User talk:Timothypool

Simpsonite
''point group: 3. Euhedral to subhedral crystals, tabular to short prismatic, with {10(hat-1)0} and {0001}, and rarely a few other forms. Striated || [0001], to 2.4 cm; commonly in subparallel groups'' Would you like to explain this in English that the average reader is going to understand? Cutting and pasting from other sources is a) not allowed and b) no good if you don't explain what the text means. Whether you explain the terms by wikilinks or tet explanation doesn't matter but it needs explaining. Wikipedia is not a specialist geological publication. NtheP (talk) 14:57, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Understood. The page was not in existence before my additions. The information is factual, cited, and I did not copy and paste, because I physically researched the information in the reserve section of the library at the Jackson School of Geology (University of Texas at Austin). The mineralogy professor here designed a project for her students to (in 5 steps over the fall semester) add credible information to the already present geological database in Wikipedia. Simpsonite is a rare mineral, and its symmetry is something that cannot be summarized easily. If a person were to enter "crystal symmetry" into the Wiki search bar, it immediately directs to the page "Crystal structure", which has the necessary information. Though I understand your concern, it doesn't seem reasonable to remove supported factual information over such a rare mineral that had zero helpful information in the first place. Rest assured, the page will be improved over the next few months as I research the mineral further, and I will soon alter the page to provide some more links that will aid the average user.
 * I apolgise for the cut and paste accusation. My concern is that the article now looks like almost like random text especially with the curly brackets, pipes and straight brackets remaining unexplained.  Even if it flowed more it would be easier to read e.g. It forms euhedral to subhedral crystals which vary from tabular to short prismatic and range from xxx to 2.4 cm in length.  At the moment it's a series of short unexplained statements that mean nothing to most readers. NtheP (talk) 16:05, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

I agree. I will go ahead and remove the bracketed crystal form descriptions until I find a simplified way to explain what that means. And in case you were wondering how my name doesn't show up on the initial editing of the article, it's because I lost my password to me other Wiki account.