Narconon @ Wikipedia (a heads-up)

TampaBay Times:Company wants drug program's Scientologist ties kept out of lawsuit against Hernando County

Another heads-up, someone named "Coffeepusher" removed "====Effect predicted by Hubbard versus actual effect====" and "====High dosage and adverse drug reactions====" sections
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narconon&diff=566707462&oldid=566623574

I can see the rationale for removing the whole thing, it was bordering on original research. The section was too long anyway. The major story presnted by the article is still that Narconon=do not want.

Winn article is winn.

And coffeepusher is not a pro-Scientology editor.

It's better to be short, to the point and hard referenced.

Bump.

The new version says that high doses of niacin are dangerous, but misses the important point that Hubbard's theory about the effect of niacin on the body was utterly mistaken.

What you need is a ref where some qualified person states that.

Why not raise the concern on the talk-page?

I can't because I'm broadly banned from all Scientology articles. (It was part of the deal the ARBCOM made when they banned Scientology.)

I was thinking of the poster above you. I'm afraid I can't do so either, due to other Wikipedia-related issues.

I have browsed through the article, and I would say it have the main points down:

Very strange then that a user named JavaPowered is removing sourced content without comment, and reverts of that edit are then being reverted by Coffeepusher. A handy way to avoid the 3-revert-rule.

Tony's blog is still a problem. Like it or not, it's no longer the editorial page of the Village Voice. It might be possible to take it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard but you'd better have all your ducks in a row, with references of respectable news stories citing The Underground Bunker as a source. Even then, I wouldn't give that good chances of success.

Daily Kos? LOL!

Sad, but it may very well be that Per Wickstrom's operations just aren't notable yet. After he kills some more people, I'm sure it'll make the news.

Were you ever accused of having or being a sock?

No. Why?

Pretty much. Until someone publishes the many names of Wickstrom's scam in a paper or a book, there's not much we can do.

How about now?

The edits so far haven't been disruptive so far. Until such time, there's little we can do.

Bleh! The cites have way too much quoting going on.

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| quote = Le Tribunal de grande instance de Dijon a, par ailleurs, été amené, dans un jugement du 9 janvier 1987 (no 118-87), à condamner le directeur-adjoint du centre Narconon de Grangey-sur-Ource pour non assistance à personne en danger. Ce centre, créé par l'Eglise de Scientologie, propose des cures de désintoxication en appliquant les méthodes de Ron Hubbard, à savoir la procédure de " purification " , fondée principalement sur plusieurs heures de sauna par jour, des " auditions " et une absorption importante de vitamines. En l'espèce, la victime était depuis longtemps soignée pour épilepsie et s'était adressée à cet organisme car elle souhaitait se " libérer des médicaments " . Le centre l'a, sans examen médical préalable, placée dans une chambre de " sevrage " . Or, les expertises médicales ont montré que le décès était dû à " un état de mal épileptique dû à l'absence de traitement suffisant à son début et de traitement d'urgence pendant l'état de mal. " Le jugement ne laisse aucun doute sur la responsabilité du centre :

" Que si Jocelyne Dorfmann avait pris la décision de réduire sa consommation médicamenteuse, puis de l'interrompre au risque de compromettre son état de santé, les prévenus ne l'ont à aucun moment prévenue de la nécessité d'un examen médical d'admission, lequel aurait vraisemblablement permis de contre-indiquer la cure de sevrage ; qu'il est inconcevable que la victime ait pu être acceptée sans cet examen et sans entretien sérieux malgré ses déclarations sur son état de santé et son épilepsie, alors que les prévenus ont reconnu savoir qu'en cas de maladie grave, le traitement médical ne devait pas souffrir d'interruption ;

" Que si lors de la survenue de la première crise, les prévenus ont pu se méprendre sur la nature exacte, la répétition des crises et leur intensité croissante devaient leur évoquer une origine distincte d'un état de manque qui, selon les médecins experts, ne peut être confondu avec un état épileptique ;

