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QUOTE I accept that there has been significant criticism relating to my editing of certain pages relating to Scientology. I will do my best to take this criticism on-board, and adjust my future actions accordingly. To begin towards that process, I have gone ahead and removed 66 Scientology-related BLP pages from my watchlist. I am going to shift my focus away from this topic of Scientology in general, and of BLPs within this topic in particular. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 01:33, 19 December 2010 (UTC) Comment: As stated here diff, I am going to avoid editing within the topic of Scientology, unless directly related to prior GA and FA projects. -- Cirt (talk) 01:52, 19 December 2010 (UTC) I am intending to do a monthly thread here about Cirt's Scientology edits, because I would like to help them kick their nasty habit. Cirt, I don't say this in a mean way, but when you edit articles related to Scientology, it makes your fingers and breath smell like Scientology. And no one wants to kiss someone whose breath smells like Scientology. Cirt managed to get into an edit war over reducing the overly long and repetitive lede to List of people who accepted Golden Raspberry Awards. When their opponent refused to be bullied, Cirt capitulated. There is currently a thread at ANI about Cirt's creation of an edit notice on the related Golden Raspberry Award. Edit notices are displayed when editing an article and can only be created by admins, so Cirt doing this while involved in a dispute looks like a typically petty abuse of admin rights. Scientology connection: Battlefield Earth, a movie based on the L Ron Hubbard book and starring a gaggle of Scientologists. Cirt created Beyond the First Amendment. Scientology connection:To quote from WP's Operation Clambake article: In Beyond the First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech and Pluralism, author Samuel Peter Nelson raises the question: "Why should a private actor (Church of Scientology) in the United States have the power to restrict the speech of a Dutch citizen publishing in the Netherlands whose speech is protected by Dutch law?"I don't think it will be very long before an intervention is required. This post has been edited by carbuncle:
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QUOTE Stepping away from Scientology articlesHi Cirt: In this post at WR, it's alleged that The Best American Magazine Writing 2007 neglects to mention (at least at the time of the posting) that the Janet Reitman article is actually about Scientology. This is used (in part, among many other comments as well) to make the case that you have not really stepped away from Scientology related articles, but rather are still involved, but much more obliquely... do you think that's a fair comment? Thanks. ++Lar: t/c 15:45, 31 January 2011 (UTC) No, I do not think it is a fair comment. Nor do I think there are many "fair comments" about me at that website. Most of them are fomented by one or two individuals. -- Cirt (talk) 18:24, 31 January 2011 (UTC) Read the rest here.
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QUOTE(carbuncle @ Mon 31st January 2011, 10:50pm) No comment. In other January news, Jessica_Feshbach (T-H-L-K-D) made GA yesterday. I wonder what editors at a publication like the Dictionary of International Biography would make of this article.
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QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Tue 1st February 2011, 1:38am) QUOTE(HRIP7 @ Mon 31st January 2011, 6:29pm) QUOTE(carbuncle @ Mon 31st January 2011, 10:50pm) No comment. In other January news, Jessica_Feshbach (T-H-L-K-D) made GA yesterday. I wonder what editors at a publication like the Dictionary of International Biography would make of this article. Already had the straight dope from hereWas disappointed to see the WP version has no Judaism vs. Scientology Cage Match cat tag. There is one, isn't there? Else, what as the point of this article, again? Somebody is awfully pissed off about something or other having to do with money and culture and money and ethnicity and religion and money and stocktrading and power and money. The article had three AfDs: 1, 2, 3, the most recent one having been initiated by FloNight last October. I guess it's no surprise that Smeelgova/Cirt voted "Keep" at each of them. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)
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QUOTE(HRIP7 @ Tue 1st February 2011, 3:55am) The article had three AfDs: 1, 2, 3, the most recent one having been initiated by FloNight last October. I guess it's no surprise that Smeelgova/Cirt voted "Keep" at each of them. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) Plus a keep vote in the last AfD from admin Panyd, whose Facebook page currently lists "Protesting Scientology" as one of her interests. This post has been edited by carbuncle:
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QUOTE(carbuncle @ Mon 31st January 2011, 9:48pm) QUOTE(HRIP7 @ Tue 1st February 2011, 3:55am) The article had three AfDs: 1, 2, 3, the most recent one having been initiated by FloNight last October. I guess it's no surprise that Smeelgova/Cirt voted "Keep" at each of them. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) Plus a keep vote in the last AfD from admin Panyd, whose Facebook page currently lists "Protesting Scientology" as one of her interests. Well, she might come by that honestly, as Scientology is hell on mental illness, since it's against drug treatment of any mental illness, no matter what. You can imagine how that works if the problem is bad and the person happens to find a drug that is good for them. Yeah there are some mentally ill people who no medication of any kind helps very much. But it takes experimentation to discover that, for any given person. You can't just take it as an article of faith for everybody. Scientologists do. Which is just one reason that Scientology is batshit insane. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) In the same loving way as Christian Science, no doubt, but crazy nevertheless.
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QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Tue 1st February 2011, 5:06am) Scientology is batshit insane. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) In the same loving way as Christian Science, no doubt, but crazy nevertheless. I don't think that's right. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif) In my experience, Christian Scientists are nice, friendly lunatics who never harm anyone. I mean, who's ever heard of a Christian Scientist having to be de-culted? Who's ever even been asked to take a Christian Scientist personality test?
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QUOTE(Detective @ Tue 1st February 2011, 2:50am) QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Tue 1st February 2011, 5:06am) Scientology is batshit insane. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) In the same loving way as Christian Science, no doubt, but crazy nevertheless. I don't think that's right. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif) In my experience, Christian Scientists are nice, friendly lunatics who never harm anyone. I mean, who's ever heard of a Christian Scientist having to be de-culted? Who's ever even been asked to take a Christian Scientist personality test? I was comparing the medical attitudes. No, Christian Scientists don't have E-meters. But they will pray over a member while an obvious face tumor gets larger and larger and larger and finally inoperable and then intolerable, all keeping the patient from doing to the hospital. Finally, when the face tumor is so large that it dips into the coffee when the victims drinks, and the victim finally gives up, the hospital they finally go to, is helpless to do much (an upper face amputation with some brain included? No). But, when the victim finally seeks medical help, the Christian Scientists abandon their member for having lack of faith, so now the poor bastard has an untreatable disease and suddenly no social support EITHER. Yeah, they're sweeties, those Christian Scientists. Don't get me started.
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QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Tue 1st February 2011, 6:03pm) Yeah, they're sweeties, those Christian Scientists. Don't get me started. The mind screw of someone brought up in Scientology is not a lot of fun, whether or not it's a cult in classic terms, emotionally crippling and afflicted with body phobias would appear to be the inheritance of CS children. A.virosa
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