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Accusations

The article accuses Parrish of stealing money from the Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company. There's a citation to the Journal of Discourses given below, which accuses him of running a swindle. But the JoD is hardly a non-biased source, and that account is no better than hearsay. If he had really done such a thing, then why wasn't he prosecuted or sued, and if he was, why doesn't the article mention it? Is there any evidence that he had done such a thing, beyond Elder George A. Smith's say-so? 143.166.255.58 (talk) 10:39, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The article is far below wikipedia neutrality standards, misrepresenting the sources given, annoyingly not a too rare phenomenon in regard to religious articles. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 14:51, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

could be a good source (and should be open-access in the future https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/kirtland-safety-society-and-fraud-grandison-newell-legal-examination) Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 19:26, 30 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Weirdness about Parrish' End

The current construction

By 1870, he had apparently lost his sanity and was living in Emporia, Kansas where he died in 1877.

makes it sound that living in Emporia would cause someone to go insane! Furthermore, it would be nice to have a source for such a strong claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.130.108.249 (talk) 14:02, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Recent changes

This recent edit was interesting, but was not well placed in the lede section, and was wholly unsupported by refs. I suggest that the editor that made the change look at integrating their text into that appropriate place(s) in the article body, along with the reliable sources by way of inline citations, which are really need for the significant changes in tone and content these edits make. In the mean time I'm going to revert the change. ^—^Asterisk*^Splat^→ 21:25, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting Dates

Notes #3 list Dean's publication year as 1998 while the Reference reads 1989. Which one is right? Prsaucer1958 (talk) 19:03, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]