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What is the correct pronunciation of her first name? 99.149.193.21 ( talk) 03:02, 18 June 2010 (UTC)Mae Belle
The article states that her parents divorced in 1967 and that she was born in 1970. While it is certainly not unusual for this to happen, I think something along the lines of how this happened (if it isn't a typo) could be useful. Especially since she has a full sister and a half sister who seem to both have been born in 1969.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.87.52.49 ( talk • contribs) 22:55, March 18, 2008
I believe that she played on an episode of Cheers one time as Carla's daughter..
It is said she is Roman Catholic and later that she is a Scientologist. You can't be both at the same time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuck0856 ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
It is said "scientologists Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes." Katie Holmes is not a scientologist. She is a Roman Catholic. *****Lindaige —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.109.130.131 ( talk) 20:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC).
Katie Holes claims to have accepted Scientology. And while I have not heard any comments about her practice thereof, I do not think it is fair to deny that she is a Scientologist in favor of Catholicism. —Preceding
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Is Lisa's husband a scientologist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.154.232.44 ( talk) 21:38, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
As per WP:BLP, religious affiliation must be self professed in a reliable source. If she chooses to claim both scientology and RC, then that is what the article will reflect. Coffeepusher ( talk) 23:07, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Changing status, as references have been added, trivia section removed. clearly not a stub, IMO.- Robotam 13:12, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
In what way is she Italian-American, if she was born in New York, and only one of her parents is Italian? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.38.46 ( talk) 23:05, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
She is certainly half-Italian but I don't understand why she is labelled as an Italian-American actress in the beginning of the article. Why can't it just say that she's an American actress? 70.51.236.194 ( talk) 02:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
On July 1st, an unregistered user SPPTS removed the mention of Leah Remini as a Scientologist, diff [ [1]]. The section was well sourced, using Remini herself as source. Why was this removed? Thimbleweed ( talk) 19:28, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
User:50.47.210.98 added the name of one of Remini's half-sisters, but I couldn't find any source to verify this. Please feel free to re-add this information when a source is made available. Laval ( talk) 23:18, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
It is generally poor form to use Wikipedia to push unverifiable & anonymous allegations posted to self-published blogs and tabloids like the NY Post. But since a couple of people insist on including this particular allegation of Remini leaving Scientology, it is only appropriate to also include an earlier blog post by Ortega on 5 July 2013 where he stated he spoke with Remini's husband, who told Ortega these allegations were incorrect and that his wife is still a Scientologist in good standing.
It would behoove these new editors to read WP:RS, Wikipedia:SPS#Self-published_sources, and WP:V in order to understand what is acceptable and what is not. Wikipedia is not supposed to be a soap opera. Laval ( talk) 11:55, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Also it is quite obvious that the New York Post basically copied Ortega's blog post almost word-by-word without proper attribution or credit, which Ortega has criticized in his most recent post, so the NY Post article isn't even an original source, but a copy of Ortega's blog post.
