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[[Image:Banhammer2.jpg|thumb|600px|right|'''HelpJazz''' is hereby awarded the prestigious & coveted '''Banhammer''' barnstar  for tireless vigilance against "rational" and irrational vandals & trolls!]]
  
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<small>Archives: [[/archive 01|01]] [[/archive 02|02]]
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<big>'''About Me'''</big>
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*I am a [[libertarian]], and very much so!
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**Actually, I'm a social and economic [[conservative]]. The difference between me and most conservatives is not what I believe, but where I think the government should step in for my beliefs.
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**Feel free to ask me about my positions. I love talking politics with open-minded, rational people
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*In 2008 I graduated from [[Bucknell University]] with a [[bachelor of science]] degree in [[chemical engineering]]. Now I'm a financial analyst at a commercial door company.
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**I was at one point pursuing a minor in [[political science]]
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***I have a good working base of political science, political theory and [[international politics]]
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**I also have taken courses in [[economics]], [[logic]], and [[probability]]
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**Now my work life revolves around [[Microsoft Excel]].
  
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I have made over 10,000 edits to Conservapedia.
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<Big>'''My Editing Philosophy'''</big>
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#Noncontroversial edits are ''usually'' ok
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#I will always follow the [[Conservapedia:Guidelines|Guidelines]] and [[Conservapedia:Commandments|Commandments]] (G&C)
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#I will attempt to make all articles follow the G&C, and encourage other editors to do likewise
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#Essay pages are opinion
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#Mainspace pages are fact
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#''No [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User:Aziraphale/Tilting_at_Windmills&oldid=296120 tilting at windmills]!
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#I will not treat someone's work differently because of their "status"; this is a community project
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#I will not revert anything added to a talk page, unless a user swears or edits another user's words
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#The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a new result
  
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<span class="plainlinks">[[Special:Contributions/Ed Poor|Contribs]] • <font color="002bb8">[{{fullurl:Special:Log/block|user={{urlencode:Ed Poor}}}} Blocks]</font> • <font color="002bb8">[{{fullurl:Special:Log/protect|user={{urlencode:Ed Poor}}}} Protects]</font> • <font color="002bb8">[{{fullurl:Special:Log/delete|user={{urlencode:Ed Poor}}}} Deletions]</font> </span>
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<big>'''Pet Peeves'''</big>
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(In no particular order)
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#Plagiarism is the use of another's words as one's own without giving proper credit. This is true even if you "paid for it" and have permission to use it
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#Selected examples do ''not'' prove a trend. If you want to show that "most people do X" by example, you can never prove your point with examples
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#Don't use "literally" if you mean "figuratively". Don't use "literally" if there's no figurative way to take what you say.
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#Improper use of political lables. "Conservative" may, in most cases, be the opposite of "liberal", but there are numerous other ideologies which don't line up on a 1-dimentional scale!
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#Improper use of numbers! (P(BC|Ab)>P(BC|P) does not imply that P(BC|Ab)>P(BC)!!)
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#"Ironic" means that something happened opposite to what you expect to happen. A woman getting hit and killed by a sugar truck is sad. A diabetic woman getting hit and killed by a sugar truck is coincidence. A diabetic woman getting hit and killed by an ''insulin'' truck is ironic.
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#Finding "please add more" on a wiki page. For one, lists rarely make a good article (and often contribute to pet peeve #2); additionally, all wikis are works in progress, so there's always an implied assumption to add more to an article.
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#More to come <!-- now *that* is ironic humor -->
  
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==Favorite Contributors==
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<big>'''Useful Links'''</big>
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*[[User:ATang]]
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*[[User:Philip J. Rayment/Article renaming project]]
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*[[Conservapedia:Desk]]
  
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==About yours truly==
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<small>Subs: [[/chemredlinks]], [[/Contest]], [[/refs]], [[/workspace]], [[/chemeng]], [[/templates]], [[/irg]]
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I am a SYSOP on this site, elected unanimously by the student board on my 6th day here.
 
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True wikis have simple, clear rules. Otherwise it is a mobocracy.
 
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Number of times my user page has been vandalized: 5
 
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I started learning [[PHP]] {{age in days|month1=5|day1=19|year1=2007}} days ago. And I got hired as a webmaster 2 weeks ago.
 
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{{User talk self}}
 
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Q: Is this your personal blog, or what?!
 
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A: No, but it just so happens that nearly every word I type, link I create, article or template I start - gains instant and widespread acceptance.
 
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Q: Isn't that a bit arrogant?
 
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A: Okay, I guess you're right. Perhaps I should be more humble.
 
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==Wikipedia and Conservapedia==
 
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There was a time when Wikipedia was a [[meritocracy]], and I rose rapidly through the ranks then. I got Jimbo to create the Mediation and Arbitration committees, so he wouldn't have to be the sheriff all the time. I became the first elected bureaucrat, and pioneered the system whereby admins could enforce rules without having to take everything before a committee.
 
