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Surely the centre of the Earth is, in fact, the core? And if you look at a map of Pangea, such as at http://geology.com/pangea.htm then the 'centre' of Pangea is rather hard to guage. Either in the middle of the Sea of Tethys or somewhere in the middle of North Africa? [[User:Darkmind1970|Darkmind1970]] 11:41, 4 January 2008 (EST) | Surely the centre of the Earth is, in fact, the core? And if you look at a map of Pangea, such as at http://geology.com/pangea.htm then the 'centre' of Pangea is rather hard to guage. Either in the middle of the Sea of Tethys or somewhere in the middle of North Africa? [[User:Darkmind1970|Darkmind1970]] 11:41, 4 January 2008 (EST) | ||
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| + | == The state of this article == | ||
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| + | I've just deleted the introduction which was lifted from Wikipedia (see separate discussion above), leaving a very rudimentary introduction in it's place. | ||
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| + | Most of the rest was copied from a USGS site (I'll link that on the article shortly), but from only one section of that site. Therefore it talks about Wegener as though he has already been mentioned, which he hasn't in this article, but was in other sections of the USGS site. | ||
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| + | Although copying from U.S. Government sites is both legal and within the rules of Conservapedia, I'm not a fan of doing that, so won't myself fix that problem by copying more from there. But the article clearly needs more work. | ||
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| + | There's also a couple of other issues (such as the centre of the Earth one discussed above), but I'll attend to them shortly. | ||
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| + | [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 22:16, 4 January 2008 (EST) | ||
Revision as of 03:16, January 5, 2008
Can somebody correct the spelling of the title, please? It's tectonics.--OmnusErudito 18:40, 23 March 2007 (EDT)
Copyright
The overview text is almost a direct copy of the article 'Plate tectonics' in Wikipedia. When you use direct quotes you should at least mention the source. Shame on you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
BR Jhie
- I don't know why it's taken so long for someone to notice and/or act on this, but you were correct, and I have now deleted the introduction. Philip J. Rayment
Centre of the Earth
Surely the centre of the Earth is, in fact, the core? And if you look at a map of Pangea, such as at http://geology.com/pangea.htm then the 'centre' of Pangea is rather hard to guage. Either in the middle of the Sea of Tethys or somewhere in the middle of North Africa? Darkmind1970 11:41, 4 January 2008 (EST)
The state of this article
I've just deleted the introduction which was lifted from Wikipedia (see separate discussion above), leaving a very rudimentary introduction in it's place.
Most of the rest was copied from a USGS site (I'll link that on the article shortly), but from only one section of that site. Therefore it talks about Wegener as though he has already been mentioned, which he hasn't in this article, but was in other sections of the USGS site.
Although copying from U.S. Government sites is both legal and within the rules of Conservapedia, I'm not a fan of doing that, so won't myself fix that problem by copying more from there. But the article clearly needs more work.
There's also a couple of other issues (such as the centre of the Earth one discussed above), but I'll attend to them shortly.
Philip J. Rayment 22:16, 4 January 2008 (EST)