Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology

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.

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.

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

• Articles currently undergoing the Articles for deletion (Article deletion) discussion process :

1. None at this time.

See also Article alerts subpage

Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Scientology is one of the religion related WikiProjects.

Sister Project Searches

• WikiBooks search
• WikiQuote search
• WikiSource search