Talk:Nephi, son of Lehi

message: I've deleted the parenthetical Hebrew and Arabic forms of the name. See Talk:Linguistics and the Book of Mormon for my reasons. Pterodactyler 14:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Hebrew and Arabic forms

message: I removed the section speculating on the existence of compass technology as it was unrelated to the subject of the article. I did, however, modify the "liahona" reference to remove the direct statement that the liahona was a compass. andersonpd 05:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Alma 37:38, "our fathers called it Liahona, which is, being interpreted, a compass".  It may or may not have had an actual compass, but it certainly did more.  I think that they picked the word that most closely match the object that they had. I like the change that you made to the Nephi article though because it catches the sense of the use of the object rather than the sense of "compass", the word that they used for the object. Val42 16:50, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, that is the sense I was trying to convey. The deleted section seemed to me to equate "compass" with "magnetic compass" rather than the sense of any device that gives direction, which is what I think the scripture intends. Maybe today it would be "which is, being interpreted, a GPS receiver"!! andersonpd 21:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Speculation regarding a compass

message: I made quite a few edits, and would appreciate someone looking over them.  I think in general, this article needs some serious work, before I started editing, it was a general narrative that was out of order, and referred only to the narrative of the Book of Mormon itself. --Descartes1979 (talk) 23:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  My edits 

message: Shouldn't this article be renamed to Nephi, son of Lehi instead of Nephi, Son of Lehi, given that the word "son" should not be capitalized in sentence case? -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 15:48, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename

message: Following up on the "Tone of article" section above: does anybody have any information about the historicity of Nephi or the whole clan? An explicit section on this problem would be an important component of this page (or any other related page on those BofM characters). Without historical evidence these books in the BofM remain fairy tales of unclear significance. Thanks! Peteruetz (talk) 00:28, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You could cite https://bookofmormonevidence.org/. It might stir up some members of my faith a bit, but the link is to a reliable resource that has a man who has done his research on The book of Mormon and it's Geography. 38.43.22.44 (talk) 05:53, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historicity of Nephi etc 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: So far my work on this page has been and will continue to be adding citations other than Book of Mormon verses. There were a few other sources on the page when I started, which I am grateful for. However, I'm going to plump out the other citations; this may entail simply adding another citation with the verse or complete removal of the verse citation, depending on the information in need of reference. 
I'm also noticing that various events in Nephi's life are missing, such as the retrieval of the daughters of Ishmael and the different times Laman and Lemuel tried killing Nephi. I have added some information on these and plan on expanding them. On another note, I will add a little bit of background on the destruction of Jerusalem, but make it so as to not overwhelm the purpose of the article (summarizing Nephi's life). The background will constitute a couple sentences at most--just enough to give our readers some context on what's going on. Heidi Pusey BYU (talk) 23:04, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations and Missing Events 

message: User AFeatherlessBipehead added birth and death dates to the religious biography infobox. I have removed those dates. AFeatherlessBipehead did not provide citations to any reliable sources for the claim. Additionally, while the Nephi arc of the Book of Mormon is certainly set around approximately the dates given, to say in an infobox that Nephi was born and died—that's not necessarily implying anything, but it could be taken that way. The page for Esther, a biblical figure of disputed historicity, does not attempt to lay out birth or death dates.
Additionally, Grant Hardy in his introduction to The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition (University of Illinois Press, 2003, p. xxii) notes that the Book of Mormon's own accounting of years doesn't entirely fit that of IRL calendars, further complicating the use of specific dates in IRL dating systems.
For these reasons, I removed the birth and death dates from the infobox. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 20:18, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the infobox 

message: This image could benefit from improvement. In comparison to portrayals of other significant religious figures, the current depiction falls short. With a brief search, I easily discovered an alternative image that surpasses the quality, exceeding what one might find in a comic book. LuxembourgLover (talk) 01:18, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the image? What are the usage rights of the image? Wikipedia heavily prefers and prioritizes images that can be uploaded to WikimediaCommons—images under certain CreativeCommons licenses or that are in the public domain. Many of the better-known or more visually interesting artistic depictions of Nephi were produced in ways such that they remain under copyright. P-Makoto (she/her) (talk) 01:24, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

text: yeah, I'd love to know more! I've been able to find some public domain images that depict Nephi with his family, but it is difficult to find a close-up. I'm open to discussing whether or not an infobox image is appropriate. Other religious figures, like Moses, have artistic depictions in their infoboxes, but there is more public domain art to choose from for Biblical figures. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 18:18, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture