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Book of Mormon weights and measures was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 17 December 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Nephites. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Smithsonian Institution's assertion that there is no archaelogical evidence of Egyptian, Phoenician, Hellenic, Hebraic, or Keltic overseas migrations across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe or North Africa to North, Central, or South America, see citation 8

Regarding recitation 8, the Smithsonian Institution's 1996 assertion that there is no archaeological evidence, "no direct connection between the archaeology of the New World and the subject matter of the book" of Egyptian, Morrocoan, Musulamiian, Tunisian, Arabic, Phoenician, Carthaginian, Tyrhennian, Etruscan, Italian, Hellenic, Ionic, Doric, Turkic, Syriac, Aramaic, Hebraic, Pontific, Keltic, Gothic, or Viking overseas migrations across the Atlantic Ocean, from Europe and Africa, to North, Central, or South America, and further stating that genetic evidence supports their assertion that only asiatic peoples migrated by way of a land-bridge across the Bering Strait. The Smithsonian seems to think it is unlikely that people like Bjarni Herjolfsson, or Leif Eiriksson, or Thorvald Eiriksson, or Thorfinn Karlsefni, or others from europe or africa may have sailed inadvertently to North, Central, or South America and settled long enough on the American continents to produce any children with the native populations. It seems short-sighted to ignore the mathematical laws of probability, and Occam's rules of epistemology and logic. One may be better informed, epistemologically, and thereby, historically, by studying the Works of Thor Heyerdahl. Kon Tiki. Aku Aku . Easter Island. The Ra Expeditions. Fatu Hiva. Early Man and the Ocean. The Tigris Expedition. In the Footsteps of Adam. And...66.8.248.245 (talk) 04:03, 28 July 2015 (UTC)Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). Thor Heyerdahl's Search for Odin.[reply]

The comparison seems rather silly. Leif Eiriksson and the others were not from Africa or the Levant, nor is evidence for their travels confined to a 19th century religious text. And even if evidence surfaced of, say, Abu Bakr II reaching the Americas, that's very different from evidence of the Nephites existing. --Ismail (talk) 03:32, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 1 June 2017

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain ^t/c 15:14, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nephite → Nephites – The Book of Mormon narrative overwhelmingly refers to plural "Nephites". There are hardly any singular generic references to Nephites in the narrative at all. The article heading must reflect this accordingly or it will entirely miss the narrative approach. Dpammma (talk) 10:20, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support Although its usage in the BoM isn't the most important criterion, it appears that the plural is the most commonly used version in sources meeting our criteria at WP:RS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 10:54, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support per instructions at WP:PLURAL: "Titles like Belgian should be recast in the plural, i.e., Belgians." ╠╣uw [talk] 09:50, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Atlantic or Pacific?

Did the Nephites go west or east? Did they cross the Atlantic ocean or the Pacific ocean? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:52, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]