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This statement is not true and should be revised, "He then developed counseling (auditing) techniques for getting rid of engrams. This is still the technique used by Dianetics-trained counselors today." Auditing techiques have developed continuously since 1947 when the first clears were made. Their development was not halted in 1950 as this statement implies. People who use this book may use the book exactly as is and get the results published. The modern course to do this is the Dianetics Seminar Course. The modern course that updates all auditor training is the Hubbard Dianetic Auditor course. The course that includes the E-Meter is the New Era Dianetics Course. Spirit of Man 03:40, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Antaeus, you have removed the edits related to this discussion without discussion. The clarifying material should be in the article, otherwise the article misrepresents the facts of the situation. Please restore this material. Spirit of Man 15:00, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

The statements here about Xenu are false and malicious. This information is not in Dianetics or Scientology published materials and is uncitable within the context presented. It should be removed. It was not added with discussion here. Spirit of Man 03:40, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Well someone could cite the fishman document as a source for volcanoes and Hubbard, but I'm not sure there's a source for stating that the dianetics volcano cover has much to do with Xenu... Ronabop 06:31, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, there is a source for this statement, I read it just yesterday. Hang on, and I'll find it. wikipediatrix 16:02, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, it's fixed. There are three sources for the Xenu-Dianetics cover connection listed on the article and I can get more if you like. As an added bonus, I added two sources for the statement that critics have noted that many of the volcanoes specifically named by Hubbard did not exist 75 million years ago. wikipediatrix 16:26, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Why do you people oppose simplicites? The book itself has been widely sold, reprinted many many times in hardback and softback. People come here and what do they read about it? Some beanbrain vast controversy about the significance of the only picture the book has, its cover. That's one page people, one picture. There is no statement why a volcano is used on its cover. But you people are so willing to provide the reasons the publisher uses. Meanwhile, any information within the book is ignored in favor of a vast controversy, all of it suppositioned, about its cover. Does it not occur to the thinking mind the article doesn't serve Misplaced Pages when drivel about Xenu is artfully inserted into a DMSMH article because the editors are restimulated by a picture? Does it not occur to you at all that Xenu didn't exist for many years after DMSMH was written, published, sold, re-published, re-copyrighted, etc? A + B = beanbrain, I mean c'mon, really. Terryeo 22:19, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, any argument with the word "beanbrain" in it is automatically at a high, erudite level of discourse, but I'll try to explain it to you anyways. The reason we went for so very long without any article called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is because that article would have had to be one of two things: either it would be about the book (rather than about the contents, which are already described at Dianetics) or it would be an unallowable POV fork of Dianetics. Spirit of Man already tried the latter, and only succeeded in producing a POV fork. ChrisO did the former, and produced an article about the book. It's .... rather strange, to say the least, for you to have spent so much time at Dianetics trying to insert factually dubious claims about the book and then to come here, to the now-extant article about the book, and complain that it's about the book. But hey, if calling your fellow editors "beanbrains" is what you need to do to get to sleep at night, it won't be hurting us none. -- Antaeus Feldspar 23:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok, maybe I begin to understand your point of view Antaeus. "About the book (and not about the contents). hmm. That means this article can only be about the cover of the book (according to your explanation) and can not have any information within it about that which is between the covers of the book, according to your statement. Hmmm. So let me ask you this. According to you all of the copies sold have been sold to people who don't read the book? Over a time period of 55 years, many reprintings, millions of copies, all of that. People don't read the book? I don't believe it. HEH ! People read the book, people talk to their neighbors. People come to Misplaced Pages and are a little curious about the book. Let's provide them with a little information about what is inside, shall we Antaeus?  :) Terryeo 13:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

"That means this article can only be about the cover of the book (according to your explanation) and can not have any information within it about that which is between the covers of the book, according to your statement." Well, Terryeo, thank you for sinking to a new low. That's a truly pathetic straw man, "this article can only be about the cover of the book". No. It can be about the publishing history of the book (assuming that the only information is coming from reliable sources, which at this point it's clear that you wouldn't know if they bit you in the ass-thetan.) It can be about the covers of the book. It can even be about where this book fell in the sequence of books about Dianetics. What it can't be about is the subject of Dianetics, because that already has its article; is this something you will ever comprehend? Will you ever even try to grasp the concept? If you don't like what's written at L. Ron Hubbard you can't just say "well, I'll write my own version at LRH." And if you don't like what's written at Dianetics you can't just say "Well, I'll start articles for every book written about Dianetics and I'll make each one my own version of what I think Misplaced Pages should tell people about Dianetics." Is it somewhat ludicrous that when a book's subject is already covered in another article, an article about the book would have to be about the book rather than about the contents? Yes; can your superhuman mind entertain the possibility that this is why no one bothered to write an article on the book? -- Antaeus Feldspar 04:37, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Antaeus, tell us more about why an article on a book should not discuss the contents of the book? Spirit of Man 18:48, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Also, I find no contents of the book at Dianetics. The article Dianetics should encompass the subject of Dianetics which includes many, many books, articles, lectures and videos by L. Ron Hubbar over a period of 70 years. It should include any resulting controversy. Dianetics is not the same topic as this one book. You have a POV and you seem to have a problem with me. You did not discuss it at the talk page for the article you redirected to this one and recommended for deletion. Are you willing to talk it out? Spirit of Man 18:48, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Because that would be a POV fork, and indeed in the AfD for your article you yourself spelled out that it was a POV fork, that because you did not like the existing Dianetics article you set out to create a new article to cover the same subject, but in the way you wanted it covered. That's called a POV fork. Wikinfo allows those. Misplaced Pages doesn't. -- Antaeus Feldspar 01:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

It was not what you call a "POV fork", it was a separate one book only article with nothing outside the scope of that book, not even my own POV. I did express the author's intentions in that book without quoting his exact words which could have violatee a copyright as Wiki mentions below each edit window, but I do believe I followed the context expressed within the book. I believe the idea of each paragraph I wrote is citable by page number within that book. I mentioned the context of the Dianetics article on your deletion page, only in reference to your deletion, not my creating of the book article. Since you accept ChrisO's book article's existence and the need for its existence, which is in fact the same book. How can you justify your recommendation to delete the earlier version without discussion there? It might be that you can not distinguish this one book article from the Dianetics article that should encompass 70 years of development, at least 10 books and lots more. I have not seen you allow much development there beyond the scope of this book.

