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Section headings de-capitalised, most of the section on red beds moved to stub on same topic, link introduced in Geology of the UK and Geology of Cheshire. Any help/ideas on further tidy up appreciated Geotek 01:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article seems to have a good coverage, and has potential to be a Good Article. GB 10:53, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tone - this is supposed to be easy to understand[edit]

As John McEnroe might have said "good article candidate, you cannot be serious!" Wikipedia is supposed to be a encylopaedia understandable by the man on the street not a magazine for geology enthusiasts. What on earth do terms like "Syn-depositional" and "Basal Permian breccias" mean? - they're not even wikilinked to give an explanation and the following sentence would be totally incomprehensible to anyone but a geology enthusiast

Upward fining facies successions within the Members are characterised by planar laminated, ripple-bedded and cross-bedded sandstones with abundant intraformational rip-up clasts, exotic clasts and water escape structures

Come on guys, something we can all understand please! Richerman (talk) 00:40, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken, as soon as I get time I will run through it and try to wiki link as much as possible. One of the problems is many of the terms are less than stubs which doesn't help much.Geotek (talk) 23:49, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose any terms that can't be wikilinked would need to be explained in the article - I know you can do it ;-) Incidentally, as you clearly know what you're talking about when it come to geology, could you have a look at the Geology section in the River Irwell article? I've written a short section from general stuff I found in non-specialist books but some of that I had to rewrite because even I could see it was wrong. I was trying to find a reference for a description of Manchester Marl when I came across this article. Richerman (talk) 10:06, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Richerman: Yes, you're right. It is compounded and confused further by the vast amount of surrounding information that isn't directly relevant, was already available by wikilink (the proper way to link to related information) and that obscured the focus of the article. See below. Feline Hymnic (talk) 11:16, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Focus, focus, focus![edit]

The article is supposed to be about the geology of Alderley Edge. It had lost focus, obscured by huge dollops of extraneous information. For instance, there was a huge block of text about the Cheshire Basin, which wasn't even wikilinked (it is now!). And the stuff which should have been in background sections was in the foreground. This pruned the article by about a third, while retaining all the information about the topic. More pruning should be possible. Feline Hymnic (talk) 11:58, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Russell"[edit]

That'd be "The Russell Society", I googled and found http://www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/sgspublications/Proceedings/2012%20No_17%20033-039%20Warrington%20Mineralization%20Cheshire%20Basin.pdf which can be searched with "Russell" to find reference to "Mineralogy of the Alderley Edge – Mottram St Andrew area, Cheshire, England. Journal of the Russell Society".

It's not my area of expertise, it just stood out as an unanswered question (or a badly written article until I found out "Russell" wasn't a person...still badly written, but not as bad) for me so I had a quick google. 146.198.182.197 (talk) 18:46, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The reference is in fact to Arthur Russell (after whom the Russell Society is named). I agree that it makes it very unclear when people just drop surnames into an article. I haven't yet found the paper or book in which he made the statement quoted "It is impossible to give even a rough estimate [of how much ore is available, it can] be said with certainty that the walls of the chambers and drives would yield some tens of thousands of tons of ore averaging 1.3% of copper. ... A more definite statement cannot be made since the ore is exposed on the sides of the workings only and has not been "blocked out", the system in the past having been to follow the richest ... impregnation while leaving the poorer rock standing.", bur will keep looking. DuncanHill (talk) 18:53, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]