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I did offer advice and assistance. At least I thought, letting somebody know not to edit main pages with nonsense. It is not a good idea. Isn't that assisting them in their understanding of the working of the wiki? I mean so I should not tell people, what not to do?--Tsommer (Tony) 19:48, 19 January 2012 (PST)

OK cool, sounds good.--Tsommer (Tony) 13:37, 20 January 2012 (PST)

Contents

www.earlychurch.org.uk

Dear Chris,

I've added a few early church related articles (as you have seen). I run www.earlychurch.org.uk which has more resources on each. I am reluctant to add links to this myself, but wondered if someone else could review the pages and add a link if they thought it worthwhile:

http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/clementalex.php http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/irenaeus.php http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/josephus.php http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/justin.php http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/origen.php http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/philo.php http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/tatian.php http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/tertullian.php

More to come as time allows.

Regards, Robibrad 06:29, 25 January 2012 (PST)

Help

Dear Ashcraft, I am new at creationwiki and I do not speak english well. First of all, I apologize my english grammar mistakes. I am creating some templates to help write the "Jesus Cristo" article. But I have one doubt and, if it is possible, I would like to ask you for help. The problem is: - One of the templates I´ve create is http://creationwiki.org/pt/index.php?title=Predefinição:Langname I do not know if I keep the names in english or translate to portuguese. For instance: 

|en=English

I must translate to 

|en=Inglês ?

I would like to thank you in advance for you any help you give me. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to become an user in creationwiki.

God bless you

best regars, Luiz Alexandre Silva 10:18, 8 March 2012 (PST)

Thank you

Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Luiz Alexandre Silva 12:45, 8 March 2012 (PST)

Templates

Hi!

I am adding the templates related to the Cite book template. I will create the documentation pages. I hope it will be a gain for creationwiki. If you do not agree with my inclusions, feel free to delete. I am willing to do my best to this encyclopedia. God bless you, Luiz Alexandre Silva 16:36, 9 March 2012 (PST)

A Favor

Hi, I like to ask you a huge favor.

I am writing the article Weasel program and some texts are from my authorship. I would like to ask you to revise my text and criticize the content and the english grammar if it not ask too much. I will continue to write the article, but I need more opinions about the text.

I thank you very much any help you can give to me.

Luiz Alexandre Silva 05:36, 12 March 2012 (PDT)

We allo extensive copy/paste of other sites?--Tsommer (Tony) 18:07, 14 March 2012 (PDT)

hey mr. ashcraft i didn't get the extra credit chapter and i was wondering if i can go on thrusday or friday and get a test.

Templates

After created the "cite web" template it occured a problem. I will show an example to you:

"title of the page". http://www.google.com.br. Retrieved 5-5-2011. 

As you can see, the link appears two times. I asked a friend and he tolds me that if this code is appended in http://creationwiki.org/MediaWiki:Common.css it will work: 

 /* For linked citation numbers and document IDs, where  
    the number need not be shown on a screen or a handheld, 
    but should be included in the printed version */ 
    @media screen, handheld { 
    .citation *.printonly { 
       display: none; 
    }

So, if it is possible, I would ask you to insert this code in Common.css and see if it will appear like that: the raw URL is rendered at the end of the citation, but is hidden except when printed.


Thank you very much! God bless you, Luiz Alexandre Silva 16:17, 16 March 2012 (PDT)

Thank you

Thank you very much Ashcraft! I am writing a new article, Evolution program, and as a portuguese speaker I feel very insecure with the quality of the text. If you notice something wrong in any os the articles I am writing, please change it at your will.

God bless you, and again thank you,

Yours sincerelly

Luiz Alexandre Silva 05:19, 19 March 2012 (PDT)

Thank you

The change you made in the .css file was really good!

Thank you so much.

Today I included some information in the article Richard Sternberg and the two web links I´ve inserted behaved like Wikipedia.

Hugs, Luiz Alexandre Silva 14:43, 20 March 2012 (PDT)

Help

Dear Ashcraft,

I am writing some articles and I would like to receive your opinion on what I've written. I do not want to be out of compliance with the encyclopedia. My real desire is to contribute to the enciclopedia and comply with the encyclopedia guidelines. If I do something wrong, I would like to know so I can fix. I appreciate the opportunity and I wish you knew I want to work the best way possible.

Yours in Christ,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 17:25, 23 March 2012 (PDT)

NUMBEROFARTICLES variable

Dear Ashcraft,

Even I create some articles, the number of articles still remain 5 (in the portuguese wiki). This is a bug or I am doing something wrong?

Thank you in advance for your help,

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 17:21, 28 March 2012 (PDT)

Thank you

Thank you. Ok, I will translate articles with a great number of lines and see if something happens.

I am writing an essay about music. I'd be very happy if you gave your opinion and criticize my essay with the maximum possible criticism. Please point out the objections and flaws in my argument. God bless you!

Study

Hi,

I bought three books at amazon to lear about wikimedia. I will study the books so I will be able to contribute better with templates.

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 10:30, 2 April 2012 (PDT)

Main page

Hi Ashcraft!

