User talk:Michael314159

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Good luck, and have fun. --The Seeker 4 Talk 00:49, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello. I noticed you have made a few edits to the article Diamond and added sources. I would simply ask you to change the format of your citations so they match the manual of style. You can find some useful citation templates [ here] to review. Using these templates, or at least the <ref></ref> format would allow the in line citations to link to a footnote as the rest of the article's citations do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks. The Seeker 4 Talk 01:00, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Help:Edit summary

Hi there, thanks for your contribution to Diamond, but please leave an edit summary when removing a sourced sentence. Help:Edit summary will tell you why it is required. Thanks again! --BorgQueen (talk) 03:50, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Diamond

Thank you for attempts to improve that article. I shall put in your changes in a minute. Please understand that diamond, as a wikipedia:featured article is closely guarded at any time, thus editing such pages requires some diplomacy (somebody can revert your changes simply because you didn't explain why). Please don't hesitate to talk first. I myself am a diamond professional.

Another note. For science adds I can always add a ref., but if you rewrite something on diamond business matters, please do add "reliable" references (meaning no blogs, no personal pages), otherwise someone can simply revert the changes to preserve article stability. Materialscientist (talk) 04:00, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

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Michael314159's reply: The reference "Diamond producer Alrosa to resume market diamond sales in May" (http://en.rian.ru/business/20090506/121458087.html) appeared to suggest that Alrosa had resumed diamond sales to De Beers. This does not appear to be the case and I would point out that such transactions would have attracted wide attention in the diamond trade press. The article itself doesn't refer to De Beers at all and simply states that Alrosa is selling to the 'market'. Sorry if I have not followed etiquette (I am a bit of a novice to Wikipedia) but I don't believe that the changes I've made are contentious...

Those changes are fine. That piece on Alrosa is quite dubious and was added when resumption was not certain at all. I have reverted your edit on synthetic sapphires. The note is true, but vague, unreferenced and not really suitable there. A short reply to your comments on hardness is yes, but the diamond article is already way too large; it should only summarize major topics, which should be developed in an umbrella of separate articles. A note is please be patient and calm. Many comments seem overly emotional. Any general statement misses exceptions. I'm sure you understand what diamond purity is, and I hope you understand that lonsdaleite does not exist as high-quality bulk material. Some comments are valid and I'll try to address them (though much of material in the diamond article is so non-scientific that I'm not interested at all to defend it). There is way too much to do to improve wikipedia. I myself simply split up between dozens of tasks. Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 08:17, 18 July 2009 (UTC)