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The result was delete. Tone 23:14, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Not verifiable nor notable, This article improperly uses one or more religious texts as primary sources without referring to secondary sources that critically analyze them Communilees (talk) 22:58, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, notable concept in Mormonism as per

• Hugh Nibley. "The Sick of Judah and the Stick Of Jospeh". Improvement Era, February 1953.
• Bruce L. Brown. "The Stick of Joseph and the Stick of Judah".
• Jack H. West. "The Trial of the Stick of Joseph and: Ancient Ruins of America".
• 63 Google News hits for "Stick of Joseph".

Sufficient coverage to describe the subject. JORGENEV 23:28, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:50, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:50, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete this hopeless case of WP:SYNTH that tries to mesh two opposite and contradictory religions. The opening lines of the article are false because there is no such "tradition" of this "stick of Jospeh" in any part of classical and normative Judaism, of any denomination, or in classical Judaic sources. The creator of this article is clutching at vague metaphors and phrases culled from the Bible that are not concrete concepts and is hopelessly writing from a presumed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) perspective that violates WP:POV right off the bat. Perhaps if the article would be re-written as Stick of Joseph (Mormonism) or some such title then the LDS editors can have a field day with it, but as this article stands right now it's violating both WP:NEO and WP:NOR as well as WP:NOTSOAPBOX. IZAK (talk) 11:58, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Far-fletched fringe theories. --Cox wasan (talk) 23:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Joseph is not Ephraim. A stick is not a scroll or book. The Book of Mormon is not mentioned in the Bible, written thousands of years before. "Etz" is a tree, not a stick. Just put the word into google translate עץ

--Kylfingers (talk) 18:08, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as WP:OR. --Odie5533 (talk) 13:29, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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