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The Conservapedia Commandments state that we must "Always cite and give credit to your sources", though it does not instruct on the use of good sources. The Manual of Style similarly does not shed light on the subject. This essay attempts to define a good set of guidelines for the use of appropriate citation material on Conservapedia.

What Types of Sources are Currently Being Used?

Since there are currently no clear guidelines, the reference sections have every type of source imaginable, ranging from the main stream media and journal articles all the way down to forums, talk page comments and even comments left on blog posts.

Why Do We Need a Guideline?

Guidelines

Good

Journal articles and scholarly works
Mainstream media (break up into parts)
Primary sources (official websites)
Non-partisan secondary sources
Nonsholarly nonfiction (gray area)
Activist groups

Bad

Partisan online news sites
Blogs

Ugly

Forums or message boards
Any other CP page
Comments to blogs

Exceptions and Rules of Thumb

When Does Bias Matter?

The Godfather is novel by Mario Puzo written in 1969. In 1972 Francis Ford Coppola directed a movie of the same name based on the novel.

Plot

The story follows the actions of Vito Corleone, the Italian-American boss of a New York City crime syndicate, and those of his family.

Family meets with sollozo, sonny slips sollozo shoots vito to proposition sonny michael visits father, is hit by mccluskey Michael kills mccluskey and sollozo, hides in italy; war breaks out carlo beats connie to draw out sonny; sonny is killed, fredo heads west the Don arranges peace with the 5 families; michael is allowed home and marries kay michael arranges for the family to move to nevada vito dies of a heart attack, tessio arranges for a meeting with barzini (when?), meaning he is going to betray michael michael kills barzini and tattaglia, tessio and carlo kay discovers mike's deeds and converts to catholicism

Awards

Sequels

The film It was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the book of the same name by Mario Puzo. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and is considered to be one of the greatest American films of all time. The American Film Institute ranks The Godfather as the second-best movie of the last century, after Citizen Kane.

The film was followed by two sequels, The Godfather Part II (1974) (which also won Best Picture) and The Godfather Part III (1990) (which was nominated for Best Picture).

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-[[Image:CO2phase.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Phase diagram of CO<sub>2</sub>]]
+{{Essay By|HelpJazz}}
-A '''phase diagram''' is a graphical way of showing the [[physical state]] of a pure substance at varying [[pressure]]s and [[temperature]]s. As seen in the image to the right, a phase diagram is typically represented as a graph with temperature on the [[x-axis]] and pressure on the [[y-axis]].<ref name="atkins">Atkins, Peter and Julio de Paula. ''Physical Chemistry Volume 1, 8e.'' Oxford University Press: 2006.</ref>
-A phase diagram will always have a number of lines on it, representing a phase [[equilibrium]], that is, the set of temperatures and pressures at which one phase is in equilibrium with another phase. These lines are called [[phase boundary|phase boundaries]], and they section the area of the plot into the three phases of [[matter]] ([[solid]], [[liquid]], and [[gas]]) as well as the [[supercritical fluid]] region.<ref name="atkins" />
+The [[Conservapedia:Commandments|Conservapedia Commandments]] state that we must "Always cite and give credit to your sources", though it does not instruct on the use of good sources. The [[Conservapedia:Manual of Style#Citing Sources and Using Footnotes|Manual of Style]] similarly does not shed light on the subject. This essay attempts to define a good set of guidelines for the use of appropriate citation material on Conservapedia.
-Along with the phase boundaries, there are two important points on a phase diagram: the [[triple point]] and the [[critical point]]. The triple point is the unique temperature and pressure at which all three phases of matter coexist in equilibrium. The critical point defines the critical temperature (T<sub>c</sub>) and critical pressure (P<sub>c</sub>) above which the substance is a supercritical supercritical fluid.
+==What Types of Sources are Currently Being Used?==
+Since there are currently no clear guidelines, the reference sections have every type of source imaginable, ranging from the main stream media and journal articles all the way down to forums, talk page comments and even comments left on blog posts.
-==Other Types of Phase Diagrams==
+==Why Do We Need a Guideline?==
-While the pressure-temperature diagrams (PT diagrams) are useful for discerning the phase of a substance at certain operating conditions, other types of phase diagrams exist. For example, there are phase diagrams which describe the phase of a mixture of two compounds verses temperature. [[Metal]]lurgists also use a special type of phase diagram to describe solid-solid alloys, which have different "phases," or different ways the molecules [[crystal]]ize depending on the composition of the [[alloy]] at the temperature at which it is held.
+==Guidelines==
+Good
+*Journal articles and scholarly works
+*Mainstream media (break up into parts)
+*Primary sources (official websites)
+*Non-partisan secondary sources
+*Nonsholarly nonfiction (gray area)
+*Activist groups
+Bad
+*Partisan online news sites
+*Blogs
+Ugly
+*Forums or message boards
+*Any other CP page
+*Comments to blogs
+==Exceptions and Rules of Thumb==
+===When Does Bias Matter?===
+----
+'''''The Godfather''''' is novel by [[Mario Puzo]] written in 1969. In 1972 [[Francis Ford Coppola]] directed a movie of the same name based on the novel.
+==Plot==
+The story follows the actions of Vito Corleone, the [[Italian-American]] boss of a [[New York City]] crime syndicate, and those of his family.
+Family meets with sollozo, sonny slips
+sollozo shoots vito to proposition sonny
+michael visits father, is hit by mccluskey
+Michael kills mccluskey and sollozo, hides in italy; war breaks out
+carlo beats connie to draw out sonny; sonny is killed, fredo heads west
+the Don arranges peace with the 5 families; michael is allowed home and marries kay
+michael arranges for the family to move to nevada
+vito dies of a heart attack, tessio arranges for a meeting with barzini (when?), meaning he is going to betray michael
+michael kills barzini and tattaglia, tessio and carlo
+kay discovers mike's deeds and converts to catholicism
+==Awards==
+==Sequels==
+The film   It was directed by [[Francis Ford Coppola]] and based on the book of the same name by [[Mario Puzo]]. It won the [[Academy Award]] for Best Picture, and is considered to be one of the greatest American films of all time. The [[American Film Institute]] ranks ''The Godfather'' as the second-best movie of the last century, after ''[[Citizen Kane]]''.
+The film was followed by two sequels, ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (1974) (which also won Best Picture) and ''[[The Godfather Part III]]'' (1990) (which was nominated for Best Picture).