John Mortimore

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Please read WP:Copyright violations as your recent article Bottlebrush (cave formation) was essentially a copy of the source you cited. Quite simply: don't do that. Vsmith (talk) 00:56, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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Please feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have any questions! --Dfred (talk) 15:42, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm Looking For Some Help

Hello, I have been actively editing Wikipedia for several days now, and I have started several new pages. I have been doing some research, but I am having a hard time finding information that is useful. The three pages I would most like to have some help with are

• 1. Mohawkite
• 2. Tyuyamunite
• 3. Bottlebrush (cave formation)

If you can help me get any of these pages out of the stub category, I would greatly appreciate it. John Mortimore (talk) 03:19, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

• Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
  

Well, if you don't find stuff online, then you might need a library. List of minerals (complete), mindat.org, rruff.info/ima/ and mineralienatlas.de are "references" for minerals. WP Geology might help too (",) --Chris.urs-o (talk) 14:37, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata

Hi John! I've seen that you were pretty busy editing different minerals and thought you might also enjoy to join d:Wikidata:Mineralogy_task_force. We are working on the central storage of typical infobox information about minerals. --Tobias1984 (talk) 10:46, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

I made a template of the Userbox for easier access: --Tobias1984 (talk) 14:54, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hello John. I advise you to upload images on Commons, its upload wizard gets your stuff nice. Regards --Chris.urs-o (talk) 06:59, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Keweenawite

Hello John Mortimore. There are enough solid solution series and homologous series. You get a notability problem with discredited minerals, remember to use redirects and article sections instead. Thx --Chris.urs-o (talk) 04:36, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of List of rocks and minerals found in the Keweenaw Peninsula

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Hello. Regarding your Brachiopods photo: as the banner says, it would be preferable to replace or supplement the quarter as a reference object with a metric scale bar (e.g. beneath the lower left specimen) to make the size more universally apparent, and thus more readily interpreted by viewers from other countries. --Animalparty-- (talk) 01:29, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

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