nothing outside the scope of that book, not even my own POV... Ahem. "Fascist Germany had its propaganda machines, Communist Russia had its propaganda machines and one could assume any tyranny invented by man would defend itself by any of the means it uses. Dianetics has attracted its share Controversy from 1938 onward... this book ... sent a message to all that might attempt to enslave mankind." If you are going to try to argue that that text represented NPOV discussion of the book rather than your own POV, it only serves to indicate that you don't even understand the difference between the two. And if you are going to argue that that is the book's claim and that Misplaced Pages should be perfectly okay with repeating a book's own claims (as if they were universally agreed facts) about how important and wonderful the book is, then you need to read Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not; Misplaced Pages is not for advertising. -- Antaeus Feldspar 03:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Antaeus, you have argued that a book's own claims (and you have added your own emphasis, "as...universally agreed facts".") may not be used. I think this is an error. NPOV says that both "sides" should be presented fairly. Do you agree this is true and we should use this Wiki policy? I think ChrisO has provided ample examples of the side I call "Controversy" the second side is not mine and you will not permit a CoS view, is not the view from the book the "second side". I merely present the "facts" of the book or state what the intention of the author certainly is. I make no claims of universal facts and you should not insist on always placing me on the defensive only. Both sides have the right to fair presentation. You and CrisO have presented "one side" by why the venomous super-criticism of the second side that is required by NPOV to be fairly represented? Spirit of Man 02:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

To address Terryeo's concerns: I don't oppose simplicities, but if I made the article even simpler and clearer than it already is, you would not like the way I would go about it, believe me. I think the article in its present form already gives a more-than-fair explanation of what Dianetics is/was/has been in the past, without turning into an advertisement for the Church of Scientology. And I think it's interesting that you say Xenu didn't exist until after Dianetics was written: Hubbard said Xenu existed billions of years ago. Who's right, you or Hubbard? wikipediatrix 01:24, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I didn't spell out the sequece clearly enough. 1950, Dianetics. Book. Many copies sold, reprinted, many more copies sold. Then maybe in 1965, I don't know when, A company which publishes the book decides to put a volcano on its cover. Why? Gosh, maybe they think it will sell books, you think? But they don't tell the reading public, "we put a volcano on there to spark your interest," they just publish the book. If there is a reason for that choice of pictures, then it would be up to you to find it and post it. As it is, you are doing original research, stating your own opinions without any verification and then stating a lot of information about volcanoes that Scientology has mentioned. None of which says, "We put the volcano on there because of this reason ..." Terryeo 16:01, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipediatrix, you have citations, but they do not place the heated issue of "Xenu" in the context of this 1950 book article or even Dianetics the more general article on Dianetics. Your comments relating to Xenu should be removed as extraneous and confusing. I believe you are violating the rights of the copyright holder that are a condition of editing here and could subject Wiki to actions copyright holders can take. Also, your comments here are heated. They only represent a personal POV. I dispute that you personally have the right to represent the point of view of higher level people in Scientology in this context. It is a personal point of view. Please remove it. Spirit of Man 18:48, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, so now you're hinting at legal threats? If this is the substance of your argument, I can no longer waste further time trying to cooperate with you on this article. I will follow Scientology's advice and Disconnect with down-stat Suppressive Persons such as yourself who seek to Enturbulate. wikipediatrix 19:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

The substance is you should remove the extraneous material you added, that have nothing to do with this book. You have represented your personal point of view as the beliefs of people you do not represent. This book only represents the time period for an individual from conception to the present. Please review the line just below this Wiki edit window; it says "Content must not violate any copyright and must be verifiable. Your contributions will be licensed under the GFDL." Your xenu comments do not meet this criteria for submission. Remove it. Spirit of Man 00:09, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Uhm, I'm not seeing any copyrighted material added here (unless you can point me out to a web page that had been clearly plagarized)... so is this a NPOV dispute over linking Xenu and the volcano, or WP:V or WP:NOR or what? As far as the current "Xenu-Volcano-Dianetics Cover" links go, the first one uses wikipedia for it's source (so, no good), the second I couldn't find the connection in the text. The third link explicitly states a connection.

The material is extraneous to the article. In the terms Anteaus uses it has to be a POV fork. Wikipediatrix, has not defended her POV about how she can speak for high level Scientoligists and place these highly inflamatory words into a context where they would never authorize anything of such nature on a review of a book on Wiki. It is a personal opinion about beliefs she could not possibly defend. Her citation three looks like an altered glossary written in an email. It is not a credible citation. It also mentions Hubbard's intentions for the volocano representation which could not possbibly be true and they represent only personal opinion. I have a set of books from the time period of the original volcano book cover. They say, "Cover Design Copyright 1971 by L. Ron Hubbard. All Right Reserved." Wikipediatrix does not own the "right" to represent this cover in any way, let alone in her personal highly inflamatory disinformation compaign. Her citation specifically brings to us to her of idea of "the intention to restimulate". What other intention than harm, could she have for going into the details and citations she uses without consent of the owners and misrepresentation of the intentions of Hubbard and higher-level Scientologists? More calmness is needed in the world not troubles that are extraneous to the topic. The correct citation is: "Cover Design Copyright 1971 by L. Ron Hubbard. All Right Reserved." or whichever year that picture represents. All of her extraneous notes intended to damage and harm L. Ron Hubbard, the owners of the copyright and reserved rights, and the general public, should be removed. Spirit of Man 20:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

"In the terms Anteaus uses it has to be a POV fork." Holy moley. OK, I'll bite; how is it a POV fork? I mean, it's not, obviously, but how are you misunderstanding all the terms you're using so badly as to believe it "has to be"? Do you have any clue at all what a POV fork is? Have you taken the elementary steps of reading Misplaced Pages:POV fork and Misplaced Pages:Content forking in order to at least sound like you comprehend what you're saying? -- Antaeus Feldspar 00:33, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