I think the problem is that the main page is not being refreshed. I´ve created an article: Criacionismo (Creationism in portuguese) and the main page still found that the page do not exist. Despite this, if you click on the link it will be redirectioned to the page I´ve created. (my english is terrible, I admit, so I apologize for my english mistakes).

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 07:34, 3 April 2012 (PDT)

Puzzling error

Dear Ashcraft,

I am trying to guess what is happening in the portuguese CriaçãoWiki.

The following error is show after each edition I´ve made:

Erro na base de dados Ocorreu um erro sintáctico na pesquisa à base de dados. Isto pode indicar um defeito neste programa. A última tentativa de consulta à base de dados foi: (Consulta SQL em segundo-plano) na função "efUpdateCheckUserData". A base de dados devolveu o erro "1146: Table 'jcreatio_cwpt.cu_changes' doesn't exist (localhost)".

I focus on this message:

"1146: Table 'jcreatio_cwpt.cu_changes' doesn't exist (localhost)".

Maybe this table do not exist in the portuguese version. It is only a guess.

If you can look if the table exists it will be a great help to me.

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 06:43, 4 April 2012 (PDT)

Thank you

Ok,

I´ve compared what happened (now appears 6 instead of 5. I changed the criacionismo page adding a wiki link) with this link: Article count

Now I know what happens.

Only pages that have wiki links and category links count!

Thank you again, Luiz Alexandre Silva 18:43, 4 April 2012 (PDT)

Translating

Dear Ashcraft,

I'm starting the translation of the articles that you have indicated to me.

I will finish as soon as possible.

In Christ,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 09:51, 5 April 2012 (PDT)

My Mistake

I thought it was to me create these articles, but the translation of the terms is:

  • Select_your_viewpoint Translation:Selecione_seu_ponto_de_vista
  • Creationist Translation:Criacionista
  • Noncreationist Translation:Não-criacionista
  • No worldview specified Translation: Nenhuma visão de mundo especificada
  • Prospective creationist authors Translation:Potenciais autores criacionistas
  • Prospective noncreationist reviewers Translation:Potenciais revisores não-criacionistas

I created the article Criacionista

Best regards,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 12:55, 5 April 2012 (PDT)

Thank you

Hi Chris Ashcraft,

Thank you for the confidence in me. I am trying to do my best. All honor and glory be given to God!

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 14:34, 9 April 2012 (PDT)

Fixing the problem

All we need to do is remove the predefinition number of articles and exchange for a number. I will change.

hugs!

Luiz Alexandre Silva 13:20, 11 April 2012 (PDT)

done. We must update the creationwikis from time to time to update the ~english number of articles once it is no longer automatic.

God bless you, Luiz Alexandre Silva 13:24, 11 April 2012 (PDT)

Feathered Dinosaurs

Dear Chris,

I inserted two references on your article Feathered dinosaurs. I have two books on this subject and the two national geographic magazines talking about the archaeoraptor too. I am not sure if my editions are ok to you (for instance: the word "states" is right?) and I am asking you to take a look on the references I´ve insert. My only intention was to contribute. If you see something wrong, please revert my editions.

God bless you!

Luiz Alexandre Silva 05:55, 13 April 2012 (PDT)

Doubt

Dear Ashcraft,

I'm with a doubt. I ask for your help. I am building the template: Predefinição:Apagar. I don´t know if an user willing to propose one article for deletion should put the reasons in the CreationWiki in English or in the CriaçãoWiki in Portuguese. I await your guidance so I can finish this template.

Yours sincerelly,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 14:30, 27 April 2012 (PDT)

Email?

I tried emailing you twice and keep getting an error reply, does the email you have listed work? --Jzyehoshua 18:44, 27 April 2012 (PDT)

Oh, nevermind. I was sending it to Creationwiki.com, not .org. Oops. I tried retyping the address instead of the link because I don't use Outlook, and mixed up the domain. Sorry about that. --Jzyehoshua 21:38, 27 April 2012 (PDT)

some questions

Are we allowed to comment on pages that are projects of students? I mean those with do not edit this page template on top of them? There was a factual error in the page about Niels Bohr. It said he died a Lutheran but he was an atheist. I posted it on talk page but no one has corrected it yet. Are non creationists to correct such errors themself? It has nothing in connection with evolution or creationism. --EvilFlyingMonkey 10:05, 1 May 2012 (PDT)

Help

Hi Ashcraft,

I would like to ask you a huge favor.

I am working on the portuguese portals and I don´t know how to make an portuguese portal icon like this:

Creationwiki portals.png

If you can help the text is:

CriaçãoWiki Portais

Thank you very much

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 07:25, 16 May 2012 (PDT)

some questions

Are we allowed to comment on pages that are projects of students? I mean those with do not edit this page template on top of them? There was a factual error in the page about Niels Bohr. It said he died a Lutheran but he was an atheist. I posted it on talk page but no one has corrected it yet. Are non creationists to correct such errors themself? It has nothing in connection with evolution or creationism. --EvilFlyingMonkey 10:05, 1 May 2012 (PDT)

about the soon-to-be deleted pages

You can delete the pages by that user if you like. The main reason I'd put so much effort into editing them was because I didn't want to disrespect your authority to be the final judge on deleting content. So my solution to my problem with what I saw as a guy of a particular religious persuasion promoting his own heresy, was to provide the correct (what I've come to see as correct, anyway) information on the same page, so that visitors to that page wouldn't be misled.

