User talk:Vidale
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Welcome!
--Fangz 03:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Checking how this all works John 03:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 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)
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)
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)
[edit] 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)
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))
