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Hey Andrew! Your page is an enjoyable for something so esoteric. I think everything flows very well and I didn't have to leave the page more than twice to understand something that was related. One thing you could expand upon is sample collection. Where do they obtain the zircons? Are these samples in the back yard or do they have to travel somewhere and mine for them? Your bracketed geothermometry in the opening paragraph is red and doesn't link to anything. Also you may need to increase your picture size of the linear x/y graph so people that have shitty vision can see what the axis means. Lastly your references have the " date values in: ...." in red so that may mean there is an error.
Glad to read and review it, good job!
Nice page Andrew...you know I got this weird feeling reading this page...like a single word of it has never been seen on the interwebs before. Just a hunch I guess. Anyhow, I've got a couple suggested improvements to an otherwise excellent page (concise but thorough, I wish I could have struck that same balance).
-Is there a reason your page is named "Titanium in zircon geothermometer" instead of "Zircon-Titanium Geothermometry"? Subjectively ZTG sounds less clunky as a title page, but that's none of my business.
-I would see if you could link your page to the main zircon page. They have a section at the bottom about radiometric dating so I suspect it would be as easy as including a small blurb and a link to your page. Would probably increase traffic to your page a lot as well.
-Is there a reason the x axis in your second figure (Ti abundance vs. Temp) goes from high to low temperature instead of low to high? If that's just the convention in this field ignore my comment. I'm just used to seeing it low-high.
-If you want to make your page even leaner and meaner, you can omit some of the details from your methods section (it's currently the longest section). An especially tempting candidate would be axing some of the details re: methods of prepping a sample. Unlike a scientific paper where you want to be explicit in your methodology so it's repeatable, I think for a Wiki page you can just give a general gist. You have references if they want to consult further.
That's about all I got. Nicely done!
