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Interesting, why don't you review the article and bring up the level of detail as a
3b issue? I'm willing to try to trim some of the less relevant parts down a bit. In fact, I'll try to work on that soon anyway--if I take too much out we can just restore some later. This is a bit of an unusual case, since the article creator has retired. This was split off from the main article, which is now an FA, and I thought that this was pretty close to the GA criteria. I haven't read through all the sources used though, so let me know if that's an issue. The sourcing that I did read made it seem like this is pretty faithful to the sources though.
Mark Arsten (
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00:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)reply
My problem is that I just can't get interested in the guy, especially his childhood. Where I live now the Church of Scientology has a huge presence, but no one seems to care much about L. Ron Hubbard personally. I haven't heard anyone even mention Scientology for years. Because I visited a Scientology book store something like 20 years ago, once, I still receive weekly mailings from them (at least weekly). I'm curious about that, but not about Hubbard himself. I have no idea how much he is involved in today's goings on.
Well, he's actually not involved at all in today's goings on (he died in the 80s). What I found interesting about this was the way that the Scientology account of his life incorporates a lot of the aspects of traditional religions hagiography, clear parallels to the stories of Jesus and so on. It made me wonder whether a sort of "reformed-liberal Scientology" will develop that sees the details of Hubbard's life as metaphorical/allegorical, like
Liberal Christianity or
Reform Judaism have done with the Bible etc. Other than that, the story did have some pretty funny parts, "They smell of all the baths they didn't take" and so on...
Mark Arsten (
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01:01, 9 February 2012 (UTC)reply
That's the part that is crazy-making for me. And borders on OR, IMO because it has an agenda regarding the Scientology Church--that it includes myth etc. (Is that different from any religious take on history, e.g. Christianity and Christ?) How about leaving out all the self published sources, and just include reliably sourced material?
MathewTownsend (
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01:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Well, some of that was just my opinion, things that came to mind after I read through this. The Christensen source does draw some comparisons to Christian Hagiography though. I agree that the article should not have a Scientology-related agenda. (I've never been involved in any anti-Scientology activism or anything.) I can be flexible with what sources to keep/throw out, I do dislike working with self-published sources. I think the article should include the Scientological view of his exploits, as well as notable views that independent journalists/academics have advanced.
Mark Arsten (
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01:18, 9 February 2012 (UTC)reply
This article was originally created as a breakout article from the
L. Ron Hubbardfeatured article, which was found too long and had to be shortened to be promoted to featured status. I think you'll find that this present article uses much the same sources, only in more detail.
We should remember that this is meant to be a particularly detailed article (see
WP:SUMMARY); ordinary readers who are not interested in that level of detail can read the account in
L. Ron Hubbard.
Thanks for weighing in, I saw that this was well made and figured I'd try to get it reviewed for GA, there are probably some more improvements that can be made though. I was pretty impressed with the parent article, as well.
Mark Arsten (
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16:34, 10 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Biographical accounts published by the Church of Scientology depict Hubbard as "a child prodigy of sorts", as Professor Ruth A. Tucker puts it. Why does this sentence say "biographical accounts published by the Church of Scientology" and "as Professor Ruth A. Tucker puts it". Which is it? I would choose one.
Although the Church of Scientology states that Hubbard was awarded blood brotherhood "in a ceremony that is still recalled by tribal elders",[22] a Scientologist of fractional Blackfoot ancestry sought during the mid-1980s to prove that Hubbard had been a Blackfoot blood brother but was unsuccessful. He instead issued his own proclamation of Hubbard's blood brotherhood, which tribal officials disowned. I am not sure what this sentence is saying. I am wondering if there is a gramatical error somewhere. Did he someone who remembered the ceremony?
"he worked as a supercargo and helmsman aboard a coastal trader which plied the seas between Japan and Java. "Worked as a supercargo and helmsman"? Maybe this could be taken out of a quote so it makes more sense. Or (sic) could be used.
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Does this really belong on the Buddhism Wikiproject? There is only a passing mention of Hubbard talking to Buddhist lamas in the page. This hardly warrants inclusion in the wikiproject. Even
Steve Jobs and
Orlando Bloom arent included in the Buddhism wikiproject and Buddhism probably had more to do with their lives than Hubbard's.
Wikiman5676 (
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19:22, 27 February 2020 (UTC)reply
This Wikipedia article presents too much of the [false] narrative of the Church of Scientology about L. Ron Hubbard's life. It is perplexing to me why the article reads like a piece of Scientology propaganda with afterthoughts or light mentions of the well-known and broadly-published unmasked truth. Sounds bites like "He was unusually well-traveled for a young man of his time" (prominently placed as the third sentence, no less!) are ridiculous. Hubbard wasn't the only son of a US Navy man. Come on, that's just a
military brat! If the purpose of this article was to present the real truth, or to puncture and debunk the Church of Scientology's exaggerated and mostly fictional story of Hubbard's life, it sure doesn't read like it.
Instead of presenting the Scientology narrative first, then attempting to debunk it, the article should present the real truth of Hubbard's early life, followed by a brief description of "what is a
hagiography", followed by some of the Church of Scientology's rendition with individual points debunked.
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06:40, 25 February 2023 (UTC)reply
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