Conservapedia:Contest4

The contest will run: Sunday January 13th @ 12p.m. - Sunday January 20th @ 12p.m.
The draft will occur Saturday

The purpose of the contest is to improve Conservapedia by tapping into the competitive side of our editors, fostering sportsmanship is also a goal.

Rules

In addition to the scoring guidelines below:

• No editor is allowed to artificially make a page wanted, then create it. To prevent this - all wanted pages will be listed on a page (to be created) before the contest starts, and only those will count as wanted pages throughout the competition.
• All editors must keep track of there score in a clear format: preferably:

==Type of Edit(Points the edit is Worth)(Number of this type made)==
links to diff (no organization necessary).

Participants

Judges

• BethanyS

Teams

Team 1		Team 2
Captain	BrianCo	Captain	Aschlafly
Members		Members
Team 1 Player 1 T1P2 T1P3 T1P4 T1P5 T1P6 ...		Team 2 Player 1 T2P2 T2P3 T2P4 T2P5 T2P6 ...

(The top 7 scorers on either team will qualify towards its point total.)

Interested Players

Please add your username if you want to participate for the draft.
[[User:example]]

1. User:Iduan
2. User:AngryCommunist
3. User:TheGuy
4. User:SharonS (Note: I will likely be extremely busy next week, and unable to edit as much as I formerly have.)
5. User:Aschlafly
6. User:BrianCo

Point System

New entry

Quality new entry: 15 points

• Definition:A Quality New Entry includes at least two full-length paragraphs, three relevant citations, several links to other entries, some in-depth content and designations of category.
• Exception: Entertainment-related* Quality New Entries will receive only 11 points.

Ordinary New Entry: 6 points

• Definition: An Ordinary New Entry is a new entry which does not meet the qualifications for a Quality New Entry, but is of higher quality than a Short New Entry.
• Exception: Entertainment-related* Ordinary New Entries will receive only 4 points.

Short New Entry: 4 points

• Definition: A Short New Entry contains only a few sentences and may or may not have a reference.
• Exception: Entertainment-related Short New Entries will receive only 3 points.

Copied New Entry: 2 points

• Definition: A entry copied from a public domain source such as .gov site - you MUST link to other articles and the article can not be of trivial nature (i.e. non-encyclopedic, non-educational or non-historical)

Existing entry

Quality edit of an existing entry: 6 points

• Definition: A Quality Edit to an existing article includes at least two extra sentences, an additional reference, and the inclusion of an important or relevant fact.
• Exception: Entertainment-related* Quality Edits will receive only 3 points.

Minor Edit of an existing entry: 3 points

• Definition: A Minor Edit is an edit which does not meet the qualifications for a Quality Edit. These edits might include small formatting changes, spelling and grammatical changes and/or the addition of a category.

Images

Adding an image: 2pts

• Definition: If you add an image to Conservapedia

Adding an image to an article: 2pts

• Note - if you add an image to Conservapedia - and then add it to an article, you get 3 points - not 4.

Templates

New Template: 3 points

• Definition: The template must have at least 6 links.

Redirects

Redirecting a Page: 1 point

• Definition: Redirecting any page - whether the page was something different or not.

Breaking News

Breaking News Item: 8 points

• Definition: A Breaking news item is placed on the Main page with wiki links to Conservapedia articles and a link to the external reference article.
• Exception: A non-administrator who submits an article to an administrator and the article is placed on the Main page will receive 5 point and the administrator will receive 3 points for adding the article and links. It is at the administrator's discretion whether to place the article on the Main page. Admins can not double their score.

Bonus Points

• An additional bonus of 3 points is awarded for adding a new entry on the "most-wanted" list, Special:Wantedpages
  • Note carefully: The entry must have been on the most-wanted list before the start of the contest.
• An additional bonus of 1 point is awarded for adding a link to an entry on the Special:Deadendpages, and thereby removing that entry from that list
• An edit to an existing entry may qualify as a New Entry if the edit is substantial enough.
• Adding a unique working link within a lecture: 2 points
• Adding a relevant photo to Breaking News will receive a 2 points bonus.
• Adding two new terms to American Government Terms: 1 point
• Blocking a vandal/sock/troll or reverting their vandalism: 2 points. Cannot be doubled in case of those with blocking abilities.

Notes

An entry is "entertainment-related" if it relates to a subject not taught as core curriculum in a typical high school or college. This includes articles on sports, popular music, movies, and other entertaining but not necessarily educational subjects.

• Exception: Full credit will be given for notable or important historical subjects, and for political entries.
• Exception: Full credit will be given for reasonable subjects which are educational but not necessarily taught in a typical school.