Pardon my long-winded reply. You can go ahead and delete them. It would probably be more convenient to start from scratch, the next time someone wants to write about that topic. :) -EriK 07:40, 16 May 2012 (PDT)

Hi

I'd like you to see the article genetic drift. I put a paragraph based on the model of the section of the article genetic drift of the Wikipedia, but the I changed the experience in number of colours. The image was also made by my employee and is very different from Wikipedia (both the marbles and the jars). I'd Like to heard your opinion. God bless you. Luiz Alexandre Silva 13:04, 25 May 2012 (PDT)

Thank you for your help. God bless you and your ministry. Luiz Alexandre Silva 19:14, 27 May 2012 (PDT)
I finished the article gene pool, and, if is not too much trouble, I would greatly appreciate your opinion, especially if I wrote correctly the "speciation and evolution" section. Sincerely, Luiz Alexandre Silva 20:03, 27 May 2012 (PDT)

Facebook

Thank you for accepting me in Facebook. I received two reports of creationists who are commenting on orkut CreationWiki growth in Portuguese. I invited them to join the project. God bless you! In Christ, Luiz Alexandre Silva 13:12, 4 June 2012 (PDT)

Another help

I wrote a section in the article Logical Fallacies: affirming the consequent. I am not sure my english is well. Can you help me fix the english grammar mistakes? Thank you in advance! Luiz Alexandre Silva 11:19, 24 June 2012 (PDT)

Copy-paste error in Main Page hidden comments

See http://creationwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=prev&oldid=270251

You "titled" the new text "Featured Articles", but it's the video. ~ Webster (talk) 15:18, 24 June 2012 (PDT)

Account

A friend of mine, Maximiano Xavier, is requesting an account at CreationWiki to edit portuguese articles. He is a christian and a creationist. hugs, Luiz Alexandre Silva 10:38, 27 June 2012 (PDT)

Thanks so much

What a good new!

Thank you so much.

God bless you, Luiz Alexandre Silva 18:17, 1 July 2012 (PDT)

Nephilim

Thank you for the reminder Chris, though I am more and more leaning towards an Old-Earth creationist point of view (since there is no non-creationist scheme which does not need a probability of 1/infinity anyway, it might as well have all been established in the order it is now either in 6 days 6 millennia ago or even just yesterday if one chooses so, in the end the mathematics are the same). Nephilim are an essential part of the Haplogroup studies. For example, when Neanderthals and Cro-magnon Humans mixed, their offspring (hybrid remains discovered in Skhul in Israel) would just like the offspring of any other distantly related species on the planet (without being too distant to breed fertile offspring) would have been much bigger and stronger "mules" of a creature. In other words, the natural sciences do finally support the biblical record on gigantic people being a half-bred species of human mixed with proto-human beasts (no doubt the so-called demons who walked the planet of old according to every mythology and religious text) like Neanderthals, etc. I do hope you will at least look at the details of the edit you reverted so that you can see I was only defending the literal word of God without need to interpolate with less advanced science of God's creation.Kaz 02:05, 5 July 2012 (PDT)

Chris, I would like to bring your attention to a mutation on Human paternal lineages, specifically the state of a Human Y-chromosomal Haplogroup Mutation number 91. The notable and alarming thing about this particular location is that it has an additional T-nucleobase mutational value in the majority group of descendants from Y-DNA Adam (called Haplogroup BT) which consists of a stretch of nine T-nucleobase units rather than eight T-nucleobase units in the rest of Y-DNA Adam's descendants (commonly referred to as Human Y-DNA Haplogroup A). The short-hand for this Mutation in the Majority group would be BT-M91(9T) and in the Minority group as A-M91(8T) to make it easier to refer to in future. Because BT-M91(9T) but not A-M91(8T) occurs in Pan Troglodytes (chimps) too it means that Humans do not descend from Pan Troglodytes (Chimps) which is good news for the creationist point of view, so why is this alarming? I wrote that because it means Pan Troglodytes (Chimps) are descended from Humans, and the most recent research indicates that this was a result of wild polyandrous mating bouts among the group which became Pan Troglodytes. In simple terms then, this is what we will turn into if humans do not avoid the sexual practices of Canaan specifically prohibited in God's Law. It seems that the Nephilim can be accounted for in the fossil record as the non-Human branches of the Homo genus whose behaviour encouraged Humans to devolve or corrupt into other types of Homininae. This devolution may therefore very likely be the "corruption of flesh" which was mentioned as the reason God flooded the antediluvian world. The fossils of such quasi-humanoid type creatures should not be taken as present simply to test for our faith, or as tricks of the devil to lead us away from believe in God, but rather as a warning to people of faith and sound-logic about what happened to a our ancestors brothers and sisters who discarded the ways of holiness as modern Media is currently encouraging the world towards. The satanic trick is therefore not that these fossils exist but that they are interpreted wrongly. I would like your comments on this, and if possible would like if possible to insert a small section about the relationship between non-human homininae DNA and Nephilim on the Nephilim pages to be expanded as evidence increases. God bless! Kaz 02:58, 18 July 2012 (PDT)

Lee Spetner

Dear Chris,

in the article [[Lee Spetner[]] there is an error: Lee Spetner is not a Christian. He is a Jew.

