User talk:Jbmweb1

Welcome
Welcome...

Hello, Jbmweb1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * Introduction
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. Ocaasi Again, welcome! Ocaasi (talk) 20:26, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Hubbard
Just to give you a heads up, you're editing one of the most controversial articles in the history of Wikipedia. It became a featured main page article yesterday and it has more editors watching it than almost any other article on the entire site. If you are going to make a definitive change from 'leader' to 'charlatan' on the basis of one court case, without demonstrating an understanding of our WP:NPOV policy, you're going to get reverted over and over. Read around a little and get a feel for how policy affects pages. Having a source is great, but it's not sufficient. The source must be compared to other sources and taken in the full context.

Also, encyclopedic writing always distinguishes points of view (WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV) so that readers know if something is widely held or just held by some, whether it is a fact or an opinion, or whether there is a dispute about it. Whether Hubbard is a charlatan depends on who you ask. If you ask the French court, they tell you one thing. If you ask a Scientologist, they tell you another. If you ask me, he's both, but if you ask a professor of New religious movements, they'd probably avoid the c-word. So there is a dispute. The term leader is actually neutral, since even a charlatan would be a leader--it just means head of the organization, something which is not disputed.

If you want to add the fact that Hubbard was ruled a charlatan by the french court, find the appropriate [history] section or [public reception] or [criticism] section, and add it with the source. Probably better to propose it on the talk page first; although WP:BOLD always applies, so does WP:BRD, especially on controversial articles and articles with WP:BLP or WP:LIBEL concerns.

Let me know if you have any questions, Ocaasi (talk) 20:55, 16 March 2011 (UTC)