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Most "bibliography" articles based on a topic are books about that topic rather than works written by people connected to that topic. If this is to remain the way it is, it should be renamed/reframed to indicate that it's not actually a bibliography of Scientology. Otherwise, there appear to be a whole lot of books about Scientology that aren't included here (including some that are, of course, critical). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:11, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I removed several redlinks caused by AfDs or never-written articles on individual books. Am logging them here so the AfD discussions can more easily be found. There may be other AfDs, but these are all I was able to find.
Grorp ( talk) 04:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
There are several more books that the Church of Scientology considers as part of the basic books collection (as re-released in 2007). C of S considers these BBs:
I considered moving these 6 entries up the page into the basic book section, but then I wondered why we should even care if the Church of Scientology designates some as part of their "basic book collection". I don't recall anything where Hubbard called them basic books; it's a new concept since 2007, courtesy of Miscavige. The prior book collection (1980s) was split between Dianetics and Scientology books with a dark red binding/cover color for the Dn books and dark blue for the Scn books (under their paper dust jackets). The current image they publish shows that there are about 8 different colors used in the book covers (under the paper). The 1980s colllection was about 12-14 books; Miscavige's new collection is 19 books.
"Basic Books" is simply a marketing or product label, as is "Basic Lectures", and "The Basics" (books + lectures).
At most we could have a paragraph mentioning which are part of the BB collection, or maybe have an indicator/symbol to indicate it on the entry for those books since we really should expand this page to include more of the Scientology books.
Grorp ( talk) 04:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
A complete bibliography wouldn't care to delineate which books were published after the main author's death. Keep in mind this list is for "Scientology books", not just "Hubbard books". I added a sourced sentence in the lead that mentions that some books (based on the works of Hubbard) were published after his death. I have removed the section headings. Grorp ( talk) 05:19, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
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Most "bibliography" articles based on a topic are books about that topic rather than works written by people connected to that topic. If this is to remain the way it is, it should be renamed/reframed to indicate that it's not actually a bibliography of Scientology. Otherwise, there appear to be a whole lot of books about Scientology that aren't included here (including some that are, of course, critical). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:11, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I removed several redlinks caused by AfDs or never-written articles on individual books. Am logging them here so the AfD discussions can more easily be found. There may be other AfDs, but these are all I was able to find.
Grorp ( talk) 04:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
There are several more books that the Church of Scientology considers as part of the basic books collection (as re-released in 2007). C of S considers these BBs:
I considered moving these 6 entries up the page into the basic book section, but then I wondered why we should even care if the Church of Scientology designates some as part of their "basic book collection". I don't recall anything where Hubbard called them basic books; it's a new concept since 2007, courtesy of Miscavige. The prior book collection (1980s) was split between Dianetics and Scientology books with a dark red binding/cover color for the Dn books and dark blue for the Scn books (under their paper dust jackets). The current image they publish shows that there are about 8 different colors used in the book covers (under the paper). The 1980s colllection was about 12-14 books; Miscavige's new collection is 19 books.
"Basic Books" is simply a marketing or product label, as is "Basic Lectures", and "The Basics" (books + lectures).
At most we could have a paragraph mentioning which are part of the BB collection, or maybe have an indicator/symbol to indicate it on the entry for those books since we really should expand this page to include more of the Scientology books.
Grorp ( talk) 04:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
A complete bibliography wouldn't care to delineate which books were published after the main author's death. Keep in mind this list is for "Scientology books", not just "Hubbard books". I added a sourced sentence in the lead that mentions that some books (based on the works of Hubbard) were published after his death. I have removed the section headings. Grorp ( talk) 05:19, 26 March 2023 (UTC)