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Descriptive Title
I've been trying to think of another brief site description to follow CreationWiki in the logo and on the main page. "The Encyclopedia of Creation Science" seems a bit long, though perhaps the most accurate. Having creation in both the title and description is redundant, but I cant think of a synonym that works around that. The spanish wiki group wanted to use "The Creationist Encyclopedia".
Have any other suggestions?
- CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation
- CreationWiki, encyclopedia of the creation
- CreationWiki, the creation encyclopedia
- CreationWiki, the creation science encyclopedia
- CreationWiki, the free encyclopedia of creation science
- I like CreationWiki, the creation science encyclopedia. CreationWiki, the free encyclopedia of creation science sounds awefully close to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. PrometheusX303 14:13, 17 June 2006 (CDT)
- I like CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creationism. But I suspect you want to empasize the science part.... User:allenroyboy 17 June 2006
- While I hate to lose the "science" emphasis in the description, CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation is simpler and may get the point across well enough. --Chris Ashcraft 22:41, 23 July 2006 (CDT)
- How about a name that more broadens the scope, that is of course, if the goal of Creation Wiki is to represent all kinds of info from a creationist worldview. Is CreationWiki restricted to science? I personally like CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of Creation and Science. Perhaps CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of the Creationist Worldview. --Tylerdemerchant October 27, 2007
- I like
- CreationWiki, Encyclopedia of Science and Creationism
- CreationWiki, Encyclopedia of Science and Creation
- CreationWiki, Encyclopedia of Science and Biblical Creationism
--Dbendele 18:21, 9 March 2007 (EST)
New Philosophy heading
I suggest a philosophy heading so that articles can be posted about empiricism, induction, philosophy of science, the scientific method, and the general origins framework methodology. By "the general origins framework methodology" I mean that facts from fossils found in the present are fit into a theoretical framework about the past.
Sorry - I should have created that heading along time ago. User:Ungtss has done a lot of work in that area. --Chris Ashcraft 02:30, 20 March 2006 (GMT)
- I'd like to see a page on philosophical presuppositions -- what they are and what they mean and how they are used. It would clean up the uniformitarian page...User:allenroyboy 17 June 2006
Featured Articles for Easter
Any suggestions? I think we should have Jesus Christ at least. I can't find anything else that might be relevant. PrometheusX303 14:28, 9 April 2006 (GMT)
Our article on Jesus Christ needs lots of work, but I would certainly be in favor of featuring it following marked improvements. Miracles would probably be a good one too, but also needs more work. --Chris Ashcraft 15:04, 9 April 2006 (GMT)
Posting News
I've added a link to the News template on the Main Page so that all editors can post relevant news when it happens. Since the main page is protected, editors could not easily access that page. It had also been "protected" for some reason, so I also switched it to unprotected. The link can be found on the bottom of the Recent Headlines column, and looks like the following - .
- The "Recent Headlines" section, I think, should be drastically shortened -- it extends two to five screenfuls past the rest of the page content, depending on the size of the viewing window. Mdotley 17:53, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
- The descriptions can/should be shortened to 1 sentence. Any links that have gone dead should also be removed. --Mr. Ashcraft 23:16, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
- Probably any that extend the page past the FA/Portal column should be dropped, and moved to a News Archive of some sort. Currently, that would be the Feb 2007 article on churches "gearing up for Evolution Sunday," and any below that point. As disk space is relatively cheap, there are many of those links that will probably never go dead. Mdotley 13:19, 10 September 2007 (EDT)
- The new item here is misleading in several places, at least our view is getting out there however. --Tony Sommer 14:04, 29 November 2007 (EST)
- Probably any that extend the page past the FA/Portal column should be dropped, and moved to a News Archive of some sort. Currently, that would be the Feb 2007 article on churches "gearing up for Evolution Sunday," and any below that point. As disk space is relatively cheap, there are many of those links that will probably never go dead. Mdotley 13:19, 10 September 2007 (EDT)
Featured Articles
Shouldn't we change the Featured Articles on the Main Page every so often? --A. MorrisTalk 10:30 A.M., 21 March 2007 (EST)
- I change them every so often. Did you have an article to recommend or were you just questioning the frequency? --Mr. Ashcraft 11:20, 21 March 2007 (EDT)
Spelling error in Main article: Look for "mocked by the media and active discriminated against in public schools..." and note that "active" should be "actively". And just a bit further down, "actively oppose creationism and lobbies to keep these views..." cannot be correct as is... either use both "opposes... lobbies" or "oppose... lobby" (I think your subject is plural so this latter pair of verbs would then be the correct forms). TheStarman 03:32, 4 October 2007 (EDT)
- You're right, it should be "oppose ... lobby", b/c the subject is "A number ... and the National ..." (emphasis added). Any subject with "and" in it is plural. ~ MD Otley (talk) 15:28, 4 October 2007 (EDT)
The logo
Why is the logo a Stargate device from the TV-show Stargate SG-1? The show seems profoundly anti-creation to me, with repeated references to, "millions of years ago," and the overarching theme that every ancient polytheistic "god" is, in fact, a manipulative extraterrestrial (of course SG-1 has never come close to the topic of monotheistic faiths, but by implication...). Just curious.
