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Welcome!

Hello, TheAmericanRedoubt, and welcome to Conservapedia!

We're glad you are here to edit. We ask that you read our Editor's Guide before you edit.

At the right are some useful links for you. You can include these links on your user page by putting "{{Useful links}}" on the page. Any questions--ask!

Thanks for reading, TheAmericanRedoubt!


Joaquín Martínez 23:36, 30 March 2014 (EDT)

Hi Joaquín Martínez. Thanks. I have read it. Did I do something wrong in my edits? Thanks.

ISP use only

You will cease from using proxies to access the site. Karajou 03:05, 25 April 2014 (EDT)

Maybe his IP address is blocked due to no fault of his own. Andy could unblock it if we had an email for him to write to as far as him giving Andy his IP address. Conservative 06:15, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
I sent you an e-mail, my ISP's IP is blocked. I blanked my IP address here for security reasons.

From: To: cpwebmaster@conservapedia.com Subj: User_talk:TheAmericanRedoubt - Proxy due to blocked ISP address Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:07:00 -0600 Good morning User:Karajou and User:Conservative. Please unblock my dedicated IP address of __________.

I have been enjoying editing and contributing to Conservapedia (my favorite source for Conservative viewpoints-news-knowledge). However, early on after creating my user account (User_talk:TheAmericanRedoubt) my dedicated ISP address of ________________ was blocked and I was forced to sign up for a VPN- Proxy in order to even see the site. I get a "Error 118 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out."

No one else at my ISP uses my IP address since I pay extra each month to have it dedicated to just me. I have been with that ISP since Dec. 2013.

I would love to continue working on content. For now, as I peruse each article of interest, I just correct spelling errors-typos and adding hyperlinks or See Also as appropriate based on Conservapedia:Quick_reference and Conservapedia:Editing_article_and_talk_pages until I can slowly establish to you administrators my sincerity and respect for this great resource.

Thank you in advance for unblocking my address. God bless. Sincerely, User:TheAmericanRedoubt 17:09, 26 April 2014 (EDT)

Redirect pages

Please place a lower priority on redirect pages and focus more on content creation. Conservative 06:10, 25 April 2014 (EDT)

Communist Party USA

Hello,

I noticed that you added Category:Communist Party USA to several pages. Please bear in mind that Conservapedia Commandment #1 applies to categories, and take special care to ensure that the categories of articles about living people do not include defamatory or unsourced content. Thanks, GregG 20:36, 3 November 2014 (EST)

Thank you for the advice, I will keep that in mind. TheAmericanRedoubt

Orphaned Pages

Hi, I see you are interested in doing administrative tasks, so would you please help us to de-orphan all Lonely pages from here?--JoeyJ 14:44, 1 December 2014 (EST)

Sure JoeyJ, I'd be happy to help. Any guidelines? I searched under Conservapedia:Orphan_pages but couldn't find anything. Should I base my work on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan_pages as generic advice? TheAmericanRedoubt 14:58, 1 December 2014 (EST)

Thank you! Just take an article from Special:LonelyPages and link to it from another article. For example I did so with Biodynamic agriculture.--JoeyJ 15:07, 1 December 2014 (EST)
Got it. Thanks for the quick response. Will do. TheAmericanRedoubt 15:10, 1 December 2014 (EST)
You are doing a lot of needed work at Conservapedia. Keep up the good work! Conservative 22:47, 1 December 2014 (EST)


Red Links

The proliferation of red wikilinks in your edits reminds me of the Walrus and the Carpenter:

The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand,
They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand.
"If seven maids with seven brooms swept for half a year,
Do you suppose," the walrus said, "that they could get it clear?"
"I doubt it " said the carpenter, and wept a bitter tear.
I have tended to sweep up after me the links I have generated in my 200odd thousand words of edits here. Who has the job of sweeping up the multiple links you are throwing around with gay (ahem) abandon? I think you should start sweeping, boyo, because, from bitter experience, I know no one else is going to do it. AlanE 22:29, 10 December 2014 (EST)

Article Creation for Red Links

Thank you Alan for your concerned advice and great Walrus and Carpenter quote. Being an amateur radio ham operator, I have a lot of articles on that I have been working on and will be pasting them in soon. The amateur radio area has been a big source of my new "red links" for article wiki-links. Same thing in the area of economics-finance. I do indeed intend to sweep up after my red links. TheAmericanRedoubt 22:43, 10 December 2014 (EST)

Thank you. Appreciate the reply. AlanE 22:54, 10 December 2014 (EST)

