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 {{confuse|[[downconversion]] (editing questions to be shorter and easier to use them for another purpose) or [[upconversion]] (the opposite)}}
 In quizbowl jargon, '''conversion''' (or '''converting''' a question) is the act of getting a [[question]] correct.
 The term can be understood as taking the words of a question and "converting" them into points for one's team.
 When discussing [[tossups]], the term "conversion" can be contrasted with [[powering]] to entail getting a question for 10 points rather than 15, or to represent that a [[team]] answered a question correctly at any point.
 In the context of a [[bonus]] question, converting a [[bonus part|part]] simply means answering it correctly.

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 In quizbowl jargon, '''conversion''' (or '''converting''' a question) is the act of getting a [[question]] correct.
 The term can be understood as taking the words of a question and "converting" them into points for one's team.
-Conversion can be used as the counterpart to [[powering]], entailing getting a question for 10 points, or to represent that a [[team]] answered a question correctly at any point.
+When discussing [[tossups]], the term "conversion" can be contrasted with [[powering]] to entail getting a question for 10 points rather than 15, or to represent that a [[team]] answered a question correctly at any point.
 In most contexts, "conversion" refers to aggregate conversion (or conversion rate), usually across an entire tournament.

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 {{confuse|[[downconversion]] (editing questions to be shorter and easier to use them for another purpose) or [[upconversion]] (the opposite)}}
-In quizbowl jargon, '''conversion''' (or '''converting''' a question) is the act of [[get|getting a question correct]].
+In quizbowl jargon, '''conversion''' (or '''converting''' a question) is the act of getting a [[question]] correct.
 The term can be understood as taking the words of a question and "converting" them into points for one's team.
 In most contexts, "conversion" refers to aggregate conversion (or conversion rate), usually across an entire tournament.

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 So for example, [[bonus conversion]] generally refers to performance on all bonuses played across a tournament.</onlyinclude>
-Various [[conversion metrics]] (like [[points per game]] and [[points per bonus]]) derived from [[statistics|conventional statistics]] can offer basic insight into team skill or tournament difficulty.
+Various [[conversion metrics]] (like [[points per game]] and [[points per bonus]]) derived from [[stats|conventional statistics]] can offer basic insight into team skill or tournament difficulty.
 On the other hand, [[conversion statistics]], which specifically measure the conversion of individual questions, require more fine-grained data or special tools.
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 ) '''Converting''' a question is the act of getting a question correctly (i.e. converting the words of the question into points for one's team).<br>
-) '''Conversion''' statistics, which measure the extent to which questions were converted across the tournament. These include [[points per game]] and [[points per bonus]]. More recently, [[NAQT]] has released category-by-category statistics on the percentage of [[tossups]] that were converted across a large sample of game rooms, divided by category.
+) '''Conversion''' statistics, which measure the extent to which questions were converted across the tournament. These include [[conversion metrics|metrics]] like [[points per game]] and [[points per bonus]]. More recently, [[NAQT]] has released category-by-category statistics on the percentage of [[tossups]] that were converted across a large sample of game rooms,
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