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Contents 1 Copyrighted material 2 NPOV? 3 Edit by anon 4 Frank Bursley Taylor 5 Roberto Mantovani

[edit] Copyrighted material

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• Alfred Wegener from [1]; a non-copyvio version exists in an earlier edit here. - ℘yrop (talk) 01:02, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

• • This is a pretty important entry; his ideas revolutionised the field of geography. Policy on this is "Pages where the most recent edit is a copyright violation, but the previous article was not, should not be deleted. They should be reverted." Accordingly I will revert to the November 23rd (non copyvio) version. -- [[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 13:39, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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As we now have the ability to undelete revisions selectively, and the copyvio was caught before any other edits were made, I deleted only the offending revisions. Ain't that neat? -- Cyrius|✎ 06:31, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV?

The line "It took more than 50 years for the "consensus" of the scientists to acknowledge a fact that is obvious to every kid who looks at the map of Africa and South America." seems a tad loaded. - Cybren 01:36, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You are quite right. Rewrote a bit to tone down some of the "loaded" material. - Vsmith 03:26, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit by anon

Does anyone know whether this edit is correct? JoshuaZ 02:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Reverted and supplied NASA ref for 29227 Wegener. Vsmith 02:39, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Bursley Taylor

Replaced the following unsourced bit about Frank Taylor, Taylor did publish on continental drift prior to 1912, but where is the evidence that Wegener was aware of it?

Wegener happened to pick up an incredibly obscure paper in the GSA (Geological Society of America) (v. 21, p. 179–226) by an amateur American author named Frank Bursley Taylor. This was seemingly the first published reference to the theory of continental drift (although Bursley had actually publicy unveiled his theory at the GSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, on Dec. 29, 1908). ... Reading Taylor's paper crystallised these thoughts into the theory...

The Taylor bit was added by an anon on 21 Nov. I reverted that portion to the prior edit and included a source. It can be re-entered if a source is provided. Vsmith 03:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I have added info about Taylor's work w/ refs to the Continental drift page. Vsmith 04:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roberto Mantovani

Dear All Please note that Roberto Mantovani first book in both french and italian on Plate Tectonic was written in 1889 when Alfred "Wangner" was 9 years old !!! eheheh its a comedy !! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.151.66.41 (talk) 15:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Wegener was to become a prominent follower of the idea of Roberto Mantovani that spend his life proliferating Mantovanis ideas, its ironic that no many geoscientists remembers the work of the great Mantovani, and that today geologists and geophysicists are in absolute darkness on who did what !!! Francesco Fucilla 86.151.66.41 00:10, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I attempted to edit Wegener history page to reflect the truth as to His work on continental drift and place the following letter to the discussion page But to my regret both were removed. Could you be so kind to tell me why !!?? ... Francesco fucilla 86.142.77.154 19:32, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Vsmith's comment in his edit of 14:24, 15 September 2007. The above statement, and what followed, appears to be strongly POV, and so I reduced its size where "..." appears. The full text is, of course, accessible through this page's history tab. -- One way to handle such contentious points is to cite respected professional journals in which historians of science have investigated and debated the matter. Do such publications exist related to Wegener's development of continental drift? I do note that Wikipedia's continental drift article covers some matters related to Wegener and Mantovani. -- Astrochemist (talk) 00:11, 28 February 2008 (UTC)