On 30/01/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(e.g. I'm an ardent and hard-working critic and opponent of Scientology, but try to edit those articles for the good of the encyclopedia and happily acknowledge that the Scientologist editors on them have brought lots of them to better NPOV, even those whose edits tend not to stand. I'm really pleased on the whole with our articles on the subject.)
I try to do the same in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Unfortunately we haven't got any really constructive input from Israeli scientologists, although it would be interesting. We mostly get blanking of the parts about "space opera" and vague complaints of copyright violations from someone who called herself SCN spokesperson.
I oppose SCN, but i researched it a lot on the Internet I tried to do my best to write a neutral encyclopedia article. Apparently it was so neutral, that a couple of editors accused me of being a stealth scientologist! They believed that an encyclopedia must be against SCN, while i claimed that an encyclopedia needs to be neutral. I won, more or less. :)
The moral of the story: a POV which is unsuitable for an encyclopedia can manifest itself not only in the camps of religious and nationalist fanatics, but also among people who glorify science, skepticism and rationality too strongly.