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Rationale: I find this sentence non compliant with WP:NPOV:

It was reported that the merchandising revenues would be passed on to the Scientology-linked "social betterment" groups Narconon and Applied Scholastics, with movie-related sales of the book funding the marketing of Hubbard's fiction books and the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.

Why? Because describing Narconon and Applied Scholastics as "social betterment" (quotes included) is either promoting them as betterment organizations (which does not comply with NPOV) or ridiculing their position sarcastically (which does not comply with NPOV either). The edit I made was WP:BOLD, in the sense that it gave no POV and described the groups for what they actually do. Narconon provides drug rehabilitation programs based on Hubbard's writtings and Applied Scholastics promotes Hubbard's Study Tech. To be honest, I was baffled to see my edit reverted for being "POV". > RUL3R_>vandalism 04:51, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

That was an unsourced change. It was also POV because it relied solely on how the organizations describe themselves. Cirt (talk) 05:09, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Fine, I can source it. And the paragraph needs a short description of both, as any reader might ponder what those are. And how else can it be described without losing the topic discussed? I think "a drug rehabilitation program based on Hubbard's writings" is a sufficiently brief, neutral description of Narconon, and "a group aimed to promote Hubbard's Study Tech" is the same for Applied Scholastics. These two are not the topic of this article, it is not necessary to copy the whole controversies section. > RUL3R_>vandalism 05:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

It is disputed if it is regarded by a preponderance of independent secondary sources as being known primarily as a "drug rehabilitation", rather than as a front organization for Scientology, or both, etc. Cirt (talk) 05:19, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Nevermind. I checked the secondary source at the end of the sentence, which confirms the change made by RUL3R (talk · contribs). My mistake. Sorry about that, my apologies, Cirt (talk) 05:25, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you > RUL3R_>vandalism 08:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

No worries, Cirt (talk) 11:36, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Italics in the article head

Removed by Rich on AWB, readded by Cirt, and I removed it again. Cirt added it sometime in April (I just went digging) with an edit summary of "ital". I am completely against the use of this template anywhere, especially on a featured article when the RFC turned up a no-consensus (that said, I !voted in said RFC). Thought to bring it here. Tbh, I didn't even realize it was used here until I hard-refreshed the title page. --Izno (talk) 02:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

What RFC? Link please? -- Cirt (talk) 02:07, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

There's a link on Template:Italic title right at the top. The RFC took place at Template talk:Italic title#RFC: Should this be used?. --Izno (talk) 02:12, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Okay!!! Thank you very much!!! No worries!!! -- Cirt (talk) 02:13, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Strange criticism source

Who is Lisa Brandt and why should her review in an almost completely unknown celebrity gossip book be a part of this article? Her "review" is not only childish and unfunny, but it seems from the gist of the rest of the article that it's not even true, with regards to the influence of Scientology on the film. You might as well be quoting a random unknown blog. There are two reviews of the mentioned book on Amazon, at least one of which is quite obviously written by the author herself (Lisa B from Canada, who praises the author's genius. The other review is equally glowing and also originates from Canada, and is the only review by that reviewer).

This source was added here by Cirt. LuftWaffle0 (talk) 21:12, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

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