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Welcome!

Hello, Progressingamerica, and welcome to Conservapedia!

We're glad you are here to edit. We ask that you read our Editor's Guide before you edit.

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Thanks for reading, Progressingamerica!

--JoeyJ 11:05, 26 May 2014 (EDT)

Account promoted

I've enjoyed your edits, and your blog, and just added some new rights to your account. Please let me know if any additional rights, such as the ability to do early-morning editing, would be helpful.

The recent upgrade to the new WikiEditor makes references easier to add, by clicking the open-book button on the edit toolbar. If you have any questions, please let me know. Your approach in focusing on the Progressive Era is fascinating!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 17:36, 9 August 2015 (EDT)

Thanks Andy, I appreciate it. Progressingamerica (talk) 20:53, 27 August 2015 (EDT)

Restoring your edits from the data outage is a challenge! It may take me a few days, but I've made progress tonight. The data is not lost.--Andy Schlafly (talk) 21:52, 27 August 2015 (EDT)

All of your substantive edits from the data outage have been restored, as best I can tell. I learned a lot from your work in restoring them!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 16:59, 30 August 2015 (EDT)

Another account promotion

I just promoted your account to a higher level. Well done!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 00:49, 31 August 2015 (EDT)

When you block a user....

it's a good idea to look over their recent edits (they were the cause of the block, right?) and see if any of them inflicted damage on mainspace material, and revert same. SamHB (talk) 17:00, 7 September 2015 (EDT)

Olive branch petition

While I like what you have written, some aspects of the sentence style led me to do a Google search. Sections of the article appear to be copied verbatim from other sources, like the Encyclopedia Americana or some books by Charles Knight. (The Knight books appear to have been plagiarized later by Joseph Beale; it just never ends :-)

This doesn't bother me in the least; I think what you have written is fine. But you need to be aware that the administrators really want things to be in your own words.

SamHB (talk) 00:13, 10 September 2015 (EDT)

I've been reading more of your stuff, and I like it. As a Massachusetts resident, I'm very interested in, and proud of, the role we played in starting this nation. In fact, I wrote up an extensive series on the topic for Ameriwiki.

Joseph Warren: He's the guy who "pushed the button" that started the war. That is, he made the actual decision "The war starts tomorrow morning" and sent Dawes and Revere on their way.

Samuel Prescott: Why did he happen to be riding around in Lexington at 1:00 AM?

Paul Revere's boat: Where did the flannel strips that muffled the oars come from?

SamHB (talk) 00:33, 10 September 2015 (EDT)

I mixed many sources together with my own words, all of the sources in the public domain. That's primarily what I read. Can't trust modern history books. Besides, many *pedia articles start out from the Encyclopedia Britannica 1911, which is also outside of copyright. If you would like me to revert something, let me know.(or take the leap :-) Progressingamerica (talk) 00:43, 10 September 2015 (EDT)