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Conservapedia talk:Team contest (view source)
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, 20:57, July 12, 2007→[[ACE (baseball)]] and the contest
::You're missing the point of starting with these small glossary entries. Look at [http://www.marad.dot.gov/publications/glossary/P.html] and then look at [[Perils of the Sea]]; in writing it I discovered a great artist whose work I intend to write about, a movie I want to watch, articles we still need (piracy eg)... Yes, I can see why its easy to criticise the contest, but it '''IS''' adding value. WP incidentally doesn't have an entry on Perils of the Sea, more's the pity :( [[Image:User Fox.png]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] <small>([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]])</small> 16:45, 12 July 2007 (EDT)
::You're missing the point of starting with these small glossary entries. Look at [http://www.marad.dot.gov/publications/glossary/P.html] and then look at [[Perils of the Sea]]; in writing it I discovered a great artist whose work I intend to write about, a movie I want to watch, articles we still need (piracy eg)... Yes, I can see why its easy to criticise the contest, but it '''IS''' adding value. WP incidentally doesn't have an entry on Perils of the Sea, more's the pity :( [[Image:User Fox.png]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] <small>([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]])</small> 16:45, 12 July 2007 (EDT)
:::No, the point would be to start your research with such a glossary (for example) and then writing an article based on it. I fear we're talking of more than a thousand glossary stubs by now (since you lurk on Rati<!-- -->onalWiki, you most likely know of my June 23 list - I linked to it from the Team Contest article there - and the copy-pasting started earlier than even that), and their information value is LOW. It would have made WAY more sense to just make a huge (and public) list of sources and then encourage people to actually write articles about them instead of just mindlessly copying. Tell me, how many of your copied articles (86 during their first 12 hours of the contest alone) have you actually expanded with your own writing? How many will you expand? Or is this a case of "Not my problem, you do it if you feel it's lacking"?
:::At the same time, what is your comment on the below comment?
{{QuoteBox|Moreover, is copying OK to "kickstart" a project? No, of course not, especially when attribution is not prominently given for such wholesale copying. - ''Aschlafly 10:55, 2 April 2007 (EDT) on [[cp:User talk:Aschlafly/Archive12#Wikipedia article|his talk page]]''}}
:::This kinda looks conflicting to me. --[[User:Sid 3050|Sid 3050]] 16:57, 12 July 2007 (EDT)