RationalWiki:Project Creationism



RationalWiki is one of few active-ish & popular-ish websites with substantial anti-creationist coverage. Unfortunately, RW's creationism-related articles too frequently are shittily written/formatted, contain redundant material, don't link to or get linked from relevant articles, strawman by not quoting the source text, and (most importantly) don't exist at all to cover current or important creationist arguments. If someone (cough, RW, cough) doesn't cover these arguments (and well), creationists can get the upper hand in petty internet squabbles worldwide.

RationalWiki Project Creationism is working to fix these problems, with your help.

Project Creationism Goals:
 * 1) Cleaning up & organizing creationism articles
 * 2) Porting over EvoWiki's many creationism articles
 * 3) Finding & creating pages for new creationist arguments
 * 4) Creating pages and/or redirects for specific creationist publications

Articles needing work

 * 1) Creationism is a mess. Remove YEC-centrism, add all categories of creationism, add general objections
 * 2) Add all relevant pages to List of creationist claims (EW page) and to Category:Creationist claims
 * 3) Global flood and the 30 or so flood-related articles need organization and interlinking
 * 4) Create Didit fallacy, merge goddidit, flooddidit, etc.

Useful templates

 * 1) Add creationnav & idbox (and maybe create new navbox templates for the Flood, for the Garden of Eden & the Fall, for (anti-)evolution), Islamic creationism, Hindu creationism, etc.)
 * 2) Use wpl, wpa, reflist
 * 3) Use bible & qur'an

Articles needing continual updating

 * 1) Evidence against a recent creation
 * 2) List of creationist claims
 * 3) List of fallacious quotes by creationists

Port

 * 1) Awaken someone with ability to grant curator rights
 * 2) Get people curator
 * 3) Port
 * 4) Clean up ported pages
 * 5) Delete ported pages

New arguments

 * 1) Creationist organizations
 * 2) AiG: Keep up to date with the Answers Research Journal . We have nothing on Answers Research Journal volume 8, the 2015 volume. Also: the articles archive. It's possible to sign up for an account and get emailed w/ updates.
 * 3) CMI: RW has no coverage of the Journal of Creation . Articles. Key articles.
 * 4) ICR: Both ICR formal publications seem paper-only. "Newsroom". [icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=type&ID=2 "Impact"] (I think it's their online journal).
 * 5) Google alerts
 * 6) Check up on the other http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Webshites#YEC_and_ID webshites every so often
 * 7) Get texts of new creationist bills (Category:Text of creationist bills)

Specific publications
When you stumble across a specific creationist article that doesn't have a RW page/redirect:
 * 1) If it's arguing for something that we have a page on (eg another article on baraminology), create a redirect and mention the article onpage, however briefly
 * 2) If it's arguing for something new, create a new page and tell us here, so it can get gussied up
 * 3) In either case, if possible, use rbutr to let us (and others) know there's a related RW article
 * 4) In either case, consider making an article for the author, linked to the page
 * 5) In either case, Google the article and check if others have responded to it, and externallinks that shit up

Members
''All members of Project Creationism do solemnly swear to fix up creationism-related articles whenever it crosses their mind and they're in the mood. Amen.''
 * 1) Herr FüzzyCätPötätö (talk/stalk) 19:49, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Master NecromancerWhat is dead may never die 21:20, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) KOMF 18:41, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Why the hell not? RoninMacbeth (talk) 03:18, 10 July 2017 (UTC)