User talk:Smscott025/sandbox

Margaret's Peer Review

Hi Sarah,

I enjoyed learning more about galleting, and the different forms gallets take. How fabulous that you included some grammar into your page! Overall, I found your additions to the Galleting page exemplary, and have only small thoughts on things to potentially change:

- Your expansion of the page to include location and history of use sections is helpful: the practice does seem old and convoluted, so learning about different origins was helpful in wrapping my mind around the topic. Especially how earlier in the page another user wrote about "higher status buildings" and galleting-- your addition clarified this point. - Practical uses was a helpful addition. - Wikipedia warned us to avoid using phrases that posit roles or argumentative positions for our sources. A few times you use "it has been suggested", "while some argue" and "some sources associate"-- while these are linked to citations and you remain neutral in your description of the material, I would just be careful to not let one side be a clear winner in methodologies. - Is there anyway you could add some pictures? The photo already in the article is meh... and your additions are so well written but all lead to other wiki pages. It would be great if I could see an example of flint or sandstone spalls!

Thanks for teaching me about galleting!

Buildings What (talk) 01:46, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your thoughtful comments, Margaret!

Smscott025 (talk) 18:19, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Instructor comments

Your notes appear to represent extensive research, but I have to ask whether they can be adapted into more of a narrative. To answer the questions in the Notes section, I would say that galleting stones are more wedges than pins (i.e., they do not perform much of a pinning or anchorage function) and flint is a type of stone. If you don't have your own photo to add to the article, I have one of St. James (from my lecture) that I'd be glad to release into the public domain.

Elizabeth Linden Rahway (talk) 03:33, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any photos of my own, so I would appreciate using your photo of St. James. While there are extensive photos in the Trotter source, it doesn't seem to be appropriate to post them on Wikipedia.

Smscott025 (talk) 18:19, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here's an overall photo and a detail view from St. James Episcopal Church in Philadelphia:

Elizabeth Linden Rahway (talk) 23:57, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thank you! Smscott025 (talk) 03:45, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]