Rygel, M.C.
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The above was a "canned" welcome.
I'm always happy to see a subject matter expert joining the project. Especially when a geologist jumps in. There is a lot to be done, so jump right in. And apologies for my rather blunt undo of your first effort, especially as I see others agreeing with you and my experience with sedimentary geology is a bit dated. So, indeed: Welcome aboard and enjoy the show! Feel free to drop me a note if you are confused about some odd Wikipedia-ways and/or rules. Vsmith (talk) 03:50, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
- I'd just like to add my welcome to Vsmith's, I hope that you find contributing here rewarding - we can certainly never have too many geologists involved. There are quite a lot of geology pages that lack good clear photographs, so any that you can contribute would be great - if you have any questions about uploading images, just leave me a note. Cheers, Mikenorton (talk) 08:21, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! I think (hope!) that I can make a reasonable contribution to the sedimentary structures entry and many of the linked entries for specific structures this fall. I am going to have the students in my 400-level Sedimentary Geology class write term "papers" that will be converted to wiki entries that include images from my personal teaching collection. We will work through a first draft on a test wiki hosted on a college server before migrating content over to wikipedia. As you can imagine, this will be a learning experience for everyone. I will probably be asking lots of questions about how best to go about this (sandbox, etc)!
- Hi again, I've found several articles created by your students (Sed structures articles) and for the most part they are quite good - I've just done some minor cleanup on some. Perhaps you could post a list of new articles here or elsewhere so we don't just run into them by chance. Anyway, thanks for your and your students work. Vsmith (talk) 19:02, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks! As the class Wikipedia project wraps up, it has become obvious that some students are solid writers and got really involved in the project, and others struggled. Either way, I am hoping that their effort produces positive results, despite the small amount of chaos that a bunch of new contributors might cause. Details about what I asked them to do can be found on the grading page and a list of topics is provided here. Would you like me to include a table on this talk page or on the WikiProject Geology listing the pages that the students edited? Rygel, M.C. (talk) 16:22, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- A list here or on a subpage would be fine, I've mentioned you and your students work on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geology, so others may come looking. Vsmith (talk) 17:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks! As the class Wikipedia project wraps up, it has become obvious that some students are solid writers and got really involved in the project, and others struggled. Either way, I am hoping that their effort produces positive results, despite the small amount of chaos that a bunch of new contributors might cause. Details about what I asked them to do can be found on the grading page and a list of topics is provided here. Would you like me to include a table on this talk page or on the WikiProject Geology listing the pages that the students edited? Rygel, M.C. (talk) 16:22, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Transcluding images from Commons edit
Hi, I apologize for being slow to answer your question about reading images. Now I'm back in Potsdam I'm looking into it - it should be possible, I just don't know how. I'll let you know as soon as I find out - probably I'll find a way in the next week or so. Hope your work is going well. Walkerma (talk) 17:01, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- No problem, I was able to link images from Wikimedia commons to the Geology Wiki via the instructions at [1]. Rygel, M.C. (talk) 13:10, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks again edit
After our discussion about the new articles and photos, I went through your photos and raided some of your great pics for pages I worked on a while ago but did not have good pics, like lithic sandstone. Hope that was OK! The only thing we need is a photomicrograph of an arkose... do you have one of those handy? QFL 24-7 bla ¤ cntrb ¤ kids ¤ pics ¤ vids 21:34, 9 December 2010 (UTC)