User talk:Yeomansplowchris1

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Its great to have a Yeomans in Wikipedia. Hopefully we can get a great article on the subject produced.

I note in Deforestation that you claim that overnight a stable forests relesase exactly the same quantity of carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. I'm not an expert on this but it does seem to be a rather large claim which contridicts what I've read elsewhere "Plants also emit CO2 during respiration, but on balance they are net sinks of CO2." Carbon_dioxide#Biology and Carbon dioxide sink. To leave the statment there I would need a much better reference. --Pfafrich 11:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment. As a rule comments should go on a users talk page rather than thier used page, i.e. User_talk:Pfafrich rather than User:Pfafrich.

As far as long term CO2 of a mature forest, it does seem to be quite a complex subject. Their will be a lot of carbon stored in a forest which would be released when its deforested. Quite where the stored carbon goes seems to be complex, some will go into animals especially the insects which take part in the decomposition process. Eventually some of this will end up in the soil or be washed out the sea. Probably its just the word exactly I'd question. --Pfafrich 13:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Soil correcting salinity[edit]

Can you confirm that the article is not a direct copy and paste/copyright violation: Soil correcting salinity -localzuk 13:31, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, ok. I think you need to do some work on it. Wikipedia is not really the place for original research - so all the information needs to be turned into an encyclopedic article - as it reads like an essay at the moment. -localzuk 14:26, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem[edit]

Please read the Wikipedia information on copyright problems. As you noted in the Soil correcting salinity article, the content contains an "extract from Priority One". If you would like to use sections of the book in the article, note the process for releasing that information to the public domain. In addition, an article that is largely an essay from a book is not encyclopedic, as noted above by Localzuk. Please revisit this article. Without the copyright issue addressed, it will need to be tagged as a copyright violation. —ERcheck @ 15:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Soil definition[edit]

I reverted your edit to the Soil WikiProject's working definition of soil, and posted the following here for discussion:

The original:
- Soil as in the earthy material on surface of the land that is subjected to weathering and other soil forming factors.
Your revision, which I reverted:
- Soil as in the geological material on land surfaces that has become friable by weathering and subsequently modified by biological activity so as to contain discernible quantities of soil organic matter. The process is described as pedogenesis.

I appreciate the effort to help out, but still find the original to be a better definition, and one that has served the project well up to this point. Why do we need to change it? -- Paleorthid 04:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the change as essential clarification. Soil can be formed without weathering simply by biological processes. Subsoil, not soil results from weathering. A material cannot be defined as soil without containing soil organic matter such as humus or humic and fulvic acids. "Other soil forming processes" can be just sunshine and rain and is insufficient. The essential nature of soils and soil organic matter are integral concepts in my book Priority One. But I'll leave it to you. Yeomansplowchris1 02:24, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]