See also and Contrast

Although I am only very new here, I don't think your see also and contrast with sections look very nice or add much to the articles. Having such info in an popup box like they have on some wikipedia pages might be a better way to go. Phil PhilH 02:43, 11 December 2014 (EST)

Thanks - Popup Box Suggestion

Hi Phil, thanks for the suggestion, I will look into doing a popup box nav bar instead. Thanks for the feedback. Welcome to Conservapedia. TheAmericanRedoubt 02:46, 11 December 2014 (EST)


NOTE to Fellow Editors and Admins: Over the next few days, I am working on a collapsible "See Also" navigation template for the diverse topics of the Internet security article I am also working on. The template will be based on the Template:Liberalism "look and feel" since it has a lot of topics in a small amount of "real estate". Also, please note that I plan to rapidly submit articles for the "red links". Thank you for your patience. TheAmericanRedoubt 12:10, 11 December 2014 (EST)

See Also for "Internet security" article

NOTE to Fellow Editors and Admins: I plan to do the same thing for the bottom of page collapsible navbar for for the diverse topics of the Amateur radio article and related articles I am also working on as a licensed ham radio operator. TheAmericanRedoubt 12:10, 11 December 2014 (EST)

Please do not edit this (without discussing it here first) until January 1, 2015. Thank you. TheAmericanRedoubt 21:36, 11 December 2014 (EST)

See Also for Amateur Radio

Here is the original topic list I am working on:

The same thing as above goes for the Permaculture article and for Firearms article.


References

  1. ↑ "Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical! We all have an unalienable right to privacy, which you can exercise today by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary products and services."

Moved your general message to Conservapedians to the community portal

I moved your your general message to Conservapedians to the community portal located at: http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Community_Portal#Message_from_User:_TheAmericanRedoubt

It will be seen by more people that way. Conservative 01:32, 13 December 2014 (EST)

Thank you

Thanks, I didn't know about that http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Community_Portal#Message_from_User:_TheAmericanRedoubt portal. I will spend some time on it. TheAmericanRedoubt 02:35, 13 December 2014 (EST)

No problem. Glad I could be of help. Conservative 10:06, 13 December 2014 (EST)

Moved it back

I have "userfied" your material. "Userfication" is the process of keeping drafts of one's material in a subpage of their own user or talk pages until it's ready to be moved into mainspace. That (sort of) protects it from other people making "helpful edits" while one is working on it. It will also be safer from vandalism, though I assume you know that vandalism is easy to revert, since material is preserved in a page's history, and that, in any case, you can keep a copy (as I always do) on your own computer.

The userfied page is here: User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt/sandbox1.

The place to tell people about your experience in amateur radio, communications technology, computers, gardening, medicine, firearms, and survivalism is your own user page.

SamHB 10:13, 13 December 2014 (EST)

    • Thanks for the help and clarification SamHB. Will do.

Workspace area for you

I created a workspace for your prepper material since someone deleted the material from the community portal.

Here is the workspace: User: TheAmericanRedoubt Prepper material

I hope that helps. Conservative 10:14, 13 December 2014 (EST)

A lot of helpful people today! SamHB 10:16, 13 December 2014 (EST)
Thank you for moving it to there. TheAmericanRedoubt 00:14, 14 December 2014 (EST)
Your very welcome and happy holidays this Christmas season. Conservative 00:43, 14 December 2014 (EST)
Merry Christmas Conservapedians! TheAmericanRedoubt 00:59, 14 December 2014 (EST)

re: talk pages

Thanks for creating a ton of new material. We appreciate it.

Second, try to avoid creating short talk pages unless something needs to be discussed about the article. I created a workspace for you called User: TheAmericanRedoubt/IP camera

Again, thanks for creating all the new useful content about preparednesa and other matters. Conservative 16:49, 15 December 2014 (EST)

    • Happy to contribute to this great body of conservative knowledge and become part of the Conservapedia community. "Roger" that on the talk pages. Will do. So then is there no need to explain myself via a talk page if I revert someone else's edits of, for instance, appropriately related Categories / See Also that I added? Just make the changes and re-add the deleted Categories and See Also? Thanks again for your guidance for me as a bit of a newby. TheAmericanRedoubt 16:56, 15 December 2014 (EST)
I respectfully disagree with Cons's advice, and have posted something on the Community Portal on the subject. You most certainly should feel free to explain any reversions, or anything else, on the talk page of the affected page. That's what the talk pages are for. SamHB 17:10, 15 December 2014 (EST)
The talk pages are for discussions and not for keeping notes. I thought you were using the talk page to keep notes. You don't need to use a talk page to explain yourself. Just need the talk page for discussions about the articles. Conservative 21:49, 15 December 2014 (EST)