No I hadn't read your "POV fork" thingy. I apologize, I should not have used your words. I did not mean to include the context of creating a new article. A person with a non-neutral point of view has edited an existing article to point it in a new direction that is extraneous to the context of the article. It is not about the article and it is not within the context of the article. It tends to fork the readers attention off into left field, a field of hot Controversy. Do you understand this use of words to describe the current situation? Now to your use of the term on my article. I found this at your ref site: "Since what qualifies as a "POV fork" is itself based on a POV judgement, do not refer to forks as "POV" — except in extreme cases of repeated vandalism." How did "POV fork" apply to my article to begin with? Spirit of Man 01:58, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, thank you for pointing out language that's going to need to be corrected; that sentence doesn't even make sense given the Wikipedian definition of vandalism. To explain it simply: One could argue that Wikipediatrix's edits to an existing article were POV edits, but even if that premise was agreed upon by all, it would still not be a POV fork, because no "forking", no creation of a new article on an already-created subject, took place. Now, it is possible for someone to create a new article on an already-created subject, without that being content forking: a couple of different ways are listed at Misplaced Pages:Content forking but the most obvious is when it happens by accident, such as ironically happened at Misplaced Pages:Content forking and Misplaced Pages:POV fork themselves, when two different people independently started articles to describe the same point of established Misplaced Pages practice without being aware of the other's efforts. However, when someone creates a new article with the reasoning of "There already is an article on the topic that I want to cover, however, my material is not being accepted by consensus there; I will therefore create a new article that lets me talk about the other article's topic and insert all the things I would have said in the other article," well, that is a POV fork, with no question. The forking has occurred and the motivation was clearly POV. -- Antaeus Feldspar 15:14, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Anteaus, please ignore the new indents for this thread. If you are explaining Wikipediatrix's edits as unacceptable, then I agree, and I think everyone else does to. If you are repeating my statement of those edits relative to the idea of a POV fork. Then I agree. If you are saying my intention for my DMSMH article meets the criteria you have outlined, for "POV fork" I do not agree. I did not say those things you outlined and that was not my intention. I believe the Dianetics article is broad in scope. My or Chris's DMSMH article should have the scope of just that one book from 1950. Now that is a lot, but it is not the huge scope of the subject of Dianetics. I thought it should be separate from Dianetics and so did Chris. We thought of this separately. I just got to it earlier. I understand you did not address the idea of extreme "vandelism". I asserted that is required to use the term the way you did and there was none. I tried to represent the intent of the author with ideas that I believe are citable in DMSMH. If they are not then you have an argument for that citation, not insisting on extreme "POV fork" deletion or redirection to Chris's less complete version. Do we agree? What he has is brief but well written, but he didn't seem to be aware of the earlier work as you did. You should have told him. Spirit of Man 21:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

The other covers in the 1971 series include: A large man standing on mountain tops for The Problems of Work, A Judge with White Hair and Beard for Introduction to Scientology Ethics, A White Picture of a Bearded Man on a Red Background for The Fundamentals of Thought. The face might look like Socrates. Dianetics 55 has a white uniformed man taking control of a serpent in a tree suggesting "The Temptation" from the Bible.Spirit of Man 20:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and here's my opinion on the two articles: This should be a sub-article about one book, which is a part of a larger field, which would be another article. Ronabop 01:34, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

The significance of the Volcano on the cover

Here is the paragraph someone put in the article. It talks about various volcanic eruptions but it does not say one single word about why the volcano is on the front cover. A picture does not mean "free associate anything about volcanoes you can find." If there is good evidence why the CoS chose the volcano, then cite it. These other citations are not about the cover of Dianetics. The volcano has the significance the reader wishes to put on it. By falsely stating what the volcano "refers" to, you are placing your personal idea into the head of the reader. What you want to do is find some citation, however remote, which the Church of Scientology has published and which says, "The Volcano on the cover of DMSMH is to remind the reading public about the Xenu document which is in the public domain" None of those links even remotely talk about the cover of DMSMH. The topic here is DMSMH. Talk about it, post about it, verify about it. The subject of volcanoes, the subject of Xenu, the subject of peaches, those are other articles. When you cite a source, it must apply to the information. That isn't the case with this paragraph:

The volcano on post-1968 editions of Dianetics refers to upper-level Scientologists' belief in Xenu, an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, allegedly placed billions of his people around Earth's volcanoes and killed them there. Critics, however, have pointed out that many of the volcanoes specifically named by Hubbard did not exist 75 million years ago.

someone is editing this page to make it appear that I support the drivel about the cover. I don't. The cover is a trivial issue with me. The contents of the book is useful information. Frankly it baffles me how we can spend so much effort at so trivial a task. The only source of information which would matter would be the statement of the publisher. The publisher makes no statement of why they chose that picture. I would assume they hope it sells books. Duh. Terryeo 15:53, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

The links I cited as sources do indeed refer to the text in the article. If you didn't see it, you didn't read them thoroughly enough. And please use the discussion page FIRST before you delete an entire third of an article! wikipediatrix 03:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipediatrix, it is unfortunate that the dispersion and heated controversy has got you wrapped up in it enough to prevent you from understanding about Xenu. That event, according to the document on the Xenu website happend about 75,000,000,000 (million), 75 million years ago. The diansours went extinct about 65 million years ago. So that happened when diansours were walking earth, according to the document on the Xenu site. But this trival bit of information is just a point which prevents Dianetics from being communicated. Several editors disperse and disrupt any real communication of the subject. Its not your fault, but surely anyone can see the subject is not communicated. What is communicated is, "Dianetics IS a controversy. That's all this article says. Its not your fault. Its not my fault. And you and everyone knows the real score. A few of us are trying to communicate Dianetics to the reader. Too many more are trying to prevent that communication, hiding behind the guise of "It must be NPOV" and "there is controversy on that point" etc. Terryeo 03:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

My point was that the book and its content has no connection to them or their content or your additions whatsoever. You bring extraneous and extremely heated material that does not belong in the context of this book. You have no right to represent the beliefs of Scientologists. Can you find any mention in this book of anything not in the time frame, from conception to death of an individual? No! I say your intention is not neutral and you intend to add and invite hot controversy with Scientologists you don't represent, and bring it here, where there is enough for this book alone within its own context. You attempt to provoke issues with copyright owners and rights owners and drag Misplaced Pages with you into your scheme. Remove all of your comments, please! Spirit of Man 20:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

As I expected, Terryeo is having to move from merely suspect claims of "I only know about policy X and I'm following policy X to the letter so even if you are moderating policy X with equally valid policy Y you are in the wrong for violating policy X and therefore I'll threaten you with 'every sentence you create through this lengthy process of reminding you of Wiki Policy, pointing out line by line where and how you have failed and done wrong'" and is now moving into completely ignoring policies that he knows full well to be in effect. Well, it just means that the evidence against him is stacking up higher and higher. Too bad for him. -- Antaeus Feldspar 16:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