In the article we read:

"Lee Spetner believed the christianity with such evidences. He helped people to get close to christianity."

But this is not true, or at least I never heard about that and there is no references supporting this.

Best regards!

Luiz Alexandre Silva 09:24, 14 July 2012 (PDT)

Thank you. I made the corrections. Hugs, Luiz Alexandre Silva 06:49, 15 July 2012 (PDT)

Line height of footnotes

Any idea why the wiki changes line height for footnotes? I sent you an email suggesting some possibilities. I'd really like to get this figured out though because it's really noticeable in reading any given page. I think it might be the configuration settings for the wiki itself, and not something to be adjusted via templates, because I couldn't see anything in the templates that would affect it. I did find a temporary fix, however, to use the Line-height template to change specific paragraphs to the correct line height, but it takes work just to make a single page look right. --Jzyehoshua 12:27, 17 July 2012 (PDT)

The following pages now have line height set to 1, and look correct: William Penn, Transitional form, Textual criticism. Do you know of any really basic templates that would control line height of footnotes? Because otherwise I think it must be a file on the computer hosting the wiki's server. I suspect the references installation is outdated, per here, and deals with the LocalSettings.php file and downloaded snapshot. I just started a discussion on MediaWiki asking about this. --Jzyehoshua 12:46, 17 July 2012 (PDT)

Fredel

Hello, ce sera avec plaisir que je pourrais apporter mon aide, ce sera surtout au niveau des corrections de français.

Country Template

Ok, I understand how you want it laid out now. I'll work on fixing that issue. -- CelticCreationist 19:02, 30 July 2012 (PDT)

History template

Dear Chris,

I noticed that there was no history navbox template. So I drew up one and I wish you shall find out whether it is as you'd like. I hope I have not done anything wrong. Modify it as your desire.

Best regards, Luiz Alexandre Silva 06:36, 6 August 2012 (PDT)

Liberapedia

Hi!

Dear Ashcraft

I would like to ask you a favor. I made an article on Liberapedia and I would like you to help me fix the article.

I would appreciate any help,

Best regards, Luiz Alexandre Silva 17:19, 15 August 2012 (PDT)

In answer to request in my Talk Page

Hello Chris!

I am very sorry, because I didn't read your previous message before, i just detected it only now, after second message.

Artem Volkov is most likely the son of Alexander Volkov according to his middle name and surname. Alexander Ivanovich Volkov is absolutely not christian and the book mentioned in the description is about very strange theory of the origin of all religions from one basis (like in Zeit Geist movie) which is mathematics. Artem in accordance to provided information also shares the opinion of the author of this book.

I will contact Artem to discuss his worldview with more details. But I am sure that he is not creationist.

What about my activities: I can say that Russian Creation Wiki is not growing for now because of there are not new registrations of users. Old registered user only have accounts and are not contributing any new information. All of my attempts to find new users and and send them to work in project have not been very successful. If you want I can share you my opinion of real roots of this problem.

I am checking new edits of Russian Portal three or four times a month and sometimes I am correcting articles. About year ago one noncreationist user has tried to discuss the creationists worldview in several discussion pages and I am describe him our position about his points and the policy of CreationWiki about talkpages. So I can say what for now I am only trying to control new activities and this is not very hard for me. But but in this direction so far little progress because of small activities from another users. But of course I am ready to proceed to work in team of of like-minded users in case it will be possible. All last activities from another user for last months are only new links to another languages from Luiz Alexandre Silva. I am checking his contributes in regular basis as well. All efforts of new user Κελεός are only grammar and typographing maked by new special plugin for russian MediaWiki sited pages which I have setup recently after the request from him to provide CreationWiki users the tool to make correct design of russian text. You may check that is this here (English translate in Google). Several days ago our old user Russian Prosvet makes new articles after two or three years of outage. May be he start new activities as in the past. It will be good.

If you assume that I could not be the administrator I can say that you have not find any new variant for this vacancy in Russian part for now. I regret. Alexander Korolev 07:24, 18 August 2012 (PDT)


Thank you for the info. I have reviewed your editor contributions.
An old adage may be helpful here - "lead by example". People are generally hesitant to invest heavily of themselves when asked. Such decisions must be intrinsic (come from within). I have spent no time trying to find new users. I've always felt it better to simply work hard and allow others to volunteer as they feel led.
If you want the Russian site to grow, then you must make it grow through regular article development. Although checking edits is important, that role is insignificant in comparison to creating and expanding articles.
You might be encouraged to know that the Russian site has seen close to a half million hits!
http://creationwiki.org/ru/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:Statistics
--Ashcraft - (talk) 15:19, 19 августа 2012 (PDT)
Dear Chris!
I understand that, and I can say that most of articles has been wroted or translated or at least corrected by me. I am trying to do me best but I am not sure that I am absolutely ready to be only one draft power of such great portal. It is very difficult to translate English texts with specific scientists terms which is another in Russian language. It is my general problem. Thank you for understanding.
Additionally could you please let me know additionally how to check new registrations approved by you ?
God bless you! Alexander Korolev 12:41, 21 August 2012 (PDT)

Azerbajan language

Hello Chris!

