Talk:Gembone

References, infobox and controvery

I've just added a bunch of references about this topic, many around the controversy surrounding the collection and use of agatised dinosaur bones as jewellry. I attempted to find legitimate sources of information about the mineral content of the bones, but was unsuccessful.

As there has been a US Supreme Court decision stating that these bones are not gems/minerals, and there is no one set type of agatisation that the bones undergo, neither the rock nor the mineral infobox fit here. Therefore, I added an infobox for fossils. There is not much to be added to the infobox, but there is also no scientifically measured mineral information, so the other infoboxes would be completely empty.

I realise this may be controversial for those who use this material in jewellry making, or who collect it, but scientifically-speaking, it is a fossil and I could find no evidence of anyone arguing otherwise. Anfornum (talk) 12:19, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

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Requested move 16 August 2024

Opal Plesiosaur

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: redirected to Fossil#Fossilization processes. The existing title was identified as failing WP:RECOGNIZABLE, and participants expressed concern about whether it was even a notable topic distinct from Fossil#Fossilization processes – with the result being a consensus for redirecting this article, and merging any useful content into the relevant sections of Fossil. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 16:06, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

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Gembone → Agatized dinosaur bone – "Gembone" is not the WP:COMMONNAME, indeed it is so rare-to-nonexistent that (although it is a clever portmanteau of "gemstone" and "bone"), it is not a "recognizable" or "natural" name, the criteria for an article title; indeed, it may be a Wikipedian invention: AFAICT, the term "gembone" is not used in any books (academic or otherwise), and it is mentioned [as an alternate name of "agatized dinosaur bone"] in only one article [reprinted in two places] listed on Google Scholar, which is from 2015, years after this article's 2010 creation. In contrast, "agatized dinosaur bone" is used in dozens of books (mostly scholarly books and governmental- or museum- reports), and half a dozen academic papers, going back decades before Wikipedia existed; it appears to be the common, natural and recognizable title. (Note: as I only considered the relative commonness of the names listed in the article, it is possible that some other name which I did not know to search for is even more common.) -sche (talk) 17:00, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Redirect to Fossil#Fossilization processes, Gembone is clearly a wiki creation, but "agatized dinosaur bone" is much too narrow a name for this type of fossil as circumscribed in the article. Opalization, pyritization etc are also included in this, and its far from limited to dinosaurs, with mineral replaced fossils coming from all sorts of ages and creatures (looking at the opalized antler on my desk).--Kevmin § 18:39, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

The lead image is NOT of a dinosaur in fact, and is not agatized. Its an opalized skeleton of a Plesiosaur.--Kevmin § 18:41, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Good point about agatization not being the only process. If the fact that this article is still very small after 14 years is a sign that there is not much more to be said about this topic than what little is in the article now, then merging anything of value here (such as the photo and the note that some species have been identified from mineralized fossils) over to Fossil makes sense. -sche (talk) 21:10, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

• Redirect to Fossil#Fossilization processes per Kevmin. This article seems to mostly rehash the fossilization process already described in the aforementioned article. ArkHyena (talk) 00:27, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

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