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Scientology proponents, critics banned from Wikipedia editing

Title: Scientology proponents, critics banned from Wikipedia editing
Date: Monday, 1 June 2009
Publisher: Tampa Bay Tribune (Florida)
Author: Ray Reyes
Main source: tbo.com

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Wikipedia has blocked users from the Church of Scientology, along with Scientology's critics, from editing articles about the church found on the online encyclopedia. A team of 15 senior editors called an arbitration committee had been keeping an eye on the more than 400 articles about Scientology and noticed a series of additions and deletions that slanted the bias of the entries, Wikipedia spokesman Jay Walsh said. Some of the IP addresses of users editing the articles came from Church of ... [Read the rest at tbo.com]