Tag:denomination=mormon
+/- denomination=mormon
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Using denomination=mormon would be quite confusing. "Mormon" is a cultural category, based on a nickname; there is no one "Mormon Church". Mormons might belong to any church or no church, but most belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a good number belong to the Community of Christ, and others belong to one of many small splinter groups. These churches may be categorized as "Restorationist", but they do not consider each other to be allies or under the same big tent. Journalists frequently confuse the polygamist splinter groups with the big church centered in Utah (which discontinued polygamy in 1890). We shouldn't be confusing more people to save a few keystrokes.
Using latter_day_saint or lds should be fine, since all the other denominations are named in English. A few nodes are already tagged with a full name. Perhaps denomination:de=hlt, or denomination:fr=sdj, or the like could work.
- This is just too complicated for users and contributors who are not familiar with the ramifications of the structure of "mormon" churches. The same discussion can be had for most other denomination=* categories, for instance denomination=quaker: again its a nickname, but it is what is widely understood. If it is required to disambiguate these different organisations there are plenty of other suitable means, such as using operator=* to provide the legal name of the church. Or you could do something like add an additional mormon=latter_day_saints. Remember the objective of OSM is to map objects, not build a database of church organisational hierarchies. SK53 11:30, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Related terms: mormon.