This article is about a book, Antaeus. Some people actually open a book and read it. Having read it we can use the information therewithin. HEH! I'm pretty sure you could too if you wanted to.Terryeo 13:12, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

well, you've said how you see it Antaeus. If you really work at it with ChrisO and a few you, you can prevent Dianetics from being communicated to a reader. So far it is presented as a controversy. I know it is more than that. Hell, its worked miricles for people for years. That doesn't mean you have to let anyone know it, does it? Instead you can controversialize statements, disperse other statements and generally, prevent the subject from being communicated. That's what you have been doing for weeks. Terryeo 03:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, no, what I've been doing for weeks is keeping a couple of POV-pushing editors from forcing their double standards on the articles. "Hubbard claimed that Dianetics makes people more able human beings? Great! We can state that as fact in the article, rather than as the claim of a materially interested party with a long history of false statements! Oh, wait -- Hubbard also claimed something which is now embarrassing to us? We'll find a reason to take it out!" You're full of crap, Terryeo. Why are you full of crap? I'll tell you why you're full of crap. Because if I wanted to "prevent Dianetics from being communicated to a reader", I would not have asked NicholasTurnbull to create Engram (Dianetics), to communicate this Dianetics concept to readers. And you know full well I did that, too, which means that your nasty insinuation about "If you really work at it ... you can prevent Dianetics from being communicated to a reader" is a knowing lie on your part. -- Antaeus Feldspar 05:24, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

We should provide Hubbard's POV in the article. If he said Dianetics works miricles, it should appear in the article. Does it? Well, no, at least not at present. Does, say, 1/2 the article present the pro, and the other 1/2 the con? Well no. In fact the idea that the book has sold millions of copies hardly gets mentioned. That it sells today in a number of languages hardly gets mentioned. That its use is, a person can read it and help his neighbor doesn't get mentioned at all. What is important? Well, that which is most popularly done is important. People buy it no matter what anyone said about the picture on the cover. How is it that NicholasTurnbull's link gets put into Antaeus' signed post? Terryeo 14:27, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Dang, someone is actually editing this talk page, resulting in convoluted signatures and talk. Terryeo 13:12, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

First of all, you are forgetting once again that this is not the article for discussing Dianetics. That article, strangely enough, is Dianetics. This is the article for discussing the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Second of all, in suggesting that the article is not NPOV if it does not present "1/2 ... the pro, 1/2 the con", you are getting NPOV confused with false balance. "That its use is, a person can read it and help his neighbor doesn't get mentioned at all." Yeah, and if you still don't understand why a sentence like "A person can read it and help his neighbor." will never go into the article in that form, you are really whiffing when it comes to comprehending NPOV. As for "How is it that NicholasTurnbull's link gets put into Antaeus' signed post?" I really have no idea what the f--- you're talking about at this point. Am I right that you are now objecting to my defending myself against your absurd and malicious charges of trying to "prevent Dianetics from being communicated to a reader"? -- Antaeus Feldspar 03:37, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello again Antaeus Feldspar. I will continue to freely remove those materials which are against NPOV. I would rather talk with you than not. I'll once again explain how it is appropriate to remove items of information (such as "the volcano is on the cover because ...") which are directly and explicity against NPOV. The idea of NPOV is that Misplaced Pages present information which is attributed to a source. A book. An author in an interview. A publisher who makes a statement about the cover of their book (perhaps). A newspaper article. Misplaced Pages presents that information. Misplaced Pages cites that information to accredit it to its source. That is our action as editors. This is a Neutral Point of View because it does not take a point of view. It reports someone else's point of view. The people who publish that book with that cover have not said why they chose that cover picture. ALAS ! no one knows why they chose that picture. Unfortunately every person who views that picture has to figure it out for themselves. You can not be helpful while you edit on Misplaced Pages. If you want to help those poor souls who don't know why the Church of Scientology chose a volcano for the cover, you will have to publish your opinion in a newspaper or a book or in some method or manner. Then, after that, you can have a friend quote you and cite the publication and then, at last, the TRUTH CAN BE KNOWN. But until it is published and the source cited, it is origninal research by an individual editor and can not appear in Misplaced Pages articles. Terryeo 23:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipediatrix and your removal of Copyright and reserved Rights notices

You must do what you must do. So must I!

If you do not revert the Copyright notice, the Artwork notice, the All Right Reserved Notice, your extreme POV representations of the beliefs of high-level Scientologists that you are not a part of nor represent, along with the entirety of your Xenu material that is inflamatory and extraneous to this book article from 1950, and notify me of same on my Spirit of Man profile, I will personally write a Knowledge Report on all this and any other relavant material I can find on your activities and WP:SCN as well, to the following:

L. Ron Hubbard copyright and Reserved Rights owner. Arkwork Copyright and Reserved Rights owner. The Director RTC, the Religious Technology Center, responsible for the ethical use of all Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard technical and administrative materials. The publisher of this book, Bridge Publications in care of: Patrick. Your profile on Wiki. The world wide headquarters for high-level Scientologists and their OT Committees. The home page for WP:SCN on Wiki Your auditing folders if any exist on the planet. My profile on Wiki.

I encourage you to consider what you do next very carefully.Spirit of Man 21:45, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Some policy to review: WP:NLT and WP:CV and WP:FU. We have policies on legal threats, and handling copyright disputes, including fair use. Ronabop 02:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Do you agree this is a correct Wiki policy from your CV link? "Write to the owner of the copyright to check whether they gave permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!)."Spirit of Man 02:16, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Ronabob, I said or implied no "legal threat". I offered to make the situation known to the principle parties. Wikipediatrix has reverted material after two editors have discussed things here and deleted specific materials for good reasons after discussion. She now claims personal fear after "threats" when there were none. Rationally speaking is it a "threat" to simply make her actions known to those she is acting against? I think not. It simple makes known to all interested parties what she claims is her right. I disagree. I will apologize to her for any misinterpretations where my actions may have been misconstrued by herself or her parents as a "legal issue" by me. That was not intended.

