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post Mon 3rd January 2011, 7:31pm
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Remember when Cirt said:
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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)
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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)

Well, that was weeks ago, and in a different calendar year, so I guess it would be unreasonable of me to hold Cirt to those statements. What has Cirt been up to in the first few days of 2011?
  • voting "KEEP" on Scientology-related deletion discussion for Jenna Miscavige Hill
  • voting "KEEP" on Scientology-related deletion discussion for Exscientologykids.com
  • thanking someone for their work on an L Ron Hubbard book article
  • thanking someone for their work on an anti-CoS activist Jenna Miscavige Hill article
  • editing a Futurama episode dealing with "Robotology"
  • editing the BLP of an actor who did a spoof of Cirt's arch-enemy Tom Cruise
  • welcoming someone whose only recent edit (out of a total of two) is a supportive comment for Jenna Miscavige Hill on the talk page of their article
  • continuing a conversation on the talk page of an article about a former Scientologist who committed suicide years after leaving Scientology
  • supporting the renaming of a page about a Scientology-related medical clinic

Just about the only thing that Cirt did that isn't related to CoS is restoring a removed quote from a movie financed by the Moonies. I'm sure there is nothing wrong with having a highly negative review snippet in its own coloured box:
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"Empty-headed Korean war epic produced by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church."
—Leonard Maltin[2]
I mean, that's pretty neutral, right? I'm going to add something similar to the Sound of Music and see what kind of reception I get.

Cirt's statements about staying away from CoS stuff seemed to work in that people backed off the ARBSCI enforcement, but if Cirt can't keep away from it by themselves, it may be time for an intervention.
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post Mon 3rd January 2011, 7:39pm
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...okay, the first two and the last two, yes, but you're really stretching with the rest.

Thanking someone isn't editing articles related to Scientology. Futurama is a major stretch. In the actor's article, his edit had nothing to do with the spoof, but was on an entirely separate part of the article. Welcoming someone is not editing Scientology articles.

Save the first two and the last two, but get rid of the rest, they don't help your argument at all.

As for the Inchon film, the movie was almost completely panned by critics and it is common practice to put a single quote from a critic that generally sums up the rest of the critics' feelings about the film in a box like that, which it does. There's nothing wrong with that edit.

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post Mon 3rd January 2011, 9:29pm
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QUOTE(Silver seren @ Mon 3rd January 2011, 7:39pm) *

...okay, the first two and the last two, yes, but you're really stretching with the rest.

Thanking someone isn't editing articles related to Scientology. Futurama is a major stretch.


Given that the episode is a parody of Scientology, is included in the Scientology Portal, etc., it doesn't seem much of a stretch at all.
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carbuncle   Let's check in on the reformed Cirt   Mon 3rd January 2011, 7:31pm
carbuncle   ...okay, the first two and the last two, yes, but...   Mon 3rd January 2011, 7:59pm
taiwopanfob   ...okay, the first two and the last two, yes, but...   Mon 3rd January 2011, 8:06pm
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