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Hi! I'm not formally offering to adopt you because I just made an offer to adopt someone else and I don't want to make commitments I might not be able to fulfill. However, you're welcome at any time to ask me for help whether you're adopted or not. I just created a page for you here: User:Adrian de Physics/Acoustics draft. The page is in your userspace. You can use it to play around with and to put your draft article. I suggest clicking edit and then using the mouse to copy and paste your draft article in. If you ever want to delete that page, you can put {{db-owner}} on it for deleting a page in your userspace. If you load in your draft article, I can help you fix it up and then move or copy it to the encyclopedia mainspace. (Mainspace means regular articles, pages that don't have "User:" or "Talk:" or something in front of the name, and that show up in search engines.) You can reply here or at my talk page. --Coppertwig (talk) 16:46, 26 December 2007 (UTC) Thanks Coppertwig ! Your help much appreciated. You have given me some good pointers to be working on. Meanwhile I looked up some of the other topics adjacent to those of the article I am fixing to write, have in mind, found that some were excellent and best left alone, some were marked as stubs, some had spots I would be tempted to improve, etc. so there's lots to do. I just need to work up to it bit by bit. I will plan some crosslinks offline and have them ready before trying to get my article up. My general web experience is very limited and I want to strengthen it, that's part of my motivation for doing this. I took a look at your site but had better get practice at editing this one before I make an appearance on yours. I can see you are very active / not to say prolific / in this world so thanks again for your offer ! Adrian
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Just saw that you have been watching over this like a guardian angel ! Thanks ! Working on the references has helped me to tweak the text so as to refer to the best stuff and not to wikis that are questionable or embryonic or under debate. That's why in the most recent I am not trying to reference "elastic waves" any longer. One day maybe when that area itself is stabilized. I gotta read your other tips now, just wanted you to know I have seen you and am catching up. Adrian Pollock (talk) 19:44, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
OK, I will bear that in mind. There are other people currently discussing whether "elastic waves" should be merged into "elasticity". I might have something to say about that but want to focus on getting this article published first. The hierarchy is waves > (mechanical waves) > elastic waves > Lamb waves and ideally that'd be clean and clear for the readers of all the articles. But I suppose you will respond that it's a web as well as a hierarchy . . . :)
These are the things I still want to do / question on the article -
1. Fix one of the references
2. [1]
Does the list of references get a different formatting ? Is the list of references a footnote ?? Need to find out how to refer to a reference from the text.
3. Additional line spaces between the paragraphs.
4. One diagram (it's too dry without any). It will be pictures of the two modes (curvy lines). Will it take an Excel chart ? Or a .jpg file, not sure how I'd get from an Excel chart to a .jpg file ? Then there's the layout and captioning of the diagram in the article. This is where perhaps you could help me directly and save a bunch of time.
5. With the above done, plus any other tweaks I might notice, it would be basically ready to publish as far as I'm concerned so Coppertwig, your edits and suggestions would be very welcome prior to putting it into the main article area.
It'll take me a while to work on the diagram. I'll check back here in a while, not sure what's going to happen with the rest of today. I know I could probably find answers to some of the above in the references but the wheels tend to spin and it's sure helpful having you looking over the shoulder !
Adrian Pollock (talk) 20:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)