Conservapedia talk:Best New Conservative Words

Minor Addition
Just noted four of Andy’s gems, all from http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Essay:Best_New_Conservative_Words/archive2, in which he explicitly admits that he is skewing his own sample:

a) “Superb suggestion [Scrooge]. Please add with a precise date, if you have one. I'm also working on a few possibilities for 1700s and 1800s to perfect the geometric fit, but yours is better than mine.--Andy Schlafly 12:15, 14 May 2009 (EDT)” Note the uncommon modesty.

b) “I'll add all four terms as difficult to classify, pending further discussion. Thanks but we're still looking for a a [sic] 1700s term to perfect the geometric fit.--Andy Schlafly 19:38, 16 May 2009 (EDT)”

c) “Thanks for the insights above. Looks like we'll hold off on both terms, then. That means we're still looking for one more word from the 1700s to perfect the geometric increase in generation of insightful conservative terms for the list. Suggestions are welcome!--Andy Schlafly 14:21, 19 May 2009 (EDT)”

d) “Looks like 'separation of powers' [1748] is the term to perfect the fit to the geometric increase, unless someone objects.--Andy Schlafly 08:38, 20 May 2009 (EDT)” And, for God’s sake, don’t find any more! (He thought “Checks and balances” (1780) good too, but obviously couldn’t have both.)

Best of CP?
This is a good article. Should it join the elite at category:Best of Conservapedia? Totnesmartin (talk) 15:33, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes

 * Aye - -- PsyGremlin  15:48, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I like words. Röstigraben (talk) 11:25, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Unsurprisingly, aye... 11:41, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * With the large footnotes gone, I now vote yes. MDB (talk) 11:45, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Transistor
it's a good article overall, but the huge text blocks for footnotes are... problematic, in my opinion. Perhaps you could create some kind of references page and just link to that in the footnotes. MDB (talk) 11:01, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The huge footnotes list the essays for the count mentioned in the opening paragraph, and I think these numbers are outdated anyway, given Ken's recent enthusiasm for essay-spamming. We could preserve them in an article about CP's essays, but updating them would require a manual search and count of CP's mainspace for articles with "essay" in the title, a description has lost most of its meaning anyway...I don't know if it's worth the effort. Röstigraben (talk) 11:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The section on essays is a distraction - and outdated. If there is any interest in the information provided within, then I could put an updated version elsewhere
 * For instance, Conservapedia's greatest essayists are at the moment:

!Aschlafly !Conservative !Ed Poor !Jpatt !Benp !TerryH !TK !AddisonDM !DanH !Cogito ergo sum
 * 92
 * 51
 * 41
 * 18
 * 9
 * 9
 * 4
 * 4
 * 3
 * 3
 * }
 * 11:34, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Snip
I took out the following:

