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==Restoring User Pages==
 
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I wonder if you [I was referring to User:Conservative in the original context] would be be so kind as to restore the following user and user-talk pages.  Most of these people were long-time respected sysops and administrators, as I'm sure you, being a long-time respected sysop and administrator yourself, well know.  Many of our important articles were written by these people.  Current users may want to know something about the people that went before them and built Conservapedia.  We should show some respect for our history and our founding fathers/mothers.
 
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[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 23:33, 10 October 2014 (EDT)
 
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:Your suggestion is a reasonable one.  I was not in favor of deleting user pages.  But once deleted, I don't think it would be time well spent to restore the pages.  Time moves on, and time could be better spent by improving substantive entries.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:37, 11 October 2014 (EDT)
 
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::I can see that all the active users are pretty busy, and are probably disinclined to do this.  So how about letting me do it?  I'm willing to restore those pages myself.  You would have to give me the appropriate temporary rights, which might be "undelete" rights, or maybe full administrator rights, I don't know how this works.
 
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::I'm sure you know, from our many communications, both public and private, that I can be trusted not to harm Conservapedia in any way.  During any period in which I have extra rights, I will refrain from annoying, harassing, irritating, teasing, insulting, or otherwise getting under the skin of any other user.  I will not react to any taunts.  I will not abuse the rights in any way.  (Though if my rights include blocking, and I see any vandals come to town, I will of course take action.)
 
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::You didn't want the pages deleted?  We can fix that.  What say you?  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 12:48, 12 October 2014 (EDT)
 
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:There's an extremely troubling aspect to all this.  You say you weren't in favor of deleting the pages, and yet, [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:JoeyJ&diff=1100430&oldid=1100429 here], Cons says that the owner of the web site was in favor of the deletion.  Was Cons lying?  Also, [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:JoeyJ&diff=1101617&oldid=1100630 here], Cons seems to indicate that he was in communication with you on the subject of giving JoeyJ deletion powers.  These powers are not taken lightly.  In fact, JoeyJ is the only non-admin who has them.  So it looks as though you gave JoeyJ the deletion powers '''knowing full well''' that he would use those powers to delete user pages.  What is going on?  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 00:05, 14 October 2014 (EDT)
 
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== God delusion ==
 
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I finished reading the Prof. Dawkin's book. I have to admit that it has shaken my religious foundations... I sometimes wonder whether that has made me an Agnostic now. It has made me question a lot of my upbringing. I was a good catholic girl. I wonder what my mom will say
 
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--[[User:OconnorM|Maria O&#39;Connor]] 12:44, 15 November 2014 (EST)
 
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:Richard Dawkins did not research or fact check his book very well and it has a number of errors in it as can be seen in this PDF version of [http://www.voxday.net/mart/TIA_free.pdf The Irrational Atheist]. 
 
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:Second, how strong were your foundations before you read the book? How did you build your foundation?
 
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:In the physical life, if you are flabby, don't get enough sleep, etc., it provides an opportunity for disease to enter. The same is true in a person's spiritual life.  How familiar are you with the classic [[Arguments for the existence of God|defenses of the existence of God]]? How familiar are you with the various evidences for Christianity? See: [[Christian apologetics websites|Evidence for Christianity]]  Did you ever repent of your sins and dedicate your life to following Jesus Christ? How often were you reading your Bible? How often were you praying? What are the most serious arguments against agnosticism? What are the most serious arguments against atheism. See: [[Rebuttals to atheist arguments]].
 
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:Also, Jesus promises that those who repented of their sins and accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord will have communion with Him and will receive the Holy Spirit who will guide them. Did you ever know God or were you just engaging in religious rituals? [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 20:07, 16 November 2014 (EST)
 
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::[http://www.christiantoday.com/article/richard.dawkins.has.had.his.day.says.ravi.zacharias/43042.htm Richard Dawkins has had his day, says Ravi Zacharias] -'' Christianity Today'', November 15, 2014 [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 04:04, 17 November 2014 (EST)
 
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:::@Maria O'Connor:  I'm really sorry that you have been abused so badly at Conservapedia.  I want you to know that there are quite a number of decent and well-intentioned people here.  You should ignore the abusers, and feel welcome to make contributions.  We particularly need people who are knowledgeable in matters of science.  If you can contribute in this area, dig in! [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 22:22, 20 November 2014 (EST)
 
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::Sam, you can contribute constructively to Conservapedia, or you can pick fights on the Main Page talk page.  You cannot do both.  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 17:16, 21 November 2014 (EST)
 
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:::'''Of course''' Sam can contribute constructively to Conservapedia whilst disagreeing with certain other editors. He's been doing it for years..... and more strength to his arm. There are not enough Sams these days.  [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 19:36, 21 November 2014 (EST)
 
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==Subject Matter Experts==
 
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I recently had to deal with a case of someone making an edit to a chemistry article (with a note that he has a chemistry degree, which of course we can't verify, but it very well may be true) that was reverted.  It's true that his use of "subjective" and "objective" could give the wrong impression to non-experts, and I have cleaned it up.  But it just needed to be cleaned up.  (The cleanup that someone did afterwards was ridiculous.)  '''This person was blocked''', apparently just because of that edit.  This should not have happened.  Quite a number of good contributors, and potential good contributors&mdash;we'll never know&mdash;have been reverted and blocked because the people with blocking powers did not know how to evaluate the edits.
 
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Now Conservapedia often has people come here and make stupid/parody/vandalism edits.  But it is monitored constantly by the sysops.  It is not necessary for people to be trigger-happy.  Except of course for clear vandalism.
 
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I would suggest a page, probably in the Conservapedia namespace rather than "mainspace", listing subject matter experts who can make expert analyses of these things.  The list should be publicized to all sysops.  Contributors can volunteer as experts in various subjects.  And sysops could hold off on reverting questionable edits until an expert opinion is rendered.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 23:45, 28 November 2014 (EST)
 
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:You have no proof that '''the person who was blocked''' was merely a Subject Matter Expert and not a '''troll''' as well.  This ought to be dealt with by the Best Troll Detection of the Public.  Trolling techniques include emphasizing words (when the logic of argument doesn't require it) to trample over anticipated reasonable opposition to one's argument with raw emotion as well as arguing about things on the Main Page talk page that don't appear on the Main Page.  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 10:55, 29 November 2014 (EST)
 
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I can assure you that, in my 7 years here, I have developed a good sense for the kinds of vandals, trolls, parodists, sycophants, "mall cops", and other unsavory personalities that we have.  I also notice other fascinating types of people, like those who complain about posting to this page not on the topic of improving the main page content while making quite a few such postings themselves (though, in fairness, they also make on-topic postings, which I rarely do), people who [[User_talk:SamHB#Spammer|did not realize that they had been given blocking powers until I told them]], and people who use [http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Main_Page&diff=1110822&oldid=1110821 spectacularly recondite sentences] while attacking other contributors.  You see, I've been around for a while.
 
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On the matter of making posts to this page that are not directly on the topic of improving the content of the main page, I'm sure you know that, for several years, this page has been used for a discussion of CP in general, and that everyone, including Andy and the other admins, is OK with that.  A more natural place for such discussion might have been a general discussion page such as [[Conservapedia:Desk]], but, as you can see, it has rarely been used of late.  There is actually a (an?) historical reason, from a few years back, for this.  I won't bore everyone with the details, but you can email me if you are interested.
 
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Regarding my "subject matter experts" comment above, I wasn't asking for people who are good at detecting trolls.  We already have plenty of people (including myself) who are good at this, and plenty of people (including you) who are good at dealing with them.  We probably already have the "Best Troll Detection of the Public".  I was requesting "subject matter experts", which we don't really have very many of, or don't know who they are on various topics, and requesting that subject matter expertise be used in deciding whether to revert an edit.
 
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In the case of the [http://www.conservapedia.com/Chemical_compound&diff=1118592&oldid=1118584 molar mass] edit, I was well aware that this person might be a troll&mdash;his use of the recondite (there's that word again) terms "subjective" and "objective" in a description of quantitative chemical analysis was a bit suspicious&mdash;these are quasi-philosophical terms that might be considered provocative on a wiki like this.  But he also knew what molar mass means.  His change was a vast improvement over the "fuel quantity" phrase.  The article just needed to have the "subjective" and "objective" words taken out, which I have done.  The person did know his subject matter.  There was no urgency in reverting his edit.
 
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A suggestion, Vargas: Let's both try to be nice.  You do good work when you're not talking about "withering patrician disdain".  We can both do better than fight with each other.
 
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Maybe I should have spent the day shopping instead of this :-) [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 00:02, 1 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:I will not disregard Andy's express instructions at the top of the page!  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 16:12, 2 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::Fair enough.  I will try to abide by that policy also.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 17:11, 6 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::I would be interested to hear what Andy thinks of the "subject matter expert" approach.  Wikipedia generally hates experts and does everything to drive them away as editors.  Many of the early CP articles were written by home-schooled students.  We then had Ed Poor spending years curating a large number of articles.  A few other editors undertook work in particular areaa of expertise such as AlanE and BHathorn.  I suspect that Andy has his own lists of experts in the back of his mind, if not written down.  The problem is that everyone believes that they are an expert while management may not agree with that assessment.  So, we have to see whether this proposal is compatible with the "best of the public" concept. Thanks for raising it. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 07:16, 7 December 2014 (EST)
 
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== Growing Conservapedia's conservative  readership and editor base ==
 
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Now that Conservapedia's Twitter link on the main page, two things:
 
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1.  We could organize our wiki editors to create/expand conservative articles in order to feature them on the Twitter feed.
 
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2. Twitter is popular among conservatives. This book shows people how to attract 200 Twitter fans every single day: http://www.amazon.com/Twitter-Followers-Step---Step-guaranteed-ebook/dp/B00KEX694O/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1417623658&sr=8-3&keywords=twitter+marketing  The book is only $1.00 and it should be easy to implement. If it was implemented, the Twitter account would go from 10,000 Twitter fans/followers to 83,000 fans/followers in one year.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 11:30, 3 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:Has anyone considered taking out some modest ($50-$100) number of Facebook advertising? We could use it to drive traffic to the site and to recruit new editors. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 05:34, 15 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::Wschact, create a web page called [[Conservapedia: New editors wanted]] which I will feature on the main page. I can also talk to Andy about various ways to drive traffic to the page like online advertising, etc. 
 
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::It will not be Facebook advertising because Andy dislikes Facebook. Of course, if you want to take out a Facebook advert to have it go to [[Conservapedia: New editors wanted]], you could certainly do so. 
 
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::Regardless, the main page will give the page [[Conservapedia: New editors wanted]] some traffic. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:34, 15 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::Good idea. 1) Do we have photos of Andy sitting around a computer with a bunch of his students when they were working on editing CP?  How about a screen capture of Andy being interviewed with Stephen Colbert?  I believe that photos are a powerful way to deliver a message.  2) Do we have any facts that we can use to convey the importance of Conservapedia's mission? Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 23:02, 7 February 2015 (EST)
 
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== Make the username policy more clear ==
 
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:<small>Copied on over from [[Help talk:How To Create a Conservapedia Account]]</small>
 
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I think it should be made clear that the username '''must''' include your real name, as opposed to ''recommending'' your real name; perhaps there could be a help page on Conservapedia's username policy. A few users have been blocked for violating an otherwise nonexistent policy (and also advised to create an account with a real name even though their account creation is disabled for two years). A clear username policy would probably be beneficial for Conservapedia. -- [[User:DanielJackson|DanielJackson]] 10:46, 6 December 2014 (EST)
 
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== Conservative's "Message Area" ==
 
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I seem to be unable to edit it, despite wanting to discuss something with him. As such I put out a general request for a way to contact him or for him to unlock his message area. Hopefully I'm not missing something really obvious! [[User:Nhodgson|Nhodgson]] 20:18, 6 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:You would do well to just ignore him.  There's really nothing that you could discuss with him.  He is notoriously secretive, seeming to believe that other people go along with his games, and he often locks his own talk page, and the talk pages of his "pet" articles.  He seems to expect other people to go along with his fantasy that he might be multiple people.  Just ignore him.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 21:37, 6 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::If we could talk to him, we might tell him that his reversion of [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Abraham_Lincoln&curid=3942&diff=1121083&oldid=1084045 this] on purely political grounds was ludicrous and shows a serious failure to observe what is going on.  That edit was more than just a minor thing about whether Lincoln was a "classical liberal" or a "post New Deal progressive"&mdash;it was blatant and outrageous vandalism, about which most admins are very vigilant.  The user ("TheonlySIL", whatever that means) should be blocked permanently.  Perhaps some other admin will notice.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 21:48, 6 December 2014 (EST)
 
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Setting aside SamHB's axe to grind because I/we are pro-biblical creationism and anti-Darwinism/liberal Christianity, my/our talk page has just been unlocked.
 
