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"Rock" does not redirect here. I propose that someone edit that out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.148.72.66 (talk) 13:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC) Dwayne The Rock Johnson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.113.223.78 (talk) 16:34, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Rock (geology)" does direct here, and it's customary to give the article title in boldface in the lead sentence. The disambiguation term is awkward, though we could rephrase the lead sentence to make it immediately clear we're talking about a rock in geology. I'll do that. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 00:43, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to find out about simple little stones, the tiny things you see lying around on paths when you go for a walk, but simple little stones aren't discussed here even though stones redirect to this page, you seem only to be discussing rocks, not little stones. How are little stones formed? Could you please discuss little stones here too, or have a page about little stones. Thank you. 77.98.196.38 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:24, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a little late, but you appear to be looking for Cobble (geology) my dear IP address. I've added it to the linked pages for you ^_^--Licks-rocks (talk) 20:01, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Vsmith, why have you set the font size of the text in the "See also" section of this article to 90% of default text size (using the "small=yes" parameter in the "Div col" template)? Why not use default size? GeoWriter (talk) 16:31, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

hmm ... I was going for columns and didn't even notice the smaller text size. Feel free to change it. Vsmith (talk) 18:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have changed the text size to default. GeoWriter (talk) 14:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance of moving the article to stone to get rid of the ugly parenthetical disambiguator? --General Vicinity (talk) 09:07, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not really. "Rock" is the term used almost universally in geology for the concept. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 13:57, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. "Rock" is the proper term. Retired/former geologist here. That absurd disambig thing could be redone/tightened ...