Conservapedia
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Conservapedia is an encyclopedia written with a conservative viewpoint; specifically, Conservapedia's articles are politically conservative, friendly to young Earth creationism and conservative Christianity, and USA-centric. Conservapedia is in general hostile to liberals, homosexuals, and people who support or teach the theory of evolution.
The site was started in November 2006 by Andrew Schlafly and a group of homeschooled people to provide an alternative to the perceived anti-Christian, pro-Evolution, anti-American and anti-conservative bias of Wikipedia. The stated purpose of the site is to provide a family-friendly resource for homeschooled children from fundamentalist Christian homes. However, a few more adult topics such as homosexuality are also treated in depth.
Every edit on Conservapedia is scrutinized by the administrators for potential liberal bias. As a result, Conservapedia cannot be edited during nighttime, U.S. time, except by users with special "night editing" rights, to prevent vandals from striking when all or most of the administrators are asleep.
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As of 1 December 2008, Conservapedia had 25,925 registered users of which 30 (or 0.12%) are Administrators.
Suggested guidelines for prospective editors
Some WikiIndex editors have had negative experiences with this wiki and offer the following precautions in order to prevent having your account blocked:
- As it says on Conservapedia's user creation page, "User names based on your real name or initials are preferred" [1], but are not required. While some users with names like like HertyA and Lainy74 are blocked and told to create a new name, other users with names like "HelpJazz", "Bugler", and "Foxtrot", (all users who later gained blocking rights) were not.
- Before making any comments on a talk page, edit or create at least 10 other pages, to avoid violating the "90/10" rule.
- Be wary of disagreeing with a sysop. They may block you for disagreeing, though this is unlikely if you are following all the other rules (including 90/10).
- Be wary of an abundant use of {{fact}} tags on articles, especially if you could add the citations yourself. This practice is often viewed as "ideologically-motivated tagging", and is frowned upon on Conservapedia.
- Conservapedia is a conservative, creationist encyclopedia. As such, it is best not to post anything that might be construed as "liberally biased" or "pro-evolution".
See also
- RationalWiki, an entire wiki originally founded to criticize Conservapedia and also to criticize pseudo-science in general.