Grizzedram

Why can I edit this site but not Conservapedia? I am a well-educated conservative after all. I like to promulgate a beneficial image of Conservatives to the masses of ideologically flawed, which means the "truth" or as close as possible to it.

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Hi, and welcome!

Welcome!

Hello, Grizzedram, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Regarding your question: every article has a history link that shows each edit and reversion that has been made to the article. To see the result of any individual edit, just click on "prev" which shows the difference between the two versions. Unfortunately, there's no way to show it until the deed is done.

So usually, best bet is to just start a section on the discussion page in question if you think your edit might be contested, cut and paste the section you think needs changing and then what you think it needs to be changed to. If you don't think the change would be controversial, you can always be BOLD and just make the change, just remember to source your content addition with reliable sources. Now, if someone doesn't agree with your change they can be bold right back, but then you have to go to the talk page to gain consensus if you want your change to remain. Hope that helps answer your question, and happy editing! Aunt Entropy (talk) 22:42, 3 February 2009 (UTC)