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Cult of scientology banned from Wikipedia
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Banned from editing any articles that is.
http://www.techdigest.tv/2009/05/scientology_ban.html
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http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/29/wikipedia-bans-church-of-scientology/The collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology from editing the site. The Register reports Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee, or ArbCom, voted 10 to 0 in favor of the ban, which takes effect immediately.
Wikipedia’s innovative free-encyclopedia draws upon the knowledge of millions of users to create and edit articles on every conceivable topic. Edits appear immediately and do not undergo any formal peer-review process.
Wikipedia officially prohibits use of the encyclopedia to advance personal agendas – such as advocacy or propaganda and philosophical, ideological or religious dispute – but the open format makes enforcing such policies difficult.
According to Wikipedia administrators speaking to The Register:
Multiple editors have been “openly editing [Scientology-related articles] from Church of Scientology equipment and apparently coordinating their activities.â€
However, Karin Pouw, with the Church of Scientology’s public affairs office, told me she is unaware of any coordinated effort to alter Wikipedia. Instead, she described the edits as individual attempts to correct inaccurate information by impassioned Scientologists and interpreted the ban as a typical Wikipedia response to arguments over content. She noted that even the U.S. Department of Justice received a temporary ban after someone erased references to a controversial scandal from inside the government agency.
One Wikipedia contributor I spoke with that was involved in the Scientology arbitration agreed that some of the edits coming from the church were justifiable, but insisted the ban was necessary after the church refused to follow Wikipedia’s policies:
“The edits coming out of Church of Scientology servers were of the sort that made their organization look better. Up to a point that’s justifiable, when it comes to correcting inaccuracies or removing poorly sourced negative information. There were times when they went beyond that and deleted well sourced information that was unflattering, and there were times when they insulted other editors in a manner that would reflect poorly upon any religion.â€
Some see Wikipedia’s decision as a setback to the Utopian goal of Web 2.0 in which every user is allowed to freely contribute.
http://www.techdigest.tv/2009/05/scientology_ban.html
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I think it's just an IP range ban anyway.
yeah, it doesn't exactly outright block them from doing what they're doing
just sends the message that "hey we do not want you doing this, stop"
Wikipedia is about accurate speech, not free speech.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_anarchy
according to the movie zeitgeist god is the sun
except one man
who must document everything
the giver?
Til his gallses fall off and break?
Well played. I thought the exact same thing
Coran Attack!
They just ban the IP block from scientology.org or whatever their site is. Someone could just go home and mess around, but individual IPs can be banned as well if the user is causing trouble.
i love wiki apologists
:^:
presumably by banning edits from people within the church's ip range
if you're actively going against that goal to further yourself or your own organization, then they have every right to ban you
Every time you try and edit something, they ask you about your Thetans.
My Thetans, let me show you them.
This.
I'm all for free speech, but Wikipedia isn't a place to say "Hey this is cool", it is supposed to be a community edited source of information.
Them insulting other groups and removing things that make them look bad is breaking the rules.
And in general, those guys are colossal dicks to everyone.
So I'm pretty happy saying "FUCK YOU" to the Church of Scientology.
That's just a white myth, like Larry Bird and Colorado.
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
what
pismo is run^3 level retarded
Typical weasel-word bullshit. Notice it doesn't say or even suggest who sees it that way.
rage against the man, bro
So what you're saying is, Citation Needed?