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Happy editing! Ian.thomson (talk) 09:11, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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Ian.thomson (talk) 09:11, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

You normally don't edit your own comments after they've been responded to (or other peoples, hence my earlier screw up in this message). Since it was a couple of spelling fixes and no real change in meaning, I don't mind, but some users will really get on you for that. Ian.thomson (talk) 10:38, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the heads up and the detailed explanations. I'm starting to understand (and appreciate) the way Wikipedia works and I'm trying my best not to edit any pages if I feel like the information provided doesn't adhere to the website's rules.

I have a quick question, are there any specific rules for the Talk section (other than not editing your replied-to comments)? And if there are some, is there some place to discuss/share some ideas that would otherwise be considered original research or primary source interpretation? ConfusedEnoch (talk) 12:18, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Talk pages are really just for direct article improvement and not a general discussion forum. The bulletpoints I left come from a much larger guide I wrote, which also includes:

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• Assume as best as you can that other editors are here to help. (You're doing a really good job with that and not enough people do -- thanks!).

Ian.thomson (talk) 22:15, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Age of the Great Sphinx

The problem is that the article doesn't draw on Sphinx water erosion hypothesis which shows that most geologists who have studied it disagree with it. In fact its main supporters, Robert Schoch and Colin Reader, aren't academic geologists, Schoch teaching general science in a non-degree college and Reader being a local authority geologist. Doug Weller talk 07:34, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Wow, I didn't know that about them, thanks for clarifying.

Robert Schoch does have both an MS and PhD in Geology from Yale, though, so I don't think it's fair to say he's not an academic geologist.ConfusedEnoch (talk) 09:50, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Cn tags

{{cn}} - curly brackets. Doug Weller talk 15:01, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! @Doug Weller ConfusedEnoch (talk) 19:15, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm working to improve Remphan and I saw you had made a number of edits there so might be interested in following and contributing further on the subject. WeDoSome (talk) 18:46, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

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