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By the way SamHB, what do you think about the data contained in this article: [[Liberal Christianity and marital infidelity]] ? Can you refute it? It does not appear so!  [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:00, 7 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:Haven't read it.  But thanks for unlocking your talk page,  Could you keep it that way, please?  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 23:52, 11 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::SamHB, may lock it again if I/we become extremely busy for an extended period or for other reasons which I/we prefer not to discuss. The talk pages of articles I/we created/contributed can certainly be used. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:59, 12 December 2014 (EST)
 
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There are two categories that are treating the same topic: [[:Category:Best of Conservapedia]] and [[:Category:Featured articles]]. How do they differ from each other and should they be merged?--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 14:00, 12 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::While I have the greatest respect for Cons's diligence in spending a lot of time on her articles, and in getting them recognized (all her past SEO talk, for example), I notice that she does not put them into the the "best of CP" category.  So I suspect that even she doesn't think the category is worth much.  It does not seem to be noticed much.  I just removed two obvious vanity/silliness things from it.  Only three things remain.  But their authors did put a lot of effort into them, and two of them are "flagship articles" by Andy.  So I would consult with him on this.  He probably wants a better way to promote the CBP and the Conservative words articles.  In fact he has a better way: they are on the main page.  So maybe you should ask him whether the "best of CP" category is worth keeping.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 00:23, 13 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::But it is a moot point anyways as the feminine [[Sarah Palin]] has more [[machismo]] than all [[Liberal Christianity|liberal "Christians"]] combined!
 
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This page provides a forum for editors to discuss matters related to CP and its policies.  Please do not use it as a sandbox for drafting article.  You can create your own sandbox by making a subpage of your user page. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 09:43, 13 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:You're right. I was in a hurry before. Haste makes waste. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 10:17, 13 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::Speaking of careless editing, I'm pleased that you correctly used "you're" above, though it took another edit, at 10:17 yesterday, to fix it.  Haste makes waste.  But your recent edit to the bottom of TAR's talk page has that mistake.  You're in need of more care in editing.  Take a deep breath (and get some sleep!) now and then.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 11:31, 14 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::@TAR: I've taken out the rest of your stuff.  You can move it to your talk page if you like.  You can get it out of the page history, of course; nothing is ever lost unless an admin explicitly vapes it, which I don't think is going to happen.  You do not need to worry about vandalism; it's easy to revert.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 11:31, 14 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:Is there any way to recover the earlier material.  Perhaps Andy or an admin could review the situation? [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 06:50, 18 December 2014 (EST)
 
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It seems that this page is very famous all over the internet.  A Google search of Conservapedia+Relativity gets about 8000 hits.  (Your mileage may vary; the test was done several months ago.)  I didn't look at all of them, but I looked at the first 100, other than the CP article itself.  Two were completely neutral and matter-of-fact, one was an item on ask.com that was a discussion of what "theory" means in a scientific sense, and was neutral.  The other 97 were all derisive, mocking, contemptuous, and sarcastic.
 
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Now I know that principled people are not deterred by popular opinion.  But people might want to ask themselves whether the page has convinced '''anyone''' that Relativity is wrong.  Or, more generally, whether it has accomplished anywhere near what its goals were.  People might also want to ask themselves whether the counterexamples are objectively correct, and whether Relativity is objectively wrong.  Now a lot of the discussion at CP has been about '''what people think about Relativity'''&mdash;for example, discussion of Laurence Tribe, and Barack Obama, and the folks that designed the GPS system, and the folks that operate that system, and so on.  I'd like to get completely away from consideration of what people think about Relativity.  Vox Populi and all that.  I'd like to propose 3 questions about '''objective, observable facts,''' and ask the senior admins here to explain them without reference to people's opinions.  These are matters of ''fact'' and ''incontrovertible observation''.
 
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#It is known that the perihelion of Mercury precesses, beyond Newtonian calculations, by an amount of about 43 arcseconds per (Earth) century.  Without getting bogged down into quibbling over thousandths of an arcsecond, and just using the accepted figure of 43 arcseconds, why do you think this is so?  Now there has been extensive discussion at Conservapedia over the possibility that the exponent in the "inverse square law" is not exactly 2.  People have argued over whether or not that satisfies some principle of theoretical elegance, or makes integration easier, or whatever.  I'm not interested in any of that.  What I am interested in is that ''it doesn't work''.  That theory was proposed by Hall and Newcomb about 100 years ago, and quickly discarded, because it predicts a completely wrong precession for the Moon.  So, why do you think this precession occurs?  Do you have some theory of gravity that correctly predicts the precession of Mercury, other planets, the Moon, and Earth satellites?
 
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::#The precession of the perihelion of Mercury '''''disproves''''' Relativity.  People stopped reporting the discrepancy as technology provided greater precision; yet Relativists still insist that this proves their theory when the actual data disproves it.  Newtonians are honest about the issue.  Why can't liberal Relativists publicly admit that the data disproves their theory? Every scientist knows that if he questions or criticizes Relativity, then he disqualifies himself from ever winning a Nobel Prize (see, e.g., Robert Dicke), obtaining a doctorate, or receiving any research funding.
 
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::#There is nothing startling about an emission or loss of energy when something decays.  It certainly does not prove Relativity.
 
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::Liberals make false statements about science all the time.  Jimmy Carter became president by claiming that oil would run out in 35 years.  There is nothing new about liberals misusing science to advance liberal goals.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:33, 17 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::"''There is nothing startling about an emission or loss of energy when something decays. It certainly does not prove Relativity. ''" - So, you do accept the equivalence of mass and energy, as SamHB was talking about the loss of mass! That's good news... Or maybe, you want to rephrase your point #3. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 06:55, 21 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::::It requires an enormous leap of [[faith]], far more than is suggested by the [[Bible]], to go from what I said to the silly, illogical ''E=mc<sup>2</sup>'' equation.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:12, 21 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::::Does it really? SamHB described a process where '''mass''' disappears - you answered that ''there is nothing startling about an emission or loss of '''energy'''''.  This gives the impression that you think of mass and energy as somewhat interchangeable. I know that you don't think so, that's why I asked for you to  ''"rephrase your point #3"''. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 17:26, 21 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::::::Agreed - but you are talking about '''energy'''. The question is where is the '''mass''' of .005229 amu? (Take a look [[Talk:E=mc²#A few questions for Aschlafly regarding the experiment of Cockcroft and Walton|here]]...)--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 17:56, 21 December 2014 (EST)
 
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I had not intended for this to re-open the entire discussion, including the Cockcroft-Walton experiment.  Aside from pointing out the 2 millionth view, the goal was to ask 3 '''very narrowly drawn''' questions.  So narrowly drawn that they '''were not about relativity!'''.  Not directly, anyway.  They were about 3 observable phenomena, and the intent was to ask for explanations, relativity or otherwise, about them.  For the second and third questions, Andy sort of did give explanations, though they were totally unsatisfactory by the standards of contemporary science.
 
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I specifically asked for explanations that were indpependent of people's opinions, beliefs, or behavior.  I guessed that Andy would either ignore the questions, or give off-topic answers.  I got the latter.  I got comments about relativity, honesty of "Newtonians", "relativists", liberalism, Nobel prizes, doctorates, research funding, Robert Dicke, Jimmy Carter, oil, and discrepancies with modern measuring technology.  (Really?  Are you saying that the anomalous precession ''does not occur''?  It's been observed since 1843.  Are you saying that modern measurements show that the precession is zero, and that Leverrier was seeing something that isn't there?).
 
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Andy did give a sort of explanation for the 2nd and 3rd of these: "The laws of physics are not invariant at every point" and "There is nothing startling [about this]".
 
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Here is why those answers are completely unsatisfactory.  Suppose that Johannes Kepler, when presented with Tycho Brahe's exhaustive data on planetary motion, including the puzzling retrograde motion of Mars, Jupier, and Saturn, had simply said "Well, I guess that, at some points in the Solar System, at some times, some planets go backward for a while."  Or "There's nothing startling about this, Mars sometimes just goes backwards."  He would simply be abandoning science to the capriciousness of nature.  He didn't do that.  He was a '''SCIENTIST'''.  He looked for an ''explanation''.  He and Isaac Newton worked out a formulation that explained it.  They didn't just say that the laws of nature are just something random at various places in the solar system, they came up with a physical law that was valid (relative to the measurements of the day) ''at all places and times in the Solar System''.
 
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The time dilation in the Earth's gravitational field is not just something random.  It is known, and explained, with great precision.  You can set your clock by it.  (Literally!)  To not be startled, or at least intrigued, by the time dilation, when time can be measured, and found not to dilate, between two points that are at the same altitude, shows a serious lack of scientific curiosity.  Can you come up with a theory that explains this phenomenon quantitatively?
 
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The same thing goes for the mass discrepancy.  Conservation of mass had been known, with extreme precision, by 1900.  Scientists were in fact startled and intrigued by its non-conservation.  By the way, it can be measured with greater accuracy now than 82 years ago, and it still holds, or do you deny that it happens?  Can you cite modern precise measurements that show that the discrepancy is zero?  Can you come up with a theory that explains this phenomenon quantitatively?
 
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::I'm not interested in what the anomalous precession proves or doesn't prove, or what scientists pretend that it proves or doesn't prove.  I want to know why it occurs.  The Newtonian model can be tweaked to explain it?  Can you say what the tweak is?  I hope it's not the Hall-Newcomb exponent tweak that was proved to be incorrect almost immediately after it was proposed.  Do you have another tweak in mind?
 
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::Time dilation is most definitely shown, both by GPS, and by the Pound-Rebka experiment in 1959.  This can be explained by classical physics?  Really?  Can you give us details?  Can you give us a Johannes-Kepler-the-scientist type of explanation, that goes beyond the cop-out of saying that the laws of physics are simply different in different parts of the universe?  "Different parts of the universe" is a far bigger chunk of real estate than is needed to show the effect.  The Pound-Rebka experiment involved different parts of the ''same building'', and GPS exhibits the discrepancy between different parts of medium Earth orbit.  We should have a pretty good handle on how physics works in the vicinity of the Earth.  Newton's law of gravitation worked over the whole solar system.
 
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::Evidence for non-conservation of mass is not "almost non-existent"; it is ubiquitous.  The specific case of Radium alpha decay can be found on the periodic table charts hanging in high-school science classrooms.  "I don't think mass is necessarily always conserved"&mdash;well at least you qualified it with "necessarily always", but can you be more specific?  To a degree that Johannes-Kepler-the-scientist would respect?  You are quite right in that Newtonian physics does not depend on it, but that's not what I was asking.
 
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:::Andy: ''"You rely on primitive technology used in an 82-year-old experiment. The technology is far better now, and the claim of mass-energy equivalence cannot be verified."'' No, the experiment is routinely performed in courses on modern physics around the world, using modern technology. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 01:37, 22 December 2014 (EST)
 
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I believe that Andy has indeed read the relevant items, like [[Debate:What is the exponent of r in Newtonian gravity?|this page]] from nearly five years ago, and [[Relativity#Experiments that Fail to Prove Relativity|this section]], with its table of precessions of the planets.  (I did not put in the phrase "fail to", by the way.)
 
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So let's go over the situation again, extremely carefully.  The bulk of the table was from me, though the all-important final column was added by [[User:Jloveday]], using some experimental data that he dug up.  I'm not in full agreement with the way he rounded the data, but the effect is clear.  Even though getting good error bounds on the minuscule precession of planets beyond Mercury is very difficult, one can easily see, from the last few columns, that General Relativity tracks the observed precession very well, while the Newcomb-Hall tweak of 2.000000157 tracks it extremely poorly.  Except for Mercury, of course, since the exponent was tweaked specifically for that planet.
 
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So, Andy:  What is the tweak to Newtonian mechanics that explains the precession for all the planets?  And, while we're at it, can you give a satisfactory explanation for the other two phenomena, time dilation and mass non-conservation?
 
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Andy also says:  "Some objected to anything other than an exponent of precisely -2 for the force, because that muddies up the math, but that is a silly objection."  I agree, it's silly.  Though I am a little curious about who these "some" are.  Can you cite something on the subject?  Perhaps one of your physics textbooks?
 
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I generally have a "live and let live" attitude towards the edits of others on CP, and don't want to criticize any particular editor.  However, CP has experienced over time that editors come here from Wikipedia, where there are millions of articles and a very high number of Categories.  Because CP is much smaller, we have opted for fewer categories,  Over the past day, someone has created a bunch of new categories like [[:Category:Conservative Authors]]. [[:Category:Christian Authors]], etc.  Such narrow new categories will make a lot more work for everyone and may discourage editors from categorizing their articles.  Perhaps Andy and management could please take a look?  Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 06:58, 18 December 2014 (EST)
 
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== To my liberal, sissy boy, atheist critics of guns in Texas! ==
 
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Gentlemen, consider this picture of [http://www.andrewtonnphoto.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=796 Amish women shooting rifles]. When is the last time you heard of Amish women going on shooting rampages? :)
 
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Amish women do not watch violent video games or watch television shows and/or movies with gratuitous violence! See [[Hollywood values]].  And unlike Muslims, the only beheadings Amish women read about is David beheading Goliath (and we know Goliath deserved it for defying the armies of the living God!). 
 
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Amish women are loyal wives and are less likely to have their husbands go on jealous/violent rampages (see: [[Liberal Christianity and marital infidelity]]). And Amish men have submissive wives and do not endlessly quarrel with stubborn, feminist wives! And irreligious men are more likely beat their wives/girlfriends than religious men (see: [[Irreligion and domestic violence]]).
 