Quote from PHIL on "wiki content" and "wikifying"

"You should wikify your content and contributions. Some of the stuff you have been adding, like the parts of the walmart and grocery store sections i removed have no place on a wiki or online encyclopedia. Phil PhilH 17:41, 15 December 2014 (EST)"

Mate

"A lot of the content you are adding seems to be rubbish, what is the point of adding new content if it rubbish? Phil PhilH 17:51, 15 December 2014 (EST)"

Response to PhilH

I respectfully yet strongly disagree with PhilH's comment on my User Talk Page and deletions of my contributions to Wal-Mart and Grocery store regarding "Just in Time" contributions and its ramifications. Conservatives are concerned much more than liberals with the stability of society and its systems of support. So, Just in Time is a key concept to understanding both the success and fragility of American retail and manufacturing.


My response to Phil's deletions of my Just in Time content and other statements

I have re-added this content since the main business model of both Wal-Mart and Grocery stores are predicated on the Just in time or JIT delivery system. Without it, Wal-Mart or grocery stores would not exist in anything resembling their current form.

If you wish to show how this is inappropriate on a Conservative Wiki Encyclopedia, then please elaborate, Phil. I can give you examples of other encyclopedia's and article on the Internet that address this major component of the American retail system. TheAmericanRedoubt 18:01, 15 December 2014 (EST)


Awaiting Response from User:Conservative or other Sysops

Since I have been spending and will be spending a lot of time creating content and you, Phil, seem to think it is "rubbish" and revert my contributions without any talk page discussion on the actual article page, I will await Special:ListUsers&group=sysop guidance, from User:Conservative or others.

Phil, as you said since you are "very new here", I am curious also to see what actual useful content you will be adding to Conservapedia rather than deletions and reverts. Special:Contributions/PhilH

TheAmericanRedoubt 18:25, 15 December 2014 (EST)

Ignore trolls (rude people). You can try to reason with someone who is acting a little gruff. But no sense wrestling with a proverbial pig in the proverbial mud. Feel free to steamroll over people who persist in being rude. You can ask an admin to mediate or ban a rude person. 22:23, 15 December 2014 (EST)

re: tips about external links

Thanks for your recent contributions.

Two external link tips:

1. Avoid use of barelinks.

These are barelinks:

http://survivalblog.com/letter_re_one_year_food_supply_at_costco Letter

http://survivalblog.com/letter_re_costco_stores_as_a_s Letter

Instead format the links like this:

2. Avoid mentioning the link was featured on the main page because people finding articles of yours via the search engines or though social media are not familiar with with our main page news feed. In addition, news becomes less newsworthy as time passes.

Again, thanks for your recent contributions. We appreciate them. Conservative 01:51, 16 December 2014 (EST)

Important note

50% of a web articles credibility by web visitors is determined by how it looks. It may not be fair, but people do judge a book by its cover. Please do not use bare links. In the "See also" section of this article Constitutional carry, you have bare links. If you could please fix the formatting and not use bare links anymore, it would be appreciated. See discussion directly above about bare links. Conservative 04:37, 18 December 2014 (EST)

I fixed the first bare link in your template. Please fix the rest. Conservative 04:43, 18 December 2014 (EST)

Thanks for the Mentoring and Support

Will do. Again, I appreciate the mentoring and support since, although I am very technical, I haven't done much Wiki editing in a large community context like Conservapedia. So, my over-enthusiasm may need to be reined in sometimes or at least given a format and guidelines. I have a lot of free time for the next 30 days while on sabbatical and spending many hours editing Conservapedia seems a good way to invest it to share my enthusiasm for the Conservative-Libertarian-Patriot-Prepper movement. TheAmericanRedoubt 02:00, 16 December 2014 (EST)

quick note

If you need help with how to do the edits in terms of formatting, I suggest two things:

1. Look how other people did the formatting on other Conservapedia articles.

2. Ask an admin such as User: Karajou and User: Aschlafly how to do various types of edits.

I am currently working on some projects and January I will be even busier, so unfortunately I can no longer be of assistance to you. Best wishes in your future editing. Conservative 02:04, 16 December 2014 (EST)


Editing Privileges after 12:30 PM PST?

