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Create your article first and then we can see if it warrants a link from Plate tectonics. A paragraph that simply links to an empty "red" link is not warranted.
You'd probably prefer to work on it at first in your own user space, like User:Duncan.france/Article name because articles created in the general article area (ie, anything that doesn't begin with "User:") can be subject to a vote for deletion, so it might make sense to polish your critique page before trying to move it to the general article area.
Some articles that describe non-mainstream theories are present in Wikipedia, such as Non-standard cosmology and Apollo moon landing hoax accusations. But Wikipedia has an official policy of No Original Research, so your article would be unlikely to survive if it was just your personal theory... you'd probably have to demonstrate that this alternative theory is notable in some sense and cite outside references that mention it.
-- Curps 05:14, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have just completed an article: "
Vesicular texture". In it I cross-referenced to "
Vesicle: a small cavity in an
aphanitic or glassy igneous rock, formed by the expansion of a bubble of gas or steam during the solidification of the rock."
As you will see, clicking on vesicle takes one to the biological defintion. What is needed is a disambiguation page. How does one create such a page?
PS. I note that this new question is attached to 'Plate Tectonics'. How does one create a separate question? Though on second thoughts, does one need to?
I edited your article
User:Duncan.france/PT EA slightly... you can create subsections that appear in the table of contents by using
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I'm not sure what you can do about figure captions for non-existent images.
My original advice still stands, though. You should read:
Your work reads like an article that would be submitted to a scholary journal... but Wikipedia aims to be an encyclopedia, not a scholarly journal. It's a secondary source, not a primary source of information. Information in Wikipedia should be verifiable from a wide variety of sources. Yes, this means that Wikipedia content largely follows mainstream or majority consensus views.
My personal belief is that, despite the work you have put into it, if you moved your article into the main article namespace it would be nominated under Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, under the "No original research" policy... in fact, nothing personal, but I myself might do so. Also, once it was in the main article namespace, anyone would be free to edit it, completely changing your text... there is no individual ownership of articles on Wikipedia.
Since most Wikipedia users and contributors do believe that plate tectonics is a valid theory, the result might not be to your liking. For example, your very first sentence ("There are major facts that refute the theory of plate tectonics in the forms accepted by its supporters") would run afoul of the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy.
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Hi Duncan -- Image:Human mtDNA migration.png is simply based on http://mitomap.org/ (direct link: [1]). The letters are based on single mitochondrial markers, I just copied them, but you are of course welcome to collect more information. The double arrow is there on the original map. I suppose it corresponds to bidirectional gene flow over the Arctic these past few millennia (Eskimos), but I don't know, I'm really just giving the mitomap data. regards, dab (ᛏ) 07:31, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi Duncan,
I noticed you think it would be a good idea to convert the lists on
conversion of units to alphabetical order and it is obviously an arduous task.... but not for a computer! And you are in luck for I am a computer programmer. In fact, I bet I can reorder all those charts in just an hour or two a few minutes once I have the code written. What I can't really do is finish it off. This is where the co-operation comes in. If I made each of those tables alphabetical would you put the finishing touches on them? Notice how meter is at the top of the length chart? This is common among the charts but some do it differently. If I simply alphabatize them that won't be the cast case. I'm hopping you would be willing to fill in the gaps? Let me know what you think.
Triddle
05:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Triddle,
By all means, I would like to 'co-operate' on this, but I am not sure how I would 'fill the gaps'. Feel free to let me know, and I will almost certainly say 'Yes'!! Duncan.france 23:15, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Duncan. I noticed you adding an external link to an iwi map that I've linked to on mi: (and used as one of the bases of my table of iwi there). Out of interest I skimmed your last few hundred contributions. Productive 7 months, eh? Dipping into all sorts of things, as I do when I have a "spare" hour; but strong hint of NZ, so you may be interested in Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board.
