User talk:Zyzzy

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You did this: [1] but left no justification for removing the liquid-at-tropics. Could you justify it please? William M. Connolley 08:46, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC).

ps: your talk page redirects to your user page. I assume this is a mistake, and I've undone it. If it wasn't, apologies.

WishI could figure out some of the Wiki-communication. I pulled the sentece and depersonalized the idea a bit because I think we should introduce the concept in the first paragraph. I don't mind the liquid water comment, bt it doesn't really belong in the first paragraph. -Bob

OK, I'll take another look. I've taken the liberty of reformatting your answer - its usual to indent (one or more colons) in "conversation". And you can sign your words with four tildas: like this: ~~~~ (skip the nowiki tags when you do it, of course). Oh, and Welcome to Wikipedia. If you have any other questions about wikiworks, put them here or on my talk page and I'll try to answer William M. Connolley 16:32, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC).

Re: Image:AFAR-MODIS.jpg

Please remember to include the source information, copyright tag, etc. when uploading images to Wikipedia. Thanks! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:29, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Arabian-Nubian Shield

I've been watching you unfold this outstanding page, with increasing pleasure. Will you give some explanation of the granite formation labelled "Typical exposures of granite in the southern Arabian Shield. Courtesy Peter Johnson" —which actually seems quite astonishing! All one piece, an eroded extrusion?--Wetman 00:14, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Wetman, your compliments are much appreciated. I'll add a few comments about the beautiful granite exposure. I'm in dallas, where are you?

   -Zyzzy

Hah! That's it exactly! (I'm a New Yorker born and bred.) I hope my edits in paleogeography, etc, which you'll find here and there, aren't too irritatingly amateurish. Sharpen them anywhere you see misleading waffle. Once you've finished Arabian-Nubian Shield without being distracted, I wish you'd go through it again, after a rest, and briefly identify some of the purely technical vocabulary—appositives and dashes help— for the well-meaning amateur. The best Wikipedia articles are complete in themselves, without a reader having to pursue hyperlinks to follow the meaning. The trick is, to explain without breaking the flow. --Wetman 02:24, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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I'm hoping to attract other flies to my pile, so it will let it steep for a while.   If there is no triage then I will jump back in.  I do appreciate your advice, I am mostly writing about what I know and an audience, er...another perspective, is useful.   Did you take that amazing Cholula photograph of pyramid and church? Wow. You know, Johnson's granite and your pyrachurch would make a stunning pair
      Zyzzy

Welcome!

I see that no one has welcomed you officially yet, so... welcome, Zyzzy, and thank you for your high quality contributions! Here are a few good links for newcomers (although your editing shows that you must have come across some of them already):

• How to edit a page
• Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
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• If you're ready for the complete list of Wikipedia documentation, there's also Wikipedia:Topical index.

I hope you continue to enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes like this: ~~~~. It produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! — mark ✎ 11:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Mark, I am enjoying being a Wikiholic and meeting new friends. Zyzzy 11:35, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)Zyzzy

Your maps and images are superb, and it's great to have an expert contributing. By the way, I gather that you created Image:AfarGEOLOGY.jpg yourself; you might want to tag it accordingly by adding something like {{GFDL-self}} on the image page (if you want to release it under the GFDL license, that is).

I, for one, release my maps and images under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license ({{cc-by-2.0}}). In any case, make sure they get a copyright tag, otherwise the 'image police' will eventually come along and your images would run the risk of getting deleted. — mark ✎ 11:43, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

See Image:African language families.png for an example of how I tag my images. — mark ✎ 11:56, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'll try to figureout the damn tag thhingsometime. 01:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)Zyzzy

It's pretty easy really. Pick a license (I can recommend the one I mentioned above) and add a tag, that's about it. All you have to do is typing {{cc-by-2.0}}. Adding some source info on the image description page is also a good thing to do, since in general it is Wikipedia practice to attribute images on their description pages, not in articles.I've added the cc-by-2.0 copyright as an example at Image:AfarGEOLOGY.jpg. Regards, — mark ✎ 20:41, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Turin papyrus

In case you were wondering why Turin papyrus is attracting so many editors — it's been featured in the 'Did you know' section of the Main Page. Cheers, — mark ✎ 01:47, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cool! I have a couple of jpegs to add when I get to work Monday. I got these and the text from james harrell at U. Toledo, who knows more about Pharonic and Roman use of stones and mining in Egypt than anyone else in the world. Zyzzy 02:43, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)Bob

Watchlist

Hi Zyzzy. Yesterday, a bug surfaced in the new Mediawiki 1.5 software which caused the watchlist functionality to stop working for a few hours. It's been fixed now, as far as I know (my watchlist is working again). More information about the problem can be found here. The bug report over at Mediazilla can be found here.

Text appears in a 'typewriter' font and in a dashed box when you put a few spaces in front of the line. (This is actually a feature of Wikipedia; see Help:Editing#Character formatting.) If you want to have an indentation, you can use colons, one for each level.

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this (edit to see the code)

Hope this helps! Kind regards, — mark ✎ 2 July 2005 20:06 (UTC)

Image:Icdp themes.jpg

License, source, anything? --Saperaud 01:58, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

I don't have anything more than what is listed with the figure. Zyzzy 12:22, 27 July 2005 (UTC)Zyzzy

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And Image:Ophiolite2.jpg and Image:Oroville1.jpg Thanks. Secretlondon

Help! I mde the ophiolite image! But I don't know how to add {{gfdl}} can you do this for me? also Orville1.jpg! Help! Zyzzy

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Image:Trench.jpg

Please add some license or the image has to be deleted. --Saperaud 13:13, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, I made it myself but I don't know how to add the right tag. - zyzzy

Cape Mendocino

I added a brief article on the triple junction of Cape Mendocino, which I hope you'll look over and re-edit, if it requires it. --Wetman 07:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

OK Wetman, I went over it - hope it's OK. - Zyzzy

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