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Mercury edit

Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Why is Mercury not added to the list Other celestial bodies (planets, moons) even though it contains tectonic activity?

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/tectonically-active-planet-mercury/

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/mercury-joins-earth-tectonically-active-planet Clerk18890 (talk) 13:50, 16 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 9 June 2024 edit

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Currently, the page "Baikal Rift Valley" does not exist, and I suggest linking it to the Wikipedia article on the Baikal Rift Zone in the examples of the 'Divergent Boundaries' section in the "Types of Plate Boundaries". .awddak jnmd (talk) 22:13, 9 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for reporting this. I have changed "Baikal Rift Valley" to "Baikal Rift" (because the article text is describing rift zones rather than rift valleys) and piped the wikilink to "Baikal Rift Zone". GeoWriter (talk) 14:57, 10 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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