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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better develop and organise information in articles related to Scientology. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title

WikiProject on Scientology

Scope

To create and improve WP:NPOV, well-referenced and encyclopedic articles on all aspects of Scientology.

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Category:Free Zone could really do with some work, if we can find a specialist or two.

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Participants

Antaeus Feldspar
ChrisO
David Gerard - never a Scientologist, Internet critic since 1995, apparently what passes for an expert [1]
Fernando Rizo - I have no inside knowledge of Scientology, but I want to help keep this controversial topic as NPOV as possible. 23:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
NicholasTurnbull - experienced Scientologist, now non-CoS (but not Free Zone)
Tεx τ urε - No inside knowledge - neither convert nor critic (but a serious non-believer) - Would like to see both sides evenly presented. Currently too anti-Scientology in some sections.

Structure

Dry and encyclopaedic is the goal here. Critical writings tend to be heavy on detail and references but very opinionated and POV; pro-Scientology writing tends to cover what is important to the Church of Scientology but leaves out things the critics consider highly relevant. There is very little source material that is NPOV and not reasonably factually questionable by either side.

Wikipedia (and category:Scientology) has contributors who are knowledgeable critics, contributors who are CoS members and contributors who are non-CoS Scientologists. It should be possible to work together (or at least not conflicting overly) in a manner that self-evidently fits Wikipedia's goals, policies and guidelines and its mission as an encyclopedia.

I think it's important that we avoid variations from general Wikipedia policies, guidelines and styles on this project. Many projects do this and it's not a good thing IMO. Our work should be invisible except from the quality of the results - David Gerard 15:28, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

Goals

Create and expand NPOV encyclopaedic coverage of important topics regarding Scientology.
Neither a critical POV, a pro-CoS POV or a pro-Scientology POV - describe all as relevant, but the article tone must be strictly neutral.
High-quality and thorough referencing. Casual readers seem to find a lot of things about Scientology hard to believe.

Projects

Note: The projects below are merely my idea on how this project's work could be handled as separate collaboration projects. These haven't been agreed by anyone else on this project yet. Volunteers, and new projects, are welcomed. --NicholasTurnbull 22:55, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Critical Books Coverage Project
Quite a number of key texts (like Kaufman's Inside Scientology/Dianetics) have absolutely no mention on the wiki, as far as I can determine. A project taskforce could be created to ensure adequate coverage of all key critical texts, by writing, editing and maitaining synopses and information about these books.

Participants:
History Article Project
This project would be involved in editing, creating and cleaning up articles related to the history of Scientology, ensuring that there is a uniform coverage of Scientology's history both in individual articles and across all of the subjects pertaining to Scientology.

Participants:
L. Ron Hubbard Books Coverage Project
This project would be involved with creating, maintaining and improving articles containing information and synopses of official Scientology books written by LRH. Many of LRH's books do not have a synopsis or even a stub, at the moment.

Participants: NicholasTurnbull
NPOV Review Project
This project would provide internal peer review of material generated by this WikiProject, to check for proper balance and NPOV. Also, this project would check existing articles on Scientological subjects and correct POV material as appropriate.

Participants:
Technical Subject Article Project
Many fundamental subjects in Scientology technology have absolutely no coverage at the moment in the encyclopedia. This project would create, maintain and improve articles related to Scientology technology and beliefs.

Participants: NicholasTurnbull

Tasks

Note that we have a stub of our own, {{Scientology-stub}} - so if you think of an article to add to this list, you really might as well just start it, jot down whatever occurs to you off the top of your head and add that stub to it. Please try to add at least one reference, to help the next editor.