I have found that you have delete all attempts of user Vugar199 to create CreationWiki on his national language:

http://creationwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:DeletedContributions&limit=500&target=Vugar199

Could you please explain the reason ? Thank you in advance! Alexander Korolev 08:05, 18 August 2012 (PDT)

Cesar Gil

Dear Chris Aschraft,

I had invited a friend of mine (he studied with me computer science). He knows many languages (including english, russian, italian, spanish and other languages). He is a true christian and he is interested in collaborating with the project. Moreover he has another friend who would be interested in translating into Italian CreationWiki. I hope that you welcome him in the CreationWiki. I'll help him edit here. Cesar attends the Pentecostal church and is very committed. In Christ, Luiz Alexandre Silva 09:09, 30 August 2012 (PDT)

CreationWiki in Italian

Two people want to contribute to creationwiki in Italian. Cesar Gil and a friend of his who have not signed up yet. Could it be possible CreationWiki be created for the Italian language? God bless you, Luiz Alexandre Silva 11:18, 31 August 2012 (PDT)

Copyright material

Will do. CelticCreationist 11:50, 2 September 2012 (PDT)

Mr. White and I resolved the issue via email and I will get started on changing the relevant articles per his wishes. - CelticCreationist 13:52, 3 September 2012 (PDT)
I'll let him know. I've been rather busy as of late but, I intend on finishing that as soon as possible. - CelticCreationist 03:28, 25 September 2012 (PDT)

Asking for some help

Dear Chris, I made an article in portuguese and further I translated to english. I am a little insecure if my "way to speak english" is correct and if I made mistakes. Can you take a look when possible? The article is: Rodhocetus.

Thank you!

P.S. Cesar Gil and Maximiano are doing a great job in portuguese CriaçãoWiki! The former is from Rio de Janeiro, Southwest of Brazil and the Latter from Paraiba, North of Brazil.

Best regards,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 13:27, 2 September 2012 (PDT)

re: database repair

Dear Chris

Thank you for your support!

Best regards,

in Christ,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 08:28, 17 September 2012 (PDT)

Namespace in CreationWiki in spanish (CreaciónWiki)

Dear Chris,

I think that there is no namespace named: CreaciónWiki in the spanish CreationWiki.

I am starting to make the pages: Help and About of that wiki and the two pages counted as articles.

I don't know (and probably I could not make) to create such namespaces.

I would like to ask you this favour.

Thank you in advance,

God bless you,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 15:57, 30 September 2012 (PDT)

Dear Chris Ashccraft, is no longer needed the help. The namspace was created without accentuation used in Spanish. I thought the namaspace was "CreaciónWiki", but it was created as "CreacionWiki", without accent in char 'o': 'ó'. So, I am creating redirections to fix references in spanish creationwiki. Best regards, Luiz Alexandre Silva 09:09, 1 October 2012 (PDT)


Re: Spanish user

Dear Chris,

Of course! I will contact the user to ask his worldview.

God bless you!, Luiz Alexandre Silva 07:01, 3 October 2012 (PDT)

Thanks, I am very honored

I would like to thank the trust placed in me to promote me to bureaucrat at CreationWiki pt. I am very honored and I will give my best effort and dedication. God bless you and this work greatly. Luiz Alexandre Silva 17:52, 17 October 2012 (PDT)

The response to your questions

Dear Chris, I am sorry for the delay, I was in a vacation last month and have been loaded by many tasks after returning for the job.

  1. Regarding new registered users approved by you. This is connected with such fact that there is no full list of only russian users and I not able to detect new registered users by mentioned way in case personal bio page has not been changed. That is why I am asking.
  2. I have contacted this described user by personal E-mail in the past but didn't receive any response.
  3. Recently one strange and rude man has tried to humiliate and insult me and my wife through our personal pages in social network for my involvement in CreationWiki and christian faith. We forgave him and after a sending of testimony have been a prayer for him but without positive result yet. I can say that this creation project of course is not respected by our enemy and he send his people to stop it. We should make new efforts and be "strong and very courageous".

God bless you. Alexander Korolev 03:56, 20 October 2012 (PDT)


Help

Dear Ashcraft,

I would like to ask you again a huge favor.

I am working on the spanish portals and I will ask you the favor of creating a spanish portal icon (like the portuguese portal icon you created before) like this:

Creationwiki portals.png

If you can help the text is:

CreaciónWiki Portales

I saw that the creaciónwiki has a lot of visibility and a lot more hits than Portuguese CriaçãoWiki. So I am giving priority to this language.

