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Improving Mindat.orgHow to reference MinDat members?

2nd Oct 2017 12:38 UTCClosed Account 🌟

I am preparing an article for Mindat. To give credit where credit is due I would like to reference Mindat members. Is there a way to do it like with minerals, photos or localities?

Cheers,

Branko

2nd Oct 2017 14:55 UTCSteve Hardinger 🌟 Expert

In a formal chemistry publication, the reference for Joe Mineralcollector would read, "J. Mineralcollector, pers. comm." (pers. comm. = personal communication).

2nd Oct 2017 15:06 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

If you want to list their names and mindat homepage you could use the general html code for a link see - https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

user page:

https://www.mindat.org/user-XXXX.html

3rd Oct 2017 07:56 UTCClosed Account 🌟

@ Steve:

Yes, that is what I would do (and have done in other publications).

@ David

Thanks, I am aware of the basics of HTML/CSS/JavaScript (cf. my wife's homepage, written by me).

The question was: is there a way to do it like with minerals, photos or localities in Mindat Markup Language (MML) as described here?

From your answers I assume: No, there is not (but maybe there should?).

Cheers,

Branko

3rd Oct 2017 08:23 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

There should be a way in mindat markup, and I shall add it today!

3rd Nov 2017 14:17 UTCClosed Account 🌟

@ Jolyon

When will the today be over when you add this to MML?

3rd Nov 2017 15:03 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Sorry, have had other priorities but I will try to do it this weekends

6th Aug 2018 09:07 UTCClosed Account 🌟

@ Jolyon

any news?

6th Aug 2018 12:27 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Oops.

I did actually do this a while back but forgot to tell anyone that it was done.

<user id=1>Jolyon Ralph</user>

6th Aug 2018 17:50 UTCClosed Account 🌟

Thanks!

Cheers,

Branko