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If someone ran as a paper candidate for a really obscure office, they're notable.<BR /> | If someone ran as a paper candidate for a really obscure office, they're notable.<BR /> | ||
If someone was a member of a county party for a week and a half, they're notable.<BR /> | If someone was a member of a county party for a week and a half, they're notable.<BR /> | ||
If a candidate failed to make it on the ballot and wasn't even available as a write-in, they're notable.<BR /> | |||
If someone was an influence on the Libertarian Party or its creation, they're on topic and notable.<BR /> | If someone was an influence on the Libertarian Party or its creation, they're on topic and notable.<BR /> | ||
If a Political Action Committee fell apart without supporting a single candidate, it's notable.<BR /> | If a Political Action Committee fell apart without supporting a single candidate, it's notable.<BR /> | ||
Revision as of 07:08, 1 April 2017
There are important differences between LPedia and Wikipedia that have emerged since the start of LPedia in 2005.
LPedia Has Different Templates
If you're here from Wikipedia, you may need to familiarize yourself with our templates. Bug people like James Gholston to better document what templates we have here. Many serve the same functions as ones on Wikipedia but have different names and features. Others need to be created.
LPedia Has Different Categories
Our base category is Category:Main; every article, category, image, or file should ultimately link back to it. Our arrangement of categories is not based on the structure of Wikipedia in any way. Many things that Wikipedia considers important with its choices of categories and explanatory pages are of no interest to us.
LPedia Welcomes Original On-Topic Research
Reconstructing and presenting our history is our primary mission. Rules that impede this mission do not and should not exist here.
LPedia Is a Much Smaller Community
Please do not hesitate to contact someone on their talk page.
Practically Everyone and Everything That's On Topic Is Notable
If someone's time in a state party was completely undistinguished, they're notable.
If someone is basically completely forgotten, they're notable.
If someone ran as a paper candidate for a really obscure office, they're notable.
If someone was a member of a county party for a week and a half, they're notable.
If a candidate failed to make it on the ballot and wasn't even available as a write-in, they're notable.
If someone was an influence on the Libertarian Party or its creation, they're on topic and notable.
If a Political Action Committee fell apart without supporting a single candidate, it's notable.
Even if you can't write the article about any of the above that might be mentioned, please link to it anyway.
LPedia Has More Than One Licence
Since 2006 we have had more than one licence option at a time, and there has been some proliferation.
Our present default licence is CC-BY with attribution assigned to LPedia, but if you would prefer different terms for you new article, such as releasing to the public domain, or saving an about-to-be-deleted Wikipedia article, other options exist.
LPedia Has Different Rules
We're trying to document these things in our policy pages. Not everything has occurred to us to document yet, however.
We Have Lists of Things To Do
We have a listing page of needed lists of needed articles, also known as.
Less Stress
Let's above all else try to avoid becoming a source of wikistress.