Fix the stubs - expand and give full references
1. Category:Scientology stubs
Articles that need writing
1. Scientology and psychiatry
Topics important to the majority of Scientologists
1. What does a CoS Scientologist want to learn about Scientology from an encyclopedia?
  1. ARC (Scientology) and the ARC Triangle
  2. Assists
  3. Auditing processes and procedures
  4. Clear (Scientology)
  5. Codes of Scientology, including:
    1. The Code of a Scientologist
    2. The Auditor's Code
    3. The Supervisor's Code
  6. Comm cycle
  7. Dianetic auditing procedure - including cost, duration of sessions, and frequency. Also, technical information (e.g. engrams, locks, chains, misdirectors, groupers, holders, denyers, etc.)
  8. E-meter - including photographs, description of operation, reads etc.
  9. Engram needs expansion regarding Scientology
  10. Ethics (Scientology) inc PTS/SP stuff, O/W writeups, etc.
  11. Exteriorisation (Scientology) inc info. about the Ext/Int R/D, Dianetics 55 processes etc.
  12. Grades (Scientology) inc. related information
  13. KRC (Scientology) and the KRC Triangle
  14. Management by statistics (Scientology) with reference to Ethics (Scientology)
  15. Mental image pictures inc. short reference to engrams. Includes stuff on service facsimiles, locks, etc.
  16. MEST (Scientology)
  17. Operating Thetan (currently a long stub, needs summaries of all levels)
  18. Overts & Withholds or O/Ws inc. Overt-motivator sequence
  19. Power Processes
  20. Purification Rundown - very critic POV; needs Scientologist coverage
  21. "Previous lifetime" stuff:
    1. Genetic Entity (GE) with reference to A History of Man
    2. Implant (Scientology) - needs the list from Space opera in Scientology doctrine
    3. New Era Dianetics (NED)
    4. NED for OTs (NOTs)
    5. etc.
  22. "Red" and "Green" volumes: Technical Bulletins and Administrative Bulletins
  23. Saint Hill Manor or AOSH
  24. Study tech
  25. Thetan
  26. The Tone Scale
  27. Information about and proper synopses of key Scientology texts: A History of Man, Book of Case Remedies, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Dianetics 55!, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, Science of Survival, Scientology: Fundamentals of Thought, etc.
    Note: There is probably much more to be added here, but this is just a start. Maybe a lot of these could be merged into some kind of "Fundamentals of Scientology" article. --NicholasTurnbull 21:30, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Topics specifically important to CoS-only Scientologists (e.g. IAS members and those "on lines" at orgs)
Topics specifically important to non-CoS Scientologists (e.g. Free Zone members and unaffiliated Scientologists)
1. Category:Free Zone is just about empty and needs a knowledgeable contributor or two.
Topics important to critics of Scientology
1. Scientology and celebrities
2. What topics are particularly popular on Operation Clambake? Someone needs to go through them
3. Key critical books and articles
  1. Atack, Jonathan. A Piece Of Blue Sky.
  2. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs On Scientology, Los Angeles Free Press, 6th March 1970.
  3. Cooper, Paulette. The Scandal of Scientology.
  4. Forté, Major John. The Commodore and the Colonels.
  5. Kaufman, Robert. Inside Scientology/Dianetics.
  6. Miller, Russell. Bare-faced Messiah.
4. Matters within the Church of Scientology of interest to critics
  1. Copyright and the Church of Scientology
  2. Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) the "secret" management of the CoS; known only by a PO Box
  3. Estates Project Force (EPF)
  4. Guardian's Office (GO)
  5. Office of Special Affairs (OSA)
  6. Operation Snow White
  7. OT Levels (Scientology) - OT III already has good coverage in Space opera in Scientology doctrine and Xenu
  8. Overboarding (Scientology) - not quite sure about this one; re. overboarding on the Apollo
  9. Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) and the RPF's RPF
  10. Religious Technology Center (RTC) - the "semi-secret" management
  11. Sea Organisation or Sea Org - the main Church of Scientology nexus
Put {{scientology}} (the project template) on the talk page of all relevant articles
POV Scientology articles requiring attention
1. Church of Scientology - slight critical POV, low priority
2. Purification Rundown - distinct critical POV, high priority
People notable in the context of Scientology
1. Notable CoS public Scientologists (Category:Scientologists)
2. Notable CoS staff members (e.g. management, prominent Sea Org and OSA staff)
  1. David Miscavige Chairman of the Board, RTC
  2. Guillaume Lesevre ED INT, Church of Scientology
  3. Helena Kobrin apparently now disappeared; originally from Legal, OSA INT
  4. Mark Rathbun Inspector General, RTC
  5. Mary Sue Hubbard L. Ron Hubbard's wife, now deceased; often referred to as MSH
  6. Mike Rinder, ED OSA INT
  7. Warren McShane Deputy Inspector General for Legal Affairs, RTC
3. Notable Freezone and Independent Scientologists
  1. Bill Robertson aka. Captain Bill Robertson or CBR; formerly LRH's right hand man
  2. David Mayo original contributor to upper level materials and founder of the Advanced Ability Center organisation (now defunct)
  3. Heidrun Beer freezoner; has had some interference from the CoS
  4. Ralph Hilton prominent Freezoner and technical enthusiast. Runs FZAOINT, I seem to recall.
  5. Ray Kemp - former mission holder and one of LRH's closer friends. Alleged author of the OCA/APA Test.
4. Notable critics (Category:Critics of Scientology)
  1. Andreas Heldal-Lund has a stub
  2. Arnaldo Lerma has a stub
  3. David S. Touretzky Professor at CMU; long history of being a CoS critic
  4. Gerald Armstrong Very long lawsuit with the CoS over alleged contract breach; notable writer
  5. Jesse Prince famous ex-member
  6. Jon Atack or Jonathan Atack or Jonathan C. Atack - probably the first, it's the name he's most known as
  7. Larry Wollersheim - high profile lawsuit and outspoken critic
  8. Ron Newman has a v short article
  9. Steve Fishman of Fishman affidavit fame, one of the first to publicise the OT materials
  10. Just posting to a.r.s probably isn't enough, nor even a popular website unless it's Operation Clambake ... real-world influence, e.g. lawsuits, writing a book, frequent media (discussion needed)

