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| + | == re: Anthony Weiner article and also the issue of fighting between User: TheAmericanRedoubt and User: JDano == |
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| − | Be strong, be of good [[courage]], God Bless America, Long live the [[Republic]]. [[Blessing|God speed]] to everyone who accesses this page!
| + | TO: User: TheAmericanRedoubt and User: JDano |
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| − | [[File:Send_a_gun_to_a_British_home.jpg|thumb|right|[[Second Amendment]]-supporting [[American]] [[citizen]]s gifted their [[firearm]]s to [[gun free zone]]-[[gun control]] supporting British citizens during [[World War II]] via [[The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes]]]]
| + | As far as the Anthony Weiner article, I will admit that the term "gun grabbing" is not encyclopedic. Strong advocate of gun control or similar phraseology would be more appropriate. It is not appropriate to remove all references to his policy on guns. |
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| − | ==Back from my American Redoubt Permaculture Project==
| + | Second, making a big deal about his Jewish religion in the first 7 words of an article is not appropriate either. However, totally removing all references to his religion is not helpful either. While I am not a fan of Wikipedia, they typically list a politician's religious persuasion (Baptist, Presbyterian, Jewish, Muslim, atheism, etc.). I do think giving this information is helpful to readers. |
| − | I am back from my [[American Redoubt]]-based [[permaculture]] [[offgrid]] [[homesteading]] project I have been working on since March of last year and will be able to contribute again to Conservapedia with a focus on permaculture and my usual prepper interests. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] ([[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt|talk]]) 11:12, 23 January 2016 (EST) | |
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| − | ==Sources for Public Domain Pictures==
| + | User: JDano and User: TheAmericanRedoubt need to work more cooperatively. |
| − | I post this since I hope to soon be uploading several hundred [[:Category:Firearms]], [[:Category:Pro Second Amendment]], and [[:Category:Survivalism]] photos to enhance the SEO visibility of numerous new articles I will be creating in these categories. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 11:57, 17 January 2015 (EST)
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| − | === Public Domain pictures and pictures with generous copyright provisions===
| + | Due to time constraints, I am asking User: Karajou and the owner of this website to referee if necessary. I sincerely hope this is not necessary. You both seem to be intelligent individuals. Please start behaving more cooperatively. I know you are both capable of doing so. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 10:52, 1 April 2016 (EDT) |
| − | Flikr and [[Creative Commons]]:
| + | :I put this post on User: JDano's talk page: I was told by TAR that you are User: Wsacht or a member of a wiki that opposes this wiki. I told him that I thought this was not the case. Your terse comment on the talk page of the The Survival Blog article does not reassure me that TAR was not correct about this matter. You also seem a bit obsessed with TARs past editing. Again, I don't have the time or inclination to be a referee. Do your best to get along with TAR. I have told TAR to improve in some matters too (please see his talk page). I will also say that User: Wsacht used to put on a veneer of politeness, but when you did a little more investigation, it became apparent it was merely a veneer. I hope User: JDano is not a sock of User: Wsacht. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 11:20, 1 April 2016 (EDT) |
| − | * http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
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| − | * http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_identify_public_domain_creative_commons_photos_flickr.html
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| − | * http://www.sxc.hu/
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| − | Some other good sites for public domain images:
| + | == A few last comments == |
| − | * http://www.pdphoto.org
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| − | * http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/index.cfm
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| − | * http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/
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| − | * [[NASA]] and [[USGS]] photos are also in the public domain
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| − | * http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_use.htm
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| − | Source: Thanks to [[User:Conservative/sandboxfile]]
| + | I do think that hard times are coming (probably in about 15-20 years). So preparedness is a good thing. I know you got a lot of flack about this matter. I have always been fond of the Boy Scout motto though: "Be prepared". And I have never been fond of the Nannystate. |
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| + | Sorry to see you go. If you do change your mind, please keep what I said in mind as far as content formatting (not overdoing internal links, etc. ). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 17:12, 1 April 2016 (EDT) |
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| − | ==Comments==
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| − | In general, please keep your comments to a specific Talk Page about a specific article. Thank you. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 22:27, 10 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | == Important: Wiki policy related to Conservapedia's Manual of Style ==
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| − | The Conservapedia Style Guide has a policy (If it does not have this policy, I will create it after I do this edit) of one link to a particular article at Conservapedia within a given article.
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| − | For example, a gun related article can only have one link to Conservapedia's [[gun control]] article.
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| − | Why is this policy important?