Against my most basic instincts, I have removed all material from the article that offends User:Spirit of Man, not because I think it is the right thing to do, but because my parents have urged me to do so, fearing for my (and their) safety after Spirit of Man's threats. I still don't understand why he blames me about copyrighted use of the Dianetics book cover - I had nothing to do with that image. Someone else can put it back on the page if they want. wikipediatrix 06:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for removing your material on Xenu and your opinions of higher-level scientologists. I have no issue with the bookcover or its use here if the owners do not. I had already mentioned these issues to others and there is no issue to my knowledge on that. That is not an issue for me and I did not ask you to remove that. Thank you for reverting the copyright and Rights information you deleted. I did not intend for you to remove material you are not personally responsible for placing here. I apologize if you or your parents in any way interpreted anything I said or did from a "legal context" or became fearful of that issue. That was not my intention. I think you must agree that if the owner of property is being damaged someone should let them know about the damage so they can do something if needed, or nothing if nothing is indicated. What they do with the knowledge is not my concern only that they are aware of it. There may be Wiki policies that also cover this issue. I will try to make myself more aware of their policies. I do not believe they could possibly have policy that forbids informing the owners of property that something is happening concerning their property. Thank for reverting the things I requested. Please inform you parents of this discussion and that it is all resolved for me as I have described. As far as I am concerned this issue with you is fully closed and nothing further is expected, required or planned. I will take up any remaining issues with others as I have time for them. Spirit of Man 21:04, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I have restored the edits. If Spirit of Man has a problem with this, he can come to me -- or the countless other editors and administrators who believe inNPOV and oppose censorship. Intimidation or threats -- no matter how veiled -- are not welcome at Misplaced Pages. Neither he -- nor the people he is trying to represent -- control the site or this article: he is a guest here, subject to its rules and norms, and while his opinion is always welcome, any attempt at unilateral control isn't. I encourage him to consider what he does next very carefully. --Calton | Talk 08:09, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Calton, all you are doing is preventing a reader from understanding Dianetics. Spirit of Man knows Dianetics, he can communicate it. What you are doing is prevent any real communication to any reader, about Dianetics. Who wins? You, for being able to make a threat? Misplaced Pages, for not having readable articles about Dianetics? who? Terryeo 03:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

That's not right, that's not even wrong. Mostly, it'sn untethered collection of words vaguely shaped like an argument. What the hell is being prevented here? --Calton | Talk 07:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Calton, how can I help you? Spirit of Man 23:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Calton, you have failed to represent your one time view. The material should be removed. Spirit of Man 14:55, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. Misplaced Pages has procedures to deal with alleged copyright violations, Spirit of Man. They include verifying whether there is in fact any actual copyright violation going on, which is not always the case. They do not include terroristic vigilante threats. -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:11, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

The point of discussion originates as: "Why does the the book have a picture of a *gasp* volcano on its cover." Well, duh, it sells books. Why don't those of you who are so certain the picture chosen for its cover has some significance beyond merely selling books (why would anyone want to sell books?), why don't you find some skinny little opinion published by some big, brave, macho man who says, "Dianetics books have a volcano on the cover because ..." and post that here? I personally know an author who has published several books. He has some control of what goes on the cover. He choses his cover pictures to sell books. Seem like a good idea to you? LOL. Terryeo 23:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I think "terroristic vigilante threats" is a wild exaggeration. Spirit has apologised; let's leave it there, shall we? -- ChrisO 01:00, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Except I found his apology -- or at least his disingenuous and passive-aggressive excuse (gee, there's no rule against me telling anyone things, is there?) to be unconvincing. Given the CoS's well-documented track record, there's every reason to be concerned when rhetoric associated with veiled threats is employed. If anyone should be careful about what he's saying, it's the so-called User:Spirit of Man. --Calton | Talk 01:17, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Calton, what do you hope to achieve? You seem to hope no reader can understand anything about Dianetics. Terryeo 03:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Calton, how can I help you? Spirit of Man 03:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Going back to your masters and reporting your failure is a good start. --Calton | Talk 07:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Calton, you have failed to your defend your actions. The material should be removed. Spirit of Man 14:55, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

They were defended and settled a long time ago. Your side -- and it is a side -- lost. Not your site, not your rules, NPOV and verifiability wins. Deal with it. --Calton | Talk 07:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

pasting here, discussion of the significance of the volcano

There is a volcano on the cover. Someone sees huge significance in it. They have posted their conclusion of its significance in the article. ALAS ! Misplaced Pages policy, NO Original Research does not allow that perfectly wonderful, original research to be stated. It is such a shame, but whomever is so convinced in regards to the volcano and the following discussion pasted here, will have to find someone who has the same conclusion they do, someone who has published their opinion and has the courage to publically state their opinion. Then, their opinion can be cited and put as an opionion into the article. An editor's opinion is not allowed. How simple can it be, the Church of Scientology does not state "our volcano on our cover refers to .......all the doublebabble below. The volcano sells books, It is your duty to edit and present opinions of others in a way that makes sense. It is not your duty to conclude what the volcano means and tell the public what your conclusion is. Period. This is about the 19th time or something.

The volcano on post-1968 editions of Dianetics refers to upper-level Scientologists' belief in Xenu, an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, allegedly placed billions of his people around Earth's volcanoes and killed them there. Critics, however, have pointed out that many of the volcanoes specifically named by Hubbard did not exist 75 million years ago. Hubbard's interest in volcanos is also reflected in his announcement of OT III while at Las Palmas, and in his declaration "Man responds to an exploding volcano." ("Assists", lecture of 3 October 1968)

The volcano on the cover is there because the publisher put it on the cover. Why did the publisher put the picture on the cover. That is your duty to find. Then, when you have found that reason, then you can say, "the volcano is on the cover because ..." and give the publisher's reason. What you are doing is what psychology calls "free association" and what Misplaced Pages calls "Original Research." Having found some datum about volcanoes and the church of scientology you begin to free associate. You spill your guts. However, fortunately, wikipedia has policy which states: No Original Research If you think you know why there is a volcano on the cover, you can talk about it here. We'll listen to you and pat your head and you can feel better. When you find a source of published information that states why there is a volcano on the cover, then we can put in the article along with where it came from. Terryeo 13:59, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Found it, and it's from LRH himself. I do agree, though, that the sources cited in the earlier version weren't very satisfactory; you were right to highlight this issue. The bottom line is that primary sources are usually better than second- or third-hand reporting. -- ChrisO 02:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Gosh, does this mean we don't get the patronizing pat on the head that Terryeo promised us? Darn! (P.S. I disagree with the idea that Terryeo was "right to highlight this issue", at least if we mean in the only manner he seems to know how to do it: with plenty of smug prejudice, which turns out to be wrong, about how no one will ever find any of the needed citation for what Terryeo tiresomely insists on falsely calling "original research".) -- Antaeus Feldspar 03:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

