User talk:Dalyrambles

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My teacher is having us contribute to Wikipedia for an assignment. I am an avid rockhound and wanted to create an article about it, but when I searched for rockhound, "Amateur Geology" shows up as an article title and defines it as "Amateur geology (known as rockhounding in the United States and Canada, and regionally known as rock hunting in southern Oregon) is the recreational study and hobby of collecting rocks and mineral specimens from their natural environment."

The "Amateur Geology" article information is very vague and doesn't have many sources other than the ones that I added at work last night. I want to provide better definitions and information, but I am not sure I should delete the information somebody else already put up. Also there is no evidence that the term "Amateur Geology" is preferred over "Rockhounding". I have never come across "Rockhounding" being refered to as "Amateur Geology" in my years of research that includes not online resources but also books from as far back as the 1934 and interacting with geologists and other reputable rockhounds (Gem and Mineral societies, ect). Am I wrong to want to start a new article termed "Rockhounding", or is it possible to change the current title of "Amateur Geology" to be "Rockhounding (Amateur Geology"? Thank you!

Dalyrambles (talk) 23:02, 11 June 2017 (UTC) Rebecca Daly, Dalyrambles
 * First off, welcome to Wikipedia! Hopefully you like it here and stay longer than just for your assignment.
 * As to the page - we already have a redirect for Rockhound pointing to Amateur Geology, so clearly at some point a consensus was determined that the two terms were somewhat correlated. If you wish to change the primary name from "Amateur Geology" to "Rockhound", you'll need to start a move request at Talk:Amateur Geology. If you can definitively show through the available references that "rockhounding" is definitely 100% a different thing, then you should go to the talk page of Amateur Geology and suggest that the article be split to cover both subjects.
 * Either way, you'll be starting a discussion, interacting with other Wikipedians, and hopefully coming to a productive consensus. I would also suggest, once you've made your talk page post, that you contact WikiProject Geology, i.e. the folks who are interested in that page, so that they also know the discussion is happening. If you want more help, change the help me-helped back into a help me, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 23:27, 11 June 2017 (UTC)