User talk:Vidale

Welcome!

--Fangz 03:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Checking how this all works John 03:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some minor pointers

Just a few minor issues...

I've removed the categories and the stub template from your userpage. That's because these things are really only meant for actual encyclopedia articles, and Userpages are generally not considered as normal encyclopedia articles - Userpages are supposedly user home pages, and so not subject to the usual standards for articles, so mixing them in with normal articles is generally bad and confusing. If you feel a John Vidale article is appropiate however, create that. (Your participation in PNSN may make such an article appropiate, but be careful - Users creating encyclopedia articles about themselves have lead to problems in the past, and is generally not recommended.)

In general, articles begin with:

Blah blah is a <short defn>

etc etc

The three dashes in the wikicode mean bold formatting, and it's a convention for the first mention of the topic itself to be bold (or in the case of works of art, bold italic) to make it easier for readers.

--Fangz 23:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the pointers. No need to make my own page, I hadn't read the guidelines before the inept attempt to make my userpage an entry. I'm still shaky on a lot of the finer points here, but may try to clean up some of the seismological entries if I have time. John 00:12, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now I see what you mean with the mention of bold formatting, on checking back to the PNSN entry, very good. John 05:23, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Regarding that ref - I don't see any mention of water in it? Only reference I find to contraction is "the cracks are caused by the ground having contracted rapidly due to the sudden cold"... – Chacor 05:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As I mentioned on the "talk" for that subject, you're right that I overstated the inaccuracy of the statement, I should have just questioned whether it mattered. (John 05:53, 2 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Conflict of interest

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article John Vidale, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
and you must always:
avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, attribution, and autobiography.

For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you.

By all means delete the entry if it is deemed unsuitable. I wrote it before reading all the guidelines, and tried unsuccessfully to delete it, then filled it in a bit to look more legitimate. Although it looks neutral to me, I won't object in the least to its removal. (John 22:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Focal mechanism

If you have the time, I would appreciate you having a look through the focal mechanism article that I just started. I'm a structural geologist so I'm having to rely on what I can find online and dimly remember from Master's lectures from Geoff King and Rick Sibson on seismotectonics. Thanks. Mikenorton (talk) 16:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks John, I never intended to start a page on focal mechanisms but I wanted to edit the Naturally occuring earthquake section of the earthquake article using a reference to deformation partitioning in the Zagros area based on them. I'm always nervous writing about stuff so close to the boundaries of my knowledge and understanding, so I'm very glad you looked it over and tightened it up a bit. I'll leave it to others to expand and get back to editing in my comfort zone of geology. Mikenorton (talk) 08:55, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group

Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington (Seattle campus), and my group is reaching out to Wikipedians in the Puget Sound area. We're hosting a focus group designed to gather information on what Wikipedians would like to know about each other when interacting on Wikipedia. Our end goal is to create an embedded application that helps people quickly know more about others' history and activity on Wikipedia, and we feel our design will be much more useful if it's based on insights of users like you.

I'm hoping that the chance to help out local researchers, to engage in lively face-to-face discussion with other Seattle Wikipedians, and to contribute to Wikipedia in a new way will entice you to join us. The session lasts 2 hours and snacks are provided. Sessions will be held on UW Seattle campus - directions will be sent after registration. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated!

Willing and able to help us out? RSVP here. Want to know more? Visit our user talk page . Please help us contact other local Wikipedians, too! Commprac01 (talk) 17:29, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

John-

This is Matt... if you remember me, I'm just started out here in Wikiland. Glad to see you are working on the geoside of things too! Check out my Dollaseite-(Ce) page... had to make it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qfl247 (talk • contribs) 18:22, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lehmann discontinuity

I have made a number of changes to Lehmann discontinuity and added some sources to support your revisions. Brews ohare (talk) 23:48, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Vidale! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 21:23, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:40, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

		The Special Barnstar
		A token of appreciation for assisting in assessing the scientific consensus of various aspects of the often tumultuous field of earthquake prediction. Thank you! J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 00:12, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An overview?

Hi, John. I have been wondering if you might have a little time to look at two items for me. First is the seismic magnitude scales article, where I have tried to provide a non-technical overview of a range of magnitude scales. Second is the Template:M#Table of codes, where I am trying to give WP editors a recognition guide to all of the magnitude scales they might run into, as variously formatted by different agencies. (As you will see, I am trying to set up tools and practices to correctly and unambiguously specify scales on WP.) In both cases I would like to know if there are any glaring errors or omissions that might should be corrected. Though I certainly would welcome any other comments or suggestions you might offer. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:09, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]