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let me introduce myself, Graeme Bartlett as an on-line ambassador to your Wikipedia work. I am here to help you with the Wikipedia technical and social world. You can ask me questions or chat to me on my talk page at User talk:Graeme Bartlett, or you can email me by using this page: Special:EmailUser/Graeme Bartlett. I will be looking at your work on Wikipedia to see what I can suggest to you. Once your page goes live I will see if I can nominate it for the WP:Did you know to get it listed on the front page. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:54, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

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Ti-in-Zircon Geothermometry

Hello,

you were quick off the mark to put your page Ti-in-Zircon Geothermometry in as an article. The practice in your class before was to get comments from other students before going live. This way a lot of problems will be fixed first. However I would like to question whether the title is correct. From the literature you cite, it is called "Crystallization thermometer for zircon" or "Zircon thermometer". Did you make up the name you used yourself? The idea is for Wikipedia not to introduce original ideas, but to use others' ideas. (This is the no original research policy. For naming articles the policy is to use the most common name. It is not quite ready to nominate for WP:Did you know as one methods section has no reference. You could fix it up in place as an article, but others from outside will also change the page and make it harder to tell what work was yours. Other possible things to do are to ask for this to be deleted, and continue to work on the sandbox, or move this back to another sandbox for you to continue work there. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:27, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

OK I have deleted it for you. At least you seem to be ahead of the class in your assignment! The next issue is the diagram. Did you draw this yourself, Or did you copy it from the Watson and Harrison 2005 reference? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:33, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

The diagram

Since you got permission from the publisher (American Association for the Advancement of Science) to use the figure, first you need to consider what rights were granted to you. Did they only grant permission only to you, or did they assign copyright to you so that you can grant copyright permission to others? What we need on Wikipedia is a free license that allows anyone at all to use the image, for any purpose, and to make derivatives of that image too. It is pretty unlikely that they did grant this, but if they did they should have stated it in writing, and specified what kind of license. If it really is free, then you will have to add the license to the image description page, and forward permission according to WP:PERMIT. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:16, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

If the image is not free like this, then it will be best for you to draw up a new version, using the same information, but having a different presentation. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:16, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Fair use is not going to apply, as you can draw this yourself. Just think of all the different ways to represent a graph. Does it need to be log (10⁴/T) on one one axis? Probably not, the scale could be log T as well, with different factors other than 10⁴. Al those triangles and squares woulod be related to measurements reported in the paper, but you are not explaining what they mean, so you may not need it, just use the formula to draw a line. You could add grid lines. you could get rid of that unexplained subgraph. \You could get rid of that R² text (perhaps correlation). Line thickness can vary, a line on the top and right may not be required, the log K and Celsius scale could be on the same axis. Line thickness and font can all be varied. Size of the image in pixels and scale to pixels can be different. You have plenty of creative choices to make. You could decorate your graph with pictures of zircon, perhaps a slice of a crystal showing what 1000 ppm of Ti amongst Zr looks like. You should not be starting from the supplied graph and changing it, as they have not given permission to create derivatives. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:11, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Comments on Article (Carson Allen)

Hey Andrew, hope all is well. I have a couple of useful comments regarding your article on Ti-in-Zi Geothermometry. First off, after reading the whole article I am thoroughly impressed. The article is informative and well structured. There are however, a couple of things that you might improve upon. The last sentence in the first section is slightly awkward, and could be rephrased. This section is solid.

The section titled "Zircon" is well worded and contains useful information. The only thing you might could add is a picture. You could look on wikipedia commons to see if there is a picture of zircon available.

The section titled "Methods" is also well worded and informative. Is a hyphen after coarse necessary in the second paragraph? Like the figure, but maybe use a different word besides "cartoon" in the figure description.

The section titled "Uses" is solid as is the "Errors and Limitations" section.

The references are excellent. Not sure what the "check date values in: accessdate" thing is. It is in red and on several of your references. The link to the images at the end does not work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carsonbanks812 (talk • contribs) 01:54, 14 October 2014 (UTC)