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Immigration

Setting Immigration Quotas - the Mystery of the Wages

Democrat Platform on immigration

Republican Platform on immigration

Gospel Light turned off by Christians

Abortion

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How you can contribute

Option #1: The easiest way: leave a comment after an article. You can enter your comment on the "discussion" page, (see the tab above the article heading)where it will be treated like a comment. You have to "create account" before you can contribute. Sign your contribution by typing 4 tildes - those squiggles on the upper left of your keyboard. The "discussion" page makes sense if your contribution/criticism/argument is general, and not related to any particular point in the article. Or if you don't want to spend time figuring out how to incorporate your idea into the main article.

Option #2: Make non-controversial minor corrections in the main article. If you see a place in the article itself where your contribution seems to fit in, you can add it there. If you think your contribution should be obvious to anybody and agreeable to everybody, such as a typo or some other obvious error, you can just go ahead and make it in the body of the article, and either sign or not with the 4 tildes.

Option #3: Add an indented paragraph at the spot you have something to say about. If your contribution is distinct from the viewpoint of the article, you can distinguish it by indenting it as a separate paragraph. To indent, type a colon (:) at the beginning of your paragraph. Then you could begin your paragraph with a word describing what type of contribution it is. For example, Objection, Criticism, Friendly Amendment, Argument, Correction, Clarification, Rebuttal, Additional point. Sign at the end with 4 tildes.

Option #4: Create a whole new section in an article. If your contribution is a major point, and/or more than a paragraph, you may want to put it under a separate heading. You could use a word like those just suggested, or you could make up a headline that describes your point. Put two equals signs on either side of your heading to make it a major heading. Put three equals signs on either side of it to make it a sub-heading. (Please sign your contribution with 4 tildes.)

Option #5: Create a whole new article. Just type your article headline in "search", click "search", and an empty page appears with your headline. If you post articles elsewhere, you can "mirror" them here too, and link each article to its mirror. The two kinds of formats complement each other: a blog post preserves the original version, while the Wiki invites more reader feedback where quality is encouraged by (1) the prohibition of ad hominem attacks,, (2) the possibility of very specific feedback by posting it next to the subject matter referred to; (3) the interaction with other readers, with the option of keeping contributions distinct or of merging comments to eliminate redundancy, or both.

How to use the software

Basics: To create a new article, go to The Forum#Index of Articles Posted, click "Edit", type your title in the list at the bottom, and surround it with double brackets. Click "Save" at the bottom; then your title will become clickable. Click on it, and a new blank page with that title will appear, ready for you to write. Easier way: to create a new article without listing it on this page, just type your article title in the search box and click "search".

To separate paragraphs, put a space between them.

If you would like this font for your paragraph, put a space at the beginning of it.

To indent a paragraph about 3 spaces, put a colon (:) at the beginning.

To indent both the left and right sides of a paragraph about 7 spaces, put "blockquote", enclosed in angle brackets (lower right on your keyboard) at the beginning of the paragraph and "/blockquote", enclosed in angle brackets, at the end.

To sign your contribution, type 4 "tildes". Those are the squiggles (~) in the upper left of your keyboard. When you click "save", your name, state, and political party will be posted.

If you are copying lots of text, or a whole article, from another post, html won't work here. It will just show up as garbage text which you will have to delete. If you transfer text formatted with things like indents, bolds, or Italics, the formatting won't transfer.

More about the icons that appear when you edit

Internal link - 3rd icon from left: To link to any article on this site, type the title of that article and either enclose it with double brackets or highlight it and click the "Internal Link" icon. The link is case sensitive, so capitalize the way the article title reads. To link to a section within the article, place a hashtag (#) after the headline title and type the su. bheading title after the hashtag. Copy whatever spaces are between the words of either title, but don't put a space on either side of the hashtag.

External Link To link to any other web page, type the word(s) you want the link on, highlight it or them, and click the globe icon, 4th from left. In the box that appears, type the complete web address (URL) including the http://... To do the same thing manually, type a left bracket, then the web address, a space, the words you want linked, and then a right bracket.

Overriding font colourTemplate:Anchors

To make a word have colour, use: <span style="color:hex triplet or colour name">text</span>

Examples:

• <span style="color:red">red writing</span> shows as red writing
• <span style="color:#0f0">green writing</span> shows as green writing
• <span style="color:#0000FF">blue writing</span> shows as blue writing

Template font color

Template:Font color can also be used.

{{Font color|fontcolor|backgroundcolor|Your text here}}

Example	Result
{{font color|red|This text is different}}	Template:Font color to change text-color only (Note: do not style text as a link)
{{font color|red|yellow|This text is different}}	Template:Font color to change text and background color
{{font color||yellow|This text is different}}	Template:Font color to change background color only note the two pipe-characters ||

More tools: consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.