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I received some communication from TheAmericanRedoubt (TAR). He is tackling an off wiki project right now. I believe he will be editing later this year. That is all the information I have right now. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 11:56, 4 February 2015 (EST)

I received some communication from TheAmericanRedoubt (TAR). He is tackling an off wiki project right now. I believe he will be editing later this year. That is all the information I have right now. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 11:56, 4 February 2015 (EST)

:*It's not the first time that [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt] took off for a considerable amount of time: after making hundreds of edits until mid-July 2014, he seized editing for three months.

:*It's not the first time that [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] took off for a considerable amount of time: after making hundreds of edits until mid-July 2014, he seized editing for three months.

:*I hope no one expects us to cope with eye-sores like [[Preparedness]] (Conservapedia's article with the most categories) for the next three months!

:*I hope no one expects us to cope with eye-sores like [[Preparedness]] (Conservapedia's article with the most categories) for the next three months!

:*I won't comb through the articles to which [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] contributed, but should I encounter something  like [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Orange_%28color%29&oldid=1127987 this], e.g., via [[Special:Random]], I will take action.  

:*I won't comb through the articles to which [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] contributed, but should I encounter something  like [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Orange_%28color%29&oldid=1127987 this], e.g., via [[Special:Random]], I will take action.  

::[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 22:42, 4 February 2015 (EST)

::[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 22:42, 4 February 2015 (EST)

:::Sometimes volunteers "bite off more than they can chew".  This happens a lot, because the higher priorities of life obligations get in the way of a volunteer's best intentions.  That is why projects like Conservapedia is a team effort -- so that others can pick up the slack when any volunteer has to step back.  TAR volunteered to take existing content from certain sources and to convert it into the proper form for Conservapedia articles.  1) Some of his conversions needed more work on the Manual of Style front. 2) Some of the article subjects are red links, but TAR has not have a chance to bring over the content to actually write the article.  3) TAR made red links for a number of essays, which have not yet been written or adapted from the other website.  4) TAR started a large number of new categories before he appreciated the tree structure of categories and those categories need to be repositioned corrected.  I estimate that it would take about a year of full time work to complete TAR's ambitious plan.

:::Sometimes volunteers "bite off more than they can chew".  This happens a lot, because the higher priorities of life obligations get in the way of a volunteer's best intentions.  That is why projects like Conservapedia are team efforts -- so that others can pick up the slack when any volunteer has to step back.  TAR volunteered to take existing content from certain sources and to convert it into the proper form for Conservapedia articles.  1) Some of his conversions needed more work on the Manual of Style front. 2) Some of his anticipated article subjects are red links, but TAR has not have a chance to bring over the content to actually write the article.  3) TAR made red links for a number of essays, which have not yet been written or adapted from the other website.  4) TAR started a large number of new categories before he appreciated the tree structure of categories and those categories need to be repositioned corrected.  I estimate that it would take about a year of full time work to complete TAR's ambitious plan.

:::Since TAR is unavailable for a while, the entire team needs to work out a plan for addressing all four areas.  While I am stepping back to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding, I would encourage the team to create a check list of items that need to be addressed. Once the plan is mapped out and approved, I would volunteer to do my share, if that was the consensus.  Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 23:28, 4 February 2015 (EST)

:::Since TAR is unavailable for a while, the entire team needs to work out a plan for addressing all four areas.  While I am stepping back to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding, I would encourage the team to create a check list of items that need to be addressed. Once the plan is mapped out and approved, I would volunteer to do my share, if that was the consensus.  Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 23:28, 4 February 2015 (EST)