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HiNoboru (a group admin) says:
18 Feb 09 - PLEASE USE THE TAGS BELOW FOR TAGGING YOUR PHOTOS BEFORE YOU POST IT IN WoM! THANK YOU!
Welcome to World of Minerals (WoM), a new group has born and welcome all collectors and enthusiasts to join!
歡迎來到礦石世界（WoM），這是一個新的群組，歡迎所有礦石收藏家和熱衷於礦石的朋友們加入！

About World of Minerals

This group is for Minerals, Fossils, Gems around the world but only quality photos will be welcome. One of the main objective of WoM is to identify specimen and locality, while making the pool more searchable according to country, specimen, locality, and etc.

WoM will be focus on quality not quantity, if any of the guidelines will cause you difficulties then WoM is not the right group for you. Respect the group... respect the members!

Look at the minerals need to be identifyLook at the minerals has been identifiedLook at the minerals that has been removed from the pool

Look at the minerals that has been nominatedLook at the minerals that has been awardedLook at the minerals that has been geotagged     

Submit your photos of unidentified specimen, and let's see if anyone else can identify it. Alternatively, if you wanna help and share your knowledge check out the specimens which haven't been identified yet.

World of Minerals - View this group's most interesting photos on Flickriver


If you commenting on some photo in the pool then do not forget to copy & paste the following code as below:

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/worldofminerals/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1431/buddyicons/463074@N21.jpg?1190262423" width="20"></a> <i>Seen it in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/worldofminerals/">WoM</a></i>
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It will appeared as:

Seen it in WoM



TAGGING GUIDELINES

Please read and follow these tagging guidelines correctly before posting your photos to the group pool!

Just tag both WorldofMinerals and WoM:unidentified if you wanted to let others identify your specimen. Please do NOT start a new topic in discussion regarding identification.

Remember to TAG your photo
Before you add your unidentified specimen in the pool, tag it with WoM:unidentified.
If your specimen is already identified, tag it with THE TAGS BELOW before you add it in the pool.
Please remember to completely tag your photo, otherwise untagged photo will be moderate and will be removed from the pool. Photo removed from the pool will be tagged WoM:removed by moderator, you can always add it back in the pool after you had your photo tagged.

If your specimen is successfully identified, replace the WoM:identified tag with the complete tags as below.

The tagging should make it easy to find which are yet to be identified and prevent them from getting lost in the archives of the group.

Respond to potential identifications
When someone leaves a suggested ID, let them know you've read it by responding. If you don't agree, please say so and at least give a reason. You may also wanted to tag WoM-idby:[username] to indicate the person who successfully identified your specimen.

Example Photo and tags:


This is a fluorite crystal set on a barite matrix, so I tagged it with fluorite and barite.
Rainbow Brick
WorldofMinerals [x] <<< (the group name)
WoM:identified [x] <<< (defining whether it is identified or unidentified)
WoM-specimen:Fluorite [x] <<< (mineral, only one mineral name per line)
WoM-specimen:Barite [x] <<< (you may add as many lines as you want)
WoM-locality:Minerva #1 Mine, Hardin County, Illinois [x] <<< (locality e.g. mine, county/city, state/province)
WoM-country:United States [x] <<< (locality country)
WoM-size:11.3x8x5.1cm [x] <<< (size of the specimen [WxDxH])
WoM-other:Defunct Locality [x] <<< (other information regarding the specimen)
WoM-idby:HiNoboru [x] <<< (credit to the person who identified your specimen or your name/username)
WoM-collection:HiNoburu [x] <<< (my own collection, so i tag my username)
WoM:geotagged [x] <<< (add this tag if you geotagged your specimen locality on the map)

Please add additional tag for Gems:
WoM-weight:2.88ct [x] <<< (the weight of the gems in carat)

For more convenience, you may cut & paste the below tags for tagging your photo
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WorldofMinerals , WoM:identified , WoM-specimen:Fluorite , WoM-specimen:Barite , "WoM-locality:Minerva #1 Mine, Hardin County, Illinois" , "WoM-country:United States" , WoM-size:11.3x8x5.1cm , "WoM-other:Defunct Locality" , "WoM-idby:HiNoboru" , WoM-collection:HiNoburu
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note: you need to modify your own specimen details on the tags above or you could use the blank tags below to fill up your details

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WorldofMinerals ,
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"WoM-idby:" ,
WoM-collection:
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POSTING GUIDELINES

1. Please make sure only clear shot of each specimen: macros with bokeh are beautiful but are harder to identify, and multiple shots from different angle might help the identification easier.

2. Do not post unidentified specimens on the discussion thread, thread related to such topic will be deleted. To ask for identification, just tag your photo with WoM:unidentified and add it into the pool.

3. All photos must have an official WoM tags. Photos without a tag will be removed from the pool. You are welcome to add the proper tag and resubmit your photo.

4. Please remember to place double quotes around the tag if it contained spaces so Flickr doesn't think it's multiple tags because of the spaces.

5. Submit excellent images which showcase your minerals collection.

6. Please post photos which are in relevant to minerals specimen, NO others please.

7. All entries not conforming with the posting guidelines will be removed. If your photo has been removed, it is most likely because you didn't indicate your specimen was WoM:unidentified or incomplete tag were used. Simply re-tag and resubmit.

Posting Restrictions
Each group member is limited to five images per day. If you have more than five specimens to be identified, post the first five and then the next five on the next day and so on. This is to avoid that members who posted one or two images are not lost in the wilderness!



NOMINATE GUIDELINES

1. Only identified photo with complete WoM tags in the pool can be nominated

2. Every members have the rights to only nominate once to a single photo, please do not nominate your own photo!

3. Please nominate the owner collection only, specimen of other person collection or museum specimen do not valid for the nomination. Look out for the WoM-collection: tag

4. There is 3 important points to nominate a photo:
i) Completely Tagged
ii) Specimen Quality
iii) Photography technique

5. Please do not misuse the nomination, do not nominate incomplete tagged photo!

6. Add it as your favorite!

To send a nomination:

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<b>CONGRATULATION!</b>
Your photo has been nominated for the <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/worldofminerals/discuss/72157602092882965/">WorldofMinerals Award</a></b>
This photo will be awarded after 5 nomination
Please tag <b><i>WoM:nominated</b></i> in your photo
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note: please do not modify the code, simply cut and paste to nominate the photo

The nomination should appeared like this on your comment:

WoM:nominated
CONGRATULATION!
Your photo has been nominated for the WorldofMinerals Award
This photo will be awarded after 5 nominations
Please tag WoM:nominated in your photo



AWARD GUIDELINES

1. If your photo has been received 5 nominations, post it in the WoM Awards topic.
- to post your nominated photo, go to your photo and click on "ALL SIZES" and select the "Available sizes: Small". Copy the html code and post it on WoM Awards.

2. We will be honored to award you the WoM Award (A Golden Tetrahedron Crystal with The Blue Spiral) in your comment and tag WoM:awarded on your photo.

3. Please do not discuss over in WoM Awards, open a new topic for discussion regarding awards.

The award should appeared like this:

This specimen won the WorldofMinerals Award

Additional Information

This group is public This is a public group.

  • View the group rules.
  • Members can post 5 things to the pool each day.
  • Accepted media types:
    • Photos
    • Video
  • Accepted content types:
    • Photos / Videos
  • Accepted safety levels:
    • Safe