User:Fhernly/MineralList

List of WikiMineral Articles
This list has been made in prepartion of a project to be assigned to undergraduate students enrolled in GEOL-G 110, Physical Geology, at IUPUI in the Fall 2011 semester. Students will be assigned to add material to existing mineral stubs as part of a semester-long project. To prepare, I have further categorized these stubs based on the amount of information in the articles as of Spring 2011, the presence of a mineral property infobox, and the accessability of reference material.

Amount of information
After viewing many stubs, there seems to be a three part division of information available:
 * 1) 1-2 sentence "dictionary" article, usually containing the mineral class, formula, locality, and namesake. [see kankite]
 * 2) add "properties" to the information above,  1-2 paragraphs [see fabianite]
 * 3) additional headings 3-5 paragraphs

Infobox
add to this the presence or absence of an image
 * 1) missing [see kankite]
 * 2) minimal information (1-5 properties) [see aksaite]
 * 3) moderate information (5-15 properties) [see empressite]
 * 4) extensive information (>15 properties)

Reference Availability
The mineral names were searched in CSA Illumina Database Index available through the IUPUI University Library.
 * 1) no references available
 * 2) references available, but not at IUPUI Library in either paper or on-line form, interlibrary loan necessary
 * 3) references available at IUPUI, though not primary references
 * 4) primary references available at IUPUI

Process
I think what I'll do is use the order of each category (1,2,3,4) and list each mineral with the appropriate code (example aksaite 1, 2, 4: dictionary level of info, minimal infobox, primary references available at IUPUI), maybe with p1, p2, ... p4 to indicate the number of pictures. I can then sort each mineral into groups based on the material and references available so that each student is starting with a mineral with similar quality of information in the exitsting article as well as the availabilty of references to add to the article.

The List
Aksaite 1,2,4,p0

Kankite 1,1,4,p0

Need to find out if there is a way to make tables, as I'm sure there is

Fhernly (talk) 22:05, 21 April 2011 (UTC)