Again, WP:RS, WP:V, Wikipedia:SPS#Self-published_sources. Wikipedia simply is not the place to be posting unverifiable allegations, which furthermore Leah Remini herself has not even commented on, in addition to her very own husband stating that these allegations are incorrect and his wife is still a member of the Church. Laval ( talk) 12:16, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Citing the New York Post story is perfectly valid. Moreover, I've been told that when sources that are themselves considered reliable quote another source, even that if other source is considered by some to be unreliable, the quotation by the second, more reliable source, makes the inclusion valid. The Los Angeles Times and International Business Times are easily reliable. Even the Hollywood Reporter story mentions the Post. It's ridiculous to think that The Hollywood Reporter is reliable, but that the LA Times and International Business Times are not. The full details and citations should be restored. Nightscream ( talk) 02:26, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
In reference to leaving the CoS: "Allegedly" is not accurate and is a "weasel word". "Reportedly" is accurate and does not carry the baggage that "allegedly" does. =//= Johnny Squeaky 19:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Huh, no my talk page has a history of users who got banned soon thereafter accusing me of getting into "edit wars." Are you planning on continuing that tradition? So actually the first was not a reversion, it was my initial edit where I started the discussion. But lets say that was a reversion, how does 2=3?22:03,
Coffeepusher (
talk)
22:03, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
as for the "you started an edit war with me" I believe that if we look at the "undid" sections of the history it tells a different story. Coffeepusher ( talk) 22:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Ok kid, drop the stick. Re-tagging my page is just vindictive. Coffeepusher ( talk) 04:58, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing. Coffeepusher ( talk) 05:25, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Remini's sister Nicole has now spoken at length about recent events in an interview with what appears to be a St Paul, MN radio station - see here. It looks a reliable enough source and it sheds a lot of light on what appears to have gone down here - the whole Remini family seems to have left in a group. Worth adding to the article? Prioryman ( talk) 16:25, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Johnny Squeaky, you don't not own the Leah Remini article on Wikipedia,so please stop nitpicking. It is obvious Leah has left COS,why else would she thank her fans for standing by her?-- 98.87.168.173 ( talk) 02:36, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
We are getting into WP:UNDUE coverage of this person and Scientology. She's an actress who, like many people, has not been active in evangelizing her spiritual beliefs. At present the "Personal life" section has a sentence that she got married, a sentence about their child, and then a large amount of text about Scientology with the bulk of it about her leaving. This has pushed the section into being one of the largest in the article which seems like undue coverage. She was never active as a Scientology spokesperson.
I'm interested in see if there's consensus to trimming the part about her leaving down to just the sentence "In July 2013 Leah Remini, her husband, and mother left the Church of Scientology." We can source that to her statement to People Magazine [3] and her sister Nicole's statement to a local radio station. [4]
The rest of the stuff is not well supported by sources that link directly back to Leah Remini. It's other people speculating about why she left. -- Marc Kupper| talk 20:40, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Done. I've trimmed it a bit. Nightscream ( talk) 01:28, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
I think we need to discuss the issue of the religion field in the Infobox. Putting aside the issue of why that information does not show in the saved article, isn't Scientology a body of beliefs that exists apart from the Church of Scientology, much in the same way that Christianity and the Catholic Church are not the same thing? Just because she left the Church doesn't mean that she no longer harbors Scientologist beliefs.
Marc Kupper removed "Scientologist" from the Infobox, stating "We can't peer inside someone's head and claim she harbors a belief she's stated she's no longer believing". But she hasn't made any "statement" (aside from thanking those who supported her), nor do the sources in question make any indication about her "no longer believing" the tenets of Scientology, only that she left the Church. Keep in mind that the religion and the church have two separate Wikipedia articles.
Should her beliefs and her church membership be regarded in the article as one and the same? Or should we leave "Scientologist" in the Infobox unless/until we acquire a source saying she has abandoned those beliefs, or leave it blank under the idea that we don't know her beliefs either way at this time? Nightscream ( talk) 00:04, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
It's interesting what gets deleted as a "copyright violation" at Wikipedia, and what does not. I guess someone with lawyers griped about the Leah Remini image, because Wikipedia is RIFE with copyrighted images (non-CC) that various "editors" pipe up and pump and "fair use" because there isn't any other or some other similar rationalization bullshit. I could probably look at 20 random articles and find copyrighted images in half of them... But you know, you can't fight entrenched "senior editors" with WP:OWN issues, and in fact, you can't troop through 2 or three articles at random without tripping over "senior editors" and possibly "admin editors" with WP:OWN issues, but that's the way wikipedia is... I'm sure one of these fine folks described above will leave a "nasty-gram" on my Talk Page advising me that they have the right to ban be for these comments, to which I will respond: "Yeah, yeah, typical..." =//= Johnny Squeaky 08:44, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
I believe the current sections on "The Talk" and Scientology are too long compared to the rest of the article. Ms. Remini has been a professional performer for twenty five years; it seems that aspect should be more important than a short stint on a TV show and excessive detail of her decision to leave Scientology - which is rather a private matter. It should be enough to say she was involved and then left. Catherinejarvis ( talk) 14:29, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Actually I have just read her book - which I found accidentally - and you make a good point, SummerPhD. Catherinejarvis ( talk) 17:47, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Here is a brief history of various attempts to add unsourced or poorly sourced claims that Remini converted to Roman Catholocism after leaving Scientology.