Thank you very much

God bless you,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 15:21, 21 October 2012 (PDT)

God bless you

Maximiano´s promotion

Dear Chris,

I would like to ask you another favor. Use Maximiano It is a Pentecostal Christian creationist very committed to the creationist movement. He is involved in several other creationist websites and is a serious and dedicated person. I wish he was promoted to administrator if possible. I met him in a community on Orkut called "Creationism". He is very acquainted on this subject (Creationism). Thank you very much. God bless you! Luiz Alexandre Silva 03:51, 24 October 2012 (PDT)

I uploaded a picture of the lifecycle and it showed that it uploaded, but when I went back to the page it was gone. The link that you sent me would not upload onto my computer...we gave up after a couple hours. I will email you the picture 

and hope we can figure it out tomorrow.

thanks, MikaylaMikayla.c 20:16, 6 November 2012 (PST)

Re:

Dear Chris Ashcraft,

Thank you very much!

In recent days I have been very busy correcting tests and papers of my students of the college I teach. But even with little time at least one edition a day I do.

I am in contact with Maximiano and he is also busy this end of year season because of his engineering course. In the case of Cesar Gil (he studied engineering with me in Rio de Janeiro in the 80's) is studying the issues first before editing. It's his decision.

I do want to thank the opportunities you have given us in this work that I consider of utmost importance. Atheists are making an incessant work in forums and on facebook. The biology is almost entirely taken by atheists. And these biologists know very little about information theory. They also overestimate the power of natural selection and few, like you, make them face the challenging. This site you made, this initiative, is a powerful way to challenge evolutionary biologists and better inform people in general. I thank God for having known you. God bless you greatly, Mr. Ashcraft, you and your family. In Christ, Luiz Alexandre Silva 06:03, 2 December 2012 (PST)

Rollback

Please enable "rollback", at least for me and maybe Tony. It makes cleaning up after vandals much faster and easier. Thanks. ~ Webster (talk) 19:27, 9 December 2012 (PST)

Thanks Ashcraft.--Tsommer (Tony) 18:28, 10 December 2012 (PST)
Yes, thank you! ~ Webster (talk) 21:09, 10 December 2012 (PST)

Hiding vandalism

It appears that you are not using the option to hide vandalism without deleting pages. This feature has been available since MediaWiki 1.16, which CreationWiki uses, although the feature is disabled by default. See here. With this you can choose to hide the content of edits, the edit comment, and/or the editor's username. It is quite easy to use, works well, and can easily be undone (which means that you can safely play around with it to get comfortable with it). Philip J. Rayment 00:00, 11 December 2012 (PST)

I have used this feature on another wiki; it is indeed very handy. The user interface for it takes a little getting used to, but it's an incredibly powerful tool. And in true wiki fashion, everything it does is reversible, leaving no trace but a series of log entries. ~ Webster (talk) 02:45, 14 December 2012 (PST)

I had uploaded "Already Compromised" to the system under a different name (the name that I saved it under on my computer). I was wondering if there was a way to replace it under its new file name. Thank you.

Thank you for the information, but I will probably not be able to finish this over break. Frolander 17:56, 21 December 2012 (PST)

Creation Books Charlie and Trike in the Grand Canyon Adventure

Dear Mr. Ashcraft:

I was unable to successfully upload the promotional video to the book 'Charlie and Trike in the Grand Canyon Adventure'. When I entered the video link after the equal sign, it only put in what I typed, not the video. Is this video not on Youtube or is the error on my part?

Kyle Frolander

Dear Ashcraft,

My goal is to get the AJP to retract the article. My explanation of why the AJP article is absurd was already published in the Catholic Truth of Scotland. I'll be glad to help any creationist write an article about this topic for CreationWiki. I have a number of articles about the matter that are not easy to get and I can email them to any interested creationist.

Another part of this story which is very interesting is the reaction of physicists to my critique of the AJP article.

http://newevangelist.me/2012/02/22/physics-department-of-new-york-university/

http://newevangelist.me/2012/02/02/american-journal-of-physics/

http://newevangelist.me/2012/02/23/american-association-of-physics-teachers/

http://newevangelist.me/2012/05/06/american-institute-of-physics/

http://newevangelist.me/2011/12/07/american-scientific-affiliation-2/

http://newevangelist.me/2012/08/02/first-things/

My YouTube video titled "The Truth About Evolution and Religion" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKaF8vX6HXQ) also sheds light on this issue.

