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Chris's help
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Regarding Bible scientific foreknowledge article
''Dear Chris, I know a lot of people including yourself helped create the Bible scientific foreknowledge article. Currently, there are no "buttons" to access the article. The only way to find the article is to do a search on it vis a vis the creationwiki search function. Lastly, please try not to change the URL of the Bible scientific foreknowledge article as the Christian apologist JP Holding has 5 links to the article at his website called www.tektonics.org Sincerely,'' Creationist 22:49, 15 February 2007 (EST)creationist


 * That is far from true. From a brief look alone it appears to have about a dozen articles on the CreationWiki linking to it. (Special:Whatlinkshere/Bible_scientific_foreknowledge)


 * If the article is renamed, the existing title will forward to the new location. There is no cause for concern.

--Mr. Ashcraft 11:00, 16 February 2007 (EST)

Peer Review
The purpose of the CreationWiki:Peer Review page is to organize the peer reviewing of CreationWiki articles. Sorry if that wasnt made clear.

--Mr. Ashcraft 18:24, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

Conservapedia Copyright
Once an author publishes on a copyrighted site (i.e. Conservapedia), the author has already released the rights to their work, and cannot withhold them. Material from Conservapedia can not be used on the CreationWiki by permission of author.

(This material was copied by an author of a Conservapedia.org article who gives permission for it to be used here)

Likewise, the material from CreationWiki cannot be copied to Conservapedia. The CreationWiki content is licensed under the GNU licensing agreement. Verbatim use is not permitted unless the material remains under a GNU license, which is not the case on Conservapedia.

The author of said work can simultaneously publish material on the two sites, but material cannot be copied from one to the other by a third party.

--Mr. Ashcraft 19:54, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

''Andy Schafly, who I believe is the owner of Conservapedia, gave me permission to copy Arguments against evolution which I wrote at Conservapedia to CreationWiki. Is there any problem with that?''

No. However, you created a couple of stubs wherein you stated that they were from Conservapedia, but the author gave you permission to use the material here. It was therefore important to clarify that an author can not give you rights to transfer their work to another site after posting them to Conservapedia because the site retains copyrights to the material.

This might sound stupid but are you saying that you have to have two computers sitting next to each other and you press the enter keys at the same time so the articles go to CreationWiki and Conservapedia at the exact same time?

I doubt there would arise a problem from an author posting their own original work on two separate sites provided that it was done in short succession. By the letter of the law - yes - it would have to be done at the exact same time, but I cant imagine either site contesting ownership provided there were only a few days between uploads.--Mr. Ashcraft 16:28, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

Spamming
Please be aware that placing links on numerous pages is considered spamming. Most of the articles you placed links on bare no relationship to that topic, and therefore, the placements are interpreted as merely self-serving.

CreationWiki:Vandalism : "Spamming - placing redundant links, content, or messages on numerous pages."

--Mr. Ashcraft 19:55, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

Quotes etc
Take a look at the changes I made to the YEC page. Please keep in mind that the CreationWiki contains article for most topics regarding creation apologetics. Much of the content that you added should have been placed on other pages that addressed those specific topics.

Quotes should be used very sparingly and only to substantiate a claim where a reference alone is insufficient. They should never be used as a replacement for original text. The number of quotes placed on the YEC and other pages was unacceptable and had to be reverted. Generally speaking 1-2 is the maximum allowable on any given article, and their inclusion is even more rare in encyclopedic publications.

A series of quotes should only be placed on a Quotes page, but please feel free to keeping adding them there. Also, the only reference necessary for a quote is the publication of its origin (i.e. journal, magazine or book).

Many of the references you included were not assigned a title, author, and publisher as is required. URLs should never be visible. Please edit the references to add the necessary information.

Furthermore the following notice is too vague : Portions of this material were copied from Conservapedia with the permission of the director of Conservapedia. You should identify exactly which part of the article came from Conservapedia. Its probably also best if you propose such additions from Conservapedia via the discussion page before including the material. In many cases, the text could simply be written rather than being copied. We'd like the CreationWiki content to be original material, and avoid mirroring.

I think the YEC article came out looking pretty good. Feel free to tweak it a little more while fixing the references. Note - I moved some to scientific community. --Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 21:24, 5 May 2007 (EDT)

Thanks
Thanks for your assistance. Very much appreciated. WesDale 04:07, 6 June 2007 (EDT)
 * Your welcome. Creationist 20:37, 14 June 2007 (EDT)

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