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An extremely well-written article! I do have acouple of suggestions regarding these two paragraphs:
While armistice is linked, it seems to me that it would read a little better if it said something like: "After the World War I armistice was signed..."
The next paragraph ends with: Residents gradually started moving their homes out of town for relocation to other communities in the region. Very few photos of Manganese are known to exist. Never a wealthy community, residents had no money for cameras, a luxury item during the Depression. These two sentences seem to be a better way to close out the section and could perhaps be moved to end the next paragraph. I'm guessing that the "house moving" had already begun before the churches were built and that's why it appears in this paragraph. Perhaps the sentence could be moved to the final paragraph and instead read something like, "As the mining operations began to shut down residents had begun to move their homes..." followed by the sentence re the cameras/photos. Of course it may just be me and this could read just fine as it is. Gandydancer ( talk) 20:17, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
A very interesting article. Just my tuppenceworth - does 'quagmire' need to be linked to Wiktionary? Are we in the business of giving the definition of every unusual word that is encountered on Wikipedia? Is it that difficult/unusual a word anyhow? I think it distracts from the article and suggests the readers are dumb. 86.137.147.216 ( talk) 10:22, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that the article states that the town was platted in sections 23 and 28. This can't be right, since those sections aren't contiguous. It looks to me like it should be sections 21 and 28 - maybe the error is in the original source, but it should be checked to verify. -- Olds 403 ( talk) 21:09, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
There is a content dispute between User:DrGregMN and myself regarding the addition of the following geologic details of this town:
The Trommald Formation has been correlated with other iron formations of the Animikie Group, [2] deposited during the early Proterozoic age, [3] and is unique in the Lake Superior region because of the amount of manganese in part of the iron formation and ore. [4] [5] The stratigraphic column of the Trommald Formation ranges from 45 to 820 feet (14 to 250 m) thick and consists of at least two mappable iron formation facies, one thick-bedded and cherty, divided by an aegirine zone, the other thin-bedded and slaty with a tourmaline zone at its base. [6] [7] The facies are sometimes separated by a black laminated carbonate-silicate iron formation. Gray phyllite lies above and below, [7] capped with topsoil consisting of overlying morainic material and clay-rich till. [2] The characteristics of the Trommald Formation are complicated due to the great diversity of ore textures and the shape of the ore bodies. [8] Considerable variation exists in the character and composition of the ores, varying greatly from 20 to 60 percent iron and 0.5 to 50 percent manganese. [3] [2] [9] The ores contained on average about 43 percent iron and 10 percent manganese. [10] Most manganese is finely disseminated as an integral part of the iron ore. [11] Ores of the Milford mine were brown and manganiferous; ores from the Gloria mine were black and slaty brown manganiferous; ores from the Merritt mine were red brown to black and richly manganiferous; ores from the Algoma mine were ferruginous manganese. [12]
References
Phase 1
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).RI-46
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).My concerns are:
My suggestion would be to create an article about the geology of the area, where readers interested in specific details can learn more. The input of others would be appreciated. Magnolia677 ( talk) 11:30, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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An extremely well-written article! I do have acouple of suggestions regarding these two paragraphs:
While armistice is linked, it seems to me that it would read a little better if it said something like: "After the World War I armistice was signed..."
The next paragraph ends with: Residents gradually started moving their homes out of town for relocation to other communities in the region. Very few photos of Manganese are known to exist. Never a wealthy community, residents had no money for cameras, a luxury item during the Depression. These two sentences seem to be a better way to close out the section and could perhaps be moved to end the next paragraph. I'm guessing that the "house moving" had already begun before the churches were built and that's why it appears in this paragraph. Perhaps the sentence could be moved to the final paragraph and instead read something like, "As the mining operations began to shut down residents had begun to move their homes..." followed by the sentence re the cameras/photos. Of course it may just be me and this could read just fine as it is. Gandydancer ( talk) 20:17, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
A very interesting article. Just my tuppenceworth - does 'quagmire' need to be linked to Wiktionary? Are we in the business of giving the definition of every unusual word that is encountered on Wikipedia? Is it that difficult/unusual a word anyhow? I think it distracts from the article and suggests the readers are dumb. 86.137.147.216 ( talk) 10:22, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that the article states that the town was platted in sections 23 and 28. This can't be right, since those sections aren't contiguous. It looks to me like it should be sections 21 and 28 - maybe the error is in the original source, but it should be checked to verify. -- Olds 403 ( talk) 21:09, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
There is a content dispute between User:DrGregMN and myself regarding the addition of the following geologic details of this town:
The Trommald Formation has been correlated with other iron formations of the Animikie Group, [2] deposited during the early Proterozoic age, [3] and is unique in the Lake Superior region because of the amount of manganese in part of the iron formation and ore. [4] [5] The stratigraphic column of the Trommald Formation ranges from 45 to 820 feet (14 to 250 m) thick and consists of at least two mappable iron formation facies, one thick-bedded and cherty, divided by an aegirine zone, the other thin-bedded and slaty with a tourmaline zone at its base. [6] [7] The facies are sometimes separated by a black laminated carbonate-silicate iron formation. Gray phyllite lies above and below, [7] capped with topsoil consisting of overlying morainic material and clay-rich till. [2] The characteristics of the Trommald Formation are complicated due to the great diversity of ore textures and the shape of the ore bodies. [8] Considerable variation exists in the character and composition of the ores, varying greatly from 20 to 60 percent iron and 0.5 to 50 percent manganese. [3] [2] [9] The ores contained on average about 43 percent iron and 10 percent manganese. [10] Most manganese is finely disseminated as an integral part of the iron ore. [11] Ores of the Milford mine were brown and manganiferous; ores from the Gloria mine were black and slaty brown manganiferous; ores from the Merritt mine were red brown to black and richly manganiferous; ores from the Algoma mine were ferruginous manganese. [12]
References
Phase 1
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).RI-46
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).My concerns are:
My suggestion would be to create an article about the geology of the area, where readers interested in specific details can learn more. The input of others would be appreciated. Magnolia677 ( talk) 11:30, 23 January 2023 (UTC)