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One major difference between an article and a blog entry is that the author's personal opinions are downplayed in an article, in favor of known facts. An encyclopedia author distills the wisdom of the ages and the well-founded recent findings (discoveries) of modern times - and places it all in front of the readers, to satisfy their thirst for knowledge. | One major difference between an article and a blog entry is that the author's personal opinions are downplayed in an article, in favor of known facts. An encyclopedia author distills the wisdom of the ages and the well-founded recent findings (discoveries) of modern times - and places it all in front of the readers, to satisfy their thirst for knowledge. | ||
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| + | == See also == | ||
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| + | *[[How to write a Conservapedia article]] | ||
| + | *[[Getting Web Traffic to Conservapedia - Article Creation/Improvement Drive]] | ||
| + | *[[Article Improvement Drive/Archive1]] | ||
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This a proposal to improve Conservapedia or its policies and guidelines. It is not official, and does not have wide acceptance. Please regard it as tentative and formative.
An article, as part of an encyclopedia, tells the reader about a topic. It may cover an entire topic - and thus be comprehensive. It may, for the reader's convenience, be limited to a single aspect of the topic. Some articles are compendiums which treat several topics together, to show the relationships among them. At Wikipedia, this is called a "portal" article. One major difference between an article and a blog entry is that the author's personal opinions are downplayed in an article, in favor of known facts. An encyclopedia author distills the wisdom of the ages and the well-founded recent findings (discoveries) of modern times - and places it all in front of the readers, to satisfy their thirst for knowledge.