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Contents 1 Request for comment on Category Redirect template 2 Reply to your question about lunar soil 3 Issue about copying public domain text and proper referencing 4 Wikipedia Weekly Episode 40 5 Wikipedia Weekly Episode 41 6 Wikipedia Weekly Episode 42 7 WikipediaWeekly Episode 45 8 Wikipedia Weekly Episodes 46 and 47 9 Wikipedia Weekly Episode 48 10 Wikipedia Weekly Episode 49 11 Wikipedia Weekly Episode 50

[edit] Request for comment on Category Redirect template

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[edit] Reply to your question about lunar soil

Hi Paleorthid,

you asked, "Do you have an opinion on the term lunar soil? Is it useful only in a popular context, or is it potentially acceptable in scientific circles?"

I'm a lunar soil scientist (I work for NASA and that's what I mainly work on). We use "lunar soil" as our main terminology. "Soil" tends to imply the finer material, not including rocks or boulders, whereas "regolith" includes rocks and boulders. So the two terms are not exactly interchangeable.

There were a couple of published journal articles several decades ago that argued whether or not "soil" is a valid term in the lunar case because the Moon has no organic content. Generally on Earth "soil" refers only to material that has organic content; otherwise, we use "sand" or "mud" or some such term when there is no organic content. However, the consensus among **lunar** scientists is to use "lunar soil" even though it has no organic content, so that is the correct term. All the best scientific publications use that term.Sanddune777 (talk) 04:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

You asked questions that are outside my area of competence! I'm a physicist (not a chemist) and so I am interested in the physical propoerties of soil -- particle size distribution, mineral strengths, etc. I really don't know about the energetics of diurnal insolation. What I do know is that there is a "gardening" effect on the Moon in that micrometeroids, too small the get through Earth's atmosphere, constantly pulverize the soil breaking particles into smaller particles and creating significant melt-glass that glues smaller particles back together again. This is the predominant process on the Moon, but I don't know much about the chemical effects. Sorry I can't be more help! Sanddune777 (talk) 00:49, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Issue about copying public domain text and proper referencing

Thank you for raising the question in the WP:REF arena, and for your kind note to me on my talk page. I was fearing that u and i could only agree to disagree; this is better. As I develop in my posting in the WP:REF talk, I have tried to raise this issue in several ways including in two wikiprojects mentioned there. It has also been discussed in WP:NRHP where I have done most of my wikipedia work (specializing in National Historic Landmarks of the U.S.), having come up in regards to the Bathhouse Row article that SEWilco and I have had a row about. In WP:NRHP there have been few intrusions of the PD copying, and I hope that it stays that way. One recent instance brought me to the "USGovernment" template. Again I appreciate you elevated the issue constructively; I am unfamiliar with Request For Comment procedure which you seem to have started up.

BTW, it appears to me that an edit you made on the WP:REF talk page should have placed the question on the "RFCstyle list", but when i click on the RFCstyle list at the top of that page I am brought to a list of RFCs that does not include this question. Perhaps you can verify the question is raised as you meant it to be.

Sincerely, doncram (talk) 22:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

We share a fundamental concern: supporting the ability of future generations to verify specific elements of evolved PD content. Your approach has merit, however it is not viable in its present incarnation. About the RFC, I think we are waiting on User:RFC_bot. --Paleorthid (talk) 23:47, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

The RFC bot visited, then revisited and indicated an error. Something needs to be fixed for it to work. doncram (talk) 01:10, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Yep. I'm on my 3rd attempt. I could use your help if you are so inclined. So far I've compared mine with the successful RFCstyle tags and the only difference I have found so far is with the section header format: the successful ones have no space between == and the header text. I've edited accordingly. If that turns out to be the issue, I'll add it to the template documentation. If that's not it, I am tapped out so I'll post for help. Just a matter of time... --Paleorthid (talk) 01:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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