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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)

Excellent block and reverts

Superb block and reversion of the edits earlier today!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 11:28, 28 September 2015 (EDT)

Stealth leftists

There appears to be at least one or possibly two leftists pretending to be conservatives on pages I've edited. I'm not sure if they are George Soros hirlings working for Media Matters or Center for American Progress (CAP) or whatever but fake conservatives need to go otherwise they'll do a great deal of damage to the project.Joshmowe (talk) 01:20, 5 October 2015 (EDT)

Its not readily apparent which user/which edit you are referring to. Progressingamerica (talk) 15:37, 5 October 2015 (EDT)

Uploading historical photos

Your account has been upgraded so that you can upload historical photos. Any (unaltered) photo before 1923 is in the public domain and can be copied freely from other sites, preferably with attribution. Any photo after 1923 needs confirmation that it may be copied, with attribution. Try to avoid any images that are larger than 500k in size, or please shrink their data file size first. Congratulations on your additional rights!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 19:27, 17 October 2015 (EDT)

Thanks, I uploaded one as a test.

Perfect! Well done. Please upload more images like that, for placement in entries.--Andy Schlafly (talk) 00:20, 18 October 2015 (EDT)

Excellent block

Superb block and reversions this morning!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 09:43, 11 November 2015 (EST)

Problem

Jpatt just blocked a vandal. And you did just now. What could we do about these vandals who create accounts and only harm Conservapedia?U.U (talk) 23:00, 30 January 2016 (EST)

It might be the same person considering that the troll accounts were occurring back to back. I'm not sure there's much we can do but wait for someone to create a new account and see how they edit, as a show of good faith. I don't believe the intent is for Conservapedia to become a walled garden that nobody can get into. That the create new login function has remained left open indicates that more editors are desired. I for one think that an increase in the amount of routine editors would be a good thing.

As a forward thinking suggestion, I have thought to myself about the capability of the Wiki software that Andy is using to power the site, and if it can do post limits for new accounts. A one-edit-per-half-hour limit for brand new accounts would be extremely beneficial for automated troll busting. I do not know if the software can do it or not. Progressingamerica (talk) 23:16, 30 January 2016 (EST)

Vandal

A vandal on the loose. [1] I have told DavidB4, Jpatt, and Ashalfly.U.U (talk) 02:34, 27 February 2016 (EST)

He, Rahulbrown, and Josephkocher might also be one and the same person. U.U (talk) 02:41, 27 February 2016 (EST)

Conservapedia's web traffic is up

Conservapedia is one of the top 100,000 websites in the world as far as web traffic according to the web traffic tracking company Alexa,[2]

Thank you for all your contributions.

Conservapedia continues to receive millions of page views per month.Conservative (talk) 17:59, 19 April 2016 (EDT)

Account privileges

Your account privileges have been promoted to include "move" and "protect/unprotect" rights. Congratulations!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 18:08, 22 June 2016 (EDT)