Talk:Spinel

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There is a lot more to be said about spinels and not just from the gemstone side of it. This is why I added a link to the articles currently being written on NCSU's own wiki system by grad students in solid state chemistry. Experience shows that such links that typically removed as 'spam'. Maybe there are good reasons why wikipedia often remains a stubbopedia? If useful information is immediately suppressed that is hardly susprising isn't it?

I grade this article as woefully inadequate. 152.1.193.137 14:18, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

If it is inadequate, why don't you add some content? What Wikipedia wants is contributions, not linkfarming. The useful information needs to be here - and if it is contributed in an encyclopedic, verifyable, non-biased manner, it certainly will not be "suppressed". But linkspam will be. Also, I don't see how linking to another freely editable wiki - or to any other encyclopedia - would be useful. Again, add content, not links. Cheers Geologyguy 14:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
I am in agreement w/ Geologyguy. My suggestion is to add the content as a new article Spinel structure (currently a redirect to spinel). The current spinel article focuses on general mineralogy and the new info from your students work would be an important addition. Now, what are the copyright restrictions on your WolfWiki? Can we directly import the info into a Wikipedia article. I would welcome the addition of your spinel structure content as a replacement for the current redirect there. What say? Add it and we'll wikify it - or if your wiki is under gfdl guidlines, we can just add the material. Vsmith 15:33, 8 May 2007 (UTC)