[WikiEN-l] The Church of Scientology is discovered to have discovered Wikipedia!

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> From: Geoff Burling <llywrch at agora.rdrop.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Church of Scientology is discovered to
> 	have	discovered Wikipedia!
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0407142137290.551-100000 at joan.burling.com>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
>
> > I recently told a reporter that representatives of the Chinese
> > government are welcome to edit zh.wikipedia.org if they like.
> > I think we can extend the same courtesy to representatives
> > of the Church of Scientology.

I find this quite alarming.  At the existing policy page
[[Wikipedia:Auto-biography]] we find "editing an article about
yourself or your organization is also generally considered
improper and best avoided."  Should we announce a change of
policy now?

Zero.



	
		
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