Kia ora! Robin Patterson 01:22:02, 2005-08-24 (UTC)
Dear Dr. France,
please do not restore your claim that "infinity is not a number". Discuss on the talk page. -- Trovatore 19:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Tagged for speedy deletion as consisting only of external links, and having no context. Hard to disagree really! Please feel free to include this topic in the US Census Bureau article, or work up something a bit longer. Just zis Guy you know? 12:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
At first I was going to simply warn you about putting nonsense on current events, but Im going to assume good faith. I hope that you simply misread the news article, but further edits like this [2] will not be tolerated. KI 22:32, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Duncan.france! Could you possibly give the URL of the article in the SCMP this is from? I'll have a crack at converting the table from HTML to wiki-markup.-- Shirt58 ( talk) 09:54, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Shirt58 Unfortunately, I haven't managed to find a webpage that covers the 'Timeline'. I got the bulk of the text from hard-copy of the Sunday Morning Post, Hong Kong, 9 October 2011, (as in my reference). Incidentally, I then added the Yeung Kui-wan, etc. info. Duncan.france ( talk) 03:46, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I see you reverted the missing image link to File:YKW Statue in Xiamen YHO.jpg back into Yeung Ku-wan but you haven't fixed the issue. The image was deleted from commons 07:33, 26 September 2013 (No permission). I looked for another image of the statue and could not find one in en.wikipedia, commons or other 'free' image sources. Do you have a copy? If you do maybe add to en.wikipedia under 'fair use' - if not there is no reason to just have a dead link showing nothing. Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 12:47, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
Will try again as soon as possible. I find all this 'copyright' business very confusing. I have sent 'permission' from the author. Hopefully that will do the trick!
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Dear Duncan, I knew Dave, he was one of my coffeeshop friends from my early days in Whanganui, he instigated several forum in Whanganui which brought together people from many different sectors. I have started an article for Dave so we have him as a Notable person from Whanganui. Belatedly, I should have done this a long time ago but Whanganui wheels can be slow!!!
I have made only a brief start, would you like to tell me if you had anything planned for Wikipedia? Rod Trott told me of your article earlier this week and I want it to be used correctly with the references. Riverviewhouse ( talk) 02:22, 28 May 2015 (UTC) Jane
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Hi Duncan. I think your recent edit to Strood was an improvement, but I'm afraid your edit comment is inaccurate. "Incept" has three distinct meanings:
See Merriam-Webster [1] and the OED [2] for details.
BTW, your old web page you link to on your user page ( here) just times out.
Regards, Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 08:38, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
~~~~
. Or, you can use the
[ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Does not "to begin" suit the usage? Regardless, a simple "begin" is clearer to the vast majority of users. The page that doesn't load is
http://www.france.u-net.com which is not a Wikipedia page, and therefore couldn't be fixed by any WP "authority". You need to contact u-net.com to rectify the situation. The error message is The connection has timed out. The server at www.france.u-net.com is taking too long to respond. Regards,
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References
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Vesicle disambiguation. Since you had some involvement with the Vesicle disambiguation redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. DannyS712 ( talk) 01:22, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
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Please advise how to type exponents eg 10 the power 2 (instead of 100)
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¡You got this user/talk-page–thing down now! Oh, by the way, some of your links do not work because of case:
Some programmers believe that it is cool to have "Dog" and "dog" be different, in case they ever need the distinction, which they never do. They made WikiPedia casesensitive; "Scientific notation" and "Scientific Notation" are different. If I did it, I would make it casepreseving, but caseinsensitive:
Some things have a proper case like "pH". Casepreserving would mean thet the article would be called "pH". Caseinsensitive means that searches and links could be either "ph" or "Ph" or "pH" or "PH" and still work.
Unfortunately, WikiPedia is currently is casesensitive, so you have to be careful with the links. Most of the red links on your userpage just in the wrong case. Hopefully, the programmers will make WikiPedia caseinsensitive, but in the meantime, WikiPedia is casesensitive.
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Create your article first and then we can see if it warrants a link from Plate tectonics. A paragraph that simply links to an empty "red" link is not warranted.
You'd probably prefer to work on it at first in your own user space, like User:Duncan.france/Article name because articles created in the general article area (ie, anything that doesn't begin with "User:") can be subject to a vote for deletion, so it might make sense to polish your critique page before trying to move it to the general article area.
Some articles that describe non-mainstream theories are present in Wikipedia, such as Non-standard cosmology and Apollo moon landing hoax accusations. But Wikipedia has an official policy of No Original Research, so your article would be unlikely to survive if it was just your personal theory... you'd probably have to demonstrate that this alternative theory is notable in some sense and cite outside references that mention it.
-- Curps 05:14, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have just completed an article: "
Vesicular texture". In it I cross-referenced to "
Vesicle: a small cavity in an
aphanitic or glassy igneous rock, formed by the expansion of a bubble of gas or steam during the solidification of the rock."
As you will see, clicking on vesicle takes one to the biological defintion. What is needed is a disambiguation page. How does one create such a page?
PS. I note that this new question is attached to 'Plate Tectonics'. How does one create a separate question? Though on second thoughts, does one need to?
