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== On proper grammar, or, did you know that most of the population of Texas is homosexual? ==
 
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I have chided Cons repeatedly on proper punctuation, particularly regarding subordinate clauses and compound sentences.  For a sample, see [[User_talk:SamHB#Re:_Aburke]].
 
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Well, it turns out that the same errors can show up in unexpected places, like the Texas Republican party’s official platform.  It has:
 
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{{cquote|Homosexuality is a chosen behavior that is contrary to the fundamental unchanging truths that has been ordained by God in the Bible, recognized by our nations founders, and shared by the majority of Texans.}}
 
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See [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/majority-of-texas-gay_us_573e88bfe4b0613b5129e31d this].
 
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Watch those commas!!!!  [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 11:57, 20 May 2016 (EDT)
 
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:Wow. And shouldn't it be "have been ordained" rather than "has been ordained"?  [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith| Pat Nixon for President]]</sup> 13:12, 20 May 2016 (EDT)
 
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== States and Governors ==
 
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I mentioned this earlier, but nothing happened - here are the U.S. states with red-linked governors:
 
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|[[Alaska]]||  [[Bill Walker]] ||
 
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|[[Arizona]]||  [[Doug Ducey]] ||
 
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|[[Arkansas]]||  [[Asa Hutchinson]] ||
 
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|[[Hawaii]]||  [[David Ige]] ||
 
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|[[Illinois]]||  [[Bruce Rauner]] ||
 
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|[[Maryland]]||  [[Larry Hogan]] || Thank you, [[User:DavidB4]]!
 
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|[[Montana]]||  [[Steve Bullock]] ||
 
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|[[Nebraska]]||  [[Pete Ricketts]] ||
 
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|[[New Hampshire]]||  [[Maggie Hassan]] ||
 
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|[[North Carolina]]||  [[Pat McCrory]] ||
 
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|[[Pennsylvania]]|| [[Tom Wolf]] ||
 
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|[[Rhode Island]]||  [[Gina Raimondo]] ||
 
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It seems that [[Doug Ducey]] even isn't any longer governor of Arizona! The overall look of the articles on the smaller states is quite abysmal - and often outdated. As I am not American, I do not feel up to editing these articles in detail, but I have to ask: If they  cannot use Conservapedia even to check who the governor of an U.S. state is, what will high-school pupils think of it? They have to rely on wikipedia to get up-dated information!
 
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It would be nice to have articles on the governors, too, just to check their political priorities. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 05:11, 24 May 2016 (EDT)
 
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:I know a fair amount about political concepts, people I can have a hand in electing, and other well-known political figures.  However, I know little about--if you'll pardon the expression--lesser politicians, who have little significance to me.  Therefore, I'm sorry to say that I know almost nothing about these governors.  However, I've done a little on a couple of them.  I may do more, but all I can do is research then write based on what I find.  It could be hopelessly inaccurate, but I have no way of knowing.  For this reason, I'm trying not to add too much detail, since I don't want to make fa lse statements.  If anyone else knows anything about them, please add to or revise what I've written! --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 11:01, 24 May 2016 (EDT)
 
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::Well spoken, David. Speak of what you know; not of what some website wants you to believe. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 02:57, 26 May 2016 (EDT)
 
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== One column footnoting vs. two column footnoting and mobile devices ==
 
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For this article [[Operation Compass]] I added footnoting code at the bottom of the article for the new editor.
 
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If you look at the article, you will see that the footnoting is one column footnoting and not two column footnoting.
 
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I think I recall reading that one column footnoting is better for mobile device readers, but I am not sure.  Do you know if this is the case or not?
 
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Also, if you look at my edit which is [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Operation_Compass&diff=1224027&oldid=1224024 HERE], you will see that my column width is colwidth=30em .  I think this might be better for mobile devices as well, but I am not sure.
 
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If I am right about these two matters, I think Conservapedia's manual of style should be updated. Also, we might want to clean up our most high traffic articles so one column format is used. 
 
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Does anyone know about these matters? I ask because a lot of people are using mobile devices now. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:11, 5 June 2016 (EDT)
 
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:I don't know, but I have a testing platform I might be able to use tomorrow, if no one else knows either.  It would have sense that single columns would be better, but the Wiki software comes with a mobile mode, so this might counteract columns.  I'll try to get back to you on this. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 23:26, 5 June 2016 (EDT)
 
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::I'll do some real-world testing tomorrow, but if you click the "Mobile View" link in CP's footer ([http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Operation_Compass&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile here's the direct link]), you can see that columns are removed completely.  Therefore, it seems that it shouldn't matter what we do for columns. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 00:38, 6 June 2016 (EDT)
 
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:::A big problem with 2 column footnotes is that if there are a small number of footnotes, it will break them up with only one or two words in the second column.  It does not have code to put the column break between two different footnotes. Thank you DavidB for cleaning this up. [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 04:39, 6 June 2016 (EDT)
 
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::::I'm not very good at designing templates for Wikis, but I wonder if someone could fix that.  Anyway, I did a little testing and all the mobile platforms I tried did load the wiki's mobile view, with the single column of references.  I even tried the [[Atheism]] article, with its three columns and had the same result, even if it was painfully slow due to the size of the page.  It looks like we can do columns for computers only without worrying about mobile viewing.  If you have anything else you want me to check, though, let me know! --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 08:39, 6 June 2016 (EDT)
 
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OK. Thanks. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 10:32, 6 June 2016 (EDT)
 
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== Is Trump the new Zachary Taylor? ==
 
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That's what this article argues: "[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/history-campaign-politics-zachary-taylor-killed-whigs-political-party-213935 How an outsider president killed a party]." Taylor, elected president in 1848, was the ultimate outsider candidate, even more so than Trump. He had no political experience whatsoever, and he proudly boasted that he had never even voted. When he was nominated by the Whig Party, he was known only as the commander who defeated the Mexicans at Buena Vista. But I can't agree with the article's headline. Taylor was not the guy responsible for the downfall of the Whigs. That would be Millard Fillmore, Taylor's vice president. If Taylor was the non-ideological celebrity candidate of 1848, Fillmore was a true believer, a Whig version of Ted Cruz. Whig ideology called for the president to defer to Congress. Taylor died in office after a year. When Fillmore succeed, the long-frustrated "ultra Whigs" finally got their day in the sun. It was a disaster. Although personally opposed to slavery, Fillmore deferred to Congress as a good Whig. This meant strictly enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. It was a combination of views made him hugely unpopular, both in the North and in the South. The party collapsed in 1852. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 02:50, 10 June 2016 (EDT)
 

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