User talk:Youngblues83

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Hi. I reverted your drastic edits to the article. You are welcome to make well-thought out edits but not welcome to gut the article. Please join us on the talk page and learn the ropes. --Justanother 00:28, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome (and a warning) from Justanother
Welcome to wikipedia and thank you for your interest in improving the articles in the Category:Scientology (see also WikiProject Scientology). Just so you know what you will encounter here; there are very few knowledgable Scientologists editing here; a good number of dedicated critics; and a lot of less biased editors that have none-the-less been influenced by misrepresentation of Scientology on the internet and have no positive experience of Scientology to balance that with. I seriously recommend that, before tackling Scientology articles, that you edit in other non-controversial articles that you are knowlegable about until you see how things work here. Also learn to use a watchlist (you can set your preferences up to watch every article you edit in). You may also find this premade watchlist of use to you. Follow the guidelines in the welcome message. Do not add or remove material without citing sources (or lack of sources after a good-faith attempt to find one yourself). Stay polite and never get personal. Do not allow yourself to be drawn into personal battles because someone attacked you first. To not engage in edit wars. Many Scientologist editors have been banned from this site for breaking the rules; don't join them. See my page for general tips and a "hat writeup" (here) that may be helpful even though it is a very rough draft. Feel free to ask me anything. --Justanother 00:33, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

October 2007
Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. GoodDamon 00:40, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to assume, based on your earlier edits, that you're not a vandal after all, but rather are uninformed about Wikipedia policy. So welcome to Wikipedia! One of the first things you'll need to be aware of when editing is the standards of verifiability and using reliable sources. I highly recommend you read the verifiability and reliable sources documents before editing further. The main difficulty I've noted specifically with editing the Wikipedia pages related to Scientology is that what Wikipedia calls "reliable sources" for information are generally negative towards Scientology, and unfortunately that's just the way it is. For instance, you will find quite a bit of detail concerning OT III in a negative light in reliable sources. So if you'd like to provide balance to the Wikipedia pages on Scientology, you'll need to find reliable sources of your own that can be used to negate some of the negative. One thing you can't do is delete well-sourced information that's already there. For instance, I noticed you deleted all references to "Xenu" from the page. That's a no-no, and more importantly, it's a hopeless battle. As they say, that cat is out of the bag. The best you can do is provide balancing information and try to put it in proper context. For the record, I'm not a Scientologist. I'm a neutral editor who has an academic interest, and wants these articles to be as neutral as possible. --GoodDamon 00:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)