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Authorization by NYT Best-Selling Conservative Christian Preparedness Author James Wesley Rawles to use "up to 3 Quotes of 800 Words Each" of his Writings per CP Article

Good news User:Conservative is that I was discussing on e-mail today with James Wesley Rawles to get his permission to use a larger than normal "fair use" amount of his authoritative source materials to build some good quality articles on a variety of Conservative-related topics. He is the most respected and popular New York Times best selling author/consultant in the field of Preparedness (from a Conservative Christian perspective with 7 books authored). 'He gave me the go ahead: "You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles." That's 2400 words of great source material with me writing a wrapper around it and integrating other materials plus all the Wiki-link work and formatting following the CP Conservapedia:Manual of Style.' (See below for the actual e-mail authorization.)

Mr. Rawles site's The Survival Blog is amazingly detailed and has received almost '71 million unique visits since July 2005. That's more than 320,000 unique visits per week.' SurvivalBlog it is considered the Internet’s premier source of information on family preparedness and survival topics.

'He is a big fan of Conservapedia and links to it where possible, doing his best to avoid the "LiberalPropagandaPedia".' Here is more info: http://survivalblog.com/archivecd. According to Google there are more than 142,000 results for "SurvivalBlog.com".

'These articles will definitely help draw a new audience to Conservapedia.' TheAmericanRedoubt 16:17, 30 December 2014 (EST)

Glad to hear your good news. In terms of creating an online encyclopedia resource related to survivalism and sub topics related to survivalism, I am guessing you will be able to surpass Wikipedia in terms of the quality/quantity of information that is provided. Conservative 16:28, 30 December 2014 (EST)

Most definitely. And as Jack Spirko of the Survival Podcast (with more than 500,000 daily listeners as of December 2014) has said on a recent podcast, his audience is almost entirely conservative. Same with that of James Wesley Rawles and most other preppers. TheAmericanRedoubt 17:00, 30 December 2014 (EST)

2400 Words Quotes from James Wesley Rawles Works

In general (for non-Conservapedia editors), James Wesley Rawles , founder/owner of The Survival Blog has suggested 800 words seems to be a reasonable and commonplace except/quoting amount for Fair Use (See Important Fair Use Provisos)

However, for editors of Conservapedia, he has made a special authorization of 3x that quantity:

Forwarded message from "Senior Editor at SurvivalBlog.com"
From: "Senior Editor at SurvivalBlog.com" <editor@survivalblog.com>
To: Jefferson Franklin
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:46:09 -0700

Thank you VERY much for your tireless efforts. As a token of my esteem, and so that you will have current reference copies, I'll be happy to send you autographed copies of all of my books. Just send me your snail mail address.

You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles.

OBTW, the is also a decent collection of quotes here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Wesley_Rawles (Thankfully, It hasn't been gutted by liberal Wikipedia editors.)

Thanks Again, and Happy New Year!

~Jim Rawles~
Senior Editor, www.SurvivalBlog.com

Template:James Wesley Rawles authorized quotation

This template should be used for quotations from Mr. Rawles materials to ensure that Conservapedia is legally protected in terms of copyright fair use authorization.

Template:James Wesley Rawles authorized quotation

Here is an example: "This is a quote"^[1]

Initial JWR Article Edits by User:Fongman

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This article or part thereof was copied from Wikipedia but the copied text was originally written by me, Fongman, (under the name Trasel) and does not include alterations made by others on that site.

If it ever comes to it, would you be willing to write on the article's WP talk page a comment to the effect that you copied your version to Conservapedia? --Ed Poor ^Talk 09:37, 25 April 2008 (EDT)

Sure, I'd be happy to. FWIW, I posted a clarification on my wikipedia Talk page that includes this: "..., I posted four articles on Conservapedia. If you examine those posts and compare them with their respective original draft editions, of which I was the author, you will see that there has been no violation of copyright. (All of what I've posted at Wikipedia was either from my original draft articles, or from my subsequent edits. I very carefully edited out any content that was from other wiki editors." -- Fongman 12:17, 25 April 2008 (EDT)