Got it. Regarding Editing Privileges after 12:30 PM Pacific Standard Time: Would you please tell me who do I talk to and how do I request such privileges?

TheAmericanRedoubt 02:14, 16 December 2014 (EST)

User: Aschlafly grants night editing. Conservative 03:10, 16 December 2014 (EST)
Lovely. Thank you and Merry Christmas! TheAmericanRedoubt 03:12, 16 December 2014 (EST)

re: quick note about sacramento talk page and other talk pages

I just wanted to be polite to you and explain something. I deleted the Sacramento talk page because the editor who deleted the material was a liberal editor who formerly edited some time ago.

If you are likely posting to a talk page to someone who is no longer going to be working with you on the article, there is no need to use the talk pages.

Keep the good work. We appreciate all your efforts. You are really doing a lot of wiki work. 23:07, 17 December 2014 (EST)

Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense he was a liberal since he seemed upset at what I was posting about gun control and I felt obligated to justify it to him since he thought I was posting "rubbish" (in his words) about gun control and Second Amendment so much. Please see Talk:Free_state to see what I mean. I have a lot of time to invest in editing/contributing to Conservapedia for at least the next 30 days, so thanks for the encouragement. TheAmericanRedoubt 00:58, 18 December 2014 (EST)

In the next 10 days, I am going to try to get you night editing privileges

In the next 10 days, I am going to try to get you night editing privileges. I hope you get them. Conservative 23:11, 17 December 2014 (EST)

You have night editing privileges now. Enjoy! Conservative 00:51, 18 December 2014 (EST)
Excellent. Thank you for the help and flexible editing times. TheAmericanRedoubt 00:58, 18 December 2014 (EST)
Your welcome. Conservative 04:30, 18 December 2014 (EST)

I am going to endeavor to get you picture uploading rights

I am going to endeavor to get you picture uploading rights. You just need to promise to not upload copyrighted material and just upload pictures that are in the public domain, under a Creative Commons share license, etc. Conservative 14:41, 19 December 2014 (EST)

  • Great, I was going to ask about that. I promise I will only upload PD and CC Share items as appropriate. I appreciate it. Merry Christmas.

TheAmericanRedoubt 23:15, 23 December 2014 (EST)

Due to vandalism and related activities, the owner of the website is granting picture uploading rights slower than he used to. We can look into this again in 2015. Conservative 23:53, 23 December 2014 (EST)
No worries. I hope to continue to prove my dedication to and support of the ideals and goals of Conservapedia and earn picture uploading privileges. Thanks for thinking of it. TheAmericanRedoubt 00:09, 24 December 2014 (EST)
OK.Conservative 00:13, 24 December 2014 (EST)

re: wiki ampersand problem for titles

There is a wiki ampersand problem for titles. This is the best I could do: .40 Smith and Wesson cartridge. Conservative 00:15, 24 December 2014 (EST)

Great, thanks. I was wondering what was going on. Good solution.TheAmericanRedoubt 00:17, 24 December 2014 (EST)
Best I could do. The programmers should have foreseen that people would want to put ampersands in titles. Conservative 00:22, 24 December 2014 (EST)

Cato Institute and other "See also" sections

re: Cato Institute "See also" section and other see also sections.

You are going to need to pare down your "See also" section additions. For example, the Cato Institute does not delve too much into Nazism. The Cato Institute does not care about Fashion industry values. The Cato Institute is libertarian and not conservative. So they don't have a focus on combating San Francisco values. They don't care about small town values. In other words, they are not social conservatives.

Do you see my point? Conservative 01:06, 24 December 2014 (EST)

Most definitely see your point. Those original See Also's were from a month ago when I was newer to Conservapedia and Wiki editing and was "getting carried away" making broad based See Also's. Other editors gave me the advice to keep it specific. Thanks for bringing it up again. As I slowly revisit my former edits to improve them, I will endeavor to remove my extraneous See Also's. The most recent Cato Institute edit I just made was one where I corrected a bad link I had made to the correct article spelling. Thanks again for the reminder and again, appreciate the Wiki mentoring. TheAmericanRedoubt 01:13, 24 December 2014 (EST)
OK. Thanks. I am guessing that the Cato Institute attracts a wealthy crowd and they don't focus very much on preparedness. Most of their fanbase/audience probably has a diversified portfolio (land, stocks, gold, small business ownership, etc.). So you will probably want to pare that part down too. Conservative 01:15, 24 December 2014 (EST)

Project

Would you like to collaborate with other editors on a wiki project to help Conservapedia be a strong resource for a given topic.

