Talk:Rock collecting

Please do not undo this page. Future edits of this and the linked articles will clarify the general relationships of collecting related to geological items. GregJoeson (talk) 15:34, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Please Google Amateur Geology vs. Rock Collecting and see an order of magnitude more usage of Rock Collecting. The current relationships with other geological collecting collecting articles are very confused but cannot be fixed unless a logical start is made... GregJoeson (talk) 16:57, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

I don't understand the mindless reversions of the Rock collecting page. If you insist that keeping the related articles in the current incomplete, biased, and confused state, I give up. If you have a reasonable response, please post it on the Rock collecting talk page. GregJoeson (talk) 17:11, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Rock collecting
Regardless of the merits of having an article about "rock collecting", any article you write must be more than a dictionary definition and must contain verifiable content. If you wish to write an article in stages, write it in draft. If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia policies, adding references, etc., you can take advantage of the articles for creation system to get advice and automatically have the article moved into mainspace when it is ready. Lastly, please familiarise yourself with the edit-warring and three-revert rules: reverting more than three edits in a 24-hour period is absolutely forbidden, both literally and in spirit, and generally repeated reverts of the same content are grounds for being blocked even without hitting the three-revert limit. When edits you make are reverted, your next step should be to discuss them to see what an agreed approach might be, doubly so when multiple different editors are telling you there is a problem. Lithopsian (talk) 17:04, 22 August 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GregJoeson (talk • contribs)

The article may have been short and incomplete but was a clear explanation of rock collecting/rockhounding and served as a pop-up on other pages to clarify that content. Pointing Rock collecting to Amateur geology is flat incorrect as many professional geologists and scientists are rock collectors as well. Also, rockhounds (and I suspect those that are fossicking) do not just focus on minerals but a variety of fossils, mineraloids, and meteorites etc. Those are the merits, but as for Wikipedia policies, what do they say about having two user accounts for one person? GregJoeson (talk) 19:53, 22 August 2019 (UTC)