Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scientology/Old version

message: ;Instructions
#Add your name to the bottom of the list, with a comment.
#You can also utilize the Userbox: , on your User Page.
#Also, you can add  to your User page or Talk page, which will add facts from new WikiProject Scientology-related articles that were featured on the Main Page in WP:DYK.
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* Antaeus Feldspar
* ChrisO
* David Gerard - never a Scientologist, Internet critic since 1995, apparently what passes for an expert 
* Fernando Rizo - I have no inside knowledge of Scientology, but I want to help keep this controversial topic as NPOV as possible. 23:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Participants

message: Note: The projects below are merely my idea on how this project's work could be handled as separate collaboration projects. These haven't been agreed by anyone else on this project yet. Volunteers, and new projects, are welcomed. --NicholasTurnbull 22:55, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Projects

message: Note that we have a stub of our own, so if you think of an article to add to this list, you really might as well just start it, jot down whatever occurs to you off the top of your head and add that stub to it. Please try to add at least one reference, to help the next editor.
#Fix the stubs - expand and give full references
##:Category:Scientology stubs
#Articles that need writing
##Lisa McPherson Trust
##Scientology and psychiatry
##Author Services Inc.
#Topics important to the majority of Scientologists
##What does a CoS Scientologist want to learn about Scientology from an encyclopedia?
##A concise form of what is covered in dozens of books and thousands of lectures. 
##:Note: this might better be termed What might a CoS Scientologist want a non-Scientologist to learn about Scientology from an encyclopedia? CoS Scientologists learn about these things from source materials.
##:Note that quite a lot of the tech topics exist as redirects to Scientology beliefs and practices — a blue link doesn't mean the article exists as yet
###ARC (Scientology) and the ARC Triangle
###:Someone just marked the second one as a suspected copyright violation, since Roger appears to have added it when not logged in, so the history only shows a French IP rather than his name! I've explained on WP:CP and I expect Guy will ask Roger on user talk:Roger Gonnet - David Gerard 22:48, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I can try to do it. I was unsure whether she would qualify as being "important enough" to get her own wikipedia article, but you're probably right, since she's been on tv and radio, etc. (Entheta 02:53, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now written a brief article. Please check and correct any mistakes (Entheta 05:08, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Tasks

message: */General
*/Strategy
I suggest keeping it to here and the talk page until either grows way too big and needs to bud off - David Gerard 13:36, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: General strategy and discussion forums

message: ===Infoboxes===
We had an old Template:Scientology (before MediaWiki had categories), but it was (a) redundant with the category (b) IMO very much from a critical POV in the article selection.
In order to help avoid something POV-leaning (a common failing with article series boxes — see WP:CLS), I've made Template:WikiProject Scientology the WikiProject box for article talk pages. Put  at the top of talk pages and you'll get:
I really think we can do everything a reader would need with carefully-chosen category names and sorting, and infoboxes are unneccesary - David Gerard 20:48, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Templates

message: We had an old Template:Scientology (before MediaWiki had categories), but it was (a) redundant with the category (b) IMO very much from a critical POV in the article selection.
In order to help avoid something POV-leaning (a common failing with article series boxes — see WP:CLS), I've made Template:WikiProject Scientology the WikiProject box for article talk pages. Put  at the top of talk pages and you'll get:
I really think we can do everything a reader would need with carefully-chosen category names and sorting, and infoboxes are unneccesary - David Gerard 20:48, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Infoboxes

message: *Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology/Old list of articles about Scientology
*:This was originally List of articles about Scientology - it got VFDed in April 2005, I undeleted it and put it into project space. Use as is helpful and check old revisions as well - David Gerard 13:26, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Lists

message: ===New Wikipedia articles related to Scientology===
Please list your new Scientology-related articles here (newer articles at the top). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page.  DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
Don't forget to add the appropriate Scientology-related category, and a  notice if appropriate!
*Tom Cruise: Unauthorized -- Smee 07:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: DeWolf is the correct spelling, I moved the article to Ronald DeWolf, since he seemd to prefer that name, at least in the court hearings. It also has more google hits. (Entheta 00:41, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles

message: Please list your new Scientology-related articles here (newer articles at the top). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page.  DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
Don't forget to add the appropriate Scientology-related category, and a  notice if appropriate!
*Tom Cruise: Unauthorized -- Smee 07:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: DeWolf is the correct spelling, I moved the article to Ronald DeWolf, since he seemd to prefer that name, at least in the court hearings. It also has more google hits. (Entheta 00:41, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New Wikipedia articles related to Scientology

message: *Tone scale - This has recently been "boldly edited"; a  template was placed on it and the same sole editor who "boldly edited" it removed the template. -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV watch

message: Also see discussion on talk page.
*For the next Featured Article candidate, I have my eye on Operating Thetan and Nicholas has his eye on Sea Org - David Gerard 10:22, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:AID|Article improvement drive]]

message: *Trapped in the Closet (South Park). 14:47, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:PR|Peer review]]

message: *Zenith Applied Philosophy - a break away sect from Scientology in New Zealand, mainly around Christchurch.  ZAP has been linked to far-right politics (both neo-liberal and racist). --Midnighttonight please tell me off for procrastinating on my essay! 23:06, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requests