User talk:Sreed16

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Hello Stephen,

I am an online ambassador for your plate tectonics class. I will assist you in your Wikipedia writings. You can send me an email Graeme Bartlett or use my talk page if you want my attention. You are using your userpage as an article draft. Normally this is where people write about themselves. The article draft could go to User:Sreed16/sandbox. Also there is already an article at subsidence that overlaps with your topic. Are you going to add to that article? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 13:20, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Review of this article-in-progress by Erin
Big things: There are several glaring issues with this page. The first is the one mentioned above by Graeme; the article subsidence already exists and your article covers a lot of the same ground. The second is a lack of links to other wikipedia pages, which are part of what wikipedia is about. The third is the lack of formatting in your references list. The fourth is a complete lack of in-line references in the text itself.

Little things: Without proper headings and article organization, it's difficult to read or know where you're heading. If you use wiki markup to make your headings clearer (say, for example, make Mechanisms and Environments your two large headings and make that subsidence blurb into your intro, the article will flow better.

Style suggestions: You use a lot of 'weasel words' like predominantly, best described. Your writing style is not bad, but you seem to have problems stringing sentences together to make meaningful paragraphs: each small group of sentences on its own works well, but doesn't flow into the next very well. Working on your connective phrases between sections might smooth this out and show the reader how you've gone about constructing this article.

Visual suggestions: The figure is not labeled, and I don't know what I'm looking at: is this supposed to be a cartoon of the crust or some blocks of wood? If it's crust, give it some layers; help the viewer visualize crust being pulled apart this way. Put a tree on it.

All in all, I would say this article needs a lot more work on the wikipedia end, but maybe not so much on the researching end. You know what you're talking about, but you have to cite and format this correctly so your ideas can be shared. This won't, of course, solve the problem of the article already existing, but all may not be lost. You're not talking about potholes in karst, you're talking about BIG crustal deformations. You have clearly taken a crustal-scale view of subsidence, which could possibly be wrangled into a different topic altogether like crustal flexure or something like that. Maybe the difference in scale can help you salvage some of your work. Ewalde1 (talk) 02:49, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Corey's review of Stephen's article
Hey Stephen!

So, Erin said most of what I was going to say. Instead of just repeating all that, I'll just add on to hers.

1. I don't know what you should do about the fact that a subsidence article already exists. I just looked over it, and it could certainly use some work. Your article has very different content than that subsidence article, though. Perhaps you could think about changing the title of your article to 'Geodynamics of subsidence' or 'mechanics of subsidence' or something like that.

2.How would you feel about throwing in an image of Archimedes principle? Other images would be good too, since this is one of those topics where simple illustrations can really really help you explain things.

3. To link a word in your article to other pages you need to put double brackets   around it, like so: plate tectonics

4. The titles of your sections shouldn't be capitalized. For example, Passive Margins should be Passive margins.

5. You have to have in-text citations. You should go to my page, click the edit thing, and copy how I cited something. It looks like a little raised number on the Wikipedia page, but it's actually a kind of long little thing. When you make a citation like that, it automatically formats the citation and sticks it in at the end of the article. So, it will be nice and organized instead of the sloppy craziness you have right now.

On a more positive note, I would agree with Erin about the content: you have a lot in there and you seem to know what you're talking about. It's mostly just formatting, editing, and maybe more pictures that you need to add.

Cshirc1 (talk) 03:39, 24 October 2011 (UTC)cshirc1

Review by Michael Stevens
Good start overall. I like the format of your page, with the mechanisms, then explanations, then environments with explanations, well though out. Erin brings up a lot of good points. the lack of references is an issue, and if there is a wiki page with this same information, then you may have to move it in a slightly different direction, so as to add an original contribution to wiki. This page needs a read through for grammatical errors and sentence structure. "This thinning crust becomes subsequently subsides over time" this line confused me with what you were trying to say. a simple revision is all that is necessary. nice job dude. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mstev18 (talk • contribs) 11:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

More comments from Graeme
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:29, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * In addition to recommendations from you classmates:
 * Get your references linked to the staments early while you still remember where the facts came from. With my own articles several years back I didnot do it, and then later as the article expanded it became very hard to track what reference was for what statement.
 * pangea should have capital P.
 * A cross section diagram would be good the forarc basin.
 * For examples such as Aulacogen in Quebec be specific and tell us exactly what and where it is, with a reference.
 * Thanks for creating a sandbox, but every one seems to have ignored it. Hopefully the content here is identical.
 * For the section headings, I suggest that your 3rd level is promoted to 2nd level, and 4th is promoted to 3rd. The Subsistence heading is not needed.
 * I would also like you to describe how these different subsidence mechanisms can be recognised, perhaps from the shape of sediment strata. A series of pictures would be good.

Your recent edits
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Crustal recycling
Hi, you said you could not find this article. Take a look at Crustal recycling, it is there. It is only fair to comment on the final version, rather than an earlier draft. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:53, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Tectonic subsidence
Good news on Tectonic subsidence as the Did you know nomination has passed the first hurdles. See Template:Did you know nominations/Tectonic subsidence. Anyway the idea is to get a link to your article from the main page of Wikipedia. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:21, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Stephen, your article has been promoted. It is now in Template:Did you know/Queue/2 which I am predicting will appear on the main page (http://en.wikipedia.org) in about 4 hours: 22 November 0000UtC. So check if it appears on the main Wikipedia page and let all your friends know to take a look so you can claim the kudos! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:37, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Tectonic subsidence
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 00:02, 22 November 2011 (UTC)