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On 20 December 2008, Death of Lisa McPherson was linked from Slashdot, a high-traffic website. (Traffic) All prior and subsequent edits to the article are noted in its revision history.

St Petersburg Times old links

There are a lot of dead links in the citations, especially for St. Petersburg Times, which was bought out by the Tampa Bay Times. I was adding the archive versions and got up to citation #13 before quitting. FYI, almost every St Pete Times story is available in the Wayback Machine (archive.org). Also, almost all the old St Pete stories about Scientology have been re-published by the Tampa Bay Times -- under a different URL, of course, but usually findable by searching tampabay.com for the title of the story. The newer copies don't have photographs in them (they're text only), but the archive.org versions do, so it's probably preferable to use the archive.org versions when they are available. Grorp (talk) 08:12, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Death of Whitney Mills (2022)

Another Scientology/Minkoff/psychosis fuckup.

• Spargo, Chris (June 17, 2024). "Family of Scientologist Who Took Her Own Life After Self-Immolation Attempt Sues Church for Wrongful Death". Inside Edition.
• McManus, Tracey (June 14, 2024). "Scientology kept woman from mental health care before her death, lawsuit says". Tampa Bay Times.
• Buchman, Brandi (June 19, 2024). "Church of Scientology ignored woman's 'very real psychosis,' stopped her from receiving mental health care before suicide, lawsuit claims". Law & Crime.
• Graziosi, Graig (June 14, 2024). "Family says Scientology officials prevented woman from seeking mental health treatment before she took her life". The Independent.
• Ortega, Tony (December 28, 2022). "TRAGIC: Clearwater OT 8 Scientologist, 40, set fire to herself before shooting herself dead". The Underground Bunker.
• Ortega, Tony (June 14, 2024). "Here's the wrongful death lawsuit against Scientology by the family of Whitney Mills". The Underground Bunker.

Adding here until I can figure where this should go. Other editors are encouraged to take this and run with it, without waiting for me.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 02:49, 5 July 2024 (UTC)