Yorrike

Welcome

Hello, Yorrike! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Awickert (talk) 16:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Thanks

Thanks for your help. As to the RfC comment: I wasn't attacking your blog, simply trying to be polite/neutral/humorous. You must have checked Wiki at a bad time: there are many geologists here, unfortunately there was a single user creating many accounts to force an idiotic and unsupported theory with lots of wikilawyering. Thanks for your help, and I hope you're not scarred for life over using Wikipedia; myself and others work pretty hard to add information and keep this thing from happening. Awickert (talk) 21:10, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

PS - after the sock was kind enough to link it, I spent a while surfing your blogs - thanks for the fun writing; I feel tempted to comment with my "top 10" things... Awickert (talk) 21:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Glad your faith is restored. Drop a note if you ever want collaboration when editing an article. I'll leave you my top 10 list (when I think of it) here; I can't resist and it's been rattling around in the back of my brain all afternoon. I think I've got 4-5 for sure by now. Awickert (talk) 10:17, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

10 things a geologist should know

1. How to identify rocks and minerals, generally well, in outcrop, hand sample, and microscope
2. How to manipulate the stress and strain tensors for a variety of rheologies (because the Earth is messy), and to relate this to faults, folding, seismic waves, and flow, on and within the Earth
3. How to make precise observations and take detailed, useful notes, and how to use these observations to construct sound theories about how things on the Earth generally work.
4. How to locate and orient themselves in the field, with map and compass, or without, during both day and night
5. Relative dating and absolute dating: how they work.
6. The interior structure of the Earth: plate tectonics, mantle convection, geodynamo.
7. How sediments are transported and the geologic record is formed.
8. Enough about natural hazards and climate change to be useful to others who have questions about such issues
9. How to use all details inside a rock (bedding, fossils, foliation, metamorphic phase transitions, sedimentary structures, igneous textures, bulk mineralogy, etc.) to create a combined picture of how that rock was formed and what it says about geological history.
10. A sense of humility that even the best-sounding theory can be utterly destroyed by empirical evidence.

Awickert (talk) 18:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)