Cirt's Scientology edits - January 2011 Options

[carbuncle]

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.

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[carbuncle]

Stepping away from Scientology articles
Hi 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.

[HRIP7]

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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.

[Milton Roe]

Read the rest here.

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 here

Was 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.

[HRIP7]

Read the rest here.

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 here

Was 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)

[carbuncle]

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.

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[Milton Roe]

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.

[Detective]

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?