Let's check in on the reformed Cirt Options

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Remember when Cirt said:

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)

and

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:

"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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Cirt doesn't appear to be enjoying the attention this thread may have garnered and is on another short wikibreak. On Wikipedia, that is. On Wikimedia Commons, Cirt has been active. They are attempting to have a number of images deleted. Yes, images related to Scientology. You know, that subject form which they were distancing themselves?

I'll quote the reason for deletion and you see if you can figure out what it means:

File:L._Ron_Hubbard_conducting_Dianetics_seminar_in_Los_Angeles_in_1950.jpg
The link provided fails to show that this publication, Los Angeles Daily News appears on this list. It does not. -- Cirt (talk) 18:47, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

I think the newspaper of origin may be misidentified (Los Angeles Daily News instead of Los Angeles Times), but what is "the list"?

[taiwopanfob]

I think the newspaper of origin may be misidentified (Los Angeles Daily News instead of Los Angeles Times), but what is "the list"?

Quick research: we have a Los Angeles Daily News (historic) and a Los Angeles Daily News. The latter is still in business, but the former folded in 1954, and merged with Los Angeles Mirror. This last link is to the current Los Angeles Times, which may explain some of the source stuff at:

http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/...ubjectID=222501

Whatever this all may explain, it certainly isn't "the list"...

[carbuncle]

I think the newspaper of origin may be misidentified (Los Angeles Daily News instead of Los Angeles Times), but what is "the list"?

Quick research: we have a Los Angeles Daily News (historic) and a Los Angeles Daily News. The latter is still in business, but the former folded in 1954, and merged with Los Angeles Mirror. This last link is to the current Los Angeles Times, which may explain some of the source stuff at:

http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/...ubjectID=222501

Whatever this all may explain, it certainly isn't "the list"...

A mysterious stranger has helpfully cleared up the "list" confusion:

Okay, I'm going to guess that Cirt is tallking about this list of non-renewed copyrights. The reason it would not, and (I presume) the reason in would be found in the archives of the Los Angeles Times, is because this is not the same as today's Los Angeles Daily News. The old Los Angeles Daily News was merged with the Times in 1954.24.18.132.13 03:48, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Karppinen (T-C-L-K-R-D) recently introduced some early black-and-white pictures of Hubbard's 1950s' Dianetics seminars in a few WP articles. Cirt began the New Year by nominating all of them for deletion in Commons.

Actually, I tell a lie. Cirt's first Commons action in the New Year was to vote keep on this image.

I would guess Karppinen is representing the Church of Scientology in this epic battle between good and evil online spat.