Davidmihjn 08:46, 1 January 2013 (PST)



Davidmihjn 08:46, 1 January 2013 (PST)

http://creationwiki.org/Pseudoscience_in_the_American_Journal_of_Physics

I think the above article should include an up-to-date account of how the AJP is responding to my criticism of the article. My past conversations with the AJP, AAPT, and AIP is at

http://newevangelist.me/2012/02/02/american-journal-of-physics/

http://newevangelist.me/2012/02/23/american-association-of-physics-teachers/

http://newevangelist.me/2012/05/06/american-institute-of-physics/

A year ago, I contacted Emory F. Bunn (ebunn@richmond.edu), who wrote the follow-up note titled “Evolution and the second law of thermodynamics,” and he told me that he didn’t want to discuss the matter. I then contacted David P. Jackson (ajp@dickinson.edu), the editor of the AJP, who suggested I submit my own article for publication. This was not the correct procedure for peer-reviewed journals. Jackson should have forwarded my critique to the author, Daniel Styer, for comment. Styer may have published an erratum or taken some other kind of action. If Styer said that I was wrong, I would have written to his college and explained that he should not be teaching physics. Instead, my submission was reviewed by an anonymous reviewer who said I was wrong. Thus, nobody at the AJP, AAPT, or AIP is taking responsibility for the article. I told Beth Cunningham (bcunningham@aapt.org), the Executive Officer of the AAPT, that Jackson should be fired. I also told H. Frederick Dylla (dylla@aip.org), the Executive Director or the AIP.Davidmihjn 08:26, 2 January 2013 (PST)

Making changes in Pseudoscience in the American Journal of Physics

Dear Chris,

Is this how I make changes? By putting the change here?

Did you get my email? An important addition to the story is an account of how the AJP is responding to this criticism. Who should write this? Isn't Creationwiki a collaborative effort like Wikipedia? Are there editors?

Very truly yours,

David Roemer 347-417-4703

Journal template

Dear Mr. Ashcraft

I'm returning from my vacation in Rio de Janeiro.

In the article Acts & facts I build a box suggesting a possible template for journals/magazines. Probably this is not the best and this box needs improvements. So I am asking if it is possible to you help me to improve the box. I would like also to know your opinion about the box.

Thank you very much

God bless you.

Luiz Alexandre Silva 16:23, 30 January 2013 (PST)

Thank you very much! Luiz Alexandre Silva 17:35, 5 February 2013 (PST)

Completing the Pseudoscience in the American Journal of Physics article

I think the article should contain some kind of explanation of how physicists are responding to this article. It is very strange and difficult for me to understand. Robert Richardson, a retired physics professor at NYU, where I got my PhD in physics, initially agreed with me that the equation was wrong. He said the authors were just using the Boltzmann constant for the sake of units. But when I gave him my complete account of the matter, he insulted me and refused to continue the correspondence. Another example is Randy Isaac, who promised to "walk me through" the second law of thermodynamics on the forum of the American Scientific Affiliation. As we discussed it, he became irrational. Robert Kaita refused to assign a moderator for the conversation.

Another example is Stephen Barr, a Catholic physicist and writer about evolution for First Things. I sent him an email asking for support. He sent me an email back saying I was wrong and was harming the Catholic Church. He was obviously being sincere. He could have ignored my email to him. I demanded an apology and accused him of not reading my article in the Catholic Truth of Scotland. I then proceed to bad mouth Barr to all of his Catholic associates on the Academy of Catholic Theology. There has been no response at all.

One member of the Academy of Catholic Theology, Fr. Austriaco of Providence College, who is a biologist, promised to investigate the matter. After about a month, he said he was not qualified to figure it out. In any case I'v been sending emails and faxes to physics departments around the U. S. These are my two emails. The first has gone out to about a hundred people. I just started sending out the second. There have been no responses.

January 12, 2013 Columbia University Department of Physics Dear Dr. Zajc, I'm trying to get the American Journal of Physics to retract "Entropy and evolution" (Am. J. Phys., Vol. 76, No. 11, November 2008). Equation 4b is an incorrect application of the Boltzmann equation for entropy. My correspondence about the issue is at

http://newevangelist.me/2012/02/02/american-journal-of-physics/

http://newevangelist.me/2012/02/23/american-association-of-physics-teachers/

http://newevangelist.me/2012/05/06/american-institute-of-physics/

An article explaining why the AJP article is absurd is at

http://creationwiki.org/Pseudoscience_in_the_American_Journal_of_Physics

I'll be giving a lecture in New York City about the matter on March 15, 2013. In addition to Equation 4b, I'll be discussing the following: 1. Darwinism only explains the adaptation of species to the environment, not common descent. 2. Advocates of intelligent design and nonreligious dilettantes are inhibited from thinking intelligently and rationally about evolution because of anxiety about religion. 3. It is an error to think evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a more egregious error to think evolution does not violate the second law of thermodynamics because of the sun. There is no cost for the lecture and no ticket, but to obtain a reservation and the exact location and time click on the following link:

<A HREF="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/316545">Reservation for "Pseudoscience in the American Journal of Physics"</A>

Very truly yours,

David Roemer 347-417-4703 http://www.newevangelization.info

Sent by fax and email.

Open letter to Allen Goldman (American Association for the Advancement of Science, Physics Section) and Howard Wactlar (National Science Foundation, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems):

The American Journal of Physics published an article (“Entropy and evolution,” Am. J. Phys., Vol. 76, No. 11, November 2008) that begins with the statement: “The creationist argument is that advanced organisms are more orderly than primitive organisms, and hence as evolution proceeds living things become more ordered, that is less disordered, that is less entropic. Because the second law of thermodynamics prohibits a decrease in entropy, it therefore prohibits biological evolution.”

