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Improving Mindat.orgObituaries
20th Oct 2015 17:03 UTCErik Vercammen Expert
20th Oct 2015 18:14 UTCBob Harman
20th Oct 2015 19:06 UTCReiner Mielke Expert
20th Oct 2015 19:44 UTCDon Swenson
Bob,
You are SPOT ON!! The mineral world has its giants and they deserve FULL recognition. There are MANY (somewhat) lesser lights who also deserve their 15 minutes of fame. A separate thread makes perfect sense to me.
20th Oct 2015 20:45 UTCRui Nunes 🌟 Expert
20th Oct 2015 22:08 UTCSteve Federico
20th Oct 2015 22:13 UTCMatt Neuzil Expert
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> An obituarie here on Mindat ??? I think that this
> issue is somewhat morbid, isn't it?
I don't think it'd be much different than looking up a president or someone on wikipedia or somewhere to find what year they were born and the year they passed. A few lines could be added as to their collecting expertise, where they specialized in or where their shop was.
Maybe there is some way to have it a bit like a mini database and have a clickable link to where members have posted. People can always go back and read what stories members have told about the collectors or mindat members who have passed.
Just look at the page for benavidesite. It reads as an obituary. No one has brought that up though. http://www.mindat.org/min-623.html
23rd Oct 2015 11:44 UTCErik Vercammen Expert
26th Oct 2015 16:46 UTCMatt Courville
28th Jan 2016 04:19 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
The Mineralogical Record has a biographical section of noted mineral people on its website (both alive and deceased) via its label archive.
No reason why we couldn't develop something similar for those that have passed and to include those for whom minerals are named after (alive or deceased).
Those of us alive, without minerals named after us, would of course still have our home page to provide relevant info!
Perhaps two sub sections under a heading of Mineralogical history:
(a) Persons after whom minerals have been named; and
(b) Deceased members of the Mindat community
Cheers
Keith
28th Jan 2016 14:32 UTCEd Clopton 🌟 Expert
What to call it? Something euphemistic like "Passings" or "Passages", perhaps; or if the scope were broadened to include retirements and appointments to major positions, perhaps "Milestones". Myself, I would see nothing wrong with "Obituaries", since it is immediately recognizable to someone searching for that kind of information, even if most of the listings fell short of proper biographical obituaries.
And no, it's not a morbid subject; death is just a brief punctuation mark at the end of life. The point of an obituary is to reflect on and appreciate the length and breadth of a person's life, not to dwell on the moment of death.
28th Jan 2016 15:04 UTCJamison K. Brizendine 🌟 Expert
It also might save some embarrassment for somebody if they tried to send a private message to Rock Currier or Alan Plante (another valued contributor to Mindat who passed away) and expected a reply.
28th Jan 2016 23:46 UTCDoug Daniels
30th Jan 2016 16:30 UTCVandall Thomas King Manager
30th Jan 2016 17:44 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
There are some issues to think about - for example who does someone ask when wanting permission to use a photo uploaded by a deceased member? In the case of Rock Currier the answer is us as mindat.org will be looking after them.
Jolyon
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