I have no love for Scientology, but I think Wikipedia's coverage of Scientology is embarrassing. There is no hope of altering this, though, because the Scientology topics are closely monitored by a tightly-knit group of editors, and they have David Gerard covering their backs. David routinely checkusers anyone editing a Scientology article who steps away from the anti-Scientology line, and typically accuses him or her of being a sockpuppet of one of the identified Scientology "shills" from alt.religion.scientology. It's a great example of Wikipedia's inability to actually achieve "neutrality" on a contentious topic because advocates for one side of the topic have successfully infiltrated Wikipedia's community structure. Other topics that have been compromised in this manner include animal "rights", anything related to evolution, anything related to astrology or other "paranormal" topics, or anything about GLBT issues.
|