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But I didn't see the [[anti-elitism]] creeping up and choking the life out of the place. [[Larry Sanger]] was right.
 
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My only worry about Conservapedia is that it '''might''' make the equal and opposite mistake; it has certainly been accused of it, hundreds of times. But senior staff have been amazingly tolerant of opposing ideas here so far and I reason to hope they will continue to do so.
 
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==Recent ideas and/or articles==
 
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*[[Identity, democratic polity and the writing of reliable articles]]
 
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*[[Honor killing]], [[female genital mutilation]], et al.
 
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*[[hate speech]]
 
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*[[mental illness]]
 
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*[[Ann Coulter]] - must add her thoughts re: liberals
 
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**[[Godless (book)]]
 
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*"why are Jews so successful" - need a good title for this
 
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*[[Todd Beamer]] - 9/11 hero
 
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*[[exorcism]]
 
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===Not started yet===
 
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*[[fact and conclusion]] - what's the difference?
 
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**[[theory and fact]] - ditto
 
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*Hollywood movies sometimes show homosexual men or boys taking a harmless "Cupid" role to help solidify a budding heterosexual relationship.
 
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*[[carbon offsets]]
 
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*[[Arthur Robinson]] - Christian, scientist, home school advocate
 
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*[[Colin Ferguson]] - LIRR shooter
 
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*[[Values clarification]]
 
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*[[junk pyramid]] - the illicit drug trade
 
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===Last 9 created===
 
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*[[Flight 327]]
 
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*[[Don Rickles]]
 
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*[[Mimesis]]
 
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*[[Assault on Reason]]
 
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*[[Honesty is the best policy]]
 
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*[[Scott Peck]]
 
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*[[An Inconvenient Truth]]
 
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*[[Values clarification]]
 
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*[[Huckleberry Finn]]
 
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==Etc.==
 
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My interests include history, religion, and science.
 
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I've also taught SAT math prep, so if your article has any errors in arithmetic or statistics, prepare for a shock. I might just delete your entire contribution.
 
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I'm also pretty good at science, logic, history, etc.
 
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If you have any trouble on the site, a question about my edits/blocks/redirects/protects etc. please post on my talk page or email me and I will address them ASAP. I am open to working with everyone who demonstrates a genuine will to improve this site through their work.
 
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{{user|Ed Poor}}
 
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==Subpages==
 
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[[/devil]]
 
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[[/evolution]]
 
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[[/coulter]]
 
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==NPOV==
 
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Here are the most commonly violated principles of neutral editing at Wikipedia:
 
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* It is inappropriate to remove blocks of well-referenced information which is germane to the subject from articles on the grounds that the information advances a point of view. Wikipedia's NPOV policy contemplates inclusion of all significant points of view.
 
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* Wikipedia's neutral point-of-view (NPOV) policy contemplates inclusion of all significant points of view regarding any subject on which there is division of opinion.
 
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* Wikipedia articles should contain information regarding the subject of the article; they are not a platform for advocacy regarding one or another point of view regarding the topic. Sweeping generalizations which label the subject of an article as one thing or another are inappropriate and not a substitute for adequate research regarding details of actual positions and actions which can speak for themselves.
 
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*Injection of personal viewpoints regarding the subject of an article is inappropriate and not to be resolved by debate among the editors of an article, but referenced from reputable outside resources. See [[Wikipedia:No original research]] and [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]].
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a soapbox|Wikipedia is not a soapbox]] or a vehicle for [[propaganda]] advocacy or [[advertising]].
 
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*A strong point of view expressed elsewhere on a subject does not necessarily mean POV-pushing editing on Wikipedia; that can only be determined by the edits to Wikipedia.
 
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* Unexplained deletions of portions of controversial articles are unacceptable.
 
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I am on probation at Wikipedia for trying to point out some of these problems and just might get my account blocked! :-)
 
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Use Google to search for ''Ed Poor probation''
 
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[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ed+Poor+probation]
 
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==New Pages==
 
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Last 48 articles I started:
 
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#[[Drew Barrymore]]
 
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#[[Cinderella]]
 
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#[[Education]]
 
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#[[The Standard Deviations of Writing]]
 
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#[[Islamist]]
 
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#[[Bobby Darin]]
 
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#[[Humiliation]]
 
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#[[User contributions]]
 
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#[[Mosaic]]
 
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#[[Alice Miller]]
 
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#[[Gavin de Becker]]
 
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#[[Outer space]]
 
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#[[Corporal punishment]]
 
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#[[Seung-Hui Cho]]
 
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#[[Conscience]]
 
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#[[Human nature]]
 
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#[[Healing]]
 
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#[[Universalist]]
 
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#[[Media Matters for America]]
 
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#[[Ave Maria]]
 
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#[[Alpha male]]
 
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#[[Peter principle]]
 
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#[[Murphy's law]]
 
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#[[Biologist]]
 
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#[[How do Wikipedians see Conservapedia]]
 
