Wikipedia talk:Prohibition on LDS Endowment details on Wikipedia

Nope

We do not censor relevant information from our articles because some groups may find the information offensive. Thus, we can't remove details on Mormon rituals because some Mormons don't like people to be able to see it freely. -Amarkov moo! 01:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. This contradicts core policy. If reliable external sources are available on the rituals, Wikipedia will cover them. >Radiant< 14:53, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. However, I'm unsure of the point of this, as most long-term Mormon editors don't have a problem from a wikipedia perspective to include convroversial information (see past discussions about pictures of Temple_garment). I think this proposal was initiated to make a point. Hwo teh editor included doubled the article length with the narrative of a two-hour ordinance which was already linked to and described in detail. Wikipedia is not a place to repost books or other long quotes (see Wikipedia:Don't_include_copies_of_primary_sources) - that would be wikibooks or wikiquotes. In addition, post 1990 narritive would be a copyright vio., as the church has protected the content in court. Feel free to include, but my only concerns is the length of the quotes and possible copyright vios. If it helps give an encyclopedic view, lets include it. -Visorstuff 22:15, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is a red herring. The web is absolutely replete with the exact wording of every endowment ceremony that has ever existed. The current situation is not about censorship or the personal desires of LDS. It is a question about policy, quoting primary sources, being a respository of quotes, etc. There are various solutions that were proposed to this editor, first and formost just link to the language you desire to quote and have done wit it. --Storm Rider ^(talk) 00:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Given this edit made just a few hours before the same editor created this page, it seems likely this was never a serious proposal, and therefore it would be reasonable to delete this proposal for WP:POINT. -- 12.106.111.10 21:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]