User talk:Melissausburn

Hey Melissa! First off I want to say that your wiki page is very informative and highly interesting; you have done a great job with flow of the material and your pictures are amazing. I am very impressed! A few things I would work on is first provide more links back to uncommon words in the section titled "Life on Mars". I see that you have a lot of links on other paragraphs, and so I think this one paragraph could use a few more. The next thing I would do is cite your pictures, not the ones that are your own work, but the ones that you get from wiki commons or from a government cite. I know you have plans to add 2 more paragraphs on the section for geologic and biologic history, which will make your page even better, I would maybe look at adding more to the last paragraph on habitation on lava tubes. I find that fascinating, and see if there is any images of what a habitat on Mars could look like would be really neat. One of my "grown-up" projects is to build a house into the earth and have it regulated by the earth, and I think there is interest in this period so take my advice for what you will, I think it is a super cool topic and you have done a wonderful job so far! Watch out for simple little grammatical errors like punctuation capitalization, but bravo Melissa :) Eblamble (talk) 13:56, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Erica Allen[reply]

Welcome![edit]

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Hi from the online ambassador[edit]

Hello Melissa

Welcome to Wikipedia, I hope you enjoy your time here and choose to stay. I am an online ambassador for your course, so I will be available to help you out with Wikipedia editing, but not in person. If you want my attention you can email me at Special:EmailUser/Graeme Bartlett or talk to me at User talk:Graeme Bartlett. I am from Australia, in the timezone which is 11 hours ahead of UTC, so I will be awake while you sleep. On the tectonic plate I am moving 24 degrees east of north with a velocity of 54.5 mm/yr and sinking at a rate of 3.5 mm per year.

Have you drawn a map of the geology or tectonics of the Chiricahua Mountains? Some sort of timeline could be good too. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:11, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Geologic History of the Chiricahua Mountains[edit]

On 25 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Geologic History of the Chiricahua Mountains, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Chiricahua Mountains contain many rock pillars or hoodoos (example pictured) formed by the weathering of tuff? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Geologic History of the Chiricahua Mountains. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:02, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Melissa, I am happy to report that you had 5660 page views from this appearance of your article. I think it was popular because of the picture. Anyway you have the most page views of anyone in your class so far. Congratulations. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:39, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Martian lava tubes[edit]

On 13 April 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Martian lava tubes, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that 7th-grade science students at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, California, helped researchers discover a new series of Martian lava tubes (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Martian lava tubes. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

slakr^\ talk / 09:57, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]