User:Eudialytos

I am currently an associate professor (of mineralogy/geochemistry) at a scientific institute in Poland. I have ceased in correcting oceans of errors and long-lapsed informations in mineralogy-related pages and informations (including mineralogical data in some chemistry-related ones) due to ignorance of some of the so-called "specialists" here.Eudialytos Mineralogy, as a separate science discipline, has its proper commission - the IMA - as chemistry has its IUPAC. The two are not interfering. However, what I observe and what is also, unfortunately, true in the Wiki, is that mineralogy is treated as "worse sister" of chemistry, even though mineralogy as a science was prior to chemistry and was/is giving the chemistry its building block in the form of ores of elements. Meanwhile, mineralogy is constantly evolving, and numerous old species names - and chemical formulas - are changed. One that catches up with that is Mindat (www.mindat.org) - currently the undisputed, best, constantly updated = on-time, source of mineralogical data. At least 80% of Mindat's data is based on regular papers, and as a rule any change imparted to the portal data must be supported by reference. This is why I always use Mindat references; scientists, in general, know there are various types of references, and this is not limited to regular papers. Unfortunately, Wikipedia seems to be full of ignorants, or the know-it-alls...

"Your misunderstanding of science is not an argument against it..."

(talk) 23:13, 18 May 2023 (UTC)Eudialytos (talk) 07:23, 21 May 2023 (UTC) https://www.ing.pan.pl/pracownicy/lukasz-kruszewski