# "Conservapedia": The Right's answer to Wikipedia **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 5, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731 "2007-03-05T22:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/21 "2007-03-06T00:30:19Z")
Well, I hope I am D & G before the dark ages return; I fear I will not be. On the other hand, I might well be burned at the stake as a heretic so I might have that to look forward to. At least I would gain a certain amount of notoriety. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/22 "2007-03-06T00:38:37Z")
Darn thing isn’t letting me create an account. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/23 "2007-03-06T00:41:23Z")
I’m not surprised. Dubuque is notorious for being a hotbed of pinko secular humanism. The likes of you couldn’t possibly have anything truthy to contribute. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/24 "2007-03-06T00:41:23Z")
[QUOTE=Little Bird] Darn thing isn’t letting me create an account. ☹ [/QUOTE] Maybe you should pick a different user name. Godisdead probably isn’t cutting it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/25 "2007-03-06T00:51:01Z")
I’m telling you, some day I’m going to get my black velvet painting of Jesus riding a stegosaurus and twirling a lasso. And on that day, I will be happy. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/26 "2007-03-06T00:51:04Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Ok, which one of you added this to the section on William Jefferson Clinton? That is just awesome, especially considering the tone of the rest of the article on both him and Mrs. Clinton. [/QUOTE] I also like: > [@](#): > > Clinton also attempted to use the American military to kill Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, an action which was properly seen as a mere attempt to distract the nation from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. That wascally pwesident! ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/27 "2007-03-06T00:54:33Z")
Possibility #1: Conservapedia administrators know that “Little Bird” is Yiddish slang for a homosexual, which marks you as outside the pro-Christianity counterrevolution. Possibility #2: Conservapedia administrators think that php is some sort of drug reference. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/28 "2007-03-06T01:04:49Z")
[QUOTE=LouisB] … On the other hand, I might well be burned at the stake as a heretic so I might have that to look forward to. At least I would gain a certain amount of notoriety. [/QUOTE] Notoriety, a warm feeling in the pit of your stomach, and a really great tan! 😃 CMC fnord! Give a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/29 "2007-03-06T01:05:26Z")
My favorite quotes so far are in the Young Earth Creationism entry: “Roughly 45% of the United States are Young Earth Creationists and this number has stayed roughly constant for the last 20 years. Among scientists, in the late 1990’s the fraction who are young earth creationist was much smaller and was by some estimates around 5% overall.” Now, I’m not buying that 45% of Americans or that 5% of scientists believe in Young Earth Creation, but I love the juxtaposition of 45% of Americans belive in it and only 5% of scientists. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/30 "2007-03-06T01:16:05Z")
Lots of good information there… ---
**Author:** ![tbdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@tbdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbdi)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/31 "2007-03-06T01:28:33Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] CE is anti-Christian? There was I thinking it was Christianity-neutral. Christ Expired? [/QUOTE] It’s the old “if you’re not with us you’re against us” mindset. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/32 "2007-03-06T02:00:41Z")
I’m torn between starting pages on Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakkart and not caring about poking sticks at the mentally crippled. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/33 "2007-03-06T03:12:27Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] And the entry for [Satan](http://www.conservapedia.com/Satan) is creepily nonchalantly passing off Christian religious beliefs as truth. [/QUOTE] What’s even creepier is that the description of Satan there is just flat theologically incorrect. The whole article smacks of dualism. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/34 "2007-03-06T04:43:52Z")
There’s a page on Oxford University. You could add something about the luminaries that are from there. Dawkins maybe… ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/35 "2007-03-06T04:57:12Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] There’s a page on Oxford University. You could add something about the luminaries that are from there. Dawkins maybe… [/QUOTE] They’re not currently allowing new accounts, so no fun for the masses. To give you an idea of how bad the place is, some of the authors, such as one that goes by the moniker “conservative”, actually make Schlafly look almost reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/36 "2007-03-06T05:27:28Z")
[QUOTE=DMC] They’re not currently allowing new accounts, so no fun for the masses. [/QUOTE] Did they ever, or is dressing it up as a Wiki just a ploy? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/37 "2007-03-06T05:30:32Z")
The kangaroo page is especially fun: [http://www.conservapedia.com/Kangaroo](http://www.conservapedia.com/Kangaroo) > [@](#): > > According to the origins model used by creation scientists, modern kangaroos, like all modern animals, originated in the Middle East and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah’s Ark prior to the Great Flood. It has not yet been determined by baraminologists whether kangaroos form a holobaramin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic. > > Also according to creation science, after the Flood, kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land – as Australia was still for a time connected to the Middle East before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart – or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters. Ars Tech says this entry is in the middle of an editing war so the actual contents of the page may vary. I’m not interested in joining the wiki just to read the discussion page about it but it’s there for anyone with a disposable email. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/38 "2007-03-06T06:08:37Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] Did they ever, or is dressing it up as a Wiki just a ploy? [/QUOTE] They did, but weren’t able to keep up with the “vandals” (which they use to describe both people that mess with their site, as well as people who just attempt to post factual material that Schlafly and friends don’t like). There are several people there that I’m still not sure how to take. [BillyBob](http://www.conservapedia.com/User:BillyBob), for instance, just screams parody. Of course, the site as a whole screams parody as well, but since it isn’t, it’s hard to know for sure with BillyBob. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/39 "2007-03-06T06:32:29Z")
They’ve a nice article on [Ann Coulter’s](http://www.conservapedia.com/Ann_Coulter) trolling at CPAC this year. They missed the [damage control email put out by the American Conservative Union](http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/03/keene_on_coulte.html). But that was just out _today_. Maybe they’ll put it in tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731/40 "2007-03-06T06:50:09Z")
[QUOTE=DMC] They did, but weren’t able to keep up with the “vandals” (which they use to describe both people that mess with their site, as well as people who just attempt to post factual material that Schlafly and friends don’t like). There are several people there that I’m still not sure how to take. [/QUOTE] Heh. So they observed Wiki, an open encyclopedia, found that if everyone can edit an encyclopedia it turns out too anti-American and too anti-Christian, so they started a “conservative” open encyclopedia which anyone can edit and found that it turned out too anti-American and too anti-Christian. It’s sort of like noticing that if you drop a weight from a position above your toes it falls on them, so you write “anti-gravity” on the weight, lift it up above your toes and let go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-the-rights-answer-to-wikipedia/394731.md?page=3)