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- About.com Urban Legends: Star Wars Religion Doesn't Make Census - Will filling in 'Jedi' as your religion on census forms cause the government to recognize it as a legitimate faith? A three part series of articles by David Emery.
urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa041601a.htm
- Anorak: Using the Force - "So many people entered 'Jedi Knight' on their census form that the Office of National Statistics has given the creed an official numerical code, denoting it as a religion within the 'other' category," reports the Indy.
www.anorak.co.uk/news.cfm?id=60319
- AP/CBS: Ask A Nosy Question... -
cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,314362-412,00.shtml
- Australian IT: Email urges vote 'Jedi' in census - Star Wars fans have mounted an email campaign to encourage people to nominate "Jedi" as their religion in the upcoming census on August 7. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons.
australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1887212%5e442,00.html
- BBC: Jedi e-mail revealed as hoax - Thousands of Britons receive an e-mail saying the Star Wars Jedi religion will be legally recognised if it has enough census mentions.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1271000/1271380.stm
- BBC: Jedi makes the census list - A campaign to get people to write the entry on their census forms has succeeded in the term being included on the list of religions for the 2001 UK census.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1589000/1589133.stm
- BBC: The gospel according to Luke (Skywalker) - You may be a fan of the Star Wars films, but are you a follower? Moves are afoot to have the fictitious Jedi philosophy the movies espouse recognised as a proper religion.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1204000/1204829.stm
- CNet: E-mail stunt empowers Jedi fans - Star Wars fans in the United Kingdom are stung by an e-mail suggesting that the forthcoming U.K. Census would recognize Jedi as a religion if enough people put it on the form.
news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5639097.html
- CNN.com: Power of Force Leads to Census Farce - More than 70,000 fans have upset Australia's statistics agency by identifying their religion as "Jedi" during the 2001 national census.
www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/27/australia.starwars.ap/index.html
- icSouthlondon: Jedi census reports not true - The Office for National Statistics is denying reports that people will be able to tick 'Jedi' as their religion on the next census form.
icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100national/page.cfm?objectid=11359762&method=full
- Jedi Master Am I Therefore Normal Rules of Grammar I Do Not Follow - Editorial about the census stunt by Andrew Rilstone.
www.aslan.demon.co.uk/jedi.htm
- Plastic: Matthew, Mark, Luke Skywalker And John -- Jedi Knight Religious Movement Takes New Zealand - According to BBC News, there is a movement in New Zealand to make the religion of the Jedi Knights into an officially recognized religion.
www.plastic.com/film/01/03/20/1822254.shtml
- Plastic: Reality Imitates Art -- 'Jedi Knights' Now Almost-Official Religion in the UK - Jedi Knight' is on the list of religions for the 2001 UK census. Apparently, sufficient numbers of people wrote it on their census forms that a code for the 'faith' (896) has been allocated for the census processing team to use.
www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/11/133203&mode=thread
- Register: UK Jedi get green light - The census form itself confirms that entering a frivolous faith therein will not result in an appearance before the courts. By Lester Haines.
www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/18448.html
- Register: Jedi Knights achieve official recognition as a religion - Jedi Knights have gained official recognition as a religion in the UK Census 2001. By Kieren McCarthy.
www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22113.html
- Register: May the false declaration be with you - On Sunday 29 April would-be Jedi Knights have a rare opportunity to achieve official recognition for their 'religion'. By Lester Haines.
www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/18203.html
- Savannah Now: Britons check off Jedi Knight when asked their religion on census form - When asked their religious affiliation on the 2001 census forms, many Britons are writing in "Jedi Knight," government officials said Wednesday.
www.savannahnow.com/stories/101101/LOCjedi.shtml
- Sunday Times: Jedi knights put their faith in the census - As the Office for National Statistics prepares to carry out its 10-yearly survey of the population, fans of the Jedi knights of Star Wars fame are hoping to use the census to win formal recognition of their faith. By Edin Hamzic.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/04/15/stinwenws03016.html
- Telegraph: Jedi Knights force way into census religion list - Jedi Knights, the galactic order of warriors from the Star Wars films, were celebrating a small victory last night in their campaign to be recognised as an official religion.
www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/11/njedi11.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/11/ixhome.html
- The Age: Fans use The Force against censor - Star Wars fans who want to formalise 'Jedi Knight' as a religion have taken their campaign direct to the census bureau.
www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2001/06/27/FFX6BHNZFOC.html
- The Age: Warning on Jedi email campaign - Thousands of Australians could face big fines if they participate in an email campaign to describe themselves as Jedi Knights on the upcoming official Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
www.theage.com.au/frontpage/2001/04/05/FFXV9CYD5LC.html
- The Jedi Religion - Rants/humor criticizing the arbitrary nature of state recognition of religion.
www.geocities.com/jedi_religion
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: Religion (Census Knight) - Can Australians or those in the U.K. make 'Jedi' a recognized religion in in their country by entering it as their religion on the 2001 census form? No.
www.snopes2.com/religion/jedi.htm
- Wired: Jedis Stand for the Census Count - To the frustration of the census managers in New Zealand, England, Wales and Australia, an e-mail saturating inboxes for the past couple of months just refuses to go away. By Kim Griggs.
www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44141,00.html
- ZDNet: Star Wars fans stung by Jedi email - Despite proving that the Internet is a genuinely unifying 'force', email stunt will not work. By Will Knight.
news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2085669,00.html
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