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Shouldn't we move quotes to wiki quotes? There are a lot more quotes than this.

If you read a book about him, you realize there is a lot more about him than polygamy. But the only quote about him when I came to this site is about that... I don't want wikipedia to be like The Enquirer. (submitted by User:Myclob 22:03, 6 May 2006)

I've been intending on adding a more comprehensive "Mission" section -- as he was truly outstanding there. Some of your new quotes could go in that area. And, of course, we need to focus on his lifelong journal as a primary historical resource. Plural marriage, the Manifesto, and the rumors of ongoing plural marriage are some of the primary markers for people who are relatively unfamiliar with the Woodruff and the Church, so the topic often gets disproportionately addressed in early Church articles here at Wiki. Look forward to working with you. WBardwin 04:36, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for saying hi. I don't really deserve much respect. I put out 1/2 thought out ideas. (submitted by User: Myclob, 21:09, 8 May 2006)

http://www.lds.org/languages/teachingspresidents/wwoodruff/TeachWilfordWoodruff36315000.pdf

I think that the major contribution that Wilford made was the modification of the way families are sealed. I think we should include something about this in the article.

From the book that I mention in the external link:

About three months before the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred, he delivered a discourse to a large assembly of Saints. Elder Wilford Woodruff, who recorded a synopsis of the discourse, said that the Prophet spoke on “one of the most important and interesting subjects ever presented to the Saints.”44 As part of this sermon, the Prophet testified of the eternal nature of families. He spoke of the need to be sealed to our parents and to continue that sealing ordinance throughout our generations: “This is the spirit of Elijah, that we redeem our dead and connect ourselves with our fathers which are in heaven and seal up our dead to come forth in the first resurrection, and here we want the power of Elijah to seal those who dwell on earth to those which dwell in heaven. . . . Go and seal on earth your sons and daughters unto yourself and yourself unto your fathers in eternal glory.”45 For the next few decades, the Latter-day Saints knew that there was to be “a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children” (D&C 128:18). However, their procedures were not completely set in order; as President Woodruff observed, the Prophet Joseph had not lived long enough to “enter any further upon these things.”46 Acting according to “all the light and knowledge [they] had,”47 they often had themselves sealed, or “adopted,” to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, or other Church leaders of their day rather than to their own fathers and mothers. As President of the Church, President Woodruff referred to this practice, saying: “We have not fully carried out those principles in fulfillment of the revelations of God to us, in sealing the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers. I have not felt satisfied, neither did President [John] Taylor, neither has any man since the Prophet Joseph who has attended to the ordinance of adoption in the temples of our God. We have felt that there was more to be revealed upon this subject than we had received.”48 That additional revelation came to President Woodruff on April 5, 1894.49 Three days later, in a general conference address, he told of the revelation: “When I went before the Lord to know who I should be adopted to . . . , the Spirit of God said to me, ‘Have you not a father, who begot you?’ ‘Yes, I have.’ ‘Then why not honor him? Why not be adopted to him?’ ‘Yes,’ says I, ‘that is right.’ I was adopted to my father, and should have had my father sealed to his father, and so on back; and the duty that I want every man who presides over a temple to see performed from this day henceforth and forever, unless the Lord Almighty commands otherwise, is, let every man be adopted to his father. . . . That is the will of God to this people. I want all men who preside over these temples in these mountains of Israel to bear this in mind. What business have I to take away the rights of the lineage of any man? What right has any man to do this? No; I say let every man be adopted to his father; and then you will do exactly what God said when he declared He would send Elijah the prophet in the last days [see Malachi 4:5–6]. . . .

“We want the Latter-day Saints from this time to trace their genealogies as far as they can, and to be sealed to their fathers and mothers. Have children sealed to their parents, and run this chain through as far as you can get it. . . . “Brethren and sisters, lay these things to heart. Let us go on with our records, fill them up righteously before the Lord, and carry out this principle, and the blessings of God will attend us, and those who are redeemed will bless us in days to come. I pray God that as a people our eyes may be opened to see, our ears to hear, and our hearts to understand the great and mighty work that rests upon our shoulders, and that the God of heaven requires at our hands.”50

In the Joseph F. Smith article we have a section called Doctrinal Contributions which discusses revelations and policies instituted during his presidency. A passing reference to Woodruff's revelation on eternal sealings is stated there. A similar section would be quite easy to do here. Take a look and see if you agree. WBardwin 03:58, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1. Add more things to the historical summery.
2. Cut out duplication.
3. Move things to wiki-quote. I did it for Mitt Romney, but can't remember how to do it...
4. We need an image!

There was a character on Pushing Daisies tonight called 'Wilford Woodruff' - an Asian guy whose ancestor fought in the Civil War. Weird.

In regard to the alleged marriage betweeen Woodruff and Lydia Mountford, the footnote about that was not actually connected to any kind of reference. I went back through the edit history and put in what sources the note had cited in the past (the referencing styles on Wikipedia have changed in the last couple of years). I have not checked those sources myself. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:16, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]