The author says, “Two anonymous referees made valuable suggestions that improved this article significantly.” This raises the possibility that the peer-reviewers were more interested in anti-creationist propaganda than in making sure the article is a contribution to scientific knowledge.

The article says evolution decreased the entropy of the biosphere and estimates the decrease in joule/degrees. The article’s statements about evolution and entropy are unintelligible. I pointed out the errors and misinformation in the article to American Journal of Physics, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics in a number of communications. The AJP, the AAPT, and the AIP are refusing to retract the article, which I think is the only remedy for its nonsense. I refer you to the following sources of information about evolution and thermodynamics:

1) McIntosh, A.C., "Information and entropy – top -down or bottom-up development in living systems?", Int. J. of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. Vol. 4, No. 4 (2009), pp. 351 to 385.

2) Fourth paragraph of Ilya Prigogine, Gregoire Nicolis, and Agnes Babloyantz, “Thermodynamics of evolution”, Physics Today 25(11) (1972), pp. 23 to 28. View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3071090.

3) http://creationwiki.org/Pseudoscience_in_the_American_Journal_of_Physics

4) My article in http://www.catholictruthscotland.com/MAYnewsletter12.pdf

5) http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/10/more_philosophical_than_scient052441.html

Very truly yours, David Roemer 347-417-4703 http://www.newevangelization.info

Thanks for the information. I had attempted to contact an Admin to delete the unused photos, which obviously did not happen. I will keep the information you gave me for reference, as I am unskilled here (and not even certain if I am replying correctly). I thought I gave the correct copyright information, since I made the graphics myself.Piltdown Superman 11:33, 4 February 2013 (PST)

Pseudoscience in the American Journal of Physics

I finally got a correction to the article from a physicist: Warren Christensen from North Dakota State U.

"The second law only applies to systems of non-interacting particles or entities."

The above statement which appears in your wiki, is not true.


Sent from my iPhone <AJPIAS_76_11_1031_1.pdf> My response was this:

My wiki article states that thermodynamics includes chemical reactions. Are you suggesting this edit: "The second law only applies to systems of non-interacting entities and entities that undergo chemical reactions."

free will

When you have a chance you might want to check what is going on with this article and the user syamsu. --Tsommer (Tony) 17:22, 13 February 2013 (PST)

free books

Dear Chris Ashcraft,

Probably you may know. Anyway, this site has many Christian books that are available freely:

http://www.ccel.org/

Many books of Christian church, early christian writers, Schaff's history of the church, Spurgeon's sermons and so on

Maybe this can be a good source of research to people writing articles in creationwiki.

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 03:15, 28 February 2013 (PST)

Problems with videos in portuguese wiki

Dear Ashcraft,

I put a message to you in the portuguese wiki. I put there because only there the problem happens

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 19:47, 10 March 2013 (PDT)

licences template

Dear Chris Ashcraft

Today I started to rearrange the images that I uploaded in CreationWiki pool. After reading this article I realized that I can improve the organization of my uploaded images.

I am starting to create a template to facilitate and standardize the use of the images loaded and that you'd really like your opinion of these. Stay completely free to modify the template because I have not quite mastered the use of tables.

The example of use of the template can be view here

I will wait your opinion to replicate the pattern in other images that I loaded.

God bless you

Luiz Alexandre Silva 09:01, 29 March 2013 (PDT)

Thank you

Hi Chris

Thank you for your good explanation. My desire is not to make mistakes, but sometimes the doubts appear and I don't know how to do.

I checked the field "Licensing" in the upload form, but it does not allow to put anything into it. I think it is a combobox to which I do not have access. In wikimedia we have a "Licensing" but not a "Copyright status" section.

Thus, at least for now, I can only access the area "Copyright status" to insert the copyright status declarations.

Again many thanks to the help provided. A big hug and a blessed and happy Easter to you and your family!

Luiz Alexandre Silva 09:45, 31 March 2013 (PDT)

Editions on CreationWiki

Hi!

I would like to know if I can make editions in articles or must wait till the new version of MediaWiki be installed.

Hugs!

Luiz Alexandre Silva 06:58, 21 April 2013 (PDT)

New Server upgrade

Dear Chris Ashcraft.

I'm having doubts regarding edition at creationwiki.

It is allowed to edit the CreationWiki or I need to wait for the conversion of the server. Could you help me on this question? Sincerely

Luiz Alexandre Silva 16:01, 6 May 2013 (PDT)

Thank you

Thank you for the feedback. I will keep writing offline untill the server be replaced.

Best regards, Luiz Alexandre Silva 16:10, 7 May 2013 (PDT)

Favor

Dear Chris,

Could you do me a favor?

In the page: "CreationWiki:About" include, please, the interwiki link: pt:CriaçãoWiki:Sobre‎

Today I updated the data of the new server in Portuguese wiki. Great setting!

thank you in advance

hugs,

Luiz Alexandre Silva 10:37, 21 May 2013 (EDT)

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