User talk:Zircon 2

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Proposed deletion of White Zambians

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Ways to improve White Tanzanians

Hi, I'm Ironholds. Zircon 2, thanks for creating White Tanzanians!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please address the tags on this article. Thanks!

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Ironholds (talk) 03:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

A page you started (Geology of the Central African Republic) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Geology of the Central African Republic, Zircon 2!

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Please add in-line citations, so it is apparent which statements are verified by which references. See WP:INLINECITE for more info.

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A page you started (Geology of Nebraska) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Geology of Nebraska, Zircon 2!

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Cool. Add a couple relevant images, and use more inline citations: complete paragraphs remain unattributed.

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--Animalparty! (talk) 02:06, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Geology of Rhode Island (October 24)

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Ways to improve Prehistory of Newfoundland and Labrador

Hi, I'm Nick Moyes. Zircon 2, thanks for creating Prehistory of Newfoundland and Labrador!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This is an interesting-looking article, but you must support factual statements with inline references.It's not ok just to point to a book and say "thrre you are-go read it". At the very least you should add the relevant page numbers using the {{rp}} template. For such a detailed article I would hope to see four or five really good references to support this encyclooaedia entry.

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Nick Moyes (talk) 07:56, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Prehistory of Quebec) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Prehistory of Quebec, Zircon 2!

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Nice looking page! I've added some updates, and tagged the page in hopes to get more than one reference for the entire article. Let me know if you need any help!

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SEMMENDINGER (talk) 21:26, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Great job on your pre-history additions. Moxy (talk) 21:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Geology of Lebanon) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Geology of Lebanon, Zircon 2!

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Great work! Some paragraphs still need citations, but on the whole it is a wonderful article.

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TonyBallioni (talk) 21:36, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Geology of Réunion) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Geology of Réunion, Zircon 2!

Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Please correct red link to Strombolian eruption, which I assume is what you meant?

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Nick Moyes (talk) 22:21, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Geology of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Geology of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zircon 2!

Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

This is another long article based on one source. It would be helpful, I feel, if in future articles you could add a page ref after each paragraph, rather than the end of a complex section.

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Nick Moyes (talk) 20:10, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Geology of Lesotho) has been reviewed!

{{subst:Reviewednote-NPF|1=Geology of Lesotho|2=Nick Moyes|3=Could you disambiguate amygdale? I've never heard it called [[amygdule], but apparently that's what Wikipedia likes to call them.}}

Nick Moyes (talk) 21:44, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Nice articles on the Geology of Africa

Hello Zircon 2, nice articles started, and good to see you're not afraid to include red links, too many other editors avoid them, but they are the backbone of Wikipedia. I added some images to some of your articles, please add some more to the other ones. You may have seen the request for the articles at the Portal:Prehistory of Africa where I added them and more articles that need to be filled, based on the amount of links to them (another good thing of having many red links). Cheers, Tisquesusa (talk) 02:47, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (List of stratigraphic units and structural features in Massachusetts) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating List of stratigraphic units and structural features in Massachusetts, Zircon 2!

Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

There are far too many redlinks here for my liking, but I've seen some great work you've been doing, so hope you will be filling these missing articles in the near future.

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Nick Moyes (talk) 00:54, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Note - I would not worry about the redlinks, as they are potential article titles. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:14, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Geology of Uganda) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Geology of Uganda, Zircon 2!

Wikipedia editor Justlettersandnumbers just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Nice work, what a pleasure to see a real article instead of the usual trivia! I'm going to tag it as needing more sources, for the benefit of others who see it. If you'd like me to consolidate the various references to different pages of Schluter into one I can do so – drop a note here or on the talk-page there.

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Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:37, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Geology of places

I appreciate your efforts writing all those regional geology articles. I have written a few myself so I can tell how much reading you may have to do to write them. One issue effects the lead. When you use the title "Geology of ..." you are talking about the scientific discipline of the study of the Earth in that area. However in the lead you are often using "geology" in a jargon alternate meaning that just refers to the rocks themselves. So I thnk that if you are going to say "geology of Kentucky" ... you should make the meaning of "geology" the same through the article, ie " geology of Kentucky is the study of ... which first formed in the Proterozoic". Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:11, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (History of tariffs in Australia) has been reviewed!

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An interesting article, but it needs more inline citations.

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Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:30, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Zircon 2, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here. A few of your page creations have some issues with Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing, though none of the articles I've at are so problematic to require that content be removed. If it's possible, you should try writing articles based on more than one source.

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Your draft article, Draft:Geology of Rhode Island

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Geology Barnstar

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		Thanks for all the new orogeny articles! — Sagotreespirit (talk) 10:40, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Petermann orogeny.

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Nice to see these new geology stubs. Ideally we would want at least two sources per stub, for verifiability purposes (WP:V). Also, adding the stub tag to each one that I have added to this one would be a good idea! Cheers and happy editing.

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Thank you for creating Glenburgh orogeny.

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Evolution of languages

You added several references to

• Andreose & Renzi 2013
• Maenchen-Helfen 1973
• Kimura & Wilson 1983
• Holm 2013
• Merrill et al. 2010
• Kaufman & Justeson 2009
• Fowler 1985
• Willemyns 2013
• Pedersen 1996
• Fortson IV 2011
• Cline & León-Portilla 1984
• Greenberg 2004
• Schütz 1994

in that article, but without full citations it's impossible to know what these reference are. Could you add them please?

Also if you use User:Svick/HarvErrors.js, you'll be notified of these errors in the future. If you don't know how to install it let me know, I'll walk you through it. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:31, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Anyway you can help with those? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:47, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Geology and geological history of California.

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