Anton LaVey (reference article)

The Wikipedia article on Anton LaVey is a community edited encyclopedic account of the founder of the Church of Satan, covering his self promoted biography, the church's 1966 founding and LaVey's own published writings including The Satanic Bible. Its strength is that a well developed Wikipedia article on a documented public figure of LaVey's notoriety draws together journalistic investigation and church sources into one accessible account, and it is specifically useful here because LaVey's own public claims about his early life, carnival work, lion taming, an affair with Marilyn Monroe, have been directly investigated and substantially debunked by biographers, a correction the article itself carries. Its limit is that Wikipedia is a continuously and anonymously editable reference rather than a peer reviewed source, so a claim resting on LaVey's actual theological system rather than his contested biography needs his own published writings or a dedicated scholarly study of the Church of Satan. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/