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Gentlemen, it is the dysfunctional liberals and liberal influence that causes much of the violence in Texas. No true conservative goes on a gun rampage! When is the last time you heard of a gun rampage occurring due to a student in a Bible believing Christian school? Never, my liberal, atheist friends? If only Texas wasn't creating so many jobs and a magnet to unemployed and undisciplined liberals fleeing their liberal welfare states!
 
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Gentlemen, I hope this clarifies matters. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:47, 17 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::Thank you for giving up your precious time to add these insights to the talk page, Conservative. The world would be a better place if more wives followed your example. [[User:JSamson|JSamson]] 17:25, 17 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::::No true skeptic pretends to know the gender/genders of the editor(s) of the User: Conservative account. Solve the mystery of who/whom edited the [[Atheist actions against homosexuals]] article  and you will earn the right to declare the gender/genders using the User: Conservative account to edit. 
 
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If you are interested, please leave comments below. I suggest picking a leader/leaders for the project or least assign people for various tasks associated with the project. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:50, 25 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:I would be happy to help, but my time is limited.[[User:FOIA|FOIA]] 22:06, 25 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::Merry Christmas Cons, and thanks for the thought. I think, however, that I would tend to become a "Devil's Advocate" in any collaboration I can envisage. The token liberal so to speak (and I say that with no malice.) I will need to know more. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 22:21, 25 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:::AlanE, it doesn't have to be a political project. It can be on a non-political topic. I will let whoever participates decide on the topic and whether or not it will be a political project.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 22:44, 25 December 2014 (EST)
 
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: I'd be happy to join in and help in any way I can. Merry Christmas. I have been and will mostly focus on the articles [[List of military tactics]] and [[List of military strategies and concepts]]. Long life the Republic! [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 01:33, 26 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:Your invitation was an honor, and I thank you for your confidence. I will be happy to help. As soon as I finish my current "Bible" project, I will look more closely at what you have here and see what I can do. ''Semper Fi!'' --[[User:Dataclarifier|Dataclarifier]] 19:00, 26 December 2014 (EST)
 
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::Sounds great.  Thanks for tackling the project. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 06:16, 27 December 2014 (EST)
 
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:This date I must apologetically withdraw my participation. My prayers for success of this project. May God + bless this work.<br/>See [[User talk:Dataclarifier#REDUCED INVOLVEMENT IN CONSERVAPEDIA DUE TO WORK AS VOLUNTEER OMBUDSMAN FOR ELDERLY|REDUCED INVOLVEMENT IN CONSERVAPEDIA DUE TO WORK AS VOLUNTEER OMBUDSMAN FOR ELDERLY]] <br/>--[[User:Dataclarifier|Dataclarifier]] 12:28, 27 February 2015 (EST)
 
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that obsessed individuals can materially change the tone and direction of Conservapedia with no one to apply the brakes.?  Remember when this was supposed to be a resource for home-school students?  A place where they could look up "vibration", for example, and get a concise definition of what it is, at their level, without going off into mystical medical cults?  Remember when [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvT5YuDovHI this] was a good description of Conservapedia's vision and goals?
 
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I am reposting-quoting here [[User:AugustO]]'s post on [[User_talk:Aschlafly#Ayurvedic_medicine]] in order to see why I am making such a detailed point-by-point response.
 
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"You know me as conservative on social or fiscal issues, but my conservatism reaches its zenith on medicine.  I am very dedicated to Western medicine, and run away from "new age" or other fringe medicine approaches.  Andy, you have to draw a line here on whether Conservapedia has the expertise and resources to cover Ayurvedic medicine properly.  I doubt that we do and should stay away from it completely.  Please decide and tell [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] you decision.  Many thanks for all that you do for the Conservative movement. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 21:42, 2 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:: Happy New Year [[User:Aschlafly]], [[User:Wschact]], [[User:AugustO]], [[User:Conservapedia]], and [[User:Karajou]]
 
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Like you [[User:Wschact]], I too am a steadfast conservative, but on much more than just social and fiscal issues, as my thousands of conservative point-of-view Conservapedia edits can attest to (Please see my [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] for more information). Also like you [[User:Wschact]], I too am very dedicated to Western medicine and work together with a medical doctor with a busy private practice office in a large hospital setting where he and I integrate both modern pharmaceutical based treatment and the use of custom made Ayurvedic-Chinese-Western herbal formulas, nutrition (based on Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine concepts) and acupuncture. He supervises my practice in that setting. Like you [[User:Wschact]], both he and I also run away from the myriad "new age" medicine approaches. However, Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine - Acupuncture and Western herbal medicine are not "new age". Ayurveda and Chinese medicine - Acupuncture have been in continuous use since at least 250 B.C. according to archaeological evidence and extant classic medical texts in both Chinese characters, Tibetan and Sanskrit (which I can read by the way in Devanagari script).
 
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Conservapedia does indeed have the expertise and resources to cover Ayurvedic medicine and Chinese medicine - acupuncture properly since I am contributing as a dedicated regular editor and have joined the [[Wikiproject:Medicine]] to lend my ongoing support editing/categorizing ALL articles in the realm of medicine / anatomy in addition to my other subject matter expertise areas on my User Page / Talk Page.
 
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[[User:PhilH]] has said there is no clinical evidence to support complementary medicine. Not according to the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health who funds clinical trials on herbal medicines effectiveness, not according to medical doctors in America who integrate modern medicine with complementary medicine, not according to numerous conservatives who rely on complementary medicine including Western herbalism, Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and Acupuncture. Just the fact that there is licensing for acupuncture in most of the U.S. states (majority of states require the licensing examination or certification, and several states allow oriental medicine practitioners to be "primary care providers" for legal and insurance purposes; nineteen states specifically include Chinese herbology instead of just acupuncture). For naturopathic medicine 17 states, five Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, and the US territories of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands all have laws regulating naturopathic doctors (See map http://aanmc.org/images/LicensureMapBig.jpg -- even very conservative states such as my home state of Idaho in the [[American Redoubt]], along with Montana and Utah license naturopathy).
 
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There are many conservatives blogs and forums that I follow that have regular articles on complementary medicine and herb usage. Complementary/alternative medicine is not some liberal, hippie or New Age thing. It is even paid for by many insurance companies now. There is worker's comp coverage for it in certain U.S. states.
 
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Thus, following Karajou's advice above and oversight from [[User:Conservative]], I am writing "whatever comes to mind" on what I "happen to be an expert on".  Thus, I have be developing a lot of detailed articles and their categorizations for my 6 areas of specialization (in order of my depth of subject matter expertise): 1. Medicine, 2. Computer networks (17 years professional experience), 3. [[Preparedness]]-Survivalism, 4. [[Firearm]]s, 5. [[Permaculture]] [[gardening]], 6. [[Radio communication technologies]] - [[Amateur radio]].  Being a staunch American conservative libertarian "prepper" [[gun enthusiast|"gun nut"]], I obviously write/edit from that perspective.
 
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For these and many other reasons, I don't see a reason for Conservapedia to stay away from complementary medicine completely as you suggest [[User:Wschact]].  Thus, I will continue to contribute such works to Conservapedia until I am told to stop by any of the CP Administrators such as [[User:Aschlafly]], [[User:Conservative]], or user [[User:Karajou]].
 
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Thank you to you all for your work for our Conservative movement. Godspeed. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 06:57, 3 January 2015 (EST)
 
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=="[[Troll]]" Editing by [[User:SamHB]] of Numerous articles I am Working on / Editing / Contributing ==
 
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[[User:SamHB]], First you accuse me of plagiarizing, then you delete my citation correcting your speedy deletion template notice. Are you "[[Troll]]ing" perhaps ("[[Troll|users who purposely make disruptive edits are considered trolls]]") like your friends [[User:PhilH]] and this other friend of yours who made the comment on [[Talk:Free_state]]?
 
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[[User:SamHB]], Please follow these Guidelines rather than making disruptive edits to further your agenda: [[Conservapedia:Guidelines#90.2F10_Rule]]
 
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[[User:SamHB]], Looking at your contribution here: http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=SamHB
 
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[[User:SamHB]], I see that the last time you actually contributed any kind new article other than a Talk Page was here 2 years and 6 months ago:
 
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18:54, 1 June 2013 (diff | hist) New! Propositional Calculus ‎ (A start. Ed, it's time for you to step up to the plate (See? I do know a few metaphores, though I'm not a TopDog!) and fill out this article.)
 
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Looking at your contribution logs, a large amount of your recent edits in the last 30 days have been reverting my edits.
 
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08:11, 4 January 2015 SamHB (Talk | contribs | block) (7,439 bytes) (Do not "spam" links to extrenal commercial websites. People are routinely banned for that.) (undo)
 
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[[User:SamHB]], It seems you are not listening to my previous Talk page on these articles. This is the second time I am telling you this. Please kindly listen this time and stop [[troll]] editing.
 
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[[User:SamHB]], these links you deleted are ''''not'''' Spam links to external sites. It is a temporary citation for a quote I made to start the rough draft of the article -- the "ref" is to a respected and authoritative source of information on this herb; just as IBM would be an authoritative and respected cite regarding IBM Mainframe computers. Once I type in quotes and/or paraphrase summaries from some of my numerous Ayurvedic herb books listed  here [[Tinospora_cordifolia#External_Links]], I will cite them as well to flesh out the article.
 
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Formerly you were here on this very article [[Tinospora cordifolia]] accusing me of plagiarizing by not citing my 1 paragraph quote and nominated the article for deletion. Again, SamHB, please respect as I said before on my user talk page (perhaps you can read it) that I will be completing these articles in the next five days and let me do the editing on my article that I started, otherwise it slows me down to have to constantly go back and check the history of the pager to see if someone is "helping out".
 
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While you can perhaps please consider contributing some new actual articles of your own in your own area of expertise such as math rather than editing one I am in the middle of working on. Thank you for your understanding. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 10:41, 4 January 2015 (EST)
 
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== This Site is Being Hijacked ==
 
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There is no more pleasant way to put that.
 
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This is a continuation of what I wrote above about "Do we really have so few responsible editors".  The problem is extremely serious.  Ultimately, it is about there being so few people who are responsible, level-headed, and able to put reasonable amounts of time into this, that one person can overwhelm everyone and turn Conservapedia into something far removed from its original goal.  The original goal, in case people have forgotten, was a site that home-school students (and others, of course) can use as a general reference source, on a wide variety of topics, without bias from the liberals elsewhere on the Internet.
 
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But [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] is single-handedly steering the site into a very different and troubling direction.  Multiple directions, actually.  How is he able to do this?  '''Because his editing is fanatical, intense, and obsessive, and there aren't enough level-headed editors around who have the time and energy to put the brakes on.'''
 
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He is turning this into a blog on survivalism, one very particular "Vata/Dosha/Ayurvedic" type of nontraditional medicine, and many other things.  There is nothing wrong with articles on these topics, but he is overwhelming Conservapedia with his obsessive editing.
 
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He has put dozens and dozens of references to his views on survivalism into a huge number of articles for which such references are totally inappropriate.  He seems to think that we should all drop out of society, cash in everything we have into "tangibles" (bullets, beans, batteries, whatever) and move to "redoubt states" like Idaho to spend the rest of our days behind some barricades doing .... I don't know.
 
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His steering of CP into his chosen direction is made all the worse by his fanatical cross-referencing and categorizing.  This has put his writings "in your face" when people go to normal topics.  For example:
 
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*[[vibration]] used to be a short article explaining what wibration is&mdash;a rapid periodic undulating motion.  TAR put it into the "VATA" category.  When one looks around in same, one finds some new-age touchy-feely nonsense about psychological perceptions of vibration.  He polluted [[Fashion industry values]] in the same way.
 
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:: Dear [[User:SamHB|SamHB]], I will be adding some explanation to [[Fashion industry values]] and to my [[vata]] article to show that according to Ayurvedic medicine, patients who are "[[vata]]" disturbed or of a vata constitution have a very strong documented tendency to be part of much of the Fashion industry values, particularly [[anorexia nervosa]], serious [[drug abuse]], extreme [[promiscuity]], unfettered cosmetic surgery, severe [[depression]] along with an obsession for fashion.
 
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One of my family members is a psychologist of 24 years who also knows Ayurveda and who has seen fashion industry values addictions among countless "vata" disturbed patients, but not among [[pitta]] or [[kapha]] patients who are more stable and not usually addicted to these same things. Sam, I shall be showing [[vibration]] to show a similar connection to the [[:Category:Vata]] both in Ayurveda, Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Perhaps SamHB it is best you stick with writing '''new''' useful articles on mathematics and calculus.
 
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::Perhaps Sam you may want to considering following the wise advice of conservative [[User:VargasMilan]]: "Withholding judgment for now is good".
 