The topic could be decided by the editors participating.

If you are interested, please go to: The collaborative project. Conservative 21:54, 25 December 2014 (EST)

Merry Christmas. I'd be happy to join in and help in any way I can. Thanks for the invitation. TheAmericanRedoubt 01:34, 26 December 2014 (EST)

list of military strategies and concepts

The List of military strategies and concepts article should look more like these articles: List of military strategies and concepts and HERE. In other words, the "strategies" should be the focus since it is first in the title of the article. The concepts is secondary and more of an afterthought really.

I hope that helps. Conservative 06:40, 26 December 2014 (EST)

Got it. Thanks for the clarification. I will add more strategies. I was adding the major "strategists" and commanders as well, since many of them were seminal in creating the strategies. Happy Boxing Day TheAmericanRedoubt 06:42, 26 December 2014 (EST)

Guns and Knives

I appreciate all the work you put in on weapons. I've had that on my to do list forever. I will adding pages and pictures soon enough. --Jpatt 19:51, 26 December 2014 (EST)

Thanks for the encouragement. I plan to add short and simple articles for all of the major categories of ammunition including ammunition reloading and for the top 50 firearms not currently having an article such as the bolt-actions (Winchester Model 70, Savage Model 110, Ruger Model 77II, Remington Model 700, Ruger American Rifle, Mosin-Nagant, Jeff Cooper Scout Rifle, Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle), Ruger Ranch Rifle, Ruger Mini-14, Ruger 10/22, the remaining Battle rifles (M1A, FN-FAL/L1A1, HK91, AR-10), the Battle carbines (SKS, AK-74, AK-47, AR-15, Kel-Tek Sub 2000), shotguns (Remington 870, Mossberg 500, Mossberg 930the different Glock models (9mm Glocks: Glock 17-Glock 19-Glock 26, .40 Smith and Wesson Glocks: Glock 22-Glock 23-Glock 27, .45 ACP Glocks (Glock 21-Glock 30), etc), .380 ACP Walther PPK and Glock 42, Misc SIG, SIG 226, Smith and Wesson Military and Police pistols, Springfield Armory XD, Baretta Nama, Ruger LCP, Ruger LC9, Beretta 92; Revolvers (Smith and Wesson Model 29, Smith and Wesson Model 629, Ruger Redhawk and Ruger Super Blackhawk, Colt Python, Smith and Wesson Model 19, Smith and Wesson Model 27, Smith and Wesson Model 66, Ruger SP101, Ruger GP100, Smith and Wesson Model 686, Ruger LCR, Smith and Wesson Model 10), Ruger MK.II, etc.

I will also add the knives, Bayonet, Benchmade, Boker, Bowie knife, Buck Knives, Cold Steel, Columbia River Knife & Tool, Combat knife, Gerber Legendary Blades, Hunting knife, Kershaw Knives, Ka-Bar, Leatherman Multi-tool, Ontario Knife Company, Pocket knife, SOG Specialty Knives, Spyderco, Survival knife, Victorinox Swiss Army Knife, Utility knife, etc.

I wish to add firearms, ammunition and knife pictures, but I am awaiting future picture upload rights once I have been a trusted part of the Conservapedia community for a while longer, I hope. TheAmericanRedoubt 09:24, 27 December 2014 (EST)

Account promoted

Your account has just been promoted to include the ability to revert edits more easily.--Andy Schlafly 21:48, 27 December 2014 (EST)

Happy New Year. Thank you. That was the first blatant "on-the-fly" example of rapid Liberal Vandal Troll I have seen. I can imagine who it is but I am not sure: See Talk:Free_state TheAmericanRedoubt 21:54, 27 December 2014 (EST)

Dialogue with AlanE about his "Trolling" comments

Um. Why is my name being mentioned in vain here? AlanE 22:17, 27 December 2014 (EST)
Well AlanE, if you re-read your presumptuous inflammatory 17 December 2014 "trolling" comments about me on Talk:Free_state which I ignored until now, you can see why I would reference your post. I did say above "I imagine but not sure" -- giving you the benefit of the doubt which you don't give me below.

TheAmericanRedoubt 22:27, 27 December 2014 (EST) I quote our dialogue here:

Please better to stop the "Revert War" (unless it is by an American CP administrator) and instead make comments and suggestions on this talk page for editing the material. "Free state" is a big topic in the American Conservative, Libertarian and Christian circles. The old meaning of Antebellum south is rarely used except among historians. I would be willing to move some of it to an essay, however, the majority of it matches conservative values. Please discuss in a civil way without using words like hideous, offensive, etc like User:SamHB used for the previous revert.

