User talk:TimonofAthens

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[edit] Deletion of content

Please do not remove content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. -- ChrisO 01:03, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Your recent contribution(s) to Wikipedia did not provide specific references or sources. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a drive to improve the quality of Wikipedia by encouraging editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. Editors may choose to remove material you have contributed if it is not verifiable. Please provide specific references in your contributions to any books, articles, websites or other reliable sources that will allow people to verify the content. You can use a citation method listed at inline citations that best suits each article. -- ChrisO 01:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scientology article

Hi Timon,

No, I'm not responsible for writing the Scientology article - as you will see from the editing history it has had dozens if not hundreds of editors. I've not edited it in any substantive way since last July.

I agree 100% that there are a lot of problems with the article and also with many of the other Scientology-related articles on Wikipedia, which are often badly written, poorly referenced and unfairly biased against the Church. In the (relatively few) Scientology-related articles that I've edited, I've done my best to fix these problems, though it has occasionally led to clashes with anti-Scientologists or Scientologists who don't understand what Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy requires. We can't use articles as vehicles for praising or condemning Scientology - we have to present both the pro- and anti- viewpoints fairly and neutrally.

You offered to list specific areas of discontent - if you could do this, I'd definitely like to see what can be done about them. -- ChrisO 12:53, 13 January 2007 (UTC)