General strategy and discussion forums

Other subpages

Templates

Infoboxes

We had an old Template:Scientology (before MediaWiki had categories), but it was (a) redundant with the category (b) IMO very much from a critical POV in the article selection.

In order to help avoid something POV-leaning (a common failing with article series boxes — see WP:CLS), I've made Template:Scientology the WikiProject box for article talk pages:

I really think we can do everything a reader would need with carefully-chosen category names and sorting, and infoboxes are unneccesary - David Gerard 20:48, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stub templates

Use {{Scientology-stub}}. This will put:

This Scientology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

The article will also be added to Category:Scientology stubs.

Other templates

Lists

Articles

Wikipedia articles on Scientology

New Wikipedia articles related to Scientology

Please feel free to list your new Scientology-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Rehabilitation Project Force
Bare-faced Messiah the Russell Miller biography of Hubbard, is a recent stub.
Sea Org, the inner management of Scientology, is a recent larger stub. --NicholasTurnbull 00:32, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Arnaldo Lerma - note on critic, why he's notable, v. rough bio notes (needs refs)

Did you know?

The record for the most FOIA requests filed by a single individual is held by a former Scientologist, Barbara Schwarz.

Space opera in Scientology is there now.

Featured article candidates

We want to get Space opera in Scientology nominated soon.
I think ChrisO is currently off on holiday, annoyingly enough - he has the source material and references to help with the thornier FAC shrubbery requests - David Gerard 11:01, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Just a long weekend, David - I was up in Newcastle seeing this lot performing. :-) -- ChrisO 18:23, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Featured articles

Xenu - surprisingly popular in the blogosphere [2] [3]

