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The Conservapedia Commandments state that we must "Always cite and give credit to your sources", though it does not instruct on the use of good sources. The Manual of Style similarly does not shed light on the subject. This essay attempts to define a good set of guidelines for the use of appropriate citation material on Conservapedia.

What Types of Sources are Currently Being Used?

Since there are currently no clear guidelines, the reference sections have every type of source imaginable, ranging from the main stream media and journal articles all the way down to forums, talk page comments and even comments left on blog posts.

Guidelines

Good

• Journal articles and scholarly works
• Mainstream media (break up into parts)
• Primary sources (official websites)
• Non-partisan secondary sources
• Nonsholarly nonfiction (gray area)
• Activist groups

Bad

• Partisan online news sites
• Blogs

Ugly

• Forums or message boards
• Any other CP page
• Comments to blogs

Exceptions and Rules of Thumb

When Does Bias Matter?

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The Godfather is novel by Mario Puzo written in 1969. In 1972 Francis Ford Coppola directed a movie of the same name based on the novel.

Plot

The story follows the actions of Vito Corleone, the Italian-American boss of a New York City crime syndicate, and those of his family.

Family meets with sollozo, sonny slips sollozo shoots vito to proposition sonny michael visits father, is hit by mccluskey Michael kills mccluskey and sollozo, hides in italy; war breaks out carlo beats connie to draw out sonny; sonny is killed, fredo heads west the Don arranges peace with the 5 families; michael is allowed home and marries kay michael arranges for the family to move to nevada vito dies of a heart attack, tessio arranges for a meeting with barzini (when?), meaning he is going to betray michael michael kills barzini and tattaglia, tessio and carlo kay discovers mike's deeds and converts to catholicism

Sequels

The film It was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the book of the same name by Mario Puzo. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and is considered to be one of the greatest American films of all time. The American Film Institute ranks The Godfather as the second-best movie of the last century, after Citizen Kane.

The film was followed by two sequels, The Godfather Part II (1974) (which also won Best Picture) and The Godfather Part III (1990) (which was nominated for Best Picture).