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::Please be patient while I work on expanding articles and writing new content. Thank you. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 06:49, 5 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:: Sam, in due time I shall expand these articles as well to show my reasoning. But for now I will follow my favorite CP Rule ([[Conservapedia:Guidelines#90.2F10_Rule]]) and get back to work writing '''new''' content and will follow VargasMilan's advice below and try to not urgently "feel pressured to complete all the red links and for-now-obscure connections" "just because some people don't like" me "trying to be an effective voice for conservatism, and so they unfairly single" me "out." [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 07:26, 5 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:: Dear [[User:SamHB|SamHB]], I corrected my accidental cut and paste of the Category:Survivalism on [[Ruthenium]] done when I first created the [[:Category:Precious Metals]] (
 
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:: SamB, I think I will get back to making constructive edits and creating new content rather than hanging out on Talk pages. Good day. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 06:34, 5 January 2015 (EST)
 
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*He has written extensively about [[amateur radio]], which, as an extra-class licensed ham, I think is fine.  But the implication is that hams are just supposed to do this so they can communicate with each other "off the grid" in their "redoubts".  I can assure everyone that the vast majority of hams (even those in call sign area 7) are fully engaged in society.  We take emergency preparedness very seriously, of course, and have a big annual contest on this topic every year, but this is always done in cooperation with existing local, state, and federal emergency organizations.  We have sub-organizations (ARES and RACES) dealing with this.  We are very much on the grid and in society, and I object to the implication that we are not.
 
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In addition to his fanatical edits to Conservapedia articles that, by themselves, materially alter this site's direction, this huge web of interconnected categories and "see also"s makes it impossible for readers to escape his actions.  This is significantly worse than what [[User:Conservative]] has been doing because, in the latter case, one simply needs to ignore any article with "hot button" phrases like "obesity", "evolutionism", "creationism", "atheism", "ponies", "walrus slides", and "long-haired creationist ladies".  It's much much harder to escape from [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]]'s behavior.
 
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:SamHB, I did a Google search of instances of the phrase "long-haired" on Conservapedia and none of the instances were done by the User: Conservative account. Are you jealous because you suspect that an editor of the User: Conservative account has a long-haired maiden as a sweetheart and you do not? :)
 
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:::Try [[Talk:Main_Page/Archive_index/120#please_make_a_cost.2Fbenefit_analysis_in_terms_of_human_welfare]].  It has "long haired, sweet and gentle Christian lady wife", no hyphen.  Sorry.  Anyway, I'm glad that at least one of you (male, I hope!) has "a long-haired maiden as a sweetheart".  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 16:53, 4 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:Second, the odds of you being listened to by Aschlafly in terms of suggestions/complaints, etc. would go dramatically up if you created more content. Right now, I think the odds are pretty much zero given your level of content creation. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:21, 4 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::I agree that the odds are nearly zero, but not for the reason you give.  My history as a constructive contributor of long standing is well known to Andy.  But thanks for your words of encouragement.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 16:53, 4 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:: Quote <b>Right now, I think the odds are pretty much zero given your level of content creation</b>.  Doesn't mean SamHB is not right though.  The edits from the redoubt are so obviously either parody or highly biased POV pushing that it is difficult to argue otherwise.  Woo is not encyclopedic, no matter who peddles the woo.  Now I leave both redoubt and the collective known as User:Conservative to indulge in last wordism. [[User:Davidspencer|Davidspencer]] 15:35, 4 January 2015 (EST)
 
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DavidSpencer, I think posting long screeds to a person who is known to preferring brevity and doing it in a context that has an effective success rate is zero is irrational. But hey, that's just me! :)  [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 16:37, 4 January 2015 (EST)
 
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Is there a specific objection to a specific edit?  I looked at [[transformer]], for example, and did not see anything objectionable about it.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 20:46, 4 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:I believe the objection was to the addition of the Survivalism category. If transformers are important to Survivalism, then it would be difficult to name a practical object that doesn't deserve inclusion in that category. [[User:AlexanderS|AlexanderS]] 00:09, 5 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:: Thanks [[User:AlexanderS|AlexanderS]] for your observations. Each item I put in the [[:Category:Survivalism]] will have expanded, footnoted content added to the article to justify its inclusion in this broad Survivalism category. For now, please be patient with it. Unless [[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] objects to the content. I will be, in due time, reasonably justifying it with actual expanded content that respects copyright. Please see: [[Talk:Fair_use#Authorization_by_NYT_Best-Selling_Conservative_Christian_Preparedness_Author_James_Wesley_Rawles_to_use_.22up_to_3_Quotes_of_800_Words_Each.22_of_his_Writings_per_CP_Article]]. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 07:26, 5 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::Thank you VargasMilan for your kind and inspiring words amidst the loud noise and shock coming from the transformer. :) I will follow your advice and focus on the [[Conservapedia:Guidelines#90.2F10_Rule]] [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 07:56, 5 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::: Looks great [[User:Wschact]]. Thanks for putting it in writing for newer editors who don't know the unwritten policies of the past. I will do my best to follow it. See my responses to your appreciated and polite mentoring over at [[Category_talk:Exercise]]. It's great Wschact that you are pleasantly civil and don't use words like "Rubbish!" and "Hideous!" as you delete my edits without even a Talk Page comment like a certain Expat American from the liberal bastion of Massachusetts. :-) [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]]
 
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:The 4 Gs: God, gold, guns and a getaway plan! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:17, 12 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::will the users of the conservative account continue to not use the show preview button? Will Karajou and Andy continue to ignore user requests with comment? Will the users of the conservative account continue to berate other users for having multiple people using one account?  Will the users of the conservative account continue to pretend that Karajou and Andy actually speak to them? -[[User:RalphWi|RalphWi]] 00:14, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::The users of the User: Conservative have never pesterfested anyone at CP! A user of the User: Conservative account got RobSmith banned for pesterfesting among other sins. If he hadn't pesterfested, he might still be an Admin.
 
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:::Will the liberal, urbanite/suburban, pesterfester Wsachat be next to get the axe or will he take the hint and stop pesterfesting TheAmericanRedoubt? A user of the User: Conservative account knows that some of Wschat's pesterfesting is ideologically driven and uncalled for. In addition, his liberalism and ignorance of history/economics driven disdain for TheAmericanRedoubt (which inspired his "mountain man" cultural/economics myopia) caused him to have a less than a cooperative spirit.  This must change and will not be tolerated. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:32, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::::Just what is pesterfesting, anyway? When User:RobSmith was an Admin, CP was in the top 50,000 websites and moving up - [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/conservapedia.com today it's in the toilet]. User:RobSmith today is an admin on site that allows some diverse and varying opinions - or at least pretends to have policies and processes to deal with abuse (like the egregious policy abuse of pesterfestering). Together with a handful (fewer than a half dozen) of un-likemindful editors, that site has gone from nothing (read: nothing) to a top 7500 website globally.  [[User:OscarO|OscarO]] 22:55, 17 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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I realize that [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] has a lot of energy and wants to add a lot of material to Conservapedia.  However, we value quality over speed.  For example, today we have a brand new article [[CETME‎]]. It appeared nine minutes after TAR's edit to a different article.  If I understand correctly, this article is a 45 word cut and paste from the "Survivor Blog" (according to footnote 1).  The article then has a See also section and Further reading section to two of James Wesley Rawles books.  The new article gives the overall impression that if you want to know about a Spanish manufacturer of army rifles, Rawles is the expert.  I find that difficult to believe.
 
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: Dear [[User:Wschact]], you may find that hard to believe, because you haven't read those books. I have read at least 15 minutes per day of his SurvivalBlog articles daily for about 6 years. That's more than 500 hours more of reading of just his Survival Blog which contains a LOT of firearms articles. I read/listen to about 1.5 hours a day from about 5 other firearms and survival blogs/podcasts. I can safely say that he, [[Jack Spirko]] and [[Boston T. Party]] are indeed respected firearms people.  Have you read those two books? I have, several times for the 2009 one. Mr. Rawles is indeed an "expert" on them, as much as anyone else I have read writing generally about firearms. I will add additional material at a later date from [[Boston T. Party]]'s [[Boston's Gun Bible]].
 
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:I have been working on these offline in MS Word as you suggested and pasting them onto CP. You asked me to do that rather than write it online as lots of drafts. There is not a lot to say about these things unless you are a [[gun enthusiast|"gut nut"]] like me. I am writing them for a basic audience like a new gun owner, not a highly technical one and not with huge amounts of extraneous details like Wikipedia. The gentleman "doth protest too much, methinks"  [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:16, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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: I did and do. Have you read my sources? I have. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:16, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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I then write the article using my own words because I don't want Conservapedia to necessarily or inadvertently adopt some other person's views as its own.
 
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: No, they will adopt your views. I am relying on words from respected sources with permission. Would you like to e-mail him yourself to verify the permission? [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:16, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::Perhaps you should look for newspaper or magazine articles about CETME. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 05:31, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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James Rawles' views on CETME are irrelevant, because there is no indication that he has given thought or study to this topic. 
 
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: I don't think you are qualified to make such a statement and are showing your bias now. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:16, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::With utmost respect, the topic is a Spanish gun manufacturer.  Mr. Rawles may know a few of the products, but what does he know about the overall company and its history, structure, capabilities and ownership?  How many CETME‎ factories did he visit or employees did he interview? [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 05:31, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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: Or not. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:16, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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If I were to write an article about a company, I would include where the company is located, how it got started and its subsequent history, its products and how those products have been received in the market place.  Ownership and structure can also be important. 
 
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: Not for this article. Maybe for IBM, or Microsoft, but not CETME. I think you should go talk to a qualified "[[gun enthusiast|gun guy]]"[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:16, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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This is because CP's audience is different than the audience of the Survivor Blog, and a good author should ask himself "What would a CP user want to know about this subject?"
 
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: Your opinion. There are thousands of very short one sentence place holder articles on CP. They serve a valid useful purpose. I have now spent more time defending my edits then is interesting for me. So I will continue doing what I am doing in terms of topics and current quality of work and time spent unless I am told to do otherwise by [[User:Aschlafly‎]], [[User:Karajou]], [[User:Conservative]]. Until I hear from admins telling me to stop what I have been working diligently on and that they consider it not useful to CP objectives and not fitting the CP audience of conservatives, who are generally not [[hoplophobia|hoplophobic]] as I begin to wonder if you are perhaps certain liberal editors here. But until then, "I'll stick to my guns" -- pun intended. :-)
 
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::I am not biased against CETME. I am suggesting that if you want to write about CETME, you do an adequate job of it.  If you don't think it is worthwhile to write about CETME, then don't wikilink to it in your other articles. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 05:31, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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I hope this helps. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 03:46, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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: You advice before on CP unwritten policy was helpful. This not so much. Thank you anyway. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:25, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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Time is better spent producing 10 articles of a decent length, than creating 100 snippets as articles.  I hope this helps. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 03:46, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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: Again, your opinion. If I do what you want then [[User:AlanE]] will be upset at so many red links. Please see the myriad useful 1 paragraph articles I CP, many of which I have learned from. I will get back to 90-10 rule actual work now. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:25, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::By the way, please look at the history of the G3 article which I didn't create... And you will see I improved it. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:27, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::On Internet [[forum]]s at this point, we have seen the word [[popcorn]] :-)  Which by the way, Popcorn is a 24 word article. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 04:28, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::I have a concern with the article [[7.62x51mm NATO]]. Why was this article not entitled "7.62x51mm NATO rifle"?  Again the quote should be in quotation marks.  I think that when [[User:Conservative]] gave you a 2500 length guideline, he did not have in mind that most of the article would be See also, External references and Bibliography.  When [[User:AlanE]] was discussing red links, I think that he thought that the red links would be eliminated by writing sound articles, not one sentence articles.  Perhaps we should ask him for clarification. Cheers.[[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 05:18, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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When the liberal ''LA Times'' gave a review of Conservapedia in its beginning stage, the reporter pointed out that Wikipedia had a lot more articles. So some Conservapedians went on a binge of creating stub articles. I was against this. Stub entries are fine for a dictionary, but not for an encyclopedia. And as I pointed out above, the public prefers more informative articles and not stub articles.
 
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:Perhaps Conservapedia needs to establish a two-part strategy of recruiting more editors and then having a formal mentoring program to greet and train them when the new editors arrive. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 11:08, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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So, What's going on here?  Please let me know. I wish you well. ''Pax vobis'' --[[User:Dataclarifier|Dataclarifier]] 13:57, 7 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::Thanks, Conservative! I left a brief note with Andrew Schlafly, with convenient link back to this entry. Appreciate your recommendation for request night editing rights. ''Pax vobis''. --[[User:Dataclarifier|Dataclarifier]] 11:20, 9 January 2015 (EST)
 
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Conservapedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary.  There are a number of new categories being created such as: [[:Category:Firearms Glossary‎]], [[:Category:Preparedness Glossary‎]] and [[:Category:Military Glossary‎]] which would be better combined with [[:Category:Firearms]], [[:Category:Survivalism]] and [[:Category:Military‎]] respectively.  It is not clear why any particular article would be in the Firearms category or its Glossary counterpart.  I wanted to get the views of other editors before I combine them. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 06:31, 8 January 2015 (EST)
 
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Dear [[User:Wschact|Wschact]], I strongly disagree about the Categories I have created. Based on these words of support for my [[Firearms]]-[[Preparedness]] project from [[User:Conservative]]: [[User_talk:TheAmericanRedoubt#User:Conservative_OK_on_the_Addition_of_Preparedness.2FSurvivalism_and_Gun_Articles_on_CP]], I will be creating literally hundreds of articles on the the topic of firearms over the next few months. More than 50 in the next 2 weeks. And MANY of them will appropriately be initially short topics that will categorized under [[:Category:Firearms Glossary]] versus the broader [[:Category:Firearms]]. Otherwise [[:Category:Firearms]] will over time become too large like the [[:Category:History]]. 
 
