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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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-The '''general balance equation''' is a fundamental concept of [[chemical engineering]] which is based on the principals of [[conservation of mass]] and [[conservation of energy]]. The general balance equation states that the total or component mass or energy of any system can be modeled by:
+{{Essay By|HelpJazz}}
-:In - Out + Generation - Consumption = Accumulation
+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.
-The equation is used to describe and design almost every [[process unit]] within chemical engineering.
+==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.
-==Mass Balance==
+==Why Do We Need a Guideline?==
-When the general balance equation is applied to the mass of a component or of the entire system, it is called a ''mass balance''. Mass balances are the simplest forms of the general balance equation and one of the first forms a chemical engineer learns. One of the ways chemical engineers ensure their calculations on linked process units have been performed correctly is to perform a mass balance over the entire system.
-===Using Mass Balances===
+==Guidelines==
-Below is a general description of how to use mass balances for different situations.
+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
-====Steady State====
+==Exceptions and Rules of Thumb==
-If the system is at [[steady state]] then there are no terms which very over time. This means that the ''in'', ''out'', ''generation'', and ''consumption'' terms are constants, and the ''accumulation'' term is 0. Steady state can only be applied to [[flow systems]], or batch systems in which no changes are taking place. The mass balance for a steady state system is:
+===When Does Bias Matter?===
-:In - Out + Generation - Consumption = 0
-====Batch Systems====
+----
-A batch system is one in which all of the materials of the system are placed into a fixed vessel and left to react for an amount of time.
+'''''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.
-====Overall Mass Balance====
+==Plot==
-An ''overall mass balance'' is a mass balance which models all of the [[mass]] of the system, as opposed to the mass of one component of the system. Since mass can not be created or destroyed, the ''consumption'' and ''generation'' terms for an overall mass balance are 0. Thus the overall balance is shown by:
+The story follows the actions of Vito Corleone, the [[Italian-American]] boss of a [[New York City]] crime syndicate, and those of his family.
-:In - Out = Accumulation
+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
-If the system is also at steady state, then the the equation reduces to:
+==Awards==
-:In = Out
+==Sequels==
-Note that an overall mass balance can not be performed on a batch system.
-[[category:Chemical Engineering]]
+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).