Talk:Cimmeria (continent)

Citation style
This article has greatly improved over the past week - kudos to for all the hard work. However, I do have one concern. The article has two citation styles, the name/year style and the footnote style. This is discouraged (see Variation in citation methods). I recommend replacing all the name/year citations by footnotes. This will also make the article look more like an encyclopedia article and less like a scientific review. I will make a couple of changes to illustrate the idea. RockMagnetist(talk) 17:01, 12 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks . And I have to agree.  I guess I've been using this mix of citation styles because one is default on Wikipedia and the other in my references.  I'll try to use footnotes systematically henceforth. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 07:15, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I know what you mean. It took me a while to get used to Wikipedia's style; and I wouldn't dare put a footnote after a period in a refereed publication! RockMagnetist(talk) 00:10, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Per my arguments earlier, I propose that Cimmerian Plate be merged into (or rather redirected to) Cimmeria (continent). The former is unreferenced and contains factual errors.-- Fama Clamosa (talk) 12:52, 16 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Support. The earlier argument for merging also seemed sound, despite the vigorous objections of BT: there don't seem to be any sources that would support a separate treatment of the two subjects. Perhaps, though, it would be better to rename this article Cimmeria (superterrane). RockMagnetist(talk) 21:37, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * : Thank you for your support. I was considering "superterrane" too, but, to my knowledge, that word is not universally used and probably need some explanation to most people.  "Continent" is more KISS principle. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 16:38, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Sounds reasonable. I have no strong feelings about it. RockMagnetist(talk) 17:54, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Fama Clamosa (talk) 16:13, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Discrepancy on antimony
This page states "Apart from the Altiplano in Bolivia, almost all the world’s deposits of antimony as stibnite are found in Cimmeria, with the major mines being in Turkey, Yunnan and Thailand." However, page Xikuangshan Mine says "Xikuangshan mine (simplified Chinese: 锡矿山; traditional Chinese: 錫礦山; pinyin: Xīkuàngshān) in Lengshuijiang, Hunan, China,[1] contains the world's largest deposit of antimony.[2] It is unique in that there is a large deposit of stibnite (Sb2S3) in a layer of Devonian limestone." I see these two claims as mutually exclusive. --Zds (talk) 14:26, 28 May 2017 (UTC)