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I have put a lot of thought and energy into this project to attract a different audience of conservatives to our beloved Conservapedia. I first learned of Conservapedia from a hyperlink from [[James Wesley Rawles]]. And his popular website ([[The_Survival_Blog#Strong_Advocate_of_Conservapedia_over_Wikipedia]]) with more than 80 million unique visits since July 2005 and more than 320,000 unique visits per week is very happy to more frequently link to us where possible, doing his best to avoid what frequently calls the "[[Wikipedia|LiberalPropagandaPedia]].
 
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[[User:Wschact|Wschact]], perhaps you would please consider working on creating some '''new content''' yourself or on editing existing articles in a field in which you are "subject matter expert" rather than constantly nit-picking the guns, preparedness and computer security fields. Did you notice I didn't say [[Ayurvedic medicine]] or [[Traditional Chinese medicine]]. I have put those [[alternative medicine]] projects which so upset you on hold for a bit in order to wait and see what the CP Admins have to say or not say.
 
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[[User:Wschact|Wschact]], if you kindly would let me focus and get back to lots of editing of the areas in which I have a good amount of knowledge and maybe you could then review my edits in 30 days and I will have a more open mind to your suggestions which at this point are not very constructive.
 
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I think I will go back to the [[Conservapedia:Guidelines#90.2F10_Rule]] rather than pay to much attention to "[[Liberal whining|squeaky wheel]]" noisy liberal and/or [[RINO]] [[liberal style]] critics here. Not to suggest that you are either of those since I don't know anything about you except for what you write here.
 
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I will not be responding as often to your very frequent comments since it is beginning to take up an inordinate amount of time diplomatically answering then and justifying them compared to [[Conservapedia:Guidelines#90.2F10_Rule]].
 
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I must say that the liberal smear campaign and relentless edits/deletions from 5 very loud CP liberal trolls / RINOs (besides the vociferous [[User:Wschact]], you know who you are and will be happy to know you have won) has been no fun. I am sad to say, it is much worse edit wars and liberal reverts than ''anything'' I contributed over the years to Wikipedia. Sorry [[User:Aschlafly]], [[User:Conservative]] and [[User:Jpatt]], but I have lost the enthusiasm to continue contributing to CP in the face of this much liberal opposition. Thank you 3 for what you do for the conservative movement. I strongly suspect that the frequent sock puppet hacker-vandalist accounts were [[User:Wschact]] or one his friends using a VPN since all the vandals edits were directed to things he was revert warring with me over. God bless. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:26, 9 January 2015 (EST)
 
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"Excuse the following...but I am cross, and Sam is I know to be a reasonable and intelligent man - and a friend.... Obviously I can't win against someone who probably sits at his computer for hours on end with an assault rifle beside him with one eye out the window just hoping that some one who is black or jewish or liberal will put a foot onto his property so that he can shoot them. What larks!! (Pip old chap)). I won't go on because I see you are like those I occasionally met in the old days in Outback pubs who felt naked without their firearms and were usually relieved of their ammunition before the publican would serve them a beer. Cheers mate." AlanE 04:06, 17 December 2014 (EST)" Source: http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Free_state
 
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I decided to simply ignore AlanE since that was the last I heard of him.
 
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What finally '''temporarily''' took the remaining "wind out of my sails" is Wschact’s almost month-long dogged efforts:
 
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I assert that between December 16 and January 8, out of 179 edits made by Wschact, 129 concern either Wschact rapidly changing my edits soon after I complete them / reverting them or complaining to the Community/Admins about my contributions. That is to say, 72% of his edits over a period of 24 days are about my work. That is a good example of being tenaciously hounded by strong opposition. Source: http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Wschact
 
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Here http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Desk/Miscellany#Interpretation_of_copyright_policy
 
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Wschact doesn't even know the difference between 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge/ammunition and a "7.62x51mm NATO rifle" and hence wrongly insisting that the Admins move 7.62x51mm NATO to "7.62x51mm NATO rifle". And the so-called copyright issues he brings are been handled by MLA citations/references/bibliography and [[fair use]].
 
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I made more than 1000+ small edits on CP for several months before contributing much of anything original to be sure that I got a feel for the actual format, content, categories, see also's, stubs or lack of stubs, politics, guidelines, etc.  I also wanted to make sure that my edits proved to the CP admins that I am sincere and trustworthy, not a troll or parodist. Then in late November when my sabbatical began I begin much more extensive CP contributions. That was when on December 16 I can on the Wschact radar scope.
 
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I was asked by one JoeyJ (http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:TheAmericanRedoubt&oldid=1130110#Orphaned_Pages) to deorphan pages which I then began to do. But the edits I make to de-ophan them by adding them appropriately to a See Also or a wiki link within the article were getting frequently deleted by Wschact. This happened a lot. He would keep saying I am violating the CP policy.
 
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Over the next few months while I am taking a sabbatical from my work, I have a lot of time/energy/knowledge to contribute to CP generating new content. Alas, at the moment I am feeling too harassed by their constant rapid nit-picking and having to 10/90 Talk Page explain my every step versus doing 90/10 actual article work. I've never experienced this before in an online Wiki or forum community, I am sad to say. Even on Wikipedia, I would get at least a few days to a week to perfect a short article or a contribution to one before the liberal vultures would swoop in to eat it up (if they did even). Because CP is a much smaller community of editors, they give me no time to improve upon my work before they come in and revert/delete. It's truly demoralizing/intimidating for a new editor. I don't know what else to say. I feel CP is an amazing voice for our American conservative movement, but I didn't know it would have so many fast-moving critics/deleters/reverters against anything I contribute in the realm of firearms or survivalism/preparedness articles. Yet they were against much on complementary medicine and amateur radio as well.
 
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It's funny, the ONLY contributions of mine that the liberal/RINO editors didn't touch were the Buddhist articles. I think that is because most liberals like Buddhism. Although Catholic, I formally studied comparative religions and CP's Buddhist and Hindu articles are very slim at the moment, so I have much to add there as well. But again, at the moment, I am becoming "gun shy" with their liberal/RINO sights all aimed at me now, especially on http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Community_Portal.
 
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[[Persistence]] is a virtue, as Calvin Coolidge said:
 
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:"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
 
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:Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
 
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:Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
 
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:Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
 
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:The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
 
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Thank you for listening. Any advice or encouragement would be appreciated.
 
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[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 19:42, 9 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:Your sheer volume of edits has the liberals worried. Since they can't take CP down, they need to force out productive members. Improving CP is against their interests. Every edit is a poke in their eye. Stay the course and keep on trucking. Good work!--[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 22:52, 9 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:: Roger that [[User:Jpatt]]! The encouraging words are sincerely appreciated. My sails now have full wind in them again and I added a backup [[generator]] just in case so I can stay the course amidst the gusty liberal winds that try to sink the ship. I feel supported now in adding lots of firearms articles. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 23:25, 9 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::Lock and load! And keep your powder dry and don't let the liberals rain on it. :)  If SamHB behaves rudely, tell Karajou and he will straighten him out. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:10, 10 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::::What is this? A mixed metaphor competition? And Cons. If you are going to invoke Oliver Cromwell, it's load and lock. (I struggled against the thought that you might be going off half cocked.) [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:56, 10 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::::::''This thread seems to be in two places; here, and in TAR's talk page.''
 
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::JPatt:  You have always been fair-minded in your dealings with me, but I think you are falling into a rhetorical trap in your comments above about liberals:
 
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:::Your sheer volume of edits has the liberals worried. Since they can't take CP down, they need to force out productive members. Improving CP is against their interests. Every edit is a poke in their eye.
 
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::The rhetorical trap is conflating anyone who disagrees with oneself as a "liberal".  It is a very common fallacy here at CP.  What you said about liberals may well be true, but the context suggests that you are applying it to the 5 people that TAR is complaining about.  (I assume the 5 are myself, Wschact, AugustO, PhilH, and AlanE.)  I don't think the things you said above about liberals apply to all of us.  We are not forcing out productive members; in fact, I have just been forced out, complete with extremely explicit block threats (above and below) by Cons.  Improving CP is not, and has never been, against my interests.
 
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::I believe that abhorrence of treason is a very conservative value.  I abhor treason, and I take accusations that my home state is treasonous and unconstitutional very seriously.  Yet this accusation has been put back in, and there is nothing I can do about it except leave.  My rude language was because of that abhorrence.
 
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::I believe that CP's presentation on relativity is in good condition, so no further editing on my part will be necessary.  I will leave now.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 13:44, 10 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::::''Some material here, being about SamHB personally, and various disagreements with him personally, has been moved to his talk page, [[User_talk:SamHB#Material_moved_from_the_Community_Portal]].  It is not relevant to Conservapedia generally.  As the person who initiated the use of this page to discuss matters of general interest to the Conservapedia community, I feel a certain responsibility to keep the discussions on topic.'' [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 14:22, 11 January 2015 (EST)
 
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==Interesting article==
 
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While researching this topic, I came across an interesting article from the Chicago Tribune from 2011 at http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-12-11/health/ct-met-nccam-overview-20111211_1_cancer-treatment-alternative-medicine-breast-cancer-researcher
 
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:In traditional/folk medicine there is a strain of thought based on practicality and treatments working for families/communities/societies over a long time. On the other hand, there is another strain based on New Age impractical ideas and other impractical ideas. 
 
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:In Western medicine, there is a problem with greed/fraud and the strength of marketing campaigns/market position (industry leaders with name recognition and a strong brand are hard to combat)  winning the day instead of an objective cost/benefit analysis. Plus, the case of Ignaz Semmelweis (he proposed that doctors wash their hands due to its beneficial effects and was met by fierce opposition) shows that errant tradition (we have always done it this way) rather than objective criteria does happen within Western medicine. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:30, 11 January 2015 (EST)
 
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== Subject matter expert in electromagnetism ==
 
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I notice the recent creation of the [[Lenz's Law]] page.  This really isn't encyclopedic&mdash;people aren't going to come away with the feeling that CP is a source of good information on the topic.  I think there may be a connection with the Meissner effect and with "eddy currents".  Does anyone know about this?
 
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Is there someone with the knowledge, expertise, wherewithal, and motivation who can put together a good explanation?  I think it would make fascinating reading if done well.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 00:14, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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==Response to [[User:Conservative]]'s January 13 question==
 
