In an unprecedented move, the free-online-user-generated-encyclopedia folks at Wikipedia are banning an entire organization, and a mainstream one at that. They have now banned all known IPs belonging to the Church of Scientology, and individuals from those IPS will no longer be able to edit Wikipedia pages. While in the past individuals have been banned from making edits to the user generated content on Wikipedia, this marks the first time that a large organization has gotten the boot.

So the question is, why ban the Church of Scientology? Well according to various internet sources, the decision was made as the Church Of Scientology appeared to be using the site in order to push their religion out there in a non factual manner. Wikipedia wants to retain its image as a place to read accurate and factual information, and so deemed the ban necessary.