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-Dry and encyclopaedic is the goal here. Critical writings tend to be heavy on detail but very opinionated; pro-Scientology writing tends to cover what is important to the [[Church of Scientology]] but leaves out things the critics consider highly relevant. There is very little source material that is NPOV and not ''reasonably'' factually questionable by either side.
+Dry and encyclopaedic is the goal here. Critical writings tend to be heavy on detail and references but very opinionated and POV; pro-Scientology writing tends to cover what is important to the [[Church of Scientology]] but leaves out things the critics consider highly relevant. There is very little source material that is NPOV and not ''reasonably'' factually questionable by either side.
 Wikipedia (and [[:category:Scientology]]) has contributors who are knowledgeable critics, contributors who are CoS members and contributors who are non-CoS Scientologists. It should be possible to work together (or at least not conflicting overly) in a manner that self-evidently fits Wikipedia's goals, policies and guidelines and its mission as an encyclopedia.

v t e Scientology
Beliefs and practices	Auditing Books Bridge Clear Dianetics Dianetics (book) Disconnection E-meter Engram Ethics and justice Glossary Implant Incident Keeping Scientology Working Marcab Confederacy Marriage MEST Operating Thetan OT VIII Reactive mind Scientology and religious groups Reincarnation Sec Check Sexual orientation Silent birth Space opera Study Technology Thetan Training routines Xenu
History and controversies	Abortion Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act Books critical of Scientology Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia Clearwater Hearings Death of Elli Perkins Death of Kaja Ballo Death of Lisa McPherson Fair game Fishman Affidavit Guardian's Office operations Keith Henson The Internet Operation Clambake Operation Freakout Operation Snow White Project Chanology Project Normandy R2-45 Psychiatry Scientology and Me Scientology as a business The Secrets of Scientology Suppressive person Tax status in the US "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" Timeline
Litigation	Hubbard v Vosper United States v. Hubbard X. and Church of Scientology v. Sweden Church of Scientology v. Sweden Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology Hernandez v. Commissioner New Era Publications International ApS v. Carol Publishing Group and Jonathan Caven-Atack Church of Scientology of California v. Armstrong R. v. Church of Scientology of Toronto Church of Scientology Intl. v. Fishman and Geertz Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto Religious Technology Center v Lerma Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Communication Services, Inc. Church of Scientology Intl. v. Time Warner, Inc., et al. Arenz, Röder and Dagmar v. Germany Church of Scientology Moscow v. Russia
Organizations	Cadet Org Celebrity Centre Church of Scientology Church of Scientology International Church of Spiritual Technology Founding Church of Scientology Golden Era Productions Hubbard Association of Scientologists International International Association of Scientologists Office of Special Affairs Religious Technology Center Rehabilitation Project Force Scientology Missions International Sea Org
Properties	Castle Kyalami Château Élysée Flag Building/Super Power Building Fort Harrison Hotel Fraser Mansion Freewinds Gold Base The Hole Guaranty Building Hockley Highlands Inn L. Ron Hubbard House One Griswold Street Saint Hill Manor Trementina Base
Countries	Status by country Australia Belgium Canada Egypt France Germany Netherlands New Zealand Norway Pakistan Russia United Kingdom United States
Officials	L. Ron Hubbard Mary Sue Hubbard David Miscavige Shelly Miscavige Bob Adams John Carmichael Tommy Davis Jessica Feshbach David Gaiman Leisa Goodman Heber Jentzsch Kendrick Moxon Karin Pouw Mark Rathbun Mike Rinder Michelle Stith Kurt Weiland
Affiliated organizations and recruitment	Association for Better Living and Education Applied Scholastics Celebrities Citizens Commission on Human Rights Concerned Businessmen's Association of America Criminon Cult Awareness Network The Delphian School Free Zone Front groups Moxon & Kobrin Narconon New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project Oxford Capacity Analysis Safe Environment Fund Second Chance Program Trademarks Volunteer Ministers The Way to Happiness World Institute of Scientology Enterprises Youth for Human Rights International
Popular culture	Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology Being Tom Cruise Bowfinger The Bridge Going Clear film Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath My Scientology Movie The Master The Profit South Park "A Token of My Extreme" A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant We Stand Tall
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