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[I struck out my Jan 5 sentence above before Cons left his Jan 13 posting immediately above.]  Conservapedia faces a number of challenges in attracting readers and maintaining viability (and beyond that thriving).  On the one hand, Cons is correct that there have been some vandals and "parodists" like Markman who have wasted our time and chased some valuable editors away.  On the other hand, bad writing, inconsistent format, and other technical glitches undermine our credibility and discourage readers from returning.  So, what we need (and what I have done) is to work '''here for years''' on cleaning up after vandals as well improving the writing quality and consistency of style.  Of course I have also added a ton of content.  If Cons wants to identify "enemies of Conservapedia", he should be equally on the lookout for vandals, parodists and poor writing that does not meet our style guide.  I agree that generally people should not hover over or smother other editors while they are working. I am giving TAR more space to learn.  Yet, because this wiki is a '''group collaboration''', I expect people to come along and edit what I wrote last week, and everyone else here expects that I will edit what they wrote.  The best of the public will produce a coherent whole from the collaboration. (By the way, I do not have any "distain" for TAR and respect his wide variety of interests and background.) Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 01:01, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:Three points: 1) TheAmericanRedoubt said some of your edits related to his were helpful. But the sheer volume of them were uncalled for. 2) Your "mountain man" comment reeks of disdain. There is no hiding it.  Best to admit it and move on. The same liberal elitist attitude could be said of your absolutist stance against traditional medicine given that many people of modest means throughout the world depend on it and common things like turmeric/ginger have been scientifically shown to benefit people medicinally without toxic side effects (I recognize traditional medicine has its problems, but so does Western medicine so good judgement needs to be used by consumers. Conservatives believe in giving adult consumers choices. It ultimately comes down to a cost/benefit/toxicity/"willingness to risk" decision. Japanese consumers, who tend to be more health conscious than many cultures, use highly advanced Western medicine and often use traditional medicine too and there life expectancy is 5 years longer than Americans). 3) Some of your reversions were ideologically based and uncalled for. One way or another, this is going to stop. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:21, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::Wschact, it's not your job to edit out conservatism, which is what I and other people here have seen you doing.  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 01:24, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::Cons: I withdrew the comment at [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Conservapedia:Community_Portal&diff=1131542&oldid=1131537 22:34 12 January] so let's move on. Let's wait for Andy to decide the medicine question or whether Conservapedia embraces a [[Dystopia]] vision.  Vargas: I would never intentionally "edit out conservatism".  Perhaps we have different ideas of what good writing requires.  I take item #5 of [[Conservapedia:How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia]] seriously: "We encourage conciseness here, like a true encyclopedia. Wikipedia implicitly encourages (through its use of stubs) long-winded, verbose entries, making it difficult to recognize the essential facts." Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 01:48, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::::Wschact sometimes (not always) has an arrogant attitude hidden under a veneer of politeness. If something falls out of his area of expertise and he is against it, well it has to be reverted. I demonstrated above that his knowledge of economic history and economics is quite limited. In addition, he has a disdain for those outside of cities/suburbia or he never would have used the term "mountain man". I am not saying he cannot change his attitude, but there is definitely a problem. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:58, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::::Preparedness is not synonymous with dystopian. People can have sizable amounts of precious metals in their portfolios for example, but still own stocks. You can have an emergency kit in your car without thinking that sooner or later you are going to get into a very serious accident.  You are setting up a false dichotomy.  In addition, it is possible for an encyclopedia to cover survivalism in an objective manner. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:06, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::::::With due respect, the statement in question, which I withdrew hours ago was, "I am not an expert in living as a mountain man in a post-civilization world."  It was a statement of self-depreciation and modesty in recognition of my own limitations, not one of arrogance.  I do not want to plan for a post-civilization dystopia but rather I want conservative principles applied to American society.  I and other conservatives believe in America and its ability to overcome any challenge.  A small faction is trying to bet against American society surviving and to profit from its downfall.  I sense that you agree with my side of this bet, and you agree that my remarks about dystopia were not directed toward preparedness.  (The Scout motto is "Be Prepared.")  Let's move on. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 02:18, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::::::The alternative/traditional medicine decision has already been decided. I suggested that TheAmericanRedoubt compromise by not adding ayurvedic medicine content and he is amenable to this. Second, I already know beforehand that your acts of illegitimate behavior towards TheAmericanRedoubt will cease one way or another. I am hoping that things are done in the most harmonious way possible. Hopefully, you take the hint and act in a more productive manner. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:37, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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If memory serves, and it may not, I have the impression from your main page talk comments that you are a liberal/moderate. And VargasMilan indicated that you are attempting to edit out conservatism from Conservapedia. I said my piece. I am also willing to move on. I don't believe in holding grudges. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:46, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:One other matter: Not all Conservapedians are American. Admin Joaquin is Mexican for example. And Conservapedia has content that covers areas outside of the USA. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 03:01, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::We agree on non-American conservatives, and we agree that Survivalism can be covered objectively on Conservapedia.  The reason I focused on the American context above is that society in some foreign countries have indeed collapsed, but that America is exceptional and we should not bet on an American collapse. Also, although I may be more moderate than some people, I am certainly '''not a liberal'''.  Perhaps some of my libertarian views might create that mis-impression. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 03:09, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:Not hoping for America to collapse and it has a lot of tangible/intangible assets. And even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia did not turn into a third world nation. Second, no doubt many dominant players on the world stage who collapsed thought they were exceptional before they fell. Success followed by complacency is a common human failing. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 03:26, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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==Temporary 7 Day Ban: WShact again removing Conservative POV material from Survival/Firearm Related Articles==
 
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Dear [[User:Jpatt]] and [[User:Karajou]], I would appreciate your help on addressing Wshact issue again this since [[User:Conservative]] told me to talk to you since he is temporarily busy on off-Wiki related business. Thank you again.
 
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Instead of contributing new material, I again have had to spend significant time restoring the diverse conservative point of view topics/materials that WShact continues to remove/delete/subtly edit out from [[:Category:Survivalism]] and firearms, Second Amendment related articles. [[The Survival Blog]] articles in particular took 30 minutes to restore material deleted by Wshact from his numerous small edits (so they couldn't be easily reverted). I had to spend time removing Wshact's biased (and improperly formatted resulting in a reference error) source/ref from a biased competing commercial website rather than unbiased actual Alexa site reference. http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:The_Survival_Blog#WShact_again_removing_Conservative_POV_material_from_Survival.2FFirearm_Related_Articles
 
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[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 06:47, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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In re-reviewing Wschact's continued harassment of Survivalism-Prepper-Firearms articles under the guise of making lots of small improvements to the article (which cannot be easily reverted). I realized Wshact, under the guise of reorganizing the article and putting it in the active voice instead of passive voice, has again deleted significant conservative point of view content. It was to hard to continue trying to restore the vandalized article. Thus I had to restore my original version of the article.
 
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Dealing with this whole affair of continued harassment has just cost me 1 hour of my time that I had budgeted to spend contributing new firearms content.
 
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In response to Wshact's continued harassment despite repeated warnings, I am temporarily banning him for 7 days. Admins who have been involved in correcting Wshact's aggressive behavior, please correct the ban time if appropriate. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 07:11, 13 January 2015 (EST)
 
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From what I have seen so far, user Wschact has taken it upon himself to follow TAR on this site, either in removing material previously posted or taking actual control of particular pages away from him.  This raises a serious problem as to the subject of collaboration between individuals - which has been stated by Wschact several times that that is what his intention is.  What I am seeing instead is a typical tactic used in Wikipedia when an editor takes over someone else's project, then blames the original editor for being uncooperative; tells the the original editor that he cannot "own" the page, but takes control of the page away from him in such a manner that he is the new "owner" of it.  That is a tactic which has no business within this website, and it is not going to be tolerated here.
 
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<s>So, what will happen is this: persons who originate/create pages will be allowed to finish them, unmolested.  Anyone else who wishes to contribute to the page concerned will ask the creator of the page first; or leave pertinent, additional information on the talk page; or do nothing more than simple grammar/spell check.  [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 08:44, 13 January 2015 (EST)</s>
 
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:*The number of [[Special:WantedPages]] has increased sharply to 2,500 - mainly due to the actions of "TAR". [[User:Conservative]] wrote on Jan 11: "''I contacted TheAmericanRedoubt. The red link invasion will stop. :) '', but this was just an empty promise, see e.g., [[Essay:France Pays Dearly - Liberal Gun Control Laws and Gun Free Zones that Welcome Terrorists]] written on Jan 12.
 
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::After some thought, I am rescinding the above.  It prevents people from openly cooperating in a voluntary manner, and that's what I'd rather have.  [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 08:20, 14 January 2015 (EST)
 
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I think this is a reasonable compromise. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:15, 14 January 2015 (EST)
 
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: Thank you [[User:Conservapedia]] for your phone call with me and for your inspiring and unwavering dedication both to Conservapedia and to our conservative movement. I agree with both of these points. Over the next 12 months I promise to completely fill in at least 95% of my red links with actual full fledged detailed articles or at least 2 to 3 paragraph shorter articles only in the cases where a long article is not useful and would be like Wikipedia style excessively detailed unnecessary verbosity. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 14:22, 14 January 2015 (EST)
 
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I will agree that TheAmericanRedoubt has been overdoing the category tags. For example, for "police state" he would put a category tag of "internet".  Yes, a police state attempts to control the "internet", but that is not how someone would look up an article on "police state".
 
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I told TheAmericanRedoubt to pretend he was playing the game show "Family Feud" with Richard Dawson where people try to come up with a word/phrase that matches a topic/word. Now if he was on that game show and said "Internet" for the topic "Police state" he would lose in that game show every time. The user TheAmericanRedoubt (TAR) saw my point and is going to do his category tags differently from now on.
 
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My request to other editors, please do not be persnickety with TheAmericanRedoubt about the category tags. He promised to do better on the category tags and now sees how he has been overdoing it. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:38, 14 January 2015 (EST)
 
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: I agree on the [[police state]] article and quite a few others. Thank you for the mentoring User:Conservative and [[User:Karajou]]. Although I too am not a fan of Wikipedia, as far as the category tags, I will comparatively look at similar articles in Wikipedia to see how many category tags they are using for a given article. User:Conservative and I discussed on the phone the [[:Category:Firearms]] and I told him I will still be using/creating "granular" categories, similar to how Wikipedia does it. For example, today I just created the categories:
 
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: Fellow editors: Thank you, in advance, for your patience and following of the guidance from [[User:Conservative]] regarding his advice to not be overly "persnickety" / fastidious about my work in this area. I appreciate it. I promise that over the next 12 months I will re-adjust my categorizations on most of the articles I have edited to be similar to the granularity level seen on Wikipedia. This is quite "granular" however. As I discussed on the phone with User:Conservative, it doesn't mean I will be having each article I edit/contribute having only 1 or 2 categories. As evidenced by the [[James Wesley Rawles]] or [[The Survival Blog]] articles, some articles may have many valid, yet granular categorizations.
 
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::On numerous occasions, it has been pointed out that the user:conservative account is accessed by a number of different people. Yet you state that you were in contact with only one person - ''I told '''him''' I will still be using/creating "granular" categories, similar to how Wikipedia does it '' - Are you saying that the user:conseravtive account is in fact only accessed by one person? And that person is male? Your post concerning your ''phone-call'' contradicts many of the claims that the user:conservative account has made... [[User:EJamesW|EJamesW]] 15:07, 14 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::In the phone call in question, TAR was told that User: Conservative account consists of more than one editor. Feel free to confirm this matter with TAR (In addition, you can ask Karajou who was informed of this matter also).
 
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:::Second, given the existence of voice changing software and an editor of the User: Conservative account possibly speaking through an agent/friend/family member/etc., the User: Conservative account remains veiled under a fog of mystery. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:40, 14 January 2015 (EST)
 
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*I'm willing to cut new editors some slack. However, I expect them to respect the traditions and rules of this site! You should spend some time getting to know your new home before you start redecorating the rooms - and tear down whole structures. It just a question of politeness.
 
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*[[User:Wschact]] seemed to have some valid points - as the section above show. Shouldn't his block be reduced/commuted?
 
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--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 15:51, 14 January 2015 (EST)
 
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Can someone please tell me how [[France]] - or the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]] - belong in this category? Can someone please tell me what sense it make to wait for [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] to put every article with the slightest connection to nuclear power (or perhaps the letter "N") into this category? --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 16:07, 15 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:There are any objections to dropping this category?  Today, the main threats are to terrrorism targets rather than Soviet intercontinental missiles.  So, there is a danger that if we put undue emphasis on Cold War threats, home schooled high school students will over-react.  Categories are short hand and do not properly communicate the subtle dimensions for evaluating the "Nuclear Target Structures" designation. I do not object to a stand-alone article on this topic. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 23:11, 7 February 2015 (EST)
 
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== Obama says the newspaper exercised bad judgment and brought this upon themselves. ==
 
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[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] writes in his [[Essay:France Pays Dearly - Liberal Gun Control Laws and Gun Free Zones that Welcome Terrorists]] on [[Charlie Hebdo]] that "''Obama says the newspaper exercised bad judgment and brought this upon themselves"''. [[User:EJamesW]] asked for a citation for this claim,  [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:France_Pays_Dearly_-_Gun_Control_Laws_and_Gun_Free_Zones_that_Welcome_Terrorists&diff=1131801&oldid=1131418 I did so too]. Unfortunately, [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] hasn't shared his sources with us yet - and I haven't found any source stating something similar...
 
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If President Obama really said something along this lines, it should make the front-page of Conservapedia!
 
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--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 15:21, 15 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:The arrogant and highly atheistic/secular French and French muslim situation is a volatile mix. The French atheist/muslim situation will probably get worse before it better. There seems to be a feedback loop of discrimination/hatred/violence/non-assimilation going on.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/01/14/terror-in-france-implications-for-muslim-integration/] 
 
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:The Ireland/Italian muslim situation seems a lot less volatile. I think the Irish/Italians (who tend to be more religious) are nicer and less arrogant then the atheistic/secularists French.[http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/victoria-white/it-is-frances-arrogant-secularism-that-is-the-truly-intolerant-religion-306959.html] And Ireland's Muslims are more highly educated.[http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/victoria-white/it-is-frances-arrogant-secularism-that-is-the-truly-intolerant-religion-306959.html]
 
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:In addition, judging from his radio mini-debates with theists, the Irish atheist [[Michael Nugent]] seems nicer and less abrasive than many prominent atheists/agnostics (see: [[Atheism and arrogance]]). Research shows that atheists are more charitable when they are around Christians/Christian culture.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imuaiRO5mSQ&feature=sub] Maybe atheist become nicer when they are around theists/Christians as well. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 07:29, 17 January 2015 (EST)
 
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::All interesting observations, but they have nothing to do with the problem: '''''Please give a source for the claim that Obama says the newspaper exercised bad judgment and brought this upon themselves.''''' Do you anything about this, User:Conservative? --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 08:28, 17 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:::If TAR did indeed say this, I think he made a mistake. At the same time, Obama is pretty fanatical about not calling Islamic terrorists Muslims. And Islam does have one of the most violent pasts in terms of various religions.
 
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The secular/godless and evolution loving countries of Germany/France/UK who have sub-fertility rates are projected to be overrun by Muslims by 2030.[http://time.com/3670892/muslims-europe-map/]
 
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I do know that a German Christian denomination that adheres to creationism is growing.
 
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I think this is due to businesses having labor shortages and needing workers and the respective countries immigration policies and the countries wanting to support pensioners, but I could be mistaken.
 
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In Switzerland, which is one of the most biblical creation loving countries of Europe and has more restrictive immigration policies, the proliferation of problem causing Muslims by 2030 is not projected to be an issue. Ireland does not appear to be projected to have a problem either (Perhaps it is because they are more religious than most Europe. The fertility rate of Ireland is 2.01 births per woman).
 
