Talk:Use the Information

Jim Greene removed the header and one sentence in the section titled "Prepare Names for Temple Work." I used undo and then edited the sentence and added the rest of the section you see there now. It now links to an explaination of why Latter-day Saints do temple ordinances for their dead, and gives brief instructions on how to accomplish this using TempleReady.

When New FamilySearch is announced officially we can change to that submission system.

It is important to have a section about temple ordinances because one of the main purposes of the Family History Library is to help members submit their ancestors' names. To avoid the topic is to ignor a primary function of the Family History Library, and of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This topic is handled in several other wiki articles such as LDS Temple Records, Finding temple ordinances in the IGI, IGI Batch Number Descriptions, and Tracing LDS Families so it is not out-of-line to briefly explain it in this article. Diltsgd 21:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

David, I was wanting to discuss this first with Michael Ritchy, but since I have not been able to hook up with him I will go ahead and discuss this here now.

The purpose of the Wiki is to provide research guidance for everyone in the world. We are using the FHL to help us get the expert content into the Wiki that we need in order to attract a large community. We will soon post the purpose of the Wiki more prominently, but the purposes do not include doctrinal issues or explaining how to use FamilySearch products. This is not the venue for that. We choose to take a neutral stand and to only be a respository for research guidance for family history.

Explaining why we do temple ordinances is not appropriate for this venue. Explaining how to clear names is not appropriate for this either. There are other venues and means for both of those things.

Sorry to take a hard stand on this, but if we are to make this a valuable resource for all family historians we need to have these policies.

Jimgreene 21:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)