User talk:Donuts4u/sandbox

First of all, I think it is cool that you are making a new Wikipedia page! I also think it is nice that it is so relevant to the class. Right away, I noticed that you are not using the Wikipedia citation tool. I think this would help you and make the article more transferable. I think everything you write is factually correct, but I am wanting little more about why we care about lid tectonics and the implications for earth. I am thinking about the heat pipe mode paper and the squishy lid regime papers we read in class. Both of these papers suggest certain surface and mantle conditions for early earth's history, and for me at least, this is a large part of why lid tectonics and different tectonic modes are interesting. Some discussion along these lines could greatly enhance the article because it provides an intuitive frame of reference for the reader by mentioning earth's history, and it provides a good amount of significance for why the reader should care about lid tectonics. According to some authors we've read, when did we make the jump to plate tectonics, if we were in fact experiencing some kind of stagnant/mobile lid? How do the initial conditions matter for how we model these processes? Some discussion about the evolution about stagnant lid in addition to how it forms could also be useful. This would work best in the lead in and the "Formation" section where you have already started to mention some of this information. I am not saying to write in-depth about the other modes we read about because that could be perceived as off-topic, but talking about the possible significance of stagnant lid and drawing some more attention to the uniqueness of plate tectonics could help the article. Also, from the title, it is not obvious that the whole article will be primarily discussing stagnant lid vs some of those other regimes like heat pipe. I am no expert, but I would just title the article Stagnant Lid Tectonics. I am thinking of someone that simply googles stagnant lid. The word 'stagnant' seems like a key word to me in addition to the word 'lid'. These are just suggestions, and I could be wrong or misleading you in some way.

I understand it is more challenging to basically make a new page since there is no existing framework to build on. So far, I like all the sections and information you have, but driving forces may not be the section title you are looking for. I get what you are trying to say by reading the content under this section header, but I do not think driving forces is the right way to describe it. In my mind, I'm thinking of a title such as "factors contributing to stagnant lid," as you nicely write in your first sentence. Maybe you could subdivide this into sections like heat, stresses, viscosity etc. Perhaps mentioning heat pipe and squishy lid briefly in another section could be pertinent. Is there maybe an opportunity to discuss chemistry in your article?

-Anongeologist, 10/21/2018

Peer Review
Overall, I think the article will be well structured and provide good base knowledge. I agree with the previous comments regarding wikipedia style/formatting. The citations need to be in the correct format and there should be more links to pre-existing pages (viscosity, yield strength (yield in engineering), mantle, martian meteorites). The sections on Mars and other solar system bodies needs more citations, particularly the statement on the Martian mantle. I'd also like to see more details on the role of stagnant lid on surface expressions and the evidence that would point to a lid versus plate tectonics. What are the implications of lid tectonics? What does it tell us about planetary evolution? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agmarusiak (talk • contribs) 14:15, 22 October 2018 (UTC)