I edited your article
User:Duncan.france/PT EA slightly... you can create subsections that appear in the table of contents by using
==
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I'm not sure what you can do about figure captions for non-existent images.
My original advice still stands, though. You should read:
Your work reads like an article that would be submitted to a scholary journal... but Wikipedia aims to be an encyclopedia, not a scholarly journal. It's a secondary source, not a primary source of information. Information in Wikipedia should be verifiable from a wide variety of sources. Yes, this means that Wikipedia content largely follows mainstream or majority consensus views.
My personal belief is that, despite the work you have put into it, if you moved your article into the main article namespace it would be nominated under Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, under the "No original research" policy... in fact, nothing personal, but I myself might do so. Also, once it was in the main article namespace, anyone would be free to edit it, completely changing your text... there is no individual ownership of articles on Wikipedia.
Since most Wikipedia users and contributors do believe that plate tectonics is a valid theory, the result might not be to your liking. For example, your very first sentence ("There are major facts that refute the theory of plate tectonics in the forms accepted by its supporters") would run afoul of the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy.
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Hi Duncan -- Image:Human mtDNA migration.png is simply based on http://mitomap.org/ (direct link: [1]). The letters are based on single mitochondrial markers, I just copied them, but you are of course welcome to collect more information. The double arrow is there on the original map. I suppose it corresponds to bidirectional gene flow over the Arctic these past few millennia (Eskimos), but I don't know, I'm really just giving the mitomap data. regards, dab (ᛏ) 07:31, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi Duncan,
I noticed you think it would be a good idea to convert the lists on
conversion of units to alphabetical order and it is obviously an arduous task.... but not for a computer! And you are in luck for I am a computer programmer. In fact, I bet I can reorder all those charts in just an hour or two a few minutes once I have the code written. What I can't really do is finish it off. This is where the co-operation comes in. If I made each of those tables alphabetical would you put the finishing touches on them? Notice how meter is at the top of the length chart? This is common among the charts but some do it differently. If I simply alphabatize them that won't be the cast case. I'm hopping you would be willing to fill in the gaps? Let me know what you think.
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Hi Triddle,
By all means, I would like to 'co-operate' on this, but I am not sure how I would 'fill the gaps'. Feel free to let me know, and I will almost certainly say 'Yes'!! Duncan.france 23:15, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Duncan. I noticed you adding an external link to an iwi map that I've linked to on mi: (and used as one of the bases of my table of iwi there). Out of interest I skimmed your last few hundred contributions. Productive 7 months, eh? Dipping into all sorts of things, as I do when I have a "spare" hour; but strong hint of NZ, so you may be interested in Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board.
Kia ora! Robin Patterson 01:22:02, 2005-08-24 (UTC)
Dear Dr. France,
please do not restore your claim that "infinity is not a number". Discuss on the talk page. -- Trovatore 19:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Tagged for speedy deletion as consisting only of external links, and having no context. Hard to disagree really! Please feel free to include this topic in the US Census Bureau article, or work up something a bit longer. Just zis Guy you know? 12:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
At first I was going to simply warn you about putting nonsense on current events, but Im going to assume good faith. I hope that you simply misread the news article, but further edits like this [2] will not be tolerated. KI 22:32, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Shirt58 Unfortunately, I haven't managed to find a webpage that covers the 'Timeline'. I got the bulk of the text from hard-copy of the Sunday Morning Post, Hong Kong, 9 October 2011, (as in my reference). Incidentally, I then added the Yeung Kui-wan, etc. info. Duncan.france ( talk) 03:46, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
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Will try again as soon as possible. I find all this 'copyright' business very confusing. I have sent 'permission' from the author. Hopefully that will do the trick!
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Dear Duncan, I knew Dave, he was one of my coffeeshop friends from my early days in Whanganui, he instigated several forum in Whanganui which brought together people from many different sectors. I have started an article for Dave so we have him as a Notable person from Whanganui. Belatedly, I should have done this a long time ago but Whanganui wheels can be slow!!!
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Hi Duncan. I think your recent edit to Strood was an improvement, but I'm afraid your edit comment is inaccurate. "Incept" has three distinct meanings:
See Merriam-Webster [1] and the OED [2] for details.
BTW, your old web page you link to on your user page ( here) just times out.
Regards, Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 08:38, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
~~~~
. Or, you can use the
[ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Does not "to begin" suit the usage? Regardless, a simple "begin" is clearer to the vast majority of users. The page that doesn't load is
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