Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology
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.
Parentage
No parent of this WikiProject has been defined.
Descendant WikiProjects
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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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Sister Project Searches
- WikiBooks search
- Google WikiBooks search
- WikiQuote search
- Google WikiQuote search
- WikiSource search
- Google WikiSource search
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)
- NicholasTurnbull - experienced Scientologist, now non-CoS (but not Free Zone)
- Tεxτurε - 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 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.
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)
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)
- 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
- Articles that need writing
- Topics important to the majority of Scientologists
- What does a CoS Scientologist want to learn about Scientology from an encyclopedia?
- ARC (Scientology) and the ARC Triangle
- Assists
- Auditing processes and procedures
- Clear (Scientology)
- Codes of Scientology, including:
- Comm cycle
- Dianetic auditing procedure - including cost, duration of sessions, and frequency. Also, technical information (e.g. engrams, locks, chains, misdirectors, groupers, holders, denyers, etc.)
- E-meter - including photographs, description of operation, reads etc.
- Engram needs expansion regarding Scientology
- Ethics (Scientology) inc PTS/SP stuff, O/W writeups, etc.
- Exteriorisation (Scientology) inc info. about the Ext/Int R/D, Dianetics 55 processes etc.
- Grades (Scientology) inc. related information
- KRC (Scientology) and the KRC Triangle
- Management by statistics (Scientology) with reference to Ethics (Scientology)
- Mental image pictures inc. short reference to engrams. Includes stuff on service facsimiles, locks, etc.
- MEST (Scientology)
- Operating Thetan (currently a long stub, needs summaries of all levels)
- Overts & Withholds or O/Ws inc. Overt-motivator sequence
- Power Processes
- Purification Rundown - very critic POV; needs Scientologist coverage
- "Previous lifetime" stuff:
- Genetic Entity (GE) with reference to A History of Man
- Implant (Scientology) - needs the list from Space opera in Scientology doctrine
- New Era Dianetics (NED)
- NED for OTs (NOTs)
- etc.
- "Red" and "Green" volumes: Technical Bulletins and Administrative Bulletins
- Saint Hill Manor or AOSH
- Study tech
- Thetan
- The Tone Scale
- 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)
- What does a CoS Scientologist want to learn about Scientology from an encyclopedia?
- 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)
- Category:Free Zone is just about empty and needs a knowledgeable contributor or two.
- Topics important to critics of Scientology
- Scientology and celebrities
- What topics are particularly popular on Operation Clambake? Someone needs to go through them
- Key critical books and articles
- Atack, Jonathan. A Piece Of Blue Sky.
- Burroughs, William S. Burroughs On Scientology, Los Angeles Free Press, 6th March 1970.
- Cooper, Paulette. The Scandal of Scientology.
- Forté, Major John. The Commodore and the Colonels.
- Kaufman, Robert. Inside Scientology/Dianetics.
- Miller, Russell. Bare-faced Messiah.
- Matters within the Church of Scientology of interest to critics
- Copyright and the Church of Scientology
- Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) the "secret" management of the CoS; known only by a PO Box
- Estates Project Force (EPF)
- Guardian's Office (GO)
- Office of Special Affairs (OSA)
- Operation Snow White
- OT Levels (Scientology) - OT III already has good coverage in Space opera in Scientology doctrine and Xenu
- Overboarding (Scientology) - not quite sure about this one; re. overboarding on the Apollo
- Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) and the RPF's RPF
- Religious Technology Center (RTC) - the "semi-secret" management
- 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
- Church of Scientology - slight critical POV, low priority
- Purification Rundown - distinct critical POV, high priority
- People notable in the context of Scientology
- Notable Scientologists (Category:Scientologists)
- Notable critics (Category:Critics of Scientology)
- Andreas Heldal-Lund has a stub
- Arnaldo Lerma has a stub
- Ron Newman has a v short article
- Jon Atack or Jonathan Atack or Jonathan C. Atack - probably the first, it's the name he's most known as
- 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)
Stub templates
Use {{Scientology-stub}}. This will put:
The article will also be added to Category:Scientology stubs.
Other templates
Categories
- Category:Scientology
- de:Kategorie:Scientology
- ja:Category:サイエントロジー
Lists
Articles
Wikipedia articles on 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)
- 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.
Article improvement drive
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
Collaboration of the week
Peer review
- 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)
Featured articles
- Xenu - surprisingly popular in the blogosphere [2] [3]
Votes for deletion
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