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Thanks!

Hi Tom,

Just wanted to say thanks for your feedback on my article! If you get the chance, could you possibly run your eye over Valley networks (Mars) as well? It's been sat there for quite a while, and on the "request a second look" page, but thus far still has its unreviewed article tag. It would be good to get a second opinion! I feel like I wasn't as clear at the end as I could have been...

Thanks again for the feedback!

DanHobley (talk) 01:36, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Enipeus Vallis

Tom - I think you're right about Enipeus; it's just that abstract and map by Moore that's out there. I wondered initially if this might be because of a second name, but I can't find anything else either (it's still Enipeus V. on Google Mars, for example). My instinct is that it's an outflow channel which is exploiting graben structure in it's lower reaches (and upper??), but that's NPOV! Just say that Carr maps it as a valley network, but make it clear it isn't widely described, I guess.

[Just goes to show the level of muddled thinking that can and has snuck into the literature about martian flow features, really - classification is not the answer, IMHO!]

DanHobley (talk) 13:52, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Dan! Schaffman (talk) 14:02, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Hesperian (Mars)

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Re: Water on Mars

You previously expressed concerns about the "Age of Mars" section in Water on Mars. I would like to see this article cleaned up, so any further recommendations would be helpful. On the talk page, you said the entire section should be removed. Is that still the case? Viriditas (talk) 07:30, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks for your contributions! I was reading a few articles on Mars and saw that you've been editing them a lot. Thanks for your work; keep it up! ComputerJA (talk) 04:35, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

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Amazonian

Hi Schaffman. Just wanted to let you know that I've just repurposed Amazonian as a stub about the Martian period. (It was formerly a crappy redirect to Amazon DAB). Given I noticed you have been largely responsible for getting Noachian and Hesperian up to good quality, I thought I'd drop you a personal note. I'll try to improve the thing at some point, but I'm under the cosh at work right now so progress might be sporadic. If you wanted to, your input would be most welcome. No worries if not though. Thanks! DanHobley (talk) 06:22, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

For your help overhauling the Water on Mars article. BatteryIncluded (talk) 13:52, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

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