Talk:The Bridge (Scientology film)

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Contents 1 Standardizing citations 2 Information on Possible Repression 3 Article title -->The Bridge (2006 drama) 4 Change it but for different reasons

[edit] Standardizing citations

• We should utilize WP:CIT, to standardize the citations within the article. I will go ahead and do this soon, but in the future please use WP:CIT to format new cites when adding new information and sources to the article. Thanks. Curt Wilhelm VonSavage 11:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Information on Possible Repression

Do we have any information of possible action from Scientology preventing this movie's distribution? The director's terse comments seem to suggest far more than "copyright issues", though I'm aware that this may be the reason used by Scientology to halt the film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.35.252.65 (talk) 00:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article title -->The Bridge (2006 drama)

I wonder about the article title change to The Bridge (Scientology film).

• It's a drama, an (arguably provocative) work of fiction, which in its storyline references Scientology culture and practice.
• The phrasing of the article title is inaccurate: it unintentionally implies association with, creation by, or nonfictional representation of Scientology. A naive reader unfamiliar with the 2006 documentary will not understand the genesis of the "Scientology film" classification.
• This film was released first (before the documentary), and is a dramatic film (more common than documentaries). This should establish naming primacy.
• It is not standard Wikipedia practice to classify fictional works by other than author, year, or genre. There is no such genre as "Scientology film".

Therefore I propose renaming this article to The Bridge(2006 drama) and renaming the San Francisco Bridge suicides documentary film article to The Bridge(2006 documentary). --Lexein (talk) 11:20, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Change it but for different reasons

I'm not going to turn this into a Scientology Fact VS. Fiction debate however because that's a debate I'm just not willing to touch with a hundred foot e-meter.

• Just change it, semantical arguments like this are annoying and only waste bandwidth/space.
• I agree, it is a work of fiction about a real organization and includes their culture/practices to convey a sense of realism.
• Wikipedia does not have a policy on naming primacy unless something has changed in the last six months since I've logged in here.
• People are supposed to read information available to them on Wikipedia and make their own determinations. The worst that could happen is people can hit the back-button on their browser.
• If you feel the article carrys a certain point of view, try to change it by editing the page, the title of the page does little for the neutrality or purpose of the article.
• Why do all page-links specifically TO this movie redirect? Is there some confusion over a persons intent when looking for The Bridge (Scientology film) and the other or is someone making a choice that the film should not be searched for or found? ZBrannigan (talk) 03:07, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
• Everytime a link is posted for the information referenced it is removed. Seems like they don't want to keep with the way this is supposed to work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.102.95.197 (talk) 11:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

The link you tried to add is to ScienTOMogy.com...it fails wikipedias policy on external links for this page.Coffeepusher (talk) 15:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

That (frequently spammed) site is just a wrapper for the video at Google anyway. Also see the last RFC AndroidCat (talk) 17:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC)