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Originally Posted by mrklixx
It wasn't Scientology as compared to other churches, it was Scientology as compared to other businesses in relation to Wikipedia.
In other words, should all businesses be banned from editing their own Wikipedia entries because naturally they will try to spin themselves in a positive light.
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Aren't all churches a business? Don't they have to have an income to survive?
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Originally Posted by Martian
Tully, I really don't understand your position here. Are you saying that other churches have committed misdeeds in the past, so it's normal and/or acceptable for the Church of Scientology to do the same? Or are you saying that they all ought to be outlawed? I don't understand what your point is.
Within the context of the original discussion, if the Catholic Church were trying to edit out any mention of the crusades I'd expect similar action to be taken. Wikipedia strives for neutrality, which means that no entity should be able to get away with the kind of biased edits the Church of Scientology was trying to manage. They misbehaved, and now they get supervised. It seems like a fair restriction.
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I don't really have a point other then to say I'm not sure I see a huge difference between Scientology and other churches, other then time line and age.
And I think it's silly to think the Scientology folks won't simply put people out en mass to edit from non church own systems and servers to continue doing what they been doing all along.
Also isn't Wiki a user based information system? As I understand it experts on subjects or knowledgeable persons post articles, right? So wouldn't the experts on the Catholic church mainly be the Catholic church? I haven't looked at it at all. But do you know for a fact the Catholic church or the LDS church or any other church isn't doing exactly what the Scientology folks have been doing?