardClark (talk) 04:36, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Years under 'President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society'

message: Don A. Adams is not the president of the Watchtower Society and has never been one. L. Weaver Jr, Currently serves as the president of the Watchtower society. (w2016 May pg. 2 bottom footer).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:A343:6C00:283B:B2FE:7B12:FC30 (talk) 17:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is absolutely false.