Talk:Inter-crater plains on Mercury

Feedback from Nicki (Development of the Terrestrial Planets)
Hi Ryan, You've chosen a really interesting topic and provided really good descriptions about these unique features. Here are some possible improvements: (1) A map showing where the inter-crater plains and the smooth plains occur. This would also help to show the extent of each of these and which is more prevalent. (2) The formation section (Section II) would benefit from a description (detailed, but still within the Wiki community's ability to understand) of the two methods - fluidized impact ejecta and volcanic deposits. This description of the formation may be able to be combined with the descriptions of the two types of plains in the pre-introduction section. (3) A section about the importance/why do we care about these plains may be useful for the public to understand why we studied them with Messenger and why we should continue to study them. Lastly, it would be easier to follow along if the page was in the typical Wiki format. I found the easies thing to do was look at code from another established Wiki page in order to know how to cite (it automatically counts for you and puts the ref list in order), input images, and create sections. - Nicki Button

Hey Ryan, You have a lot of good info but most of my suggestions deal with the way it is presented... 1. It would be nice if there was an intro section to discuss the basics of the page 2. the table of contents will form automatically when you format your page 3. You can make a reference list that will form as you site the individual sentences on the page. Jelorr1 (talk) 14:57, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Review from Graeme Bartlett
At the moment it looks a bit like lecture notes. The style here is to write in complete sentences in paragraphs. Then you can make it clear that you are not going to talk more about smooth plains. You say the intercrater plains are the oldest visible surface, yet the large crater rings stick up above it. Are the craters older? Please put in wikilinks to the exciting other articles such as Caloris Basin (which has a capital B). You also need to do a spell check and fix! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:41, 15 March 2014 (UTC)