On October 3, 1968, L. Ron Hubbard was giving confidential lectures to Class VIII auditors. Today those lectures are confidential and can not be purchased by the public, nor do they exist in an uncopyrighted form. What exactly are you saying, ChrisO ? Terryeo 03:14, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

You really think that nobody outside the Church of Scientology has read those lectures? You may be bound by religious prohibitions, but that's certainly not true for non-Scientologists. -- ChrisO 11:00, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:CITE states: "Citing sources serves several purposes: To ensure that the content of articles is credible and can be checked by any reader or editor." and no reader can check the information you present ChrisO. Therefore it is not a valid citation. Valid cites would be books, newspaper articles, informational sources from a library, etc. Confidential materials are not valid sources of information to cite. Secret documents (the military has many), FBI internal e-mails (sheesh!) and other confidential informations are not valid cites, that's what WP:CITE says. "Misplaced Pages articles should heed these rules." You might have some wiggle room because it is not WP:NPOV which is non-negotiable, but its really a trivial point anyway. You're talking about a picture on the cover of a book. On earth we have a couple of volcanoes going off, or at least seeping lava, all the time. What's the big deal? A paragraph about the cover, let's move on to the contents of the book. Terryeo 12:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

ChrisO, you mention "primary sources". I understand there is nothing of this entire Xenu affair in any Dianetics or Scientology publication.

You understand wrong, then - it's been acknowledged by the CoS in the press and in court. See Xenu#The Church of Scientology's position on Xenu.

We understand right and you're making misleading comments. The CoS has made no public statement about Xenu. Let it go, let's open the darn book and look at the printed word instead of speding our time discussing the motivation for pictures used to sell books. Terryeo 12:43, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

You are citing a non-Scientology Wiki reference that itself is controversial and suspect. You misunderstand or are pretending to misunderstand my point. Is there anything actually in the subject of Scientology as copyrighted that would lead you to believe you are authorized by them or high-level scientologists to represent this view in any way. I concede that sites that seek to be controversial only do present this view. Is this the nature of Misplaced Pages? If this is the context of your presentation then let's state the facts of that, that your view in no way represents the Scientology view and if fact doesn't even represent Misplaced Pages. I understand this is true enough. Do you? Spirit of Man 14:25, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

The issue of whether or not it is the official Scientology view does not matter. WP:NPOV requires us to report claims, not state whether they are true or not. -- ChrisO 12:39, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

"does not matter?" No ChrisO, that isn't in any way the issue. Misplaced Pages guarentees many points of view will be present for the reader. You should report claims and you should cite a source when reporting a claim. If we just do Misplaced Pages per Misplaced Pages policy and guildelines we can present a Misplaced Pages article. Your most recent mistake is in quoting from a source which does not follow Misplaced Pages guidelines. A source of information must be available to editors and readers. Confidential Class VIII (Scientology confidential materials) is not available to editors and readers. This is per WP:CITE. We all have to be a little careful about our sources.Terryeo 14:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Your reference is "Corydon, Bent. L. Ron Hubbard: Madman or Messiah?, p. 361. Lyle Stuart, Inc. (1987)" I understand this is your "primary source". That is not a primary source for this book or this cover or in any way an authorization to you to author your personal "nuclear genocide" issue here. As Terryeo has said the article should convey an understanding of this 1950 book. What are you intending to communicate? Spirit of Man 06:35, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I haven't used Corydon as a primary source for the Xenu story. He does, however, provide an interesting account of the way in which the covers were used. I haven't attempted to verify whether what he says is true ("Verifiability" in this context does not mean that editors are expected to verify whether, for example, the contents of a New York Times article are true. - WP:V) but I imagine that someone who was there at the time could probably do so. -- ChrisO 11:00, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. You have confirmed this information is in fact hearsay from Corydon and in no way represents an official view of Scientology. Spirit of Man 14:25, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Nobody has said that it does represent an official view of Scientology. We're under no obligation at all to present only the official view - WP:NPOV requires us to present all views. We do, however, have an obligation to present them fairly and impartially, a point that you seem to have great difficulty in accepting. -- ChrisO 12:39, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Your edits are preventing the subject from being understood

By your continual insistence and continual insertions of more and more controversial topics and materials you are preventing the subject from being understood. One example (there are many) would be wikipediatrix stating here on the talk page, "Xenu happened billions of years ago." The manner in which several of you introduce controversy prevents any communication about the subject. A person can be for a subject, a person can be neutral on a subject, a person can be skeptical about a subject. Or, as is happening here, editors are preventing the subject from being communicated to the reader. Xenu happened millions of years ago (according to the Xenu website). Myself, I haven't a clue how anyone can know what was happening when the dianasours were walking earth. The manner in which the controversial material is posted prevented Wikipediatrix from understanding the time frame. But it is not her my post is about. I am saying. You can, if a number of people constantly work at, you can destroy any meaning. You can prevent any communication of the subject. This is exactly what a hositile person would do, a hostile person would work to prevent the subject from being communicated to the reader. That's the way it is. If enough people work at it, the subject can't get communicated. Who wins in that case? Terryeo 03:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Firstly, this is the fourth or fifth time you have attributed a comment to me that I did not make. If your reading comprehension skills are really that low, you have no business editing Misplaced Pages articles. I didn't say Xenu happened billions of years ago, your precious L.Ron Hubbard said it. If you have a problem with it, go dig him up and ask him why he claimed to know what was happening when the dinosaurs (note correct spelling) were walking earth, and long before it as well. Secondly, stop boo-hooing that the subject isn't being communicated. It isn't being communicated the way YOU want it. No matter how many hours a day every day you work at it (don't you have a job? or IS THIS your job?), you will never succeed in turning these articles into whitewashed advertisements for Scientology and Dianetics. Many of us have wasted much patience trying to compromise with you and have gotten nowhere for our efforts. wikipediatrix 04:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

An arguement is as good as it gets with you Wikipediatrix? I understand that you believe that Hubbard stated that Xenu happened "billions of years ago." Okay, are you happy with that statement? okay then. Good. Now, would you like to learn the accurate information? Fine, read "millions of years ago." and you've got it. But don't take my word for it, ask ChrisO, ask Feldspar, read the article. Or, hey, stay happy with "billions of years ago" if you prefer. My only objection to your knowledge is not your knowledge, but the tone with which you convolute the exchange of good information. You can know things Wikipediatrix. You can know other people's opinions for what they are. You need not swollow them. I maintain that I can know. But I also maintain that you can know. Feel free, know things. :) Terryeo 15:03, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

So I misspoke and said "billions" here on the discussion page. However, the article correctly says "millions" so what are you blathering about? wikipediatrix 15:22, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Peer Review: Why has Anteaus removed the citation of test results that validate the therapy presented in this book?