Keep in mind as you read the following that in Wikipedia articles, religious beliefs (or lack of such) should not be referenced unless the subject has publicly self-identified with the belief or orientation in question, and the subject's beliefs are relevant to their public life or notability, according to reliable published sources, and that we do not allow Twitter as a source involving claims about third parties.
01:43, 16 December 2014, user:95.144.34.29 Claimed that Remini is catholic [12], giving a reference to [ http://iajournal.com/leah-remini-catholic-quitting-church-scientology/ ] a source that actually says that she made "a reference to praying as a Catholic following the tragic death of James Gandolfini" on her twitter account. Even if true (doubtful, see below) saying a prayer in not the same thing as being a member of the Catholic Church.
09:12, 29 March 2015, user:95.144.32.62 claimed that Remini is Catholic, [13] giving a reference to the same source used above.
09:13, 29 March 2015, user:95.144.32.62 added a cite [14] to [ http://tonyortega.org/2013/07/05/has-leah-remini-left-the-church-of-scientology/ ], an anti-scientology blog. Besides being a blog and citing Wikipedia as the source for the "Catholic" claim, this is rather obviously the source that the iajournal.com page was based upon.
20:13, 15 July 2015, user:67.1.223.95 tries to claim [15] that she was a catholic from 1976–2013. No source.
01:32, 7 September 2015, user:2.29.29.22 claims that she it Catholic, [16] citing the notoriously unreliable Daily Mail [ https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Leah_Remini&type=revision&diff=679828374&oldid=678345366 ]. The actual article shows her ten-year-old daughter being baptized as a Catholic (not the same thing as joining the catholic Church) and interprets another ambiguous tweet.
16:23, 8 September 2015, user:2.29.29.22 claims that she is Catholic. [17] No source.
05:11, 1 November 2015 I remove the unsourced claim. [18]
21:59, 16 November 2015 user:95.144.240.52 puts it back. [19]
02:23, 17 November 2015. I remove it again. [20]
20:21, 21 November 2015 user:M.O.X puts it back in, [21] this time citing [ http://www.christianpost.com/news/leah-reminis-daughter-baptized-as-catholic-for-more-spiritual-existence-2-years-after-leaving-scientology-144924/ ] -- another website that is obviously repackaging the Daily Mail article, which in turn repackaged the Italian American Journal article, which in turn relied upon the same tweets as everyone else. This time the claim is "She converted to Catholicism two years after her departure from the Church of Scientology", which is nowhere is the source provided.
23:28, 21 November 2015. I remove it again. [22]
11:32, 23 November 2015, user:M.O.X tries again, [23] this time with the Daily Mail cite.
19:28, 23 November 2015. I remove it again. [24]
So we have a handful of dodgy websites all regurgitating conclusions about a couple of ambiguous tweets (maybe "going home" means literally going back to their house after the event), a second party tweeting "we have always been Catholic" and somehow turning that into "converted to Catholicism two years after leaving Scientology" and a daughter deciding to be baptized as a Catholic. Where is the place where Leah Remini self-identifies as practicing Catholic? Where did that "two years after" figure come from? -- Guy Macon ( talk) 00:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
She said she self-identifies as Catholic in an interview with People magazine. I don't care enough to edit the article for you, but your obsessive monitoring of this page comes across as borderline creepy. You Scientologists can't fight over this one any more. [25] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FB90:488E:D469:0:11:AE8D:DA01 ( talk) 10:39, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
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Can a section be made about Scientology organize staking ex members? I believe Mike Rinder's organized stalking was documented on tv? It would be nice if the term was used on the tv series. CROSS MY FINGERS. 205.189.94.12 ( talk) 19:37, 11 February 2018 (UTC)Billy 205.189.94.12 ( talk)
Not a bad place to live - Family lived in a middleclass area but Leah claims she was exploited. Wow She had a half sister that lived in Staten Island and went to Csi. - heres the link School of scientogoly could just be made up - leah doesn't seem like she liked her family. [26] 2603:7000:B901:8500:C096:45C2:26CA:7EC4 ( talk) 23:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
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What is the correct pronunciation of her first name? 99.149.193.21 ( talk) 03:02, 18 June 2010 (UTC)Mae Belle
The article states that her parents divorced in 1967 and that she was born in 1970. While it is certainly not unusual for this to happen, I think something along the lines of how this happened (if it isn't a typo) could be useful. Especially since she has a full sister and a half sister who seem to both have been born in 1969.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.87.52.49 ( talk • contribs) 22:55, March 18, 2008
I believe that she played on an episode of Cheers one time as Carla's daughter..
