Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology!

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Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology

Exclusive In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates. Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) in favor of the move, which takes effect immediately. The eighth most popular site on the web, Wikipedia bills itself as "the free encyclopedia anyone can edit." Administrators frequently ban individual Wikifiddlers for their individual Wikisins. And the site's UK press officer/resident goth once silenced an entire Utah mountain in a bizarre attempt to protect a sockpuppeting ex-BusinessWeek reporter. But according to multiple administrators speaking with The Reg, the muzzling of Scientology IPs marks the first time Wikipedia has officially barred edits from such a high-profile organization for allegedly pushing its own agenda on the site.

Officially, Wikipedia frowns on those who edit "in order to promote their own interests." The site sees itself as an encyclopedia with a "neutral point of view" - whatever that is. "Use of the encyclopedia to advance personal agendas – such as advocacy or propaganda and philosophical, ideological or religious dispute – or to publish or promote original research is prohibited," say the Wikipowersthatbe. Admins may ban a Wikifiddler who betrays an extreme conflict of interest, and since fiddlers often hide their identity behind open proxies, such IPs may be banned as a preventative measure. After today's ruling from the Arbitration Committee - known in Orwellian fashion as the ArbCom - Scientology IPs are "to be blocked as if they were open proxies" (though individual editors can request an exemption). According to evidence turned up by admins in this long-running Wikiland court case, multiple editors have been "openly editing [Scientology-related articles] from Church of Scientology equipment and apparently coordinating their activities." Leaning on the famed WikiScanner, countless news stories have discussed the editing of Scientology articles from Scientology IPs, and some site admins are concerned this is "damaging Wikipedia's reputation for neutrality." Scientology's banishment from Wikipedia comes just days after the
opening of a (real world) trial that could see the dissolution of the organization's French chapter. ®
 

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Good. Scientology is a bunch of shit! People only believe it because Tom Cruise does. He's a fuckin' stupid idiot with no talent who is retarded and believes stupid shit. All the people who also believe it are just as stupid!
 

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About time someone did.

Good. Scientology is a bunch of shit! People only believe it because Tom Cruise does. He's a fuckin' stupid idiot with no talent who is retarded and believes stupid shit. All the people who also believe it are just as stupid!
Dig it. The reason that the religion has gotten such prominence is because of that eightballed, fruitloop, who marries a girl almost half his age, and knocks her up, along with a crackpot way of how deliver the baby.
Remember this?

http://www.lpsg.org/25497-still-thinking-about-having-child.html
 
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I know I read up on this and Mormons on Wiki and was wondering exactly how one sided any info could be. I would suppose that anyone can edit whats there so if there was stuff they didn't like being posted they could just alter it. Not sure.:confused:
 

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Great article. It really opened my eyes to the mess that is Wikipedia. Trustable when I want some general info on tigers, but you couldn't pay me to use it as a resource for information on anything controversial.
 

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Mormons are just weird. After I saw the episode of South Park "All About Mormons" I looked online to check that that's NOT what they believe. In a nutshell, it is. Mormons are crazy.