Since there is no discussion to the contrary, the test results should be reverted. Spirit of Man 06:37, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I would have preferred an explanation too, but I think it's probably right to leave out the test results. We should be describing the book; we have a much longer separate article describing its contents. I suggest having a brief mention of the scientific controversy and then referring the reader to the fuller treatment of scientific evaluations at Dianetics#Scientific evaluations. Otherwise we will just end up duplicating content, which isn't worth doing. -- ChrisO 11:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Wrong This article is about DMSMH, the article is about the contents of the book. This article is the opportunity to introduce the reader to what the book says. Why don't you, ChrisO, make yourself a nice little article about the cover of the book. An article whose title is a book is obviously about the book it names. But if you can only talk about the attention getting cover then you should create an article about the cover. One other point. WP:CITE clearly tells the purpose of any citation in any Misplaced Pages article. It says, "Citing sources serves several purposes, To ensure that the content of articles is credible and can be checked by any reader or editor." Therefore, cites which name confidential sources, such as the unpublished Class VIII lectures are not useful citations. Don't you see? An article is not a citation war, an article's purpose is to present information to the reading public. Information which the reading public can not access is not information and Wiki Guidelines say not to include such information in an article. I have removed that citation several times. You should too because it is not available to the reading public and it is not available to editors. Terryeo 17:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

The Separate article Dianetics should include the entire subject and its developement from 1930 to 2006, and it should not be conceived to be limited to the contents of this single book. Your citations there clearly demonstrate you do not believe that to be the case. It currently does not represent the richness of the subject fairly because of extensive deletions by you and Antaeus and alterations to misrepresent the facts. You have deleted the actual citations used to present the subject. You have included the context of "Dianetics Groups" of the day from the first writing of this article. These test results are within the scope of context of the book and your edits that are not in the book. You have cited scientific deficiencies in this article that are exactly answered by these test results. It is illogical to remove the test results and then falsely claim they are deficient. In the main article you have not accepted the valid results from this study. You have deleted that in that context and altered the importance, by placing the study into a review that you have a negative citation for that does not apply. The sci-fi fanzine citation specifically does not apply to the study and is not a refutation for the study in any way.

In what way does it not "apply to the study"? It's specifically about the study. Or doesn't it "apply" because you don't like what it says? -- ChrisO 12:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

ChrisO, this article's title should serve as a guideline for the content of the article. Why do you fight against the blue sky above? The contents of the book are going to be discussed in this article. Terryeo 17:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

You imply someone else made this last reversion, but it was you. Do you intend to be viewed as enforcing the NPOV concept that both sides of the issue should be presented fairly or do you intend to be viewed for the above? Spirit of Man 14:08, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

If these nebulous "test results" you guys keep referring to are available in print in any legitimate scientific journal, feel free to cite the reference. And publications generated by Hubbard himself DO NOT COUNT. wikipediatrix 15:07, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipediatrix, let me trace the history, very briefly, for you. About 1950 the book of this article came out. Several Disiplines immediately challenged whether it was scientific or wasn't. Hubbard, in those days, was addressing whether it was scientific or not. As you can well imagine, any science applied to an individual's thoughts is not demonstrable after that person changes their thoughts. Its not like Newton who rolled balls down little ramps and established the laws of motion. Because anyone, anywhere on the planet can demonstrate his experiments again. So, about 1952 Science of Survival included a study. Hubbard was still trying to "prove it" to the scientific community. That was the last published effort to "prove it." Psychology made no real effort to prove or disprove it and has not done so today. There has not been any serious effort to disprove whether Dianetics works or doesn't, not by any science group. In this manner, psychology can call it "pseudoscience" and await Dianetics to prove otherwise. Dianetics is not going to prove otherwise, Dianetics gave it one shot and it was in Science of Survival. Today the Church of Scientology has specific policy about "prove it" and reading the policy makes it clear. The church is going to go right on doing what it does and is not going to attempt to prove its methods work. Possibly the only additional source of whether Dianetics methods work or not, is the attestation of individuals who do it.  :) I know of such a person :)) Terryeo 17:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Per Misplaced Pages NPOV both sides of an issue are required to be presented fairly. Do you agree this is the way it should be? This article is named "Dianetics" which is a philosophy, science and therapy named, researched, developed and written by L. Ron Hubbard. The test results in Science of Survial are presented in the Introduction by the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, the owner of the copyrights and the organization doing research in 1950. This organization is the organization responsible for supplying the test results supportive of their claims requested by or at least mentioned by the APA in their 8 Sept 1950 resolution. Do you agree the APA said they were expecting to see proof of claims from the HDRF? Also, in that resolution the APA announced they were advising 8000 members to use Dianetics for test purposes only. They produced no test data that conflicted with the study of 88 students tested by 3 licensed professional psychometrists using the Wechsler IQ test that I cited. ChrisO has described a survey that apparently has nothing to do with this cited study.

Nope, wrong. Let's compare the two:

Why not compare all three? Do you have an problem with comparing differences? Spirit of Man 15:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

• Science of Survival names Gordon Southon, Peggy Southon and Dalmyra Ibanez. The survey is by the same people plus Peggy Benton.

I agree. Do you agree your fanzine says the authors are un-named? Spirit of Man 15:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

No it doesn't. It names the authors as "Dalmyra Ibanez, Ph.D., Ed. D.; Gordon Southon, Peggy Southon, and Peggy Benton." -- ChrisO 23:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

• Science of Survival says that "Dianetics has built this particular validation programme around 88 persons." The survey says that "the total number of persons is 88."

I agree. Do you agree Science of Survival says the Wechsler, Form B, IQ test was used and the fanzine says it was NOT used. Spirit of Man 15:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

No, the fanzine says that "out of the 12 psychometric tests named in the booklet" - it later names the "Weschler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale for Adolescents and Adults" as one of them - "results from only four are presented", none of which was the Weschler scale. -- ChrisO 23:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

• Science of Survival presents a graph purporting to show "Summary of Gain in Intelligence Scores". The survey has the identical graph on page 15.