It is said she is Roman Catholic and later that she is a Scientologist. You can't be both at the same time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuck0856 ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
It is said "scientologists Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes." Katie Holmes is not a scientologist. She is a Roman Catholic. *****Lindaige —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.109.130.131 ( talk) 20:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC).
Katie Holes claims to have accepted Scientology. And while I have not heard any comments about her practice thereof, I do not think it is fair to deny that she is a Scientologist in favor of Catholicism. —Preceding
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69.87.52.49 (
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22:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Is Lisa's husband a scientologist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.154.232.44 ( talk) 21:38, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
As per WP:BLP, religious affiliation must be self professed in a reliable source. If she chooses to claim both scientology and RC, then that is what the article will reflect. Coffeepusher ( talk) 23:07, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Changing status, as references have been added, trivia section removed. clearly not a stub, IMO.- Robotam 13:12, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
In what way is she Italian-American, if she was born in New York, and only one of her parents is Italian? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.38.46 ( talk) 23:05, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
She is certainly half-Italian but I don't understand why she is labelled as an Italian-American actress in the beginning of the article. Why can't it just say that she's an American actress? 70.51.236.194 ( talk) 02:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
On July 1st, an unregistered user SPPTS removed the mention of Leah Remini as a Scientologist, diff [ [1]]. The section was well sourced, using Remini herself as source. Why was this removed? Thimbleweed ( talk) 19:28, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
User:50.47.210.98 added the name of one of Remini's half-sisters, but I couldn't find any source to verify this. Please feel free to re-add this information when a source is made available. Laval ( talk) 23:18, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
It is generally poor form to use Wikipedia to push unverifiable & anonymous allegations posted to self-published blogs and tabloids like the NY Post. But since a couple of people insist on including this particular allegation of Remini leaving Scientology, it is only appropriate to also include an earlier blog post by Ortega on 5 July 2013 where he stated he spoke with Remini's husband, who told Ortega these allegations were incorrect and that his wife is still a Scientologist in good standing.
It would behoove these new editors to read WP:RS, Wikipedia:SPS#Self-published_sources, and WP:V in order to understand what is acceptable and what is not. Wikipedia is not supposed to be a soap opera. Laval ( talk) 11:55, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Also it is quite obvious that the New York Post basically copied Ortega's blog post almost word-by-word without proper attribution or credit, which Ortega has criticized in his most recent post, so the NY Post article isn't even an original source, but a copy of Ortega's blog post.