TheAmericanRedoubt 02:57, 17 December 2014 (EST)

From User:AlanE

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 live in a free state. It's called Tasmania. About 18 years ago some unhinged bastard called Martin Bryant killed 30-plus people at the Port Arthur historic site an hour or two down the road. One of the victims was a friend of the family. Another was my children's school bus driver. Since then nothing similar has happened. Just the odd minor event because the Federal government of the day brought in gun control. It worked. Go onto the Net and check out Australia's gun crime statistics since 1996 compared to yours. Especially schools and colleges. I can have a queue jumping altercation without worrying about being shot. Can you? That Islamic prick that killed two in the Lindt cafe the other night in Sydney only killed two because all he could get was a shot gun. In America, if he lived in what you call a "free state", he could have got an assault rifle and sprayed the whole room in the twinkling of an eye. 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)

Why didn't you reply at the time? This could have been sorted.
I don't "troll" mate. I say what I think. And feel. Everything I wrote in that little rant was from the heart. Martin Bryant's actions in and around Port Arthur that Sunday afternoon affected me and my family mightily. The only good that came out of it was the subsequent enablement of Prime Minister Howard's gun control laws that have proven to be effective. Check the stats.
(And I am still waiting for the maids with their brooms to start sweeping up all those red links. When are you going to stop indulging yourself and start actually working on what a wiki-encyclopedia is supposed to be doing?) AlanE 23:00, 27 December 2014 (EST)
AlanE, The Guardian has a whole section of their website devoted to "knife crime".[1] Conservative 12:50, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Also, there are many notable instances of "rogue states" in terms of oppressive governments. The term "democide" was created to describe rogue governments killing many citizens of their states. An armed citizenry is an insurance policy against democide.Conservative 13:29, 30 December 2014 (EST)

two matters

Two matters:

1. Some of your articles relating to conservatism have been thought provoking to me.

2. Can you please do THIS from now on? I will continue to try to get you picture upload rights and for various reasons, you complying with this request would be helpful in this regard. Conservative 12:44, 30 December 2014 (EST)

1. Great to hear. Which ones?
2. Thanks for reminder on not leaving raw URLs without a description. Will do. Should I make it a priority to go back and look at my tons of edits over the last month and fix those raw URLs? Or is it better that I place higher priority on creating new articles to "clean up" my trail of red links?
3. Thanks for the support on the picture upload rights. I would also like to put time into categorizing the pictures if that is useful. I see that the pictures themselves are not often categorized in the same main (yet specific) category as the article which references the picture. Do you see what I mean?
New content with decent size articles and/or expansion of stub articles is the biggest priority. You could tackle the red links as a part of this process. 12:53, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Roger that. Will do. In January, I am planning to write several hundred one or two paragraph stubs with 1 bibliographic reference with a short pertinent "See Also" / 1 or 2 "External Links" / "References" / "Categories" and perhaps a 1 book "Further Reading" section to "sweep up" my red links and to help with Categorization of each stub. Then I will go back in February and flesh out the my 50 stubs into full fledged articles as appropriate. TheAmericanRedoubt 13:04, 30 December 2014 (EST)
As far as new content goes, it is good for the content to be original content rather than pasting from other web pages. Readers prefer original content in new articles. I endeavor to have 85% or more of a new webpage to be content that is not already on Conservapedia. So don't create big "See also" sections which are pasted from other articles.
I hope this helps. Conservative 13:01, 30 December 2014 (EST)
I would focus on creating more articles like Strategic relocation in size (or larger) and avoid as much as possible as far as the creation of stub articles like this Audible.com.
People prefer websites with web pages with decent size content pages rather than websites with many stub articles. They often feel it is not worth their click to go to a stub article page. Readers want a decent size return on investment in terms of their clicks. Conservative 13:06, 30 December 2014 (EST)
OK. I was creating the Audible.com, Plume and Penguin Books, etc., etc. stubs to mollify User:AlanE (see his comments: User_talk:TheAmericanRedoubt#Red_Links) who seems somewhat upset by my trail of red links. I would rather focus on deeper content that red link "mollification". :-) TheAmericanRedoubt 13:14, 30 December 2014 (EST)

Some of my Conservapedia articles have received over 1,000,000 views so I know my advice to you in this matter is sound advice. Conservative 13:18, 30 December 2014 (EST)

