Creation History Wiki:General disclaimer

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Creation History Project wiki is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of the history of the creation vs evolution controversy. The structure of the project allows any registered user with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.

That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Creation History Project wiki; much of the time you will. However, Creation History Project wiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed and may not correspond with the current state of knowledge in the relevant subject. Note that most other encyclopedias and reference works also have similar disclaimers.

No formal peer review

We are working on ways to select and highlight reliable versions of articles. Our editors use tools such as the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, Creation History Project wiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while editors may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.

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Adapted from Wikipedia