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 or special or general relativity.
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 from their viewpoint.
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. Conservapedia is frequently offline and favors a very liberal deletion policy.
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As of 9 July 2010, Conservapedia had 36,656 registered users, sadly most of whom are just blocked trolls. There are 36 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.
- Conservapedia's "90/10 rule" states that "unproductive activity, such as 90% talk page edits and only 10% quality edits to Conservapedia articles, may result in blocking of the account".
- Conservapedia is not a debating site, if you are doing nothing but debating you may be blocked
- Sysops on Conservapedia are considered governors of the wiki and are to be treated with respect.
- 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", as it is against the site's stated purpose and point of view.
- Do not write rude or offensive material about another user, especially don't disparage a sysop.
- If you get blocked for any reason and you think the block was unfair, do not create a new account! Instead, email the administrator or user who blocked you and appeal for a second chance. Most users are granted leniency and are allowed to edit again.
- If the sysop who blocked you does not have email enabled, you can appeal to another sysop. This is against their new policy.
- Avoid posting using the same user name as you use on any site critical of Conservapedia, especially RationalWiki. That can be a banning offense.
See also
- A Storehouse of Knowledge was set up by a former Conservapedia admin who was dissatisfied with Conservapedia.
- RationalWiki, an entire wiki originally founded to criticize Conservapedia, now also criticizes pseudo-science in general.
- Liberapedia, the parody wiki of Conservapedia