Talk:Marianna Fault

Who-when-what?
There are three things that jump out at me as problematic on reading this article. These are pretty common in science-related articles, especially where the main sources are news reports.
 * Who actually did the work? All we really know is that Haydar Al-Shukri gave the interviews, and was involved somehow.  But did he collect the data?  Analyze the data?  Draw conclusions?  Write the paper?  The article says that Dr. Al-Shukri personally discovered the fault, but we don't really know that he deserves sole credit (or even primary credit).
 * When was the work done? When an article says that a scientific discovery was made on a specific date, that's immediately suspicious.  The date that an article or a press release was published, or the date that a talk was given, don't necessarily tell you anything about when any new discoveries were made.  In all likelihood, they came quite a bit earlier.
 * What exactly is the result? Although one of the sources talks about a "newly discovered fault," another one indicates that it's not known with certainty to exist.  This could be called evidence for a fault, but I'm not sure it's strong enough to say that one has been discovered.  Furthermore, the article makes Marianna Fault into a capitalized proper name, while the news reports just describe it as a fault near Marianna.  The first source does use the phrase "Marianna fault" once, but it appears to be just a description (i.e. the fault near Marianna) rather than a name.

It would help a lot to have a scientific source for the article. Popular news reports just aren't good sources for scientific topics (especially developing stories). --Amble (talk) 19:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll see if I can find something more scientific. As for the name, at least this news article calls it the Marianna fault.  Maybe rename to the non-capital F?-- King Bedford I  Seek his grace  20:08, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, found some non-news, scientific pieces, and the discoverer's webpage.-- King Bedford I Seek his grace  20:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

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