User talk:Rygel, M.C.

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Hello, Rygel, M.C., and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Vsmith (talk) 15:34, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
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The above was a "canned" welcome. I'm always happy to see a subject matter expert joining the project. Especially when a geologist jumps in. There is a lot to be done, so jump right in. And apologies for my rather blunt undo of your first effort, especially as I see others agreeing with you and my experience with sedimentary geology is a bit dated. So, indeed: Welcome aboard and enjoy the show! Feel free to drop me a note if you are confused about some odd Wikipedia-ways and/or rules. Vsmith (talk) 03:50, 12 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd just like to add my welcome to Vsmith's, I hope that you find contributing here rewarding - we can certainly never have too many geologists involved. There are quite a lot of geology pages that lack good clear photographs, so any that you can contribute would be great - if you have any questions about uploading images, just leave me a note. Cheers, Mikenorton (talk) 08:21, 12 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Likewise, welcome! And if you ever want an extra set of eyes on something here, feel free to leave me a note: I do my best to keep up with the sedimentary literature, so I should be able to help. Awickert (talk) 19:42, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! I think (hope!) that I can make a reasonable contribution to the sedimentary structures entry and many of the linked entries for specific structures this fall. I am going to have the students in my 400-level Sedimentary Geology class write term "papers" that will be converted to wiki entries that include images from my personal teaching collection. We will work through a first draft on a test wiki hosted on a college server before migrating content over to wikipedia. As you can imagine, this will be a learning experience for everyone. I will probably be asking lots of questions about how best to go about this (sandbox, etc)!


 * Hi again, I've found several articles created by your students (Sed structures articles) and for the most part they are quite good - I've just done some minor cleanup on some. Perhaps you could post a list of new articles here or elsewhere so we don't just run into them by chance. Anyway, thanks for your and your students work. Vsmith (talk) 19:02, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! As the class Wikipedia project wraps up, it has become obvious that some students are solid writers and got really involved in the project, and others struggled.  Either way, I am hoping that their effort produces positive results, despite the small amount of chaos that a bunch of new contributors might cause.  Details about what I asked them to do can be found on the | grading page and a list of topics is provided | here.  Would you like me to include a table on this talk page or on the WikiProject Geology listing the pages that the students edited?  Rygel, M.C. (talk) 16:22, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * A list here or on a subpage would be fine, I've mentioned you and your students work on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geology, so others may come looking. Vsmith (talk) 17:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Transcluding images from Commons
Hi, I apologize for being slow to answer your question about reading images. Now I'm back in Potsdam I'm looking into it - it should be possible, I just don't know how. I'll let you know as soon as I find out - probably I'll find a way in the next week or so. Hope your work is going well. Walkerma (talk) 17:01, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem, I was able to link images from Wikimedia commons to the Geology Wiki via the instructions at . Rygel, M.C. (talk) 13:10, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again
After our discussion about the new articles and photos, I went through your photos and raided some of your great pics for pages I worked on a while ago but did not have good pics, like lithic sandstone. Hope that was OK! The only thing we need is a photomicrograph of an arkose... do you have one of those handy?  QFL 24-7 bla ¤ cntrb ¤ kids ¤ pics ¤ vids 21:34, 9 December 2010 (UTC)