--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: <snip> > It would be interesting to see if we could get the > same Wikipedia supreme court ruling against the TMO > and TM cultists who tirelessly edit and remove any > controversial or fact-finding entries regarding the > Maharishi and Transcendental Meditation. It would > be nice to see more factual entries for both of these, > without interference from TM-biased revisionists, > Neo-Vedic fundamentalists and mythologists.
<snicker> If "we" got the same Wikipedia court ruling as that with regard to Scientology, it wouldn't be just the TMO folks who'd be banned. It would also be the TM-haters like Vaj and Knapp and Skolnick (see below). But interestingly, as I posted Friday, the people working on the TM-related sites don't seem to require that sort of drastic action. Contrary to Vaj's claim above, and unlike the Scientology situation, the TM pro and con factions have been able to forge a working arrangement to settle disputes and forestall hit-and- run editing by either side. Note the third paragraph below: Wikipedia blocks Scientology from altering entries by Glenn Chapman Fri May 29, 2009 6:21PM EDT SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Wikipedia has blocked the Church of Scientology from editing entries at the communally- crafted online encyclopedia due to an unrelenting battle over the group's image. A "longstanding struggle" between admirers of Scientology and critics of the group prompted Wikipedia on Thursday to bar online edits from computer addresses "owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates." ***** An array of editors believed to have taken sides in a Scientology public-image war at Wikipedia have also been barred from tinkering with topics related to the church. ***** "Each side wishes the articles within this topic to reflect their point of view and have resorted to battlefield editing tactics," senior Wikipedia editors said in arbitration committee findings backing the decision. "The worst casualties have been biographies of living people, where attempts have been repeatedly made to slant the article either towards or against the subject, depending on the point of view of the contributing editor." A church spokeswoman downplayed the development, saying the Wikipedia arbitration committee is part of a routine process for handling conflicts at the website. "Do Scientologists care what has been posted on Wikipedia? Of course," said Karin Pouw. "Some of it has been very hateful and erroneous. We hope all this will result in more accurate and useful articles on Wikipedia."