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#[[Abortion controversy]]
 
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#[[Wikipedia:Writing for the enemy]]
 
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#[[Flying machine]]
 
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#[[Anthropogenic global warming theory]]
 
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#[[Debate:Is waterboarding torture]]
 
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#[[Drunk driving]]
 
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#[[Scrabble]]
 
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#[[Martyr]]
 
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#[[Monopoly (board game)]]
 
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#[[Mass murder]]
 
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#[[Narnia]]
 
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#[[Terms to avoid]]
 
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#[[Edit conflict]]
 
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#[[General Theory of Evolution]]
 
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#[[Ich bin ein Berliner]]
 
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#[[Instant messaging]]
 
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#[[Runaway greenhouse effect]]
 
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#[[Kyoto Protocol]]
 
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#[[Air pollution]]
 
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#[[Rahab]]
 
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#[[Primate (church)]]
 
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#[[Slamming the door]]
 
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#[[Wikipedia:POV pushing]]
 
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#[[Right to life movement]]
 
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#[[Saline abortion]]
 
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#[[Comfort women]]
 
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#[[Silent scream]]
 
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#[[Speech codes]]
 
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#[[Balint Vazsonyi]]
 
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#[[Usage]]
 
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#[[Theory and fact]]
 
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#[[Rastafarianism]]
 
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#[[Wiki way]]
 
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#[[Red link]]
 
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#[[The word]]
 
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#[[Getting Better]]
 
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#[[Brian Mitchell]]
 
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#[[How to write a Conservapedia article]]
 
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#[[Unguided evolution]]
 
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#[[Fidelity]]
 
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#[[Conscientious objector]]
 
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#[[National Center for Science Education]]
 
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#[[Infrared]]
 
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#[[I Have a Dream]]
 
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#[[Paul Simon]]
 
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#[[Political spectrum]]
 
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#[[Infinity]]
 
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#[[Equality]]
 
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#[[Trawl]]
 
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#[[Orbit]]
 
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#[[Deduction]]
 
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#[[Sit-ins at lunch counters]]
 
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#[[Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks]]
 
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#[[Diane Ravitch]]
 
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#[[George Carlin]]
 
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#[[Donkey]]
 
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#[[The Manchurian Candidate]]
 
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#[[Wolves]]
 
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#[[Suffolk Punch]]
 
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#[[Manure]]
 
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#[[Riders of the Purple Sage]]
 
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#[[The Family Man]]
 
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#[[Brainwashing]]
 
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#[[Frank Sinatra]]
 
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#[[To Sir, With Love]]
 
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#[[Strider]]
 
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#[[Hate]]
 
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#[[Methods of contraception]]
 
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#[[Fornication]]
 
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#[[Idiot]]
 
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#[[Blood type]]
 
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#[[The Paradoxical Commandments]]
 
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Latest revision as of 19:14, September 6, 2016

HelpJazz
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5,500 This user has made over 5,500 edits to Conservapedia
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This user supports an autonomous collective as the rightful leader of Conservapedia.
HelpJazz is hereby awarded the prestigious & coveted Banhammer barnstar for tireless vigilance against "rational" and irrational vandals & trolls!

About Me

My Editing Philosophy

  1. Noncontroversial edits are usually ok
  2. I will always follow the Guidelines and Commandments (G&C)
  3. I will attempt to make all articles follow the G&C, and encourage other editors to do likewise
  4. Essay pages are opinion
  5. Mainspace pages are fact
  6. No tilting at windmills!
  7. I will not treat someone's work differently because of their "status"; this is a community project
  8. I will not revert anything added to a talk page, unless a user swears or edits another user's words
  9. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a new result

Pet Peeves (In no particular order)

  1. Plagiarism is the use of another's words as one's own without giving proper credit. This is true even if you "paid for it" and have permission to use it
  2. Selected examples do not prove a trend. If you want to show that "most people do X" by example, you can never prove your point with examples
  3. Don't use "literally" if you mean "figuratively". Don't use "literally" if there's no figurative way to take what you say.
  4. Improper use of political lables. "Conservative" may, in most cases, be the opposite of "liberal", but there are numerous other ideologies which don't line up on a 1-dimentional scale!
  5. Improper use of numbers! (P(BC|Ab)>P(BC|P) does not imply that P(BC|Ab)>P(BC)!!)
  6. "Ironic" means that something happened opposite to what you expect to happen. A woman getting hit and killed by a sugar truck is sad. A diabetic woman getting hit and killed by a sugar truck is coincidence. A diabetic woman getting hit and killed by an insulin truck is ironic.
  7. Finding "please add more" on a wiki page. For one, lists rarely make a good article (and often contribute to pet peeve #2); additionally, all wikis are works in progress, so there's always an implied assumption to add more to an article.
  8. More to come

Useful Links

Subs: /chemredlinks, /Contest, /refs, /workspace, /chemeng, /templates, /irg

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