Talk:Joseph Standing

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Due to lack of documentation, the claim that Joseph Standing’s middle was the same as his mother’s possible maiden name “Standing,” this entry has been removed from the article and moved to the Note section (See Note 2). I contacted the editor who originally added the reference and he did not have a valid source for the entry. Thank you, Matthew R. Lee 22:00, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: The use of "ibid." in a number of the citations in this article is problematic. If a citation is added in between the "ibid." citation and the one above it, the entire system is messed up. The article is not necessarily going to be permanently static, and this should be kept in mind when adding sources. –SESmith 10:11, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: I found this article just recently, but I have to ask, why the article is so slanted?  From the facts I could gather, in this article and a couple of other sources, these missionaries were accosted by a mob.  After the mob indicated their intent to run them out of town, one of the missionaries pulled a gun, and he was shot.  The law did not determine any guilt for any party brought forth in court.  Shouldn't this article reflect that crazy idea of 'innocent until proven guilty'?  If a man is found not guilty of a crime, should wikipedia have an article slanted to indicate guilt?  The article currently reads as both a propaganda piece for the LDS church and an attack piece on the citizenry of Georgia.  As evidence to this claim, note that the article repeats the claim of a LDS publication that "Numerous witnesses testified for the defense, and it was widely understood that most of them were lying"  Did any non-LDS publications at the time say that this large group of witnesses were lying, or is this just the opinion of one person who most definitely was less than neutral in his reporting of events?  And before the accusations start, I do not live in Georgia, I am not from Georgia, and I'm actually from a very LDS community.  I had never even heard of this event until today.  AT2Howell (talk) 21:41, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You're probably on to something here. The main problem is that the vast majority of sources about the person and the incident are pro-Standing and pro-LDS, and they fairly uniformly adopt the same sort of point of view about the issue. Perhaps we could find a more neutral source. It's a difficult issue. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:43, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I did notice that there were many, many sources taken from LDS publications.  Did Georgia have a shortage of newspapers at the time, or was this event considered too mundane to write about in that area?  It would be nice to have an equal number of non-LDS sources backing up the claim of an LDS source that everyone was lying.  As it reads now, you're just not supposed to notice that a vast majority of the people involved backed up the accused and everyone was found not guilty with all charges completely dismissed.  The tone of the article as is would lead you to believe quite the opposite occurred.  As I said, when I first read the page, the slant had me expecting that, at the end of the story, parties would be found guilty and all the citizenry of north Georgia would be quite upset.  When I finished the article, I found that the law found no guilt and, evidently, nobody outside of Utah found this to be an event worth noting.  AT2Howell (talk) 15:23, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
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