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'''Conservapedia''', launched on November 21, 2006, is a [[conservative]], [[family-friendly]] [[Wiki]] [[encyclopedia]].  It was founded by [[teacher]] and [[attorney]] [[Andrew Schlafly]] with the help of several students from his fall 2006 World History class.

'''Conservapedia''', launched on November 21, 2006, is a [[conservative]], [[family-friendly]] [[Wiki]] [[encyclopedia]].  It was founded by [[teacher]] and [[attorney]] [[Andrew Schlafly]] with the help of several students from his fall 2006 World History class.

When a student handed in her paper using the date-markers “[[BCE]]” and "CE” from [[Wikipedia]], Schlafly realized that Wikipedia, despite its claim of neutrality, contained bias against the achievements of [[Christianity]] and conservatism.  Other occasions of [[liberal bias]], including the reversion of factual edits about an [[evolution]] case, led to the creation and launch of Conservapedia.  Apparently, these concerns of bias far superceded any of the more common issues surrounding Wikipedia, namely that anyone (regardless of credentials or education) could edit Wikipedia, that the website was not peer reviewed, or any of the other myriad reasons that academics--liberal or conservative alike--roundly reject Wikipedia as a reliable source for anything whatsoever.  This stance is reinforced even by the founders of Wikipedia themselves, who say that citing Wikipedia in any academic sense is embarassing and "not acceptable for any college-level paper,"<ref>http://media.www.marquettetribune.org/media/storage/paper1130/news/2006/02/16/News/Wikipedia.n.An.Unreliable.Source-2625322.shtml</ref>, but for Andy Schafly, these trivial concerns about academic, scholastic, and truthful matters are not as important as the letters that sometimes come after numbers.

When a student handed in her paper using the date-markers “[[BCE]]” and "CE” from [[Wikipedia]], Schlafly realized that Wikipedia, despite its claim of neutrality, contained bias against the achievements of [[Christianity]] and conservatism.  Other occasions of [[liberal bias]], including the reversion of factual edits about an [[evolution]] case, led to the creation and launch of Conservapedia.   

Though Conservapedia originally contained mostly [[history]] articles, it has grown over two years to be a general reference, with information about history, [[math]], [[science]], [[politics]], [[religion]] and other topics.  It also contains [[Conservapedia:Debate Topics|debates]], [[essays]] and [[Conservapedia:Index|educational resources]].

Though Conservapedia originally contained mostly [[history]] articles, it has grown over two years to be a general reference, with information about history, [[math]], [[science]], [[politics]], [[religion]] and other topics.  It also contains [[Conservapedia:Debate Topics|debates]], [[essays]] and [[Conservapedia:Index|educational resources]].

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