Again, WP:RS, WP:V, Wikipedia:SPS#Self-published_sources. Wikipedia simply is not the place to be posting unverifiable allegations, which furthermore Leah Remini herself has not even commented on, in addition to her very own husband stating that these allegations are incorrect and his wife is still a member of the Church. Laval ( talk) 12:16, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Citing the New York Post story is perfectly valid. Moreover, I've been told that when sources that are themselves considered reliable quote another source, even that if other source is considered by some to be unreliable, the quotation by the second, more reliable source, makes the inclusion valid. The Los Angeles Times and International Business Times are easily reliable. Even the Hollywood Reporter story mentions the Post. It's ridiculous to think that The Hollywood Reporter is reliable, but that the LA Times and International Business Times are not. The full details and citations should be restored. Nightscream ( talk) 02:26, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
In reference to leaving the CoS: "Allegedly" is not accurate and is a "weasel word". "Reportedly" is accurate and does not carry the baggage that "allegedly" does. =//= Johnny Squeaky 19:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Huh, no my talk page has a history of users who got banned soon thereafter accusing me of getting into "edit wars." Are you planning on continuing that tradition? So actually the first was not a reversion, it was my initial edit where I started the discussion. But lets say that was a reversion, how does 2=3?22:03,
Coffeepusher (
talk)
22:03, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
as for the "you started an edit war with me" I believe that if we look at the "undid" sections of the history it tells a different story. Coffeepusher ( talk) 22:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Ok kid, drop the stick. Re-tagging my page is just vindictive. Coffeepusher ( talk) 04:58, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing. Coffeepusher ( talk) 05:25, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Remini's sister Nicole has now spoken at length about recent events in an interview with what appears to be a St Paul, MN radio station - see here. It looks a reliable enough source and it sheds a lot of light on what appears to have gone down here - the whole Remini family seems to have left in a group. Worth adding to the article? Prioryman ( talk) 16:25, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Johnny Squeaky, you don't not own the Leah Remini article on Wikipedia,so please stop nitpicking. It is obvious Leah has left COS,why else would she thank her fans for standing by her?-- 98.87.168.173 ( talk) 02:36, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
We are getting into WP:UNDUE coverage of this person and Scientology. She's an actress who, like many people, has not been active in evangelizing her spiritual beliefs. At present the "Personal life" section has a sentence that she got married, a sentence about their child, and then a large amount of text about Scientology with the bulk of it about her leaving. This has pushed the section into being one of the largest in the article which seems like undue coverage. She was never active as a Scientology spokesperson.
I'm interested in see if there's consensus to trimming the part about her leaving down to just the sentence "In July 2013 Leah Remini, her husband, and mother left the Church of Scientology." We can source that to her statement to People Magazine [3] and her sister Nicole's statement to a local radio station. [4]
The rest of the stuff is not well supported by sources that link directly back to Leah Remini. It's other people speculating about why she left. -- Marc Kupper| talk 20:40, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Done. I've trimmed it a bit. Nightscream ( talk) 01:28, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
I think we need to discuss the issue of the religion field in the Infobox. Putting aside the issue of why that information does not show in the saved article, isn't Scientology a body of beliefs that exists apart from the Church of Scientology, much in the same way that Christianity and the Catholic Church are not the same thing? Just because she left the Church doesn't mean that she no longer harbors Scientologist beliefs.
Marc Kupper removed "Scientologist" from the Infobox, stating "We can't peer inside someone's head and claim she harbors a belief she's stated she's no longer believing". But she hasn't made any "statement" (aside from thanking those who supported her), nor do the sources in question make any indication about her "no longer believing" the tenets of Scientology, only that she left the Church. Keep in mind that the religion and the church have two separate Wikipedia articles.
Should her beliefs and her church membership be regarded in the article as one and the same? Or should we leave "Scientologist" in the Infobox unless/until we acquire a source saying she has abandoned those beliefs, or leave it blank under the idea that we don't know her beliefs either way at this time? Nightscream ( talk) 00:04, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
It's interesting what gets deleted as a "copyright violation" at Wikipedia, and what does not. I guess someone with lawyers griped about the Leah Remini image, because Wikipedia is RIFE with copyrighted images (non-CC) that various "editors" pipe up and pump and "fair use" because there isn't any other or some other similar rationalization bullshit. I could probably look at 20 random articles and find copyrighted images in half of them... But you know, you can't fight entrenched "senior editors" with WP:OWN issues, and in fact, you can't troop through 2 or three articles at random without tripping over "senior editors" and possibly "admin editors" with WP:OWN issues, but that's the way wikipedia is... I'm sure one of these fine folks described above will leave a "nasty-gram" on my Talk Page advising me that they have the right to ban be for these comments, to which I will respond: "Yeah, yeah, typical..." =//= Johnny Squeaky 08:44, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
I believe the current sections on "The Talk" and Scientology are too long compared to the rest of the article. Ms. Remini has been a professional performer for twenty five years; it seems that aspect should be more important than a short stint on a TV show and excessive detail of her decision to leave Scientology - which is rather a private matter. It should be enough to say she was involved and then left. Catherinejarvis ( talk) 14:29, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Actually I have just read her book - which I found accidentally - and you make a good point, SummerPhD. Catherinejarvis ( talk) 17:47, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Here is a brief history of various attempts to add unsourced or poorly sourced claims that Remini converted to Roman Catholocism after leaving Scientology.