Do you agree the fanzine article says the Wechsler, IQ test was not used? I couldn't find the entire fanzine article, just a review of it, but it did have sufficient info to answer the above. But the essence of the fanzine theme was that the test criteria is not correct, and yet they say the Wechsler was not used. Spirit of Man 15:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

See above. It says only that Weschler is named but that no results from that test are presented. It makes no comment about whether the test was actually used or not. -- ChrisO 23:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Science of Survival was published several months after the survey, but includes its findings, so clearly the results found in SoS are at the very least derived from those in the survey. The two are very clearly directly related. -- ChrisO 12:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. There may be a relation of the SoS info to the HDRF survey and that would be expected, but there is no correlation to the fanzine criticism which is your source. SoS refers to a single study not the survey you claim. You claim your survey is in fact the SoS data, that has not been shown. The fanzine claims the California test was used, that was for kids. That is not true. The fanzine does not criticise the SoS data. Your survey is not a valid source for the SoS Introduction remarks by the HDRF. Spirit of Man 15:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

The fanzine clearly couldn't have discussed Science of Survival, because the book hadn't been published by then. It's worth citing as a contemporary response to the earlier booklet. You'd be hard pressed to find any other responses... -- ChrisO 23:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

In ChrisO's own citations, Hubbard had no legal interest in the HDRF in January of 1951, so this is a third party foundation publishing the test data in their way.

That's wrong too. If Hubbard had no legal interest in the HDRF in January 1951, how come he was writing letters to the FBI on behalf of the HDRF in March 1951? He didn't resign from the HDRF until 1952 (see the text above and below Dianetics#Dianetics in Kansas). -- ChrisO 12:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I understand he resigned in Oct of 1950. I guess I should hunt up a citation.

You might be thinking of Dr Winter and Art Ceppos, who resigned that month. I think I'm right in saying that Hubbard was the last member of the original HDRF board to resign. The others either fell out with Hubbard and quit or, in the case of Sara Hubbard, were kicked out. -- ChrisO 23:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I will point out that no other science of mental health has every published even this level of self test showing supportive evidence. ChrisO references a Mr. Carroll that is not even clear what tests and evidence would look like. Professor Hiyakawa says that no test results are even possible. Also, no other mental science has ever even been asked to. I have explained the view of one side of this issue. Could you please explain your side of the issue as NPOV requires? Why have you explicitely refused Dianetics publications on a Dianetics article in violation of fair presentation of both sides? Spirit of Man 01:45, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

If the Moonies printed their own book that said "we did a scientific study in 1950 that demonstrated the moon is made of cheese but we can't prove it because it wasn't peer-reviewed in any real scientific journals", should we say in their Misplaced Pages article that the moon IS DEFINITELY made of cheese and cite their own book as a source? wikipediatrix 03:04, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

You are misrepresenting Wiki policy at NPOV regarding both sides should be fairly represented, for nonsense. That policy says both sides should be fairly presented. No one is saying a citation is a "DEFINITELY", even yours. If one side says, the moon is obviously not green cheese, I think that would be enough. But wait, you are saying something even beyond that. I think you are saying, as ChrisO has all through his Dianetics article, all his citation say, that no or few test results have EVER been published. The APA citation says this. So if I merely present one valid citation, suddenly you are comparing that defense with "The moon is green cheese" exaggeration? No, I think you have a fixed idea that you are unwilling to inspect so you must reject any fact no matter how small that represents an honest presentation of the opposite view, that must be presented if you build a solid wall of controversy. Don't you agree both sides should be represented FAIRLY. I think you should look at what is important. Shouldn't that be a part of things? Spirit of Man 15:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, now we get to an interesting point. You speak of "one valid citation". What makes it valid in your view? Even if it is valid, do you think there is a problem with there just being one citation for the whole 56-year history of Dianetics? Can we draw any conclusions from a single study? -- ChrisO 23:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

ChrisO, the point is not whether it is valid in anyone's view. The point is that the information should be presented to the reader whom can, himself, judge the validity of the information based on both the information and the source of the information. That is the very base and root of Misplaced Pages. Whether you, I, or god above believes a source of information to be valid or not is not the point. The reader has that choice. Whether you or anyone draws a conclusion or not matters not in the least, not to wikipedia. You are the only judge of your own information. Please respect the reader enough to allow that he is the only judge of his information. Terryeo 17:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

From The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:

::STEWART: Th-that's not a spin thing, that's a fact. That's established. ::CORDDRY: Exactly, Jon, and that established, incontravertible fact is one side of the story.

::STEWART: But that should be -- isn't that the end of the story? I mean, you've seen the records, haven't you? What's your opinion?

::CORDDRY: I'm sorry, my *opinion*? No, I don't have 'o-pin-i-ons'. I'm a reporter, Jon, and my job is to spend half the time repeating what one side says, and half the time repeating the other. Little thing called 'objectivity' -- might wanna look it up some day.

::STEWART: Doesn't objectivity mean objectively weighing the evidence, and calling out what's credible and what isn't?

::CORDDRY: Whoa-ho! Well, well, well -- sounds like someone wants the media to act as a filter! 'Ooh, this allegation is spurious! Upon investigation this claim lacks any basis in reality! Mmm, mmm, mmm.' Listen buddy: not my job to stand between the people talking to me and the people listening to me.

--Calton | Talk 07:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Stewart's task is to entertain people. He has said so several times. Myself, I find him entertaining. Myself, I don't read encyclopedias with the same expectation in mind. Terryeo 17:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Calton, do believe both sides should be fairly represented, as it says in NPOV? Spirit of Man 15:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Since the quote seems to have been too subtle for you, let's try again: note the use of the word "fairly" in the NPOV policy; not "blindly", not "with undue weight", and not "precisely equal regardless of merits". Is that too subtle, or do you wish to ask further irrelevant rhetorical questions? --Calton | Talk 05:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I suppose a person should not be surprised to find Stewart (mr. entertainer) to be sourced as "valid information" HAHAHA Terryeo 17:47, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I suppose you should also not be surprised to find yourself steadily more ignored as you steadily resort to more and more pathetic straw men of this nature. -- Antaeus Feldspar