Appreciate it. How do you tell page views besides looking manually at the bottom of the page? Do you have a more systematic - automatic way of tracking? TheAmericanRedoubt 13:30, 30 December 2014 (EST)
I think AlanE makes a good point about: If you don't create a red link to begin with, you don't have to worry about filling it in later. I personally have found that others do not fill in red links.Conservative 13:21, 30 December 2014 (EST)
I just reviewed the article strategic relocation. A large proportion of the article is the "see also" section. You want to avoid doing this. I would fill in the strategic relocation with more content so a large proportion of the article is not the "see also" section. Conservative 13:23, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Got it. I was trying to make AlanE happy by sweeping up red and fleshing Strategic relocation out later.
I just did a search on the internet to give you better advice. According to the latest research, readers like web articles that are at least between 2,300 to 2,500 words long (or longer) and they want the content to be as much original content as possible (like a unique resource) or not merely cut and paste. So that is a good rule of thumb. Conservative 13:37, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Also, Conservapedia does have many Orphan pages so when you create new articles, make sure some existing article or articles, link to the new article. But the biggest priority is not deorphaning pages, but the creation of new content that is 2,300-2,500 words or more in length in terms of original content. Conservative 13:59, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Awesome. Then I will put most of my energy into developing 2500 word articles in January. TheAmericanRedoubt 14:47, 30 December 2014 (EST)

I put your strategic relocation article into this free web page word counter tool and it said your article is 565 words in length. So I would make your future articles about 4 to 5 times bigger or more in length in order to garner more readership.

Does it make sense that readers prefer more informative articles with unique content over articles which contain content largely copied elsewhere or articles which are stub articles? Conservative 14:12, 30 December 2014 (EST)

One last thing, I did want to emphasize that this is merely a rule of thumb in terms of article length in words. If you create a very useful/authoritative web page that is highly cited by others on the internet about a topic, then it will get web traffic. Conservative 14:43, 30 December 2014 (EST)

New Templates Approval?

Again, at the recommendation of other editors who didn't like my formerly long See Also lists, I have created my first template: Template:Permaculture_topics. Is this OK? If so, can proceed with creating one for Amateur radio, Radio communications technologies, Amateur radio glossary, Radio communication technologies, Complementary medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Western herbal medicine, Firearms, Rifles, Shotguns, Ammunition, Revolvers, Semi-automatic Pistols and Preparedness?

Should I submit my first one Template:Permaculture_topics to http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Template_Submission or run it by you first?

Thanks again for your patient mentoring. TheAmericanRedoubt 13:30, 30 December 2014 (EST)

Category:Disambiguation Pages

Is there a Disambig template? I couldn't find one under http://www.conservapedia.com/Category:Template TheAmericanRedoubt 13:40, 30 December 2014 (EST)

I don't use templates much. Can't be of much help. Conservative 13:56, 30 December 2014 (EST)
What about this one?--JoeyJ 14:05, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Perfect. Thanks JoeyJ. TheAmericanRedoubt 14:11, 30 December 2014 (EST)

re: January articles

Glad to hear that you are creating more depth in articles. If you create strong articles on topics, they will see more traffic.

Also, you can create hub articles on a main topic that are definitive go to articles for internet readers and then have sub articles of 2,500 words or more in length that link to the hub article. The hub article can link to the sub articles too.

For example, Wikipedia's survivalism article is 5,660 words long (it is a hub article) and then it has a number of sub articles related to survivalism as can be seen HERE. Conservative 15:44, 30 December 2014 (EST)

By the way, Conservapedia does not have a survivalism article. Conservative 15:46, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Good news on that front is that I was discussing on e-mail today with James Wesley Rawles to get his permission to use a larger than normal "fair use" amount of his authoritative source materials to build some good quality articles. He is the most respected and popular author/consultant in this field. He gave me the go ahead: "You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles." That's 2400 words of great source material with me writing a wrapper around it and integrating other materials plus all the Wiki-link work and formatting. His site The Survival Blog is amazingly detailed and has received almost 71 million unique visits since July 2005. That's more than 320,000 unique visits per week. He is a big fan of Conservapedia and links to it where possible, doing his best to avoid the "LiberalPropagandaPedia". These articles will definitely help draw a new audience to Conservapedia. TheAmericanRedoubt 16:17, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Glad to hear your good news. In terms of creating an online encyclopedia resource related to survivalism and sub topics related to survivalism, I am guessing you will be able to surpass Wikipedia in terms of the quality/quantity of information that is provided. Conservative 16:28, 30 December 2014 (EST)
Most definitely. And as Jack Spirko of the Survival Podcast has said on a recent podcast, his audience is almost entirely conservative. Same with that of James Wesley Rawles and most other preppers. TheAmericanRedoubt 17:00, 30 December 2014 (EST)

another tip

I have another tip for you.

