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Cool

There are very few knowledgable Scientologists editing here; a good number of dedicated critics; and a lot of less biased editors that have none-the-less been influenced by misrepresentation of Scientology on the internet and have no positive experience of Scientology to balance that with. I seriously recommend that, before tackling Scientology articles, that you edit in other non-controversial articles that you are knowlegable about until you see how things work here. Also learn to use a watchlist (you can set your preferences up to watch every article you edit in). Follow the guidelines in the welcome message. Do not add or remove material without citing sources (or lack of sources after a good-faith attempt to find one yourself). Stay polite and never get personal. Do not allow yourself to be drawn into personal battles because someone attacked you first. Do not engage in edit wars. Many Scientologist editors have been banned from this site for breaking the rules; don't join them. See my page for general tips and a link to a "hat writeup" that may be helpful even though it is a very rough draft. Feel free to ask me anything. --Justanother 16:25, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll second all of that. Telling people they are wrong and then walking off isn't going to get anything changed, all it does is make you feel better and confirms the belief of your opponents that, in this case, scientologists can't discuss anything with 'outsiders' because they are 'crazy culties'.

Further advice would be to read the Talk:Scientology archives. You may well find that some of the specific points you want to raise have already been discussed at length, that there is a lot of information that you are not familiar with. It will also bring you up to speed on who's who, there are some editors who have been here for a while and will not take kindly to being told they are wrong, again, by someone who hasn't troubled to check the facts

There is a lot wrong with the Scientology articles on Misplaced Pages. This is not, in my view, a conspiracy against Scientology, just the inevitable result of the content being written by critics with little or no input by scientologists. Misplaced Pages articles always appear on the front page of Search Engines, and at present they are a major disaster for scientology. --Hartley Patterson 23:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Mind here are 2 blocked user accounts that were trying their way to help wikipedia improve: User:Terryeo, and User:Highfructosecornsyrup -- Jpierreg 18:08, 03 January 2006 (GMT)

Terryeo is a Scientologist who was eventually banned from edited Misplaced Pages. Reading the user log on his now deleted User page will explain why. The editors of the Scientology pages were IMO reluctant to throw him out because he was for a while the only Scientologist editor; it was higher admin that banned him. --Hartley Patterson 23:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Editing

Below the editing screen theres a small box that lets you write a note on why and what you edited to make it easier for other users to understand your edits, please try to use it. Joneleth 09:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Brandy (entertainer)

"why did u remove my note about brandy taking scientology courses?"

don't take it peronsal, but the sentences you added don't fit to the rest to the text. write a sec tion like "brandy & church" to include your informatin on scientology. - Noboyo

Re your message: I think part of the reason the information is challenged is because the presentation does not follow Misplaced Pages's Neutral Point of View policy, and the article is a biography of a living person. Please take some time out and read these. --ElectricEye (talk) 07:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The quote you attributed to Brandy was unverifiable. --ElectricEye (talk) 08:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Now, I see. A reference was provided yet it was still removed. I'll restore it. --ElectricEye (talk) 09:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Got your message.

Thanks for your kind message. --Messenger2010 02:58, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

BOG

Hello, your recent edits to The Dark Knight (film) have been identified as original research and reverted. Please do not add your personal opinion(s) or unverified claims to Misplaced Pages. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 05:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on 2009 films, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Misplaced Pages:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to add more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SkierRMH 08:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Avatar and edit summary

Please do not mask your edits with an incorrect edit summary. Your "minor" edit of correcting a link was really a revert back to your version that contained uncited information. As you can see with the current article, each piece of information is cited. What you've added lacks citation, hence the revert of the information, since it is not verifiable. If you can provide citations for your information, we can work the information into the existing sections. There's no need to start a new section -- the history of development and pre-production is part of the overall production cycle. I recommend reading WP:CITE to understand how to back up the information you've inserted. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Please look at WP:CITE to learn how to cite. In addition, the page is structured in line with film articles that have achieved featured article class. In addition, I noticed that you copied and pasted parts of the ComingSoon.net article, which plagiarism, which Misplaced Pages is against. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 00:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't make personal attacks. It's not civil. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 07:27, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Working for Misplaced Pages

Re your comments: Please participate in a respectful and civil way. Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia with a neutral point of view providing free content. Please let me know if you have any questions about contributing. --ElectricEye (talk) 21:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Johnpedia, I just looked at the comment referenced above and, if you ARE a Scientologist, then I say this to you; "Shame on you". That extremely low-toned, invalidative, out-of-ARC remark reflects badly on you and and it reflects badly on Scientology. Just so you know, that kind of remark can get you blocked no matter who you are but, as a Scientologist, you are being watched by other editors that would be perfectly happy to see you kicked off this web site for good. So take it easy and apply the best of what you know of Scientology. And remember to grant beingness to the other editors here. Good luck! (ps, if you are not really a Scientologist feel free to disregard this comment.) --Justanother 14:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)