I should note that I'm a huge fan of the show, not for the ideological stuff, but because it's good sci-fi (or was, prior to season 10).-αmεσg (visit me at RationalWiki!) 15:31, 12 October 2007 (EDT)
- Most likely it's just pure chance. It just looks bloody cool. Nothing more and nothing less.
- O yeah, stargate is an awesome show. The newer ones aren't as good, but the or-rye(or however they spell it) saga was really good.--Nlawrence 22:09, 12 October 2007 (EDT)
It does look cool, and the Ori saga was fun (movies forthcoming) but that's the most anti-creationist of them all! Think of it - a group of aliens, pushing a book called "Origins" that dulls the wits and commands thought-crushing mindless obedience - and the freedom-loving Americans who fight the establishment of a theocracy? I mean, I like the message, but as I make abundantly clear, I think creationism is rather silly. Do you see the analogy?-αmεσg (visit me at RationalWiki!) 14:47, 15 October 2007 (EDT)
- I do get that is was an analogy against religion, but that does mean it wasn't cool. Just because I don't agree with it doesn't mean I like a good story. Know what I mean?
- If you really want to get technical, the ori saga could also be interpreted as showing the evils of Islam. The ori reflect the modern Jihad more then they reflect right-wing christendome. The Ori want enslave humanity and put their near Islamic religion on us in a huge holy war. --Nlawrence 15:49, 15 October 2007 (EDT)
Very true! I guess it's all colorable, and in the end, still awesome :-). I'm looking forward to the movies... have you been watching Atlantis? Season 4's off to an awesome start... and I still can't wait for Battlestar to start back up. You might really like it if you liked SG1.-αmεσg (visit me at RationalWiki!) 16:36, 15 October 2007 (EDT)
- I should clarify that my interest is only that you're markedly more tolerant than Conservapedia, Lawrence, in that you allow potentially different cultural views and can enjoy them. I'm glad :-) -αmεσg (visit me at RationalWiki!) 23:00, 15 October 2007 (EDT)
Error in the news blurb
"No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film Richard Dawkins, World’s Most Famous Darwinist, Stoops to Gate-crashing Expelled. NYTimes. March 21, 2008" It was actually PZ Myers that was not admitted into the film. Also the link should really be: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/science/21expelledw.html that way you won't be prompted with a login screen. -- Creationmac 06:40, 18 April 2008 (PDT)
- Thanks for the new (and simpler) link. But the gate-crash idea was Dawkins', so the description is still good. PZ Meyers was excluded while trying to accompany Dawkins.--TemlakosTalk 06:36, 18 April 2008 (PDT)
- I think the term "gate-crashing" is rather disingenuous. Nowhere in the NYT article does it say they weren't invited. It even states they registered online to get tickets... -- Creationmac 06:47, 18 April 2008 (PDT)
Breaking Up
Many Articles Here need to be broken into smaller sections, e.g anti-creationist debate tactics and Biblical scientific foreknowledge since they are quite long. Unfortunately I ditched creationism long ago so someone else will have to do it:(.--Torus 11:13, 22 April 2008 (PDT)
- Please note the restricted use of this page as stated at top. Use this page for discussion related to content on the Main Page only. For general CreationWiki discussion, use the Coffeehouse forum.
--Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 12:33, 22 April 2008 (PDT)
Templates
To simplify the code on the Main Page, I suggest that over the long term, you shift more to a bare layout, with templates supplying the content, as you have already done with the News column. ~ MD "Webster" Otley (talk) 06:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
