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A fact from Scientology controversies appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 20 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: "Did you know

...that TIME magazine's Gerald Loeb Award-winning article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" highlights the suicide of Noah Lottick?"

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Revert by Techbear

A revert has been made by Techbear that may reduce an illusion of controversy, but one that Techbear prefers to refer to as "conversation", a notion that I strongly disagree with. You can check the "View history" option yourself that should have added:
"Conclusion toward the Xenu charges is that no Scientology member is obliged to believe in the Xenu (-nonsense)." (Because of this splendid member-autonomy principle being part of Scientology corpus.)
It's my opinion that people have a right to factual information when it's available and this is such a case. I see no use for people to believe in these fabrications/illusions when one can reach a much more relieving point of personal standing in terms of information obtained in the true sense. Cheers! 95.34.149.202 (talk) 12:49, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

The purpose of a talk page is to discuss the article and how to improve it; they are not forums for discussing the topic. I deleted your addition because it had nothing whatsoever to do with this article. TechBear | Talk | Contributions 13:22, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

I appreciate your passion, but understand that many of us have dozens or hundreds of articles on our watchlists, so when you post to a talk page, please make the connection to the article obvious from the beginning. Something like "Here's what should be changed about the article; now here are sources to back up my request". Andrew³²⁷ 16:21, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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