Essays at Conservapedia
Conservapedia - unlike RationalWiki - has no separate namespace for essays. Instead, an essay is just an article prefixed by essay:. In July 2010, there existed over 250 such essays at Conservapedia. More than a third (91) were penned by Andrew Schlafly himself as a way to present us with his wonderful insights 10 Ways Liberals Create Atheists, 25 Worst Court Decisions, 5 Questions to Ask an Anti-Conservative, Academic Side Effects, Accuracy in Academia Interview, Adulteress Story, Advantages of Large Classes, Best Concepts to Teach Teenagers, Best New Conservative Words, Born Outside the U.S.A.!, Boy Scouts Rout ACLU, Characteristics of Homeschoolers, Christianity Needs Conservatism, Conservapedia, Conservapedia&#039;s Law, Conservapedia Awards, Conservative Benefits, Conservatives of the Decade, Court Rules for Gay Club, but Gives School Alternatives, Definitional Learning, Differences Between Homeschoolers and Public Schoolers, Does Conservapedia Simulate a Principled Open Mind?, Draft Conservapedia Application to Become SES Provider, Electoral College, End Gates&#039; Tax Exemption, Free Trade Depends on Morality, Greatest Church Hymns, Greatest Conservative Legislation, Greatest Conservative Movies, Greatest Conservative Novels, Greatest Conservative Parables, Greatest Conservative Songs, Greatest Mysteries of American History, Greatest Mysteries of World History, Greatest Myths of American History, Greatest Myths of World History, Gun Control Case, Hillary&#039;s Strategy to Win, How Conservatism Is Essential to the Future of Christianity, Interview by Public High School Student, Interview with Australian Researcher, Jesus&#039; Crucifixion, Liberal Behavior on Conservapedia, Liberal Denials about History, Liberal Falsehoods, Liberal Intellectualism, Marry a Conservative, Medical Case Against Gun Control, Michael New Was Right, Most Influential Persons, Motivations for the Theory of Evolution, Passages Most Likely to Convert, Prison and Influential Work, Proposed Homeschool Constitution, Quantifying Faith, Quantifying Idolatry, Quantifying Mental Strength, Quantifying Openmindedness, Quantifying Order, Questions &quot;Learned&quot; Atheists Cannot Answer, Rebuttal to LA Times Abortion Article, Reversible Court Decisions, Rich Man and Parable of Talents, Rules of Chivalry for Students, Scarcity Worship, School sports and antitrust, Separation of Conservatism and Culture, Soundbites about Conservapedia, Sports Stars in Politics, Status Worship, Supreme Court Half-Life, Surprising Dates of Origin for Terms, T-Shirt Wars in School, Teaching Closed-Mindedness, The Invisible Hand of Marriage, The Logic of Hell, The Supremacists, The half-life of the Supreme Court, Title IX, Title IX Destroys Our Olympic Team, Top Causes of Rejecting Conservativism, Top Conservative Achievements 2007, Traditional Marriage, Uses of Wikipedia, Why Liberals Delight in Deceit, Wikipedia&#039;s Ads-for-Charity, Withdrawal of Jurisdiction Upheld, Worst Liberal Falsehoods in School - Ed Poor being a distant second with just 38 essays Abuse of religion, Barbie, Dignity, truth and history, Evolution and intelligent design, Evolution is an unproved theory, Ex-gay, Fact, Free speech issues, God&#039;s love, Hockey and racism, Honesty is the best policy, Identity, democratic polity and the writing of reliable articles, Ignore the animosity, Journalism and patriotism, Let&#039;s define our terms!, Liberal code words, Lines in a parking lot, Mysterious male-female relationship, Of course they recruit!, Parallels between evolution and global warming, Problem, Relevance of articles, Religious premises of intelligent design, Science and policy, Science and politics, Scientific progress, Sin is addictive, Socialism and poverty, Sources and references, The problem with homosexuality, Three scientific perspectives, Towards a multi-racial society, What&#039;s wrong with Wikipedia, Women wearing pants. Generally, one would expect such an essay to be the work of a single author, but at Conservapedia, this isn't always the case: instead, Andrew Schlafly often asks editors to add to his essays. 11:42, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Minor carp
There are some references to RW editors and the use of "I". Shouldn't it be more impersonal? 11:45, 28 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Yup: Sometimes, the article's origin of being an essay itself shows through...
 * 11:53, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think it should be "brained" until that is tidied up. 12:17, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, a couple of us are trying to do so. Your help is welcomed! 12:21, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree with the removal of first-person perspectives, but LArron and Opcn did the number-crunching and analysis for this one, so they should be credited somewhere. Röstigraben (talk) 12:30, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Do we have barnstars at RW? Or something equivalent? Totnesmartin (talk) 13:41, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Anyone notice?
Assfly claims that society is becoming less well-educated and yet he claims that Conservative words are increasing so hasn't he unintentionally suggested a correlation between conservatism and lack of education? --Let Them Eat Cake (talk) 16:34, 19 December 2012 (UTC)