The bad news keeps rolling in for the Super Adventure Club:
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.h/t Sully McBeardersonClosing 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…
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”…
“The guys I worked with posted every day all day,” Tory Christman tells The Reg. “It was like a machine. I worked with someone who used five separate computers, five separate anonymous identities…to refute any facts from the internet about the Church of Scientology.” Christman left the Church in 2000, before Wikipedia was created.
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It is worrying that they can be soo insecure about there own organisation that they edit wikipedia pages, are they worried that someone might take wikipedia seriously??
mind you a few universities are now letting you reference wikipedia, so maybe they had a point :p
still best thing I have heard all day
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cults have a hard time thriving when the truth is too readily available.
to readily available? i hate that cult. it does not make a point
amen to that. give it about 100 years and it will be as "respectable" as the mormon church (which also believes in space gods)
Two very recognizable cults. But you forgot the Jehovah Witnesses.
I cannot believe that anyone used wikipedia since anyone can change the data in it, it becomes worthless. After 38 years I am finishing my schooling with a online university, and everyone posts that wikipedia is not an allowed source. However I do agree with the idea about cults, and this one is a lulu.
Wikipedia is as trustworthy as any other internet source… anyone can start their own web page and write crap there without it been the truth… wikipedia is probably even more correct, because people use it every day and first of all correct it if a misstake is done. Totally agree when it comes to cults though…. hate'em! :D
… and anyone can't change wiki anymore…it all goes through an admin
All I can say is that no college will allow you to source wiki for anything brcause of its inherent errors.