Keep in mind as you read the following that in Wikipedia articles, religious beliefs (or lack of such) should not be referenced unless the subject has publicly self-identified with the belief or orientation in question, and the subject's beliefs are relevant to their public life or notability, according to reliable published sources, and that we do not allow Twitter as a source involving claims about third parties.
01:43, 16 December 2014, user:95.144.34.29 Claimed that Remini is catholic [12], giving a reference to [ http://iajournal.com/leah-remini-catholic-quitting-church-scientology/ ] a source that actually says that she made "a reference to praying as a Catholic following the tragic death of James Gandolfini" on her twitter account. Even if true (doubtful, see below) saying a prayer in not the same thing as being a member of the Catholic Church.
09:12, 29 March 2015, user:95.144.32.62 claimed that Remini is Catholic, [13] giving a reference to the same source used above.
09:13, 29 March 2015, user:95.144.32.62 added a cite [14] to [ http://tonyortega.org/2013/07/05/has-leah-remini-left-the-church-of-scientology/ ], an anti-scientology blog. Besides being a blog and citing Wikipedia as the source for the "Catholic" claim, this is rather obviously the source that the iajournal.com page was based upon.
20:13, 15 July 2015, user:67.1.223.95 tries to claim [15] that she was a catholic from 1976–2013. No source.
01:32, 7 September 2015, user:2.29.29.22 claims that she it Catholic, [16] citing the notoriously unreliable Daily Mail [ https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Leah_Remini&type=revision&diff=679828374&oldid=678345366 ]. The actual article shows her ten-year-old daughter being baptized as a Catholic (not the same thing as joining the catholic Church) and interprets another ambiguous tweet.
16:23, 8 September 2015, user:2.29.29.22 claims that she is Catholic. [17] No source.
05:11, 1 November 2015 I remove the unsourced claim. [18]
21:59, 16 November 2015 user:95.144.240.52 puts it back. [19]
02:23, 17 November 2015. I remove it again. [20]
20:21, 21 November 2015 user:M.O.X puts it back in, [21] this time citing [ http://www.christianpost.com/news/leah-reminis-daughter-baptized-as-catholic-for-more-spiritual-existence-2-years-after-leaving-scientology-144924/ ] -- another website that is obviously repackaging the Daily Mail article, which in turn repackaged the Italian American Journal article, which in turn relied upon the same tweets as everyone else. This time the claim is "She converted to Catholicism two years after her departure from the Church of Scientology", which is nowhere is the source provided.
23:28, 21 November 2015. I remove it again. [22]
11:32, 23 November 2015, user:M.O.X tries again, [23] this time with the Daily Mail cite.
19:28, 23 November 2015. I remove it again. [24]
So we have a handful of dodgy websites all regurgitating conclusions about a couple of ambiguous tweets (maybe "going home" means literally going back to their house after the event), a second party tweeting "we have always been Catholic" and somehow turning that into "converted to Catholicism two years after leaving Scientology" and a daughter deciding to be baptized as a Catholic. Where is the place where Leah Remini self-identifies as practicing Catholic? Where did that "two years after" figure come from? -- Guy Macon ( talk) 00:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
She said she self-identifies as Catholic in an interview with People magazine. I don't care enough to edit the article for you, but your obsessive monitoring of this page comes across as borderline creepy. You Scientologists can't fight over this one any more. [25] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FB90:488E:D469:0:11:AE8D:DA01 ( talk) 10:39, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
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Can a section be made about Scientology organize staking ex members? I believe Mike Rinder's organized stalking was documented on tv? It would be nice if the term was used on the tv series. CROSS MY FINGERS. 205.189.94.12 ( talk) 19:37, 11 February 2018 (UTC)Billy 205.189.94.12 ( talk)
Not a bad place to live - Family lived in a middleclass area but Leah claims she was exploited. Wow She had a half sister that lived in Staten Island and went to Csi. - heres the link School of scientogoly could just be made up - leah doesn't seem like she liked her family. [26] 2603:7000:B901:8500:C096:45C2:26CA:7EC4 ( talk) 23:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)