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Of course, the projections of Muslims overrunning Germany/UK/France has the militant evolutionists/atheists/agnostics/secularists upset. For example, Richard Dawkins frequently mentions Muslims on his Twitter feed. If only these countries were more Christianity/creationism loving and had more children. All this unpleasantness with radical Muslims causing significant problems in their countries could be avoided. 
 
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On December 23, 2012, Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] who teaches at Birbeck College, University of London wrote:
 
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“I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious.
 
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On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low fertility and a rapidly aging population. The demographic disparity between the religious, growing global South and the aging, secular global North will peak around 2050. In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British."[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/04/97-of-worlds-population-growth-is.html]
 
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Of course, this all bad news for evolutionists/atheists/agnostics.  I am hoping that theological conservative and biblical Christianity ultimately prevails in Europe in the 21st century. A lot is dependent on evangelism and policies regarding immigration. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:13, 17 January 2015 (EST)
 
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:In addition, in Switzerland, they have generous gun laws and a gun culture (and low gun fatality rates), so citizens are better able to protect themselves against radical muslims. They are not so dependent on police/SWAT response times. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:25, 17 January 2015 (EST)
 
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== Spamming links to external sites ==
 
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"Spamming links to external sites" once was a blockable offense. So, what is Conservapedia's current policy regarding the new [[User:OGSMEDIA]] (get it: OGS Media) advertising the site http://offgridsurvival.com/, where all kinds of outdoor equipment is advertised and sold? (See: http://offgridsurvival.com/store/ ) --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 04:17, 16 January 2015 (EST)
 
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The drive-by media does this "hottest-year ever" hooey almost every year, although this year they seem to be laying it on especially thick. The most accurate available temperature record is the UAH data based on satellite readings.[http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/12/03/no-record-temperatures-according-to-satellites/] By this standard, 2014 was only the seventh warmest year on record. (1998 was the warmest.) It will be months before the surface temperature record for 2014 is complete. NASA is just guesstimating at this point. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] 06:00, 17 January 2015 (EST)
 
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When I peruse [[Special:Random]], I often encounter articles displaying information which is quite out of date (e.g, [[Stewart Bradley]] or [[Anne Arundel County, MD]]). Sometimes I'm able to update it, but at other times, it isn't in my field of special knowledge (or interest). I hope that I haven't overstepped my bounds, but
 
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#I made the  [[Template:Outdated]]: this will put a small warning on top of a page and put the page in the category. See  [[Anne Arundel County, MD]] for an example.
 
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I'd appreciate if someone would check the template and approve of it. Thanks --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 08:25, 18 January 2015 (EST)
 
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== User: TheAmericanRedoubt ==
 
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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)
 
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:*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.
 
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:*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!
 
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:*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.
 
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:--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 14:53, 4 February 2015 (EST)
 
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::I think we would all be in a better position to make decisions about what to do with TAR's material if we knew his actual intent.  We're all relieved, of course, that the "Ayurvedic medicine", "Vata", "Dosha", "Kapha" stuff has been removed, but it would be good to make a decision about a few other things.  I'm sure we're all in agreement that [[water]] doesn't really have a noteworthy relationship with survivalism.  But there are many other irrelevant categories and "see also"'s that need to be addressed, as well as the implication that Andy's, Cons's, and my home states are treasonous.
 
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::So I would suggest that we get TAR to tells us his intentions directly, rather than taking the word of someone who is known to have peculiar fantasies about his alter egos.  I fully believe that Cons and TAR are different people, but it would be good if TAR were able to communicate other than through Cons.  It's a little too much like Clark Kent's uncanny ability to summon Superman.
 
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::@TAR: I realize you may be busy with other things, but it should be possible for you to post a really quick note without getting  distracted.  If you don't want to communicate in this public forum, could you please send me an email at sam4557@gmail.com?
 
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::[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 22:42, 4 February 2015 (EST)
 
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:::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.
 
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:::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)
 
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=== What I don't want to happen ===
 
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I believe that 3 of the primary reasons why TAR rubbed Wschact the wrong way and caused him to act inappropriately in some ways (both myself and VargasMilan believe this happened):
 
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1. Alternative medicine issue - This issue has been resolved for the time being. Personally, I think that both Western World medicine and alternative medicine both have a lot of quackery within them and that an evidence based approach is best (there has been a lot of medical science fraud in recent years [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/10/science-has-lost-its-way.html][http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-intrinsic-unreliability-of-science.html]). To a certain extent, Billy Bones in the classic work ''Treasure Island'' was right: Doctors is all swabs, Jim! The Japanese, who live longer/healthier than the people who live in many countries of the Western World, use both systems of health care.
 
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2. Survivalism - One of the reasons why I think this rubs Wsacht (who is a liberal) the wrong way is that much of the recent popularity of survivalism within some quarters of conservatism/libertarianism has the assumption that the economic system fashioned by liberals is economically unsound/unsustainable.
 
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The claim of the unsoundness of liberal economics usually focuses on these factors:  High amounts of sovereign debt in the world (The USA has 17 trillion dollars of federal government debt, etc. etc.), the failure of Keynesian economics, money that is not backed by a hard asset(s) (Gold or a basket of commodities), high amounts of money printing, the Soviet empire and various Latin American countries having their economies collapsing due to communism/socialism, etc., etc.  I really think this irritates Wsacht. 
 
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For the record, TAR takes the view of hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
 
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3. His staunch Pro Second Ammendment views.
 
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I have asked Karajou to make sure that Wsacht does not mess with TAR's material and create a lot of unnecessary, extra work for TAR due to Wsacht disagreeing with TARs political/economic views. I don't think CP liberals should dictate the ideology at CP so it conforms with liberalism. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:31, 5 February 2015 (EST)
 
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:Thank you for sharing your concerns in an open candid way, and I will respond with equal candor.
 
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:1. We are close to agreement here, but minor editing is necessary to bring some articles up to Manual of Style standards and the category tree structure needs repair.
 
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:2. If Cons or TAR want to write essays expressing personal views on survivalism or giving advice, I will defend their right to do so.  Similarly, if we take a team approach to writing objective, consensus articles on survivalism, Conservapedia will benefit as well.  The conservative movement has a wide spectrum of view as do the survivalists.  There are some survivalists who advocate immediate action due to the imminent collapse of Western civilization. Some of these advocate succession of "Cascadia" from the United States, and others advocate an separate all-white nation in the Pacific Northwest.  Those views are beyond accepted conservative thought, because conservatives seek to improve society and the social order rather than to destroy it.  Articles discussing preparedness for natural disasters or emergencies would help Conservapedia.  I assume that they would comply with current Conservapedia policy that does not allow for advertisements or how-to manual articles. So, I think we are very close to an agreement here.
 
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:3. The Second Amendment has been a part of the Constitution for 200 years, and I have not seen anyone on Conservapedia attack it.  However, materials added to existing articles should be relevant, well-sourced and comply with the Manual of Style.  One does not advocate for the Second Amendment by adding a category to every page on Conservapedia.  If the person covered by a biography article favors gun rights, then add a sentence to the article preferably with a footnote.  Same holds for gun rights opponents.  If an article is about a brand of rifle, put "rifle" in the title.  If the article is about just ammunition, make that clear as well.  If TAR wants to write an article about a gun company, I suggest he use [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Gun_Company the Wikipedia article on Ithaca Gun Company] as a model.  I have no objection to TAR moving over a lot of detailed articles providing reference materials on guns, so long as they are accurate and comply with the Manual of Style.  I welcome people writing about things that interest them, including guns.
 
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:So, I think we are mostly in agreement.  Karajou, Cons and I have all advised TAR to focus on writing longer articles rather than just one or two sentences followed by a lot of "See also" links and category lists.  I am not objecting to the subjects TAR has chosen, but rather the way TAR adds "See also" and categories into what appear to me to be unrelated articles. Possibly TAR may see a relationship that I can't, but that means that he should add a sentence or paragraph explaining to the reader those implications and relationships.
 
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:I would welcome TAR back with the hope that he can clean up his many edits from December and January.  Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 18:21, 5 February 2015 (EST)
 
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::TAR was under the impression that category tags generate a good amount of web traffic to articles. I showed him that the category tags effect on web traffic to articles is negligible. So I think the "Battle of the Category Tags" is pretty much over. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:15, 5 February 2015 (EST)
 
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:::Good news! [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 21:20, 5 February 2015 (EST)
 
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::::Also, a former Aussie admin, PhilipRayment, disagreed with Andy about gun control. If memory serves, and it may not, this may have been the final straw that caused Mr. Rayment to stop editing CP and launch his own wiki. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:31, 5 February 2015 (EST)
 
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:::::I believe I am agreement with Andy about gun rights/gun control.  I understand that there are a number of spin-off wikis running under Media-Wiki software.  So, this raises two questions: 1) What can be done to recruit, train and retain competent editors here? 2) How quickly can we repair our wiki so as to avoid being penalized by search engines for our current profile that could be misinterpreted as a link-farm and also to avoid losing credibility with our readers? Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 21:46, 5 February 2015 (EST)
 
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Could someone please help me to work off all the [[:Category:Merge candidates|Merge candidates]]?--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 12:42, 5 February 2015 (EST)
 
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:Since a proper merger would involve merging the change histories, I believe that only an administrator can do it properly.  Am I wrong? Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 13:28, 5 February 2015 (EST)
 
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::You just have to move the content to the other article and then redirect to the article.--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 10:25, 13 February 2015 (EST)
 
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According to an article [http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/03/obama-signs-new-stolen-valor-act.html "Obama signs new Stolen Valor Act"] by Bryant Jordan of Military.com, on Jun 3, 2013 a law called the Stolen Valor Act was signed, "which makes it a federal crime for people to pass themselves off as war heroes by wearing medals they didn't rightfully earn.
 
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*[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:ShortPages&limit=500&offset=0 Here] you can see a list of short articles. Please try to expand them.--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 10:26, 13 February 2015 (EST)
 
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[[Conservapedia:Community Portal#Make the username policy more clear|I raised this concern]] two months ago, but no user has shown any willingness to comment on this blatant issue, so I will reiterate it once again below. Users have been blocked on nearly a daily basis for having "spam-like formulas" to their username when a Conservapedia username policy is nonexistent. The only advice that the website provides on account creation is a mere suggestion that a username should contain a first name and last initial; nothing is said about having numbers in usernames, or using pseudo identifiers. While there are obvious times when users should be blocked, especially in cases where usernames are blatantly offensive, there are quite a number of users that get blocked that are possibly good-faith editors, like [http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Contributions/Robbyrain65 Robbyrain65], who was simply blocked for violation of the nonexistent username policy, or [http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Contributions/Marci18 Marci18], who was only blocked-by-association because they had a seemingly similar username to 'Natashia36', who apparently [http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Contributions/Natashia36 did nothing]. In addition, it is only ironic when one of our best users, Conservative, which is obviously neither a first or last name, blocks [http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Contributions/ProgressiveBrit ProgressiveBrit] and tells them to 'pick a more respectable username'. It only produces an appearance of hypocrisy when some of the site's best editors, including Karajou, Conservative, TheAmericanRedoubt, and Aschlafly himself, violate this nonexistent username policy used to block other editors, many of which have not even made a single edit. There should be something tangible on this website that points out what exactly is expected of a username.
 
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:Two points: 1) The Username policy is not changing unless you convince owner of the website of the benefit of doing this and address any objections he may have. You can contact the owner of the website at: [[User talk:Aschlafly]] 2) Sometimes users are banned due to IPs associated with commercial spammers without any reason being given as a block reason. I know I have done this. If we had a more explicit username policy, it would give me more incentive to give block reasons. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 20:45, 13 February 2015 (EST)
 
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::I see what you are saying, but the problem I have with your first point is that, unless I'm mistaken there ''is no username policy''. [[User:DanielJackson|DanielJackson]] 20:52, 13 February 2015 (EST)
 
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:::Well, you are correct in that there is no precisely stated policy.  Perhaps this is intentional, to prevent people from seeing exactly how close to a violation they can go.  But some of the more responsible sysops have lately been giving a block reason in an informal way -- "spam-like formula to user name".  Perhaps some of the other sysops could start following that practice.  For example, VargasMilan gave that reason in some blocks at 22:42 and 23:13 on Feb. 19.  The users involved were "Tights07twig" and "Moatnoodle1".  Other users blocked around that time were "Lakiesha32" and "Rachel21".  It's not hard to see the formula-like construction -- nonsense words with digits.  Why spammers do it that way is a mystery to me.  So I think it would be fair to say that, official username policy or not, people desiring to do serious editing would do well not to create such ridiculous names.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 10:54, 21 February 2015 (EST)
 
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::::Hmmm.  Just after I posted the above, "Roadbarge4" came along.  Countdown in 3, 2, 1, ....  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 10:59, 21 February 2015 (EST)
 
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Did Ken Ammi of True Free Thinker join Conservapedia or is [[User:Kenammi]] who joined February 16th/17th an impostor?  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 13:58, 17 February 2015 (EST)
 
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:Not an imposter.  Please see: [[Conservapedia:Atheism Project - News Updates]]. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 16:07, 17 February 2015 (EST)
 
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::Imposter or not, he deserves a welcome.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 10:56, 21 February 2015 (EST)
 
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:I blocked Burke39 and corrected his edits mainly in a group.  You can browse my contributions and can usually tell by the description.  He also did some odd removals.  I am not completely sure that the block doesn't need to be increased somewhat.  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 19:52, 15 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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::If you're not sure the block doesn't need to be increased, you shouldn't.  ''This isn't aimed at you; it's a general comment.''  There are two types of unsavory characters: people who need to be slapped, and people who need to be permabanned.  The latter are clear, of course, and he isn't in that class.  But slapping someone with a long but finite block just makes them angry and hostile when they come back.  CP is basically treating them like children with these "timeouts".  It would be better to treat them like adults who need to be told when they are doing something wrong.  Assuming they are adults, they will presumably "get it".  If not, well, then you drop the axe.
 