Web readers don't like walls of text. So try to break up things into small paragraphs.

See what I did to the beginning of this article: Dystopia

I hope this helps. Conservative 06:56, 1 January 2015 (EST)

Working on getting you picture upload rights. Hopefully in 2015. Happy New Year. :)Conservative 06:59, 1 January 2015 (EST)

100 Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine Articles for 1st Week of January 2015

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Be strong, be of good courage, God Bless America, Long live the Republic. Happy New Year and God speed to everyone who accesses this page!

NOTE to Fellow Editors and Admins: Happy New Year! Today, January 2, 2015 I am working very intensively-extensively on the Medicine and Disease categories, articles on the Complementary medicine called Ayurveda and its top 50 Category:Medicinal Plants and on a collapsible "See Also" navigation template for the diverse topics of the Ayurvedic herbal medicine article I am also working on. The template is be based on the Template:Psychology "look and feel" since it has a lot of topics in a small amount of "real estate". Also, please note that I plan to rapidly submit articles for the "red links". I am a professional subject matter expert in this area since 1996.

Please do not edit any of these medicine related topics until I finish them between now and Friday January 9, 2015. Thank you for your patience and understanding. TheAmericanRedoubt 07:50, 2 January 2015 (EST)

I also wish you a happy 2015. Before you put in a lot of work on the areas described above, would it be worth while to gain consensus for your project? What are your goals and how does your proposed work plan fit into the objectives of Conservapedia? Many thanks in advance for your consideration. Wschact 00:52, 3 January 2015 (EST)
Thanks for your advice Wschact. I will discuss it with User:Conservative who has been "mentoring" me as to what I should and shouldn't post.

I also got advice from User:Karajou on Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:15:17 by e-mail (conservapedia AT zoho.com): "Try your hand at writing complete articles. Conservapedia is not just something containing conservative thought; it is also intended to be a family encyclopedia, so it has to have info on planes, trains, automobiles, animals, sports teams, camera systems, or whatever else comes to mind. So, if you happen to be an expert on - say, rowboats - write an article on rowboats." Karajou

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 (both complementary medicine and modern medicine (Since 1996, I practice alternative medicine under the direct supervision of a Medical Doctor -- see we see patients together)
  2. Computer networks (17 years professional experience)
  3. Preparedness-Survivalism
  4. Firearms
  5. Permaculture
  6. Radio communication technologies - Amateur radio

Being a staunch American conversative libertarian "prepper" "gun nut", I obviously write from that perspective. TheAmericanRedoubt 01:10, 3 January 2015 (EST)

Request

Would you like to create the 2,200 - 2,500 word articles that need to be created to finish this project: Conservapedia atheism project? 01:49, 3 January 2015 (EST)

Would love to add to it in a few months. But for now I will concentrate on the above 6 areas of my expertise. Thanks for the invite. TheAmericanRedoubt 01:52, 3 January 2015 (EST)

Ayurvedic medicine

I fail to see how numerous articles on Ayurvedic medicine belongs on a place like Conservapedia. There is little to no clinical evidence to backup any of the treatments or theories, which goes against the conservative principle of only relying on proven facts. PhilH 02:20, 3 January 2015 (EST)

No clinical evidence? Not according to the U.S. National Institute of Health and numerous conservatives (and medical doctors in the America who integrate modern medicine with complementary medicine) who and rely on complementary medicine including Herbology, Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and Acupuncure. There are many conservatives blogs and forums that I follow that have regular articles on complementary medicine. Complementary/alternative medicine is not some liberal or New Age thing. It is even paid for by many insurance companies now and worker's comp in certain U.S. states. I will be submitting clinical evidence from MedLine / PubMed for my articles. TheAmericanRedoubt 02:28, 3 January 2015 (EST)
I know a few friends who are in the medical field who would argue to opposite and say there is limited effects from most alternative medicines. Also I am a bit confused why you keep referencing and talking about Ayurvedic medicine but there isn't an article on Ayurvedic medicine, although I use the term medicine very loosely. PhilH 02:34, 3 January 2015 (EST)
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