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good factual bits

@North8000: Which bits? cheers Cambial — foliar❧ 00:45, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

First, thanks for your work and I'm with you overall on this. But following is good factual information for the article, including the text contained in the references:
churches, especially in the area of applying Hubbard's teaching and technology in a uniform fashion.[1][2] At a local level, every church is a separate corporate entity set up as a licensed franchise and has its own board of directors and executives.[3][4]<ref>"Each church corporation is organized on a nonprofit basis with its own board of directors and executives responsible for its activities. What is Scientology? Published 1998 Bridge Publications ISBN 978-1-57318-122-8<
Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 01:01, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
OK, but my edit didn't remove any of that article text, only two sources: one is this book, which is quite old and out-of-date and hence the more recent "RTC" source (which supports the text) can be used in an ABOUTSELF way; the other is "The Church of Scientology" (Studies in Contemporary Religions, 1) (Melton, 2000). The latter is a publication of CESNUR; community consensus has determined that its publications are generally unreliable as a source. As such I'm going to restore the edit. Cambial — foliar❧ 01:13, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Why not just work that factual content back into the article? BTW it looks like "sky is blue" structural stuff regarding them. North8000 (talk) 01:20, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Do you mean the quote from one of L. Ron Hubbard's books used in the first citation? Before I removed it, it only appeared as a quote in the citation pop-up, not as article text. But if you think it should be used in article text as an LRH quote I have no particular objection; I'm mainly working on erasing more pervasive issues of language bias left unresolved since 2008, removing non-RS along the way. Cambial — foliar❧ 01:33, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

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References

  1. ^ "At the top of the structure is the Church of Scientology International (CSI), the mother church for all Scientology. Located in Los Angeles, CSI provides overall direction, planning and guidance for the network of churches, missions, field auditors and volunteer ministers which comprise the Scientology hierarchy it spans, and ensures these various organizations are all working effectively together." What is Scientology? Published 1998 Bridge Publications ISBN 978-1-57318-122-8
  2. ^ "description of the Scientology ecclesiastical structure on www.rtc.org". Rtc.org. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
  3. ^ Mikael Rothstein (2009). James R. Lewis (ed.). Scientology. Oxford University Press USA. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-19-533149-3.
  4. ^ The Church of Scientology (Studies in Contemporary Religions, 1) By J. Gordon Melton Publisher: Signature Books in cooperation with CESNUR, September 2000 ISBN 978-1-56085-139-4 "The various missions, churches, and organizations, all autonomous corporations which fellowship with the larger movement, receive licenses to use the church's trademarks, service marks, and copyrights of Hubbard's published and unpublished works from RTC."
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