User talk:CelticCreationist
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Upload policy
You must include a valid copyright status or uploaded files will be deleted. For upload instructions and policy see creationwiki:upload.
http://creationwiki.org/pool/Image:Orthodoxcross.png
FYI - Wikimedia Commons files contain a copyright status under the heading "Licensing".
--Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 19:12, 18 July 2007 (EDT)
A fellow friend
Welcome Celtic, my fellow Italian! I am only 25%, second generation Italian. My Grandfather came over when he was a kid. --Tony Sommer 12:55, 19 July 2007 (EDT)
ancestral pages and SMW
When creating ancestral pages, it would be helpful if these relations were specified as a semantic media wiki property.
Note the change I made to: Massa.
For more help see: Help:Semantic_annotation#Turning_Links_into_Properties
Or examine articles such as Abraham where the SMW has been employed.
--Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 14:22, 14 January 2008 (EST)
Image Copyright status
If the "source" link for an image does not contain an explicit copyright status statement, then you must provide an additional link under "Copyright Status" for verification.
You've claimed the author of the following image released it into the public domain. Please post a link on my usertalk page where this can be verified, and then edit the "copyright status" of the following file.
http://creationwiki.org/pool/index.php/Image:Ireland-map.gif
--Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 19:36, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
- The creator states in this link: http://www.backpack-newzealand.com/ireland-map.html that "If you wish to use this Ireland map on your web site you can, all that is required is a link back." CelticCreationist 19:44, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
- OK thanks. That is a conditional use (not a public domain release), a quote of that condition must be placed under "copyright status" along with the link to where that statement can be found. Again - unless explicit permission is given, all works must be assumed protected by copyright. --Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 19:54, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
Templates
You've done a first-rate job on those templates. Only be more careful when you import template code from Wikipedia. Not all of it works, because we don't always have the proper skin code for some of the classes. Those guys are experimenting with all sorts of inner-circle stuff that is not part of the MediaWiki release chain.
That said: I liked your Country template, and have translated it onto the French side. You might as well know: I've been translating articles into French, and trying to keep up with guys like you who change them afterwards. Happily, I watch every article that I edit, so I always know.
Are you planning to turn those language tables into template code?
Here's a project that you might want to consider: let's split the Greece article into Greece the country (let it stay under that article name) and Greek the language. The article is getting too long, anyway, and those boxes are interfering with one another. We'll have to chase down our "what links here" links, to re-link a bunch of articles to the language instead of the country.
Once those templates get firmly in place, I'm going to start thinking about how to turn them into automatic semantic annotators. (See Help:Semantics to know what I'm talking about.) If you have the slightest interest in semantic annotation, and how to make it work more widely, that would be welcome. Otherwise, I'll watch the Country template for awhile in case you need to change it again for any reason, and when you haven't changed it for a month or so, I'll take a hard look at it.
About those descendancies you mentioned: by any chance do you speak any of the languages?
Please reply on my User talk page, or use the e-mail sidebar link. Thank you.--TemlakosTalk 14:48, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Another Category needs Deletion
The Category 'Church Fathers' needs to be deleted as well since it is plural. I already have stated adding the articles in that category to the new category 'Church Father'. - CelticCreationist 02:56, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
- Great, but actually the standard convention is lowercase/singular - so it should be [[category:Church father]]. --Ashcraft - (talk) 03:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Rachel
I just finished revising and expanding the article on Rachel.
I have a friendly tip for you, or at least as friendly as an administrator can be. I noticed, in the course of my research, that George Konig's essay on the site AboutBibleProphecy.com contained text that was word-for-word identical to the story of Rachel as I originally found it. When I examined the history, the reason for that became clear. It would appear—and you can correct me if I am mistaken—that you copied the Rachel story from George Konig's essay.
Two things about that:
- If George Konig were writing for CreationWiki, I would not be satisfied with the quality of his prose. That was my first reason for revising it. Konig is certainly a well-meaning witness, but frankly his prose is at middle-school level, and not the sort of polished prose that will win friends and influence people, as Dale Carnegie might have said. (Besides, I have a severe quarrel with his chronology.) So in any case, I wouldn't try to copy that man's words or his writing style, even were that intellectually honest or, strictly speaking, legal. Which brings me to my second point:
- The word-for-word reproduction on CreationWiki of any prose that does not come under the GNU Free Documentation License, or is not in the public domain, or is not otherwise shared under a license that allows such reproduction, without the specifically cited permission of the original author, is flatly illegal. And even beyond that, CreationWiki does not knowingly "mirror" the content of other sites on the Web, no matter what sort of rights the original authors choose to reserve, or not to reserve.
I've left all this here only because you didn't leave an e-mail address, and I am unable to reach you in any other manner.
Understand this: I appreciate your starting the article to begin with, and all the other work you've done, most recently on the Apocrypha article. But users like you and me, who are among the few adults who write regularly for CreationWiki, need to set the proper example for the high-school students who constitute the bulk of this site's regular users and editors.
Please reply on my own user page.--TemlakosTalk 19:36, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Elam
Where did you get the material for the Elam article? I need to cite the source, and probably do some cleanup on the text.--TemlakosTalk 22:04, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
