User talk:Mikenorton

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Much thanks

Thank you so much for your help at Mary Kessell. I left last night with the intention of making additional corrections today and was pleasantly surprised to see it in the queue (thanks to your work). Much appreciated. All the best, France3470 (talk)

Thanks for fixing my mistake

Hi, thanks for fixing my accidental mistake on removing the Category:Megathrust earthquakes from the Megathrust earthquake article, I was actually intending to do that for another article that didn't belong in the category and accidentally did so for the article. My mistake. Stormchaser89 (talk) 011:19, 5 May 2015 (UTC

About the article earth

Hi I'm Sarthak Sharma. I have edited the article earth but why you have reverted it. Have I done a mistake. Please reply on my talk page page Thank You From Sarthak Sharma --sattu 09:12, 9 January 2016 (UTC) Sarthakniar (Talk) 05:03, 9 January 2016 (UTC)sattu

The derivation of the word 'Earth' (its etymology) is covered in the section of the article Earth#Name_and_etymology. It is not as simple as your text implies "The word Earth is derived from the word soil.". The lead section should summarise the article, so anything added to it should summarise that particular section, which I don't think that your text did. Mikenorton (talk) 13:35, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Galileo

Don't get involved in the Galileo articles.

Sindri Fort

Thanks for your correction to my edit. Might I however request you to put in a link to the new stub on the fort. Would you be able to find the lat-long for this fort (I am not sure the Wikimapia location suggestion is right)? It would be nice to be able to look up the location of the fort as well as that of Allah Bund on Google Earth. I am impressed by your qualification and seeing that you have a to-do list, might I suggest a couple of articles that are currently quite badly written and seem to be right up your alley - isostasy (Airy and Pratt models), Bouguer anomaly - which I am interested in via the John Henry Pratt biography which is also quite poor. Shyamal (talk) 03:10, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Shyamal, I've already linked to the fort article in the tsunami section. As to the lat long - File:Sindh and Kutch 1827 map.jpg shows a Sindree, which looks to be in the right position relative to the bund, based on this image from the Geological Survey of India, I don't know if that helps. Mikenorton (talk) 18:08, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, will try to use it to locate the spot on Google Earth. Shyamal (talk) 01:32, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Earthquake sensitive

BTW, see Draft:Earthquake sensitive. I've completely rewritten the article, and believe it will pass muster. Your comments are welcome. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:14, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

I hope you're not offended if I say that I'm still unconvinced as to the need for an article on this topic. Your draft is forced to tread the difficult ground of any pseudoscience article, by first putting up the 'theory' and then knocking it down. In particular your sentence "Although proponents suggest the possibility that the claimed effects might work through known physical phenomena, and thus be amenable to scientific study, these claims are pseudoscientific in that no evidence of such effects, nor any theory of how such effects might be perceived, has been presented in the scientific literature." needs to be properly sourced, or it risk coming over as synthesis. I've no doubt that you're right, but it will be challenged. Sorry not to be more positive. Mikenorton (talk) 20:26, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

You're not offensive, so I am not offended. You're right in that that sentence (and another one) are weak. I could probably find more solid sourcing. But considering how awful the original article was in its uncritical acceptance of this nonsense, and how long it stood unchallenged, it would be quite hypocritical (literally) to complain about this version. Of course, that will hardly slow down any of the usual yahoos, so when (if??) they show up the question may be whether the article must be perfect to their satisfaction, or we get a consensus that it is good enough.

As to any need: I believe there was some mention at the AfD that the term is notable enough on the popular media to be treated. And I would argue that we have MANY articles on less notable, even trivial, topics, including (in the category Category:Prediction) Ray Hammond and Anthony Carr (psychic). And of course, Jim Berkland. His only claim to notability is his predictions, so if this article goes then that article should go as well. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 00:34, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Makrana marble

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Revert on 2016 Taiwan earthquake

Talking about your revert for my edit, the first thing is: Wikinews is not Wikipedia and so, it does not contain encyclopedic stuff. Further, you are not supposed to remove it. It is supported by Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects and so, I am reverting you back.
Agastya Chandrakant (talk) 08:37, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

To quote the page that you linked to "encourages links from Wikipedia articles to pages on sister projects when such links are likely to be useful to our readers" - how is this link of use to a reader of the article? Mikenorton (talk) 08:43, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Passive Margins: Brazilian Margin

Hi Mikenorton, I didn't add the Brazilian Margin to the list I think I just reformatted the list where I added other entries. I think you are right that it would be more correct to just classify the south part of this margin as volcanic i.e. from where the SDRs are visible (South of -20Deg)? The paper 'South Atlantic volcanic margins, Gladczenko et al., (1997) in the Geological Society of London Journal has a good map on Figure 1. If you don't have access to this paper I can send you a copy. Alewisp14 (talk)