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What is "Silicon glue"? Should this be Silicone glue?

[edit] Slates from India

I see the recent contribution was cut from the article because of possible copy violation.. What makes us think so? Gregorydavid 05:51, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't know whether I would have called it copyright violation, but it certainly looks like a cut and paste from elsewhere: the use of capitals as a section heading, the long sentences in a very different style to the rest of the article, the lack of Wiki-linking inside the passage, and then an apparent source or credit at the bottom of it all. They're all signs of a cut and paste from elsewhere, whether from a Department of Mines and Geology website or someone's personal essay on geology (which of course they would have every right to add). Telsa (talk) 07:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I suppose we can expect the Wiki contributor to take some ownership of material.. The english looks like original Indian english: "Increasing in the grade of metamorphism give rise to schistosity with the deelopment of slaty cleavage in Nallamalai fold belt and the slates occurring in the area are variegated colours with different designs." ie not American english.. Gregorydavid 07:47, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Probably my use of copyvio in that edit summary was a bit much. Last May I had helped possibly the same editor create Stones of India (and clean-up) as an article for his descriptions of the various stone industries in India. More recently I had moved an addition to the limestone article to there. Perhaps this slate essay or whatever should go there also - just didn't feel up to the cleanup or rewrite needed at the time. Vsmith 11:49, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Black slate" - Haida argillite

As t turns out, black slate as an article is for a British reggae band (if searched for that way; despite the redlink); but it's also an old name for a specific type of carving stone - not a slate, but a specific type of argillite from the Queen Charlotte Islands, used in Haida artwork. Not sure where n this article to add mention of it; there's as yet no specific article on the black argillite, and others are not slate-like....so nothing for the "See also" area. Ideas? Or can someone please insert a one-liner about it in the appropriate place?Skookum1 (talk) 04:51, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

See Talk:Argillite pls.Skookum1 (talk) 05:01, 11 March 2008 (UTC)