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Sea Org

The section regarding the Sea Org is a bit too long considering we have a very thorough main article on the subject. I've made some corrections and trimmed things a bit, but could use more trimming. I've removed the sentence regarding "overboarding" because that was mostly applied to non-Sea Org students who were on the flagship training on the Class VIII course as directed by L Ron Hubbard. So, it requires significant explanation and should be reserved for the main article. If there is not yet an article on "overboarding," there is a considerable amount of material that might warrant an article of its own, if there is consensus to do so. Laval (talk) 19:21, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Headquarters

I've been noticing in most of the articles the headquarters of Scientology is identified as Gold Base. While this is indeed the de facto headquarters of Scientology (which is verifiable in a multitude of sources), the official headquarters of the Church of Scientology International, Religious Technology Center, Office of Special Affairs, and other Sea Org management entities are located within the Guaranty Building on Hollywood Boulevard. This is verifiable through the church's own documents, including legal documents, incorporation documents, etc. How this should be dealt with, or whether or not it should even be handled, I leave to others to chime in and share their thoughts. Laval (talk) 19:50, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If there's an issue here, it should be addressed case-by-case. Is there some place in particular where you think the "headquarters" reference is misleading? As you say, Gold Base/RTC is widely agreed to be the ultimate hq of the whole complex of Scientology-related organizations ("free zone" excepted, of course). -- BTfromLA (talk) 23:10, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of a section devoted to Lawsuits for or against the Church

I think there needs to be a section devoted solely to lawsuits against the church or lawsuits the church is involved in. I am going to work on it and add bits to it every so often. I am confident that it will get pretty big. What do you guys think? Dead Goldfish (talk) 13:05, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 :If there's an issue here, it should be addressed case-by-case.  Is there some place in particular where you think the "headquarters" reference is misleading? As you say, Gold Base/RTC is widely agreed to be the ultimate hq of the whole complex of Scientology-related organizations ("free zone" excepted, of course). -- [[User:BTfromLA|BTfromLA]] ([[User talk:BTfromLA|talk]]) 23:10, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
+== Addition of a section devoted to Lawsuits for or against the Church ==
+I think there needs to be a section devoted solely to lawsuits against the church or lawsuits the church is involved in.  I am going to work on it and add bits to it every so often.  I am confident that it will get pretty big.  What do you guys think? [[User:Dead Goldfish|Dead Goldfish]] ([[User talk:Dead Goldfish|talk]]) 13:05, 1 January 2014 (UTC)