Conservapedia:Editing article and talk pages

The Conservapedia Manual of Style contains standardized information regarding how to edit pages on Conservapedia. This helps keep a consistent tone in most articles.

Creation of a new article

At Conservapedia it is easy to create a new article as can be seen by our resource: How to create a new article.

When you create a new article, please do one or both of the following so people can find your article:

• Link your article from one or more other articles as appropriate.
• Put one or more Category tags at the bottom of your article, preferably for a category that already exists.

Persons

To facilitate the the alphabetization of individuals, add {{DEFAULTSORT: Surname, Given Middle}} to an article. In this format, Surname, Given and Middle are placeholders. The placeholder Surname is the person's last name, and the placeholder Given is the person's given name or Christian name in the case of individuals baptized into the Christian faith. Middle is optional, and can either be the complete middle name or an initial. Names of individuals with multiple or concatenated last names should substitute whatever is appropriate to generate correct the alphabetical listing for surname. E.g., Hillary Rodham Clinton should be {{DEFAULTSORT: Rodham Clinton, Hillary}} and Vicente Fox Quesada should be {{DEFAULTSORT: Fox Quesada, Vicente}}.

Article Name

The article name should be at or very close to the start of the article, and this use of it should be in bold. See the first line of this page for an example.

What Not To Include In Articles

The inclusion of sexual orientation in a biography is generally prohibited due to the Commandment against gossip. In the rare instance where the subject himself has publicly insisted that his sexuality is important, then the subject's own quotes are necessary as a source.

Date style

• The style "July 4, 1776" is preferred.
• If the day of the week is involved, e.g., "Sunday, December 7, 1941", the comma after the day of the week is optional ("Sunday December 7, 1941" is allowed).
• US Military style is tolerated in context: "4 July 1776".
• If it is necessary for clarity to show the era of the year, Always use BC and AD (as opposed to BCE and CE). See Anno Domini for a full discussion.

Check spelling

Always use correct spelling. All recent browsers, as with Google, can be equipped with spelling checkers that integrate directly into the browser. If you have one of the following browsers, please download the spelling checker at the link provided:

• Internet Explorer - download at iespell
• Opera - download at GNU Aspell
• Mozilla Firefox - download at Spellbound or update to the latest version of Firefox, which has a built-in spelling checker.

Bad spelling doesn't inspire confidence in your article.

Spelling

• American English spellings are preferred but Commonwealth spellings, for de novo or otherwise well-maintained articles are welcome, and edit wars over the subject are seriously discouraged. The context of the article should help resolve edit wars; an article about Britain would use Commonwealth spelling, while an article about the United States would use American English.

Names

The country between Canada and Mexico should be referred to as "United States" or "United States of America", not simply "US" or "U.S."

Citing Sources and Using Footnotes

Always cite and give credit to your sources, even if in the public domain. Please do not cite wikis as sources, except when specifically talking about that wiki. If you come across an article or section without citations we prefer for you to leave a message on the contributors discussion page, asking for them. If no response is given, you can add them yourself, or put {{Uncited}} at the top of the article as a last resort.

Please also see: Conservapedia: footnotes - technical help

Uncited Material at Conservapedia

Completely Unicited Article or Completely Uncited Section of an Article

If you see a article or section of an article that is completely uncited please feel free to put a uncited tag on that particular article or section of an article. Also, when placing a uncited tag on a article or section, please feel free to send the person or persons who wrote that section a friendly and gentle reminder regarding the uncited material plus a friendly thank you for contributing to Conservapedia. Having cited material helps insure that Conservapedia material is true and verifiable plus it provides a resource so readers can found more information on a subject.

Here is the tag you use to indicate a article or section of an article in uncited and please place it at the top of the article that is completely uncited or at the top of the section of the article that is completely uncited:

{{uncited}}

Uncited Sentence

If a sentence needs to be cited please uses the "fact" template at the end of the sentence.

Here is the fact template and please place it at the end of the uncited sentence:

{{fact}}

Discussion page

Conservapedia: Discussion page - technical help

Other Topics

Conservapedia:Manual of Style/Politicians