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::The preceding paragraph wasn't something I was planning to write; it's just something I've noticed over the last year or so.  You gave me a perfect lead in for it.  Thank you for understanding.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 20:06, 15 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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== Categories, again ==
 
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What is the reasoning behind  putting [[Hertz]], [[Ampere's law]], and many other articles into the categories [[:Category:Amateur Radio]], [[:Category : Solar Energy]], [[:Category : Wind Energy]] or [[:Category : Hydroelectric Energy]]? --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 10:43, 23 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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:I noticed the same thing.  Looking just at some of the pages that I have been working on lately (AC, DC, current, voltage, etc), there is simply no reason to put these into categories like "wind energy".  If one were going to be that exhaustive, one would have to put them into such categories as: wind energy, solar energy, nuclear energy, fossil-fuel energy, hydroelectric energy, geothermal energy, power distribution, piezoelectricity, conductors, insulators, semiconductors, electrostatics, electrodynamics, electromagnetism, electromagnetic radiation, Maxwell's equations, plasma, magnetars, pulsars, coronal mass ejections, vacuum tubes, diodes, transistors, integrated circuits, bipolar transistors, field-effect transistors, Schottky diodes, Zener diodes, computers, laptop computers, deskside computers, mainframe computers, supercomputers, motors, generators, transformers, telephones, radio, television, cell phones, smart phones, etc, etc, etc.  I could go on for hours.
 
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:All of the things listed above relate to physics or technology in some way.  A few categories in those fields are all that are needed.  For example, wind energy can be in a few categories like power distribution and electricity.  From there one can get to electronics, electrical engineering, and so on, and, if one wants to go into great detail, to related topics like Maxwell's equations, electronics, physics, and the definition of the volt.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 14:10, 23 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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::It's the same reasoning that links Leonard Bernstein with electrical wire. It seems they're both conductors. Actually, I think "reasoning" is not the appropriate word. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 23:42, 25 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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:::I think I've cleaned that up a bit.  Though I left a lot of redlinks.  Maybe one of our more prolific writers who is interested in music (yes, Cons, that's you) would like to write articles for these people.  Or Alan, of course.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 01:24, 26 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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::::Cons is on record on one of my articles' talk pages decrying articles under 600 words. Perhaps he should do it. TAR however, seems to get away with one-liners regularly. The various protocols don't seem to apply to our free-stater - I reckon he could write a line each on all of them, each complete with 20 see-alsos and any number of categories... within the hour. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 02:04, 26 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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:What, foursomes? It's the trumpeters' doubletonguing I have trouble with.[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 02:47, 26 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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Cons, seeing as we have got you salivating over music, may I tell you that I have just been out to move our car from the front of the house to its bed for the night and ran slap bang into Renee Fleming singing Marietta's aria from Korngold's "The Dead City" on the car radio. Here t'is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1IzUbFMDGc  Lotte Lehmann is my first memory of it - the duet with Richard Tauber recorded in the 1920s, which will be somewhere on YouTube no doubt. {Korngold later fled to America where he composed the soundtracks to various Errol Flynn movies among others and wrote one of the great romantic violin concertos. {Stick with me, babe, and learn.) [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 04:04, 26 March 2015 (EDT)
 
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What Israeli coin is worth fifty cents?  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 22:02, 1 April 2015 (EDT)
 
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I think SamHB is sick.  He wants to do battle with ''me'' instead of misinformation, like you would expect a ''scientist'' to do.  Why don't we join forces, Sam, and fight distortions in what is understood together?  Don't be like [[Stephen Hawking]] who says today's physics is too advanced to be subjected to any kind of accounting.  [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 22:54, 12 April 2015 (EDT)
 
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:OK, VM.  I'll take you at your word that you want to collaborate rather than fight.  I won't make the long message that I threatened (on the other page) to make about "relativity, science, personal insults, sycophancy, "mall cop" behavior, etc. etc. etc."  It would be a waste of my time to write, and of your time to read.  Though we do need to discuss the subject matter.  I believe you are badly mistaken in your edit comment (23:45, 11 April) "Why not? It would make it easier for scientists to indoctrinate students to their worldview."  But if you no longer hold to that, that's fine with me.  We can move on.
 
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:I accept your apology for saying what you said [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=1110820&oldid=1110819 here], and for saying, just above, that I am "sick".  I will withdraw my "sycophancy" / "spider sense" comment about physics being "subjected to any kind of accounting".  I don't know what you were talking about there.
 
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:But about relativity, and your edit of 23:45, 11 April, you removed several things of mine, most importantly the statement that scientists do not choose theories knowing that they are wrong, just because the mathematics is easier.  The idea that the Newcomb-Hall hypothesis was "disfavored by mathematicians due to its inelegance in integrating" is just all wrong.  It's been in the article for years, and I decided it was time for it to go.  (If you're not familiar with the Newcomb-Hall hypothesis, please do your homework.  It's been written about extensively, mostly by me, for years.  The earliest reference I can find is just 56 days after your account was created.)  Now there's another problem that I removed and you put back in---that "one of the other explanations" (beside relativity or Newcomb-Hall) involved "factoring in the pull of the other planets".  No.  The correction from the other planets was already taken into account, before relativity or Newcomb-Hall.  That correction is much larger than the "anomalous precession" that is in dispute.  I believe the gravitational perturbations are something like 5500 seconds, vs. 43 seconds for the "anomalous" precession.  Everyone agrees on the gravitational perturbations.
 
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:Anyone advocating the "elegance in integrating" idea must be taking the position that the '''anomalous precession simply does not occur''', even though it has been known, and accurately measured, for over 150 years.
 
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:So I have no idea what "worldview" you are referring to when you say "It would make it easier for scientists to indoctrinate students to their worldview."  What worldview is that?  One that says that anomalous precession does not occur?  Can you name one scientist, textbook, or teacher (beyond junior high school, of course) that holds to such a worldview and tries to indoctrinate students to it?
 
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::If your justification for the edit was that scientists are above reproach, as was stated in the edit summary, that in itself was grounds for me for rejection of the edit, as alternate explanations are available.  I didn't sustain the rejection, however, because I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt that you had further reasons.
 
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:::I assume the edit, and edit summary, you are referring to was the one to the relativity page, with comment "Scientists don't choose wrong theories over right ones just because the math is easier."  By no stretch of the imagination can that be construed to mean that scientists are above reproach.  Also, I explained in great detail, above on this page, what the "alternate explanations" were that were given in the existing article.  Do you have yet more alternate explanations?
 
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:::"grounds for me for rejection" and "didn't sustain the rejection" --- you make it sound like an executive vs. legislative issue, where you veto something, and I decide whether to try to override the veto or let it stand, and you can unilaterally "sustain" it if you still disagree.  That's not the way Conservapedia works.  We collaborate.  Sometimes we argue.  Respectfully, or course.  We try not to use words like "rejection".
 
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:::"I can't help noticing you are contradicting what Andy said" --- Yes.  I am.  This is a complicated issue, but it was an open-and-shut case.  Or, as Andy likes to put it "two plus two equals four".  I need to give you a long explanation of why I sometimes feel justified in reverting Andy.  It's a long story.  No time for it now; gotta run.  But, basically, we trust each other.  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 12:56, 17 April 2015 (EDT)
 
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:::I'm back.  Here's the deal on relativity.  I recognize that this is Andy's wiki, and that his position stands, even though I totally disagree.  If I chose to, I could make edits designed to make him look stupid.  But I don't.  I want CP's stance on relativity to be expressed as clearly as possible.  As such, I collaborate with Andy on making the [[Theory of relativity]], [[Counterexamples to Relativity]], and [[Essay:Rebuttal to Counterexamples to Relativity]] articles to be the best that they can be.  They are flagship articles.  To be the best it can be, the relativity article should not list the gravitational effects of other planets as one of the hypotheses that was put forth to try to explain the anomalous precession, because it's just not true.  The gravitational effects were the first thing that was tried.  It was the '''anomalous''' precession that was left over that caused the problem.  Also, the idea that scientists rejected Newcomb-Hall simply because the equation was harder is just wrong.  If you want the simple equation, you have to go with plain Newtonian (the delta=0 case above) which means that you posit that the anomalous precession is zero.  Which it isn't.  Hence my "Scientists don't choose wrong theories over right ones just because the math is easier." edit comment.  I believe Andy's current stance on the situation is that neither Newcomb-Hall nor relativity explains the anomalous precession correctly, so the true cause of the precession is unknown.  A completely wrong position, but at least stated in an understandable way.
 
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:::Now, a little more on the subject, that might help you to understand my "I recommend that you not get into a battle over relativity, unless you have really done your homework, which you haven't." comment.  The comment was indeed brusque and rude.  But I've been deeply involved in this stuff for most of my 8 year tenure here.  I believe that there are only 3 active people who know their way around the CP relativity articles in depth:  Andy, me, and AugustO.  (There have been others in the past, like KSorenson and JacobB, but they're long gone.)  When I see someone appear to parrot Andy's position, it gets my spider-sense tingling.  I am incredulous that someone else could hold the same view.  If you do hold the same view, you should try to explain it in your own words.
 
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Does anyone or any Conservapedians want to launch a [[Conservapedia: Politics Project]] which would be featured on the main page? 
 
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The project page would have three sections in terms of articles that need to be created or expanded: a conservative section, a moderate section and a liberal/leftist section. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:48, 18 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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::Once the page is ready, an announcement can be made on the main page. And if you want to appear on radio, etc. to promote it, that could be helpful.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 05:54, 19 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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== to: RobS, do you wish to edit CP again? ==
 
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Would you like to be an editor at Conservapedia again? If so, let me know. I would be more than happy to discuss the matter with other Conservapedians.
 
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I know Andy liked your political content that you created at Conservapedia (articles on communism, etc.) and I believe your politics are closer to the right than the leftist politics favored at the current wiki you edit at.
 
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Next, although I was formerly miffed at you messing around with my User page and User talk page, I really don't hold any animosity towards you. Life is too short to hold grudges. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 20:18, 19 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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:Gentlemen, RobS does not have to "crawl back".  He created a lot of excellent content about communism and other political subjects.  I should have extended this invitation much earlier.
 
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:I don't think RobS and I would lock horns again either. The User: Conservative account is going to be focused mainly on creating more atheism content and making some main page edits.  For the foreseeable future, except for communicating with VargasMilan2 about footnoting articles,  I don't plan on communicating with other editors at this wiki due to other projects I am involved in.
 
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:Lastly, I've mellowed. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 03:23, 23 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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::"RobSmith Created some of Conservapedia's most acclaimed articles, and was a tireless vandal fighter and researcher on the Socialist and Communist agendas." - Quote from the [[Conservapedia]] article. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:41, 23 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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:::RobS, last night I watched video series by William S. Lind on cultural Marxism/political correctness in the Western World ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyFCNj52DeA William S. Lind on the Origins of Political Correctness, Part 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtAWywfcL7c William S. Lind on the Origins of Political Correctness, Part 2]). It's primary focus was on the Frankfurt School.
 
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:::The need for more of your material at CP is definitely there. Political correctness/Marxism may wane in the West just be a political fad and it would be better if it happened sooner rather than later.
 
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:::RobS, CP's article on [[Cultural Marxism]] is merely 3 paragraphs long. If only CP had an expert on Marxism to expand it. "RobSmith Created some of Conservapedia's most acclaimed articles, and was a tireless vandal fighter and researcher on the Socialist and Communist agendas." - Quote from the [[Conservapedia]] article.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 16:32, 24 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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Another thing I wanted to mention. Subsequent to Obama coming to power and after some additional exposure to conservative thought though conservatives such as [[David Horowitz]] and others, I began to appreciate your work more as far as leftist infiltration into the [[Western World]] and the world at large. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 16:42, 24 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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:Come on, Cons!  I never thought the day would come when '''''I''''' reprimand '''''you''''' (or anyone else) for engaging in (what's the phrase the admins use?) "talk, talk, talk" instead of making substantive edits.  But that's what you are doing!  Why don't you just lift RobS's block and be done with it?  He can make his own decision about what he wants to do.  And he's well aware of what's going on&mdash;even if he isn't watching this, the folks over at ritionalwaki are watching it and discussing it, and he is part of the discussion.
 
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::I forget about the block. Thanks. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 06:22, 25 May 2015 (EDT)
 
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Second, work with me. Create more content and I will work on getting RobSmith Admin rights in order to edit the main page. The same goes for the picture upload rights for OscarO.
 
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