" Qu'ils n'ont pas jugé utile de demander directement à la victime, alors qu'elle était encore consciente, si ces manifestations pouvaient correspondre aux crises d'épilepsie auxquelles elle avait fait allusion ou de faire appel au médecin le plus proche. (...) "

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The County Court of Dijon, in addition, was brought, in a judgement of January 9, 1987 (No 118-87), to condemn the director-assistant of the Narconon center of Grangey- on-Ource for nonassistance to someone in danger. This center, created by the Church of Scientology, proposes detoxification by applying the methods of Ron Hubbard, namely the procedure of "purification," based mainly on several hours of sauna per day, "auditions," and a significant absorption of vitamins. In this case, the victim had been in long-term treatment for epilepsy and had addressed this organization because she wished "to be released from drugs." The center A, without preliminary medical examination, placed her in a "weaning" room. However, the medical experts showed that her death was due to "an epileptic seizure due to the absence of sufficient treatment at its beginning and of emergency treatment during the seizure." The judgement does not leave any doubt about the responsibility of the center:

"That if Jocelyne Dorfmann had made the decision to reduce her consumption of medication, then to stop it with the risk of compromising her health, the defendants had not at any time prevented it of the need for a medical examination of admission, which would have probably made it possible to contra-indicate the cure of weaning; that it is inconceivable that the victim could be accepted without this examination and serious treatment in spite of her declarations as to her health and her epilepsy, whereas the defendants admitted knowing that in the event of serious illness, medical treatment was not to suffer from interruption;

"That if at the time the first crisis occurred, the defendants could mistake its exact nature, the repetition of the crises and their increasing intensity were to evoke to them an origin distinct from a state of lack which, according to medical experts, cannot be confused with an epileptic state;

"That they did not consider it useful to directly ask the victim, while she was still conscious, if these demonstrations could correspond to the epileptic fits to which she had referred or to call upon the nearest doctor (...)"

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What the hell is that?

Yeah, some of the citations are way to verbose.

Latest whitewash
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narconon&diff=569798815&oldid=568302221

Changed from "Narconon has been described as a Scientology front group"
to "Narconon has been described by many journalists, critics, and former Narconon patients as a Scientology front group"
I dare say a few former staff who also describe it as that will be wondering why they were left out.

The entire 'Drugs for sex' allegations section was ripped out, along with a section on 5martz, a "See also" wikilink to Quackery and it was removed from the Categoryseudoscience

I'm bumping this thread because the three lead paragraphs of the Narconon article at Wikipedia have been sanitized (as in, references to Scientology and Narconon being basically a scam have been removed, and the factual stuff has been buried lower down.

The first three paras now read:

Article needs some Anon love to get the pro-Scientology bullshit out of these lead paragraphs.

A healthy dose of WP:FRINGE should do the trick:

Please do.

Someone is chopping negative references out of the Purification Rundown article.

Someone did a partial reversion, but it needs to go back to this edit: 19:15, July 23, 2014‎ Monkbot (talk | contribs)

And someone is right on the Talk page: What's up with that crazy picture link and no references?

The "manager of Narconon UK" is all butt-hurt and trying to vandalize the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narconon&curid=58394&action=history

Observe another team editor sliding into position:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Therealtruman

Revision as of 00:47, 13 December 2016 (edit) (undo) (thank)
Therealtruman (talk | contribs)
(→‎Narconon and Scientology: Delete unverifiable information - cited link is dead)
What was removed:
"In Montreal, Narconon employees describe themselves as 'FSM's, a Scientology abbreviation for Field Staff Member,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.narconon.montreal.qc.ca/narconon_information_montreal.htm |accessdate=7 October 2006 | title = Narconon Information Center of Montreal | quote = © Copyright 2006 Lafleche Dumais & Richard Kelly Narconon FSM.}}</ref>"
There are two copies of that linked page on archive.org from 2006 still showing the Copyright statement as quoted:
https://web.archive.org/web/2006071...treal.qc.ca/narconon_information_montreal.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/2006100...treal.qc.ca/narconon_information_montreal.htm