Conservapedia:Contest5

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This Contest will last 48 hours - from midnight tomorrow to midnight three nights from now.

Workings

This contest focuses on insights and quality, not quantity. The point system (see below) has been adjusted accordingly.

Like many sports contests, one side "kicks off" by putting starting an entry. The other side must then work with that entry, by improving it and adding links. The first team then must work within those links, and so on until time elapses. One team cannot intentionally fill in a link created by itself: it must try to fill in links created by the other team. (Inadvertent mistakes about who created the link will still count towards points.)

Special points are awarded to quality improvements to Conservapedia entries that rank high in search engines, such as traditional Conservapedia features like Examples of Bias in Wikipedia or faith or liberal, as well as the Conservapedia terms.

Those Interested In Participating Please Put Your Name Here

Teams

Team 1 Team 2
Captain Iduan Captain Aschlafly
Members Members

Purpose

The purpose of the contest is to improve Conservapedia by tapping into the competitive side of our editors, fostering sportsmanship is also a goal.

Rules

In addition to the scoring guidelines below:

  • Good sportsmanship is required and aspects of the rules are subject to change during the contest if consensus supports the revision
  • No editor is allowed to artificially make a page wanted, then create it. To prevent this - all wanted pages will be listed on a page (to be created) before the contest starts, and only those will count as wanted pages throughout the competition.
  • All editors must keep track of their score in a clear format: preferably:


==Type of Edit(Points the edit is Worth)(Number of this type made)==
links to diff (no organization necessary).
  • -20 points to each user who does not keep track of their points correctly!!!

Points

Interactive entry

New entry

Quality New Entry or Insight: 20 points

  • Definition:A Quality New Entry includes at least two full-length paragraphs, three relevant citations, an emboldened subject, several links to other entries, some in-depth content and designations of category, and is not entirely copied.
  • Definition:A Quality New Insight is an edit that conveys a profound truth that is not widely known, and which has an effect on the reader for days.

Ordinary New Entry or Insight: 12 points

  • Definition: An Ordinary New Entry is a new entry which does not meet the qualifications for a Quality New Entry, but is of higher quality than a Short New Entry, and is not entirely copied.
  • Definition:An Ordinary New Insight is an edit that conveys truths that may be widely known among conservatives but which is generally suppressed or censored by liberals.

Short New Entry: 6 points

  • Definition: A Short New Entry contains only a few sentences and may or may not have a reference, and is not entirely copied.

Copied Entries That Add Little Value: 3 point

  • Definition: A entry copied from a public domain source such as .gov site - you MUST link to other articles and the article can not be of trivial nature (i.e. non-encyclopedic, non-educational or non-historical)

Masterpiece: 100 points

  • Definition: At the end of the contest each user (if they want to) will nominate their best article, and then the judges will pick the top two of all the articles nominated. The winning users will get 100 points for their article.
  • Exception: Entertainment-related* New Entries will receive only half-credit.

Existing entry

Quality edit of an entry ranking in the top 20 on Google: 20 points

  • Definition: A Quality Edit to an existing article includes at least two extra sentences, an additional reference, and the inclusion of an important or relevant fact.

Quality edit of an ordinary, existing entry: 8 points

  • Definition: A Quality Edit to an existing article includes at least two extra sentences, an additional reference, and the inclusion of an important or relevant fact.
  • Exception: Entertainment-related* Quality Edits will receive only half credit.

Minor Edit of an existing entry: 2 points

  • Definition: A Minor Edit is an edit which does not meet the qualifications for a Quality Edit. These edits might include small formatting changes, spelling and grammatical changes and/or the addition of a category.

Images

Adding a quality public domain image to an entry: 4pts (+2 points per article if it's an image you uploaded)

  • Beware: Copyright violations will result in harsh penalties!

Templates

New Template: 8 points

  • Definition: The template must have at least 4 non-userspace links.

Redirects

Redirecting a Page: 1 point

  • Definition: Redirecting any page - whether the page was something different or not. Misspellings don't count.

Breaking News

Breaking News Item: 3 points

  • Definition: A Breaking news item is placed on the Main page with wiki links to Conservapedia articles and a link to the external reference article.
  • Exception: A non-administrator who submits an article to an administrator and the article is placed on the Main page will receive 3 points and the administrator will receive 1 points for adding the article and links. It is at the administrator's discretion whether to place the article on the Main page.

Bonus Points

  • An additional bonus of 3 points is awarded for adding a new entry on the "most-wanted" list, Special:Wantedpages
    • Note carefully: The entry must be on this list
  • An additional bonus of 1 point is awarded for adding a link to an entry on the Special:Deadendpages, and thereby removing that entry from that list
  • An edit to an existing entry may qualify as a New Entry if the edit is substantial enough (however, mark these pages off so the judges can review).
  • Adding a relevant photo to Breaking News will receive a 2 points bonus.
  • Blocking a vandal/sock/troll or reverting their vandalism: 2 points.

Notes

An entry is "entertainment-related" if it relates to a subject not taught as core curriculum in a typical high school or college. This includes articles on sports, popular music, movies, and other entertaining but not necessarily educational subjects.

  • Exception: Full credit will be given for notable or important historical subjects, and for political entries.
  • Exception: Full credit will be given for reasonable subjects which are educational but not necessarily taught in a typical school.
  • Exception: If entertainment entries are excessively useless - judges can deduct points
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