User talk:Spenchristoph

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I am a bit concerned about your last edit to Introduction to Geochronology. Your change has removed links to a lot of the subpages (e.g., Radioactive Decay) that now appear as orphaned pages in the book (i.e., with no way of accessing them or navigating to them). Do you intend to incorporate this content elsewhere or move the pages? QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 11:51, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi QuiteUnusual, We have decided to group the book into eight much longer pages to preserve the flow of the discussion rather than have a large of number of individual pages. This is why I removed links to a lot of the subpages. The material from all of the subpages can now be found of the simplified revision of the book and in due time the orphaned pages will be removed. Cheers, spenchristoph (discuss • contribs) 11:56, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Subjects, categories, and books
Hi. I noticed you had listed "geochronology" as a subject for book Introduction to Geochronology (Radioisotope). We don't currently have a subject Geochronology; and it's not as simple as just creating a category called that. There's a bunch of infrastructure involved with creating a subject, with the category being just one part of it.

Is there more than one book that would belong in subject Geochronology? (It might be helpful to look in Subject:Geology, for instance.) If not, then we probably don't want to create a subject Geochronology. If we do have more than one book that would go in it, then we should make a list of all the books that would go in the new subject, and we should identify the parent subject or parent subjects of geochronology that place it in the hierarchy of subjects. All subjects are arranted in a hieararchy with Subject:Books by subject at the top.

It's also possible that, while not creating a new subject Geochronology, you may want to put the book in some other existing subject in addition to Subject:Geology (which is certainly a sensible place to list it). We generally discourage putting a book in more than one or two subjects, although there's no hard-and-fast rule against putting a book in more than two. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:13, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Pi zero, Thanks for your comment. At this point the only book on Geochronology that I am aware of is the one I am currently working on. The goal however is to have an array of books spanning the differing types of geochronology (e.g. radioisotope, astronomical tuning, dendrochronology, magentostratigraphy, etc.). I understand if you don't want to make a subject on geochronology at this point until the other books come online. Cheers, --spenchristoph (discuss • contribs) 09:55, 17 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Looking through Subject:Geology, it does look like none of those others are about geochronology as such, unless there's something about it in featured book Historical Geology.


 * It probably is best to wait before creating the new subject until there's at least a seond book for it, imho.


 * A proposal for your consideration. Book titles don't usually use a parenthesized qualifier, though it's a plausible encyclopedic style fairly common on Wikipedia.  For books I recommend a non-parenthetical form, renaming Introduction to Geochronology (Radioisotope)  to   Introduction to Radioisotope Geochronology.


 * If you're amenable to renaming the book, as an admin I can (I believe) do the rename in a single action, as the wiki software allows admins to rename a page along with all all its subpages (up to 100 pages). --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:22, 17 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Your point is well taken and I think changing the title would be a good idea. Cheers, --spenchristoph (discuss • contribs) 13:13, 17 March 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ (Turns out an admin can move up to five hundred subpages this way, which is good to know.) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)