Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology

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WikiProject Scientology

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Purpose: WikiProject Scientology (or WP:SCN for short) is meant to set a public forum for Wikipedia editors interested in improving and maintaining articles related to Scientology and the Church of Scientology, with a primary focus upon history and practices.

Scientology is a controversial topic, with interested persons tending to have strong opinions for or against it. Editors must take special care with Neutral point of view and referencing.

Issues for discussion on this forum: identifying articles and topics in the scope of this project, discussing ways to improve article standards, coordinating collaborations and article improvement efforts, developing standards and guidelines designed to achieve consistency between related articles, rating articles by appropriate standards and classes and organizing the articles by suitable categories and links.

Project structure: The WikiProject's main page includes the following elements:

  • An introduction to the project's subject and a suggested Things you can do list.
  • A list of the members and participants of the project
  • An assessment of the current status of the articles within the scope of the project (compiled automatically by a bot)
  • A catalog of all the templates and categories related to Scientology and its WikiProject
  • A Related WikiProjects section, to denote other collaborative projects on related Wikipedia articles, as well as related information on Sister Projects.
  • Article alerts - subpage with notices about discussions, changes, etc. upadted by a bot
  • An Articles for Deletion section, to list Articles nominated for deletion and the results of completed AFDs.
Being introduced to Scientology
Being introduced to Scientology

Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices developed by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard began Scientology in 1952 as a self-help philosophy, an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system, Dianetics, and later described it as a new religion. He said that it offered an exact methodology to help humans achieve awareness of their spiritual existence across many lifetimes and, simultaneously, to become more effective in the physical world. The name "Scientology" is also used to refer to the often controversial Church of Scientology, the largest organization promoting the practice of Scientology, which is itself part of a network of affiliated organizations that claim ownership and sole authority to disseminate Dianetics and Scientology.

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New participants please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology/Participants to join the project.

Members are recommended to add the project to their watchlist.

Open articles for deletion discussions
  1. None at this time.
See also Article alerts subpage


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WP:SCN article rating and assessment scheme
(NB: Listing, Log & Stats are updated on a daily basis by a bot)
Current detailed listing of Scientology articles by quality
Daily log of status changes
Current Statistics
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WikiProject Scientology is one of the religion related WikiProjects.

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Templates relevant to this Project
Template link Type What it's for / Where it goes Syntax / parameters / actions
Article templates (content related)
{{Scientology}} Template purpose: Navigational box for readers/editors
placement: at the bottom of WikiProject Scientology related articles.
action: Displays the ScientologyFooter navigational box.
{{Scientology-stub}} Stub purpose: identifies stubs of Scientology articles
placement: at the bottom of Scientology stub articles.
action: automatically assigns to Category:Scientology stubs
Meta-templates (not content related)
{{WikiProject Scientology}} Banner purpose: Project banner template; identifies in-scope articles, alerts other editors to this WikiProject. Also used for recording article assessments per the rating scheme via its parameters, there are other flags as well.

placement: On the talk page of relevant articles, at the top.

syntax:
{{WikiProject Scientology |class= |importance= }}

action: automatically assigns to Category:WikiProject Scientology, and other cats depending on the parameters assigned.

{{User Scientology project}}
Userbox purpose: identifies project participants
placement: somewhere in your user space
action: automatically assigns to Category:WikiProject Scientology participants
{{The Scientology Barnstar}}
Barnstar purpose: awarded to editors who've made significant contributions to Scientology-related articles.
placement: somewhere in another user's talk page
action: renders barnstar-award template on the user talk page
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology/publicwatchlist}} Public watchlist purpose: Scientology Public Watchlist, to watch changes to WikiProject SCN related articles.

placement: somewhere in your user space or your user talk page.

action: Places the Scientology Public Watchlist on a page.
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