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Revision as of 14:38, July 19, 2007

This is a general guide to editing on Conservapedia, with particular reference to ways that Conservapedia differs to what editors may be used to on other sites using Wiki software.

Some of these peculiarities are due to Conservapedia being the focus of myriad vandals wanting to undermine or destroy the conservative point of view.

We recommend that you include this page on your watchlist (click the "Watch" tab above) so that you can be alerted to updates to this page.

Terms explained
  • Administrators, also known as sysops, are editors with the ability and authority to enforce Conservapedia's rules and resolve disputes.
  • Bureaucrats are Administrators with the additional ability to change user rights.

Purpose

Conservapedia is a Wiki-based encyclopedia coming from a conservative point of view, and does not pretend to be neutral, but does strive to be accurate and fair, and allow other points of view. It is also designed to be a useful resource for students and therefore a family-friendly one, which means that some topics will not be allowed.

Rules governing use

The Commandments and guidelines govern your conduct on Conservapedia.

The Commandments and guidelines are deliberately kept brief, and the administrators have broad discretion to protect pages from editing and block or ban editors for defying the spirit as well as the letter of the Commandments and guidelines.

We also recommend that you read up on Editing Etiquette.

If you get blocked

If you get blocked and believe the action to be unfair, do not create a new account to protest it. Rather, use one of the following methods to appeal the decision (listed in order of preference).

  1. Contact the Administrator who blocked you (see below).
  2. Contact another Administrator.
  3. Email webmaster@conservapedia.com giving the name of the Administrator who blocked you, and the date, and it will be forwarded on to them.

If you can't wait for the Administrator to get back to you and you do contact more than one, please do them the courtesy of letting them know who else you have tried contacting.

Contacting an Administrator can usually be done by one of the following methods:

  • Use the "Email this user" link in the toolbox. This, however, will only work if both you and the Administrator have enabled this on your/their respective accounts.
  • The Administrator may have provided an email address or other contact information (e.g. AIM) on their user page.

Restrictions

  • Moving (renaming) pages
The ability to move (rename) pages is only available to Administrators. Please ask one if you would like a page moved.
  • Creating new "Categories"
While this is sometimes needed, before undertaking larger projects that will have ramifications for many existing articles, please contact one of the Administrators on their talk page, and inform them of your idea.
  • Uploading images
The ability to upload images has been restricted.
In addition, all images have been protected from editing, to prevent vandals uploading replacing existing images with offensive images.
  • Editing overnight (U.S. time)
The ability to edit any page is sometimes restricted while it is night-time in the U.S.

The right to upload images and to edit while editing is turned off can be granted to editors with a proven good record. See User rights for more information.

Templates

Conservapedia requires that all templates that you create are properly documented.

  • See here for basic instructions for creating templates, and also for how templates are to be documented on Conservapedia.
  • See here for instructions on how to use templates, if you are not already familiar with them.

See also