Conservapedia:Difference 12 - No Distracting templates

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12. We do not encourage the insertion of distracting "stub templates" in entries. Wikipedia has numerous distracting templates on entries.

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If an article has a stub template^[1], there either is practically nothing there to be distracted from, or critical information is still missing. Besides, Conservapedia has its own reserves of ridiculous templates.

To fix the distracting quality of the VSA box, a more subtle version had been created (called "Template:stub2"). However, CPWebmaster deleted that one, creating ugly and distracting red links to the missing template on 160+ pages. The situation was later solved by redirecting the deleted version to the box-version (since recreation of deleted templates is something you can be banned for). This led to MORE distracting templates (but at least the broken links were gone).

Conservapedia's claimed differences with Wikipedia
		1 - Free Reuse 2 - Intellectual 3 - Non Commercial 4 - Concise 5 - No Gossip 6 - Authoritative support 7 - No Obscenity 8 - Non Neutral		9 - No Censorship 10 - Allows Original Works 11 - Respect users' talk pages 12 - No Distracting templates 13 - Loose Regulations 14 - Do not drive away experts 15 - Only Onsite Offenses Count 16 - Professional Names

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1. ↑ on CP, they're officially called VSA - Very Short Articles - although even some sysops don't know that^{[citation needed]}