Category talk:American SubGenii

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Guy Macon in topic Church of the SubGenius Membership?

Church of the SubGenius Membership?

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Recently. User:Pburka removed the following pages from Category:American SubGenii.

Penn Jillette [1] (Mentioned here and here and here)

Rudy Rucker [2] (Mentioned here, here, here and here)

Nancy A. Collins [3] (Mentioned here, here and here)

John Shirley [4] (Mentioned here and here)

Bruce Campbell [5] (Mentioned here and here)

Del Close [6] (Mentioned here)

Paul Reubens AKA Pee Wee Herman [7] (Mentioned here and here)

Lon Milo DuQuette [8](Mentioned here)

These removals were perfectly reasonable, because the articles do not mention membership in the COSG, nor are most of the links I list above reliable sources. Because of this, I am putting out a call for citations to reliable sources that establish Church of the SubGenius membership for these and other celebrities. I suspect that a fair count will put the number considerably higher than the number of celebrity Scientologists. --Guy Macon (talk) 00:49, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

The two parts of WP:BLPCAT that seem most relevant are "the case for each category must be made clear by the article text and its reliable sources" -- meaning we need to add something about Church of the SubGenius Membership in the text of the articles in question with citations supporting that, and "Categories regarding religious beliefs ... should not be used unless the subject has publicly self-identified with the belief" -- meaning that we need a citation where the persons listed above say that they are members or at least strong supporters. As I said before, I think that Pburka removing the category was entirely correct; I just want to improve the article in such a way that the category can be re-added. So, does anyone know of any such citations? --Guy Macon (talk) 04:37, 1 August 2012 (UTC)Reply