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| − | Failure to follow this policy creates difficult to read link rich articles which are unappealing to the eye. And once your article is unappealing to the eye, people will quickly click off it. So a link rich article is self-defeating in terms of getting people to dig more deeply into a subject at a wiki. Furthermore, it will cause people to leave the website sooner rather than later.
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| − | In addition, most people judge a book by its cover. An unappealing looking article is assumed to be an inferior article by most people.
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| − | I removed about a dozen duplicate internal links from this article: [[Ammunition control]]. It looks better now, but it still needs much improvement as far as being too link rich. Please remove the duplicate links. For example, each state mentioned in the article (New York, California, etc.), should only have one link to its respective article at this wiki. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:12, 14 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | :The policy I am referring to is located at [http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Editing_article_and_talk_pages#Links Internal link policy]. Please take the time to read Conservapedia's [http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Editing_article_and_talk_pages Manual of Style].
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| − | :I hope this message to you is helpful. I would hate for you to lose the opportunity of gaining a loyal audience due to something that is easily avoidable.
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| − | :Please go through your key articles (your most important articles) and remove the link richness. You can remove the link richness in the other articles as you continue to edit them. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:21, 14 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | :: Thank you. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:33, 14 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | == Info you requested ==
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| − | *[http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Style-Fourth-Edition/dp/020530902X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition] by William Strunk Jr. (Author), E. B. White (Author),
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| − | *[http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417946335&sr=1-1&keywords=on+writing+well On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction] by William Zinsser
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| − | :: Just got them on Audible.com:
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| − | * http://www.audible.com/pd/Arts-Entertainment/On-Writing-Well-Audio-Collection-Audiobook/B002V8KQLC
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| − | * http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Development/The-Elements-of-Style-Recorded-Books-Edition-Audiobook/B002V1NRTW
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| − | Thanks. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 03:18, 14 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | == Layout of articles ==
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| − | The [[Conservapedia:Editing article and talk pages|Manual of style]] has a section on the layout of pages; in sequence, the final sections should be references, see also, and then external links. Just a heads up, considering your recent articles do not follow this progression. [[User:DanielJackson|DanielJackson]] 23:22, 14 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | :: Thank you for the headups, however, what you state is not correct necessarily. There are reasons for putting the "References" or "Notes" section last. If you do not, then sometimes, when you need to put a footnote on a "See Also" or on an "External Links" (as I sometime do), you will get an error message.
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| − | :: For the best guidance on a well-written article that follows the Conservapedia format and has a high visibility, please see one of our most popular articles [[atheism]]. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 23:35, 14 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | :::Problem solved. I appended the manual of style. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:06, 15 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | ::::Makes sense. Good explanation: [[Conservapedia:Editing_article_and_talk_pages#Layout]]. Thank you for the clarification. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 01:29, 15 February 2015 (EST)
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| − | == Image uploading ==
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| − | The uploading of copyrighted images is prohibited, unless consent from the copyright owner is obtained. [[Public domain]] images, or images available under a Creative Commons type of license, are preferred. Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:28, 7 February 2016 (EST)
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| − | :: Will do. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] ([[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt|talk]]) 16:27, 7 February 2016 (EST)
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| − | :::Thanks!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 17:52, 7 February 2016 (EST)
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| − | == Pages with an enormous amount of internal links with small amount of space between them. Pages with big see also sections ==
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| − | I think it great that you are adding content at Conservpaedia.
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| − | Please keep these things in mind:
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| − | 1. re: the article [[Vote with your feet]] and articles like this.
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| − | An internal article link to a Conservapedia article is a decision for people. Am I going to click this link or not. When you have a lot of internal links without much text between them, you are flooding people with a lot of decision at once. People don't like that.
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| − | In addition, it is unpleasing to the eye. Too much of anything on a page is not good. A Stanford study found that 50% of a web pages credibility is how it looks.
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| − | 2. Keep category tags very relevant to the articles at hand. Use them where a lot of people will clearly see the connection. Avoid category tags which tangential in nature and people are not apt to use.
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| − | 3. Please avoid category tag battles. A very small percentage of people use the tags. Battles over category tags don't make sense in terms of a cost/benefit ratio. The time spent arguing over them is just not worth it.
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| − | Focusing on making your content more informative, well-written and more pleasing to the eye (people do judge a book by its cover) is much more worth it. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:43, 31 March 2016 (EDT)
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| − | 4. Please avoid big "see also" section with a ton of links. (see #1 above). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:44, 31 March 2016 (EDT)
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| − | Right on. Thanks for the reminders. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] ([[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt|talk]]) 19:47, 31 March 2016 (EDT)
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