User talk:Brimba

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Hello, Brimba, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  MPF 09:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Banana

Nice work on this article! One thing I've noticed for a while, the 'Pests and diseases' section and the 'Extinction' section should really be merged as they cover the same ground; I don't know enough about the subject to do it confidently, would you like to tackle it? - thanks, MPF 09:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Have a good trip in Honduras. I don't think anyone will revert good work, but banana is one of the more frequently vandalised articles on wikipedia, so keep a check on the page's history to look out for silly additions and deletions at the start of editing (if you need to revert a vandal, click on the edition in the history immediately preceeding the vandalism, then click on edit that version and save with no changes, with 'revert vandalism' in the edit summary) - MPF 17:21, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Brimba - thanks for the note; I'll take a look through, tropical agriculture is certainly a subject that's sadly missing on wikipedia (though alas not something I know very much about!). If you don't want it to get mixed up with discussions with other wiki-users on this page, you can make a sub-page for it at something like User:Brimba/Tropical agriculture, until you think it is ready for its own page - MPF 22:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical agriculture

Hi Brimba - thanks for the note, sorry I didn't have time to look it over before; I've given it a quick copyedit (things like wikipedia uses the IUPAC standard spelling for Aluminium, and added one or two extra links) but not made any major changes (not least because I don't know a great deal about the subject!). There are perhaps one or two general points (e.g. some of the fertiliser details) that might be better moved over to the agriculture article (which says very little about them!) as they're not unique to tropical agric. - MPF 10:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Permacutlure

Hi. I noticed your contributions to the permaculture site. Can you provide some evidence for the claim that growing trees is more energy efficient? Sholto Maud 13:50, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi Brimba. I'm sorry it doesn't give you pleasure to agree with me. Life is supposed to be fun hey. Maybe I was a bit too hardcore about it all, but I thought it was really important to try and get some of the details out there, and flesh out the detials about the energy efficiency of permaculture in terms of input and output. I'm not going to have the time to contribute to the permaculture site, so I encourage you to continue the clean of up what's there. Some good ideas and research came out of the discussion it would be great if you and others can bring it together. I appreciated your comments re:ethics, and think that permaculture does have an important role to play. Have a good Xmas, and thankyou for having the patience to discuss things. Best. Sholto Maud 07:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Quality

Just before I take off, i noticed your contribution to the Quality site, and thought you might be interested in the energy quality page that I've been trying to do justice to without much luck. But it's a start nonetheless ... you'll notice other links to Odum etc. etc. etc. I think there is something in the link between permaculture, quality, energy quality, Odum (et. al.), metaphysics of quality etc. To suggest links in an article would probably be OR though. I'd be interested in your thoughts. Regards, Sholto Maud 12:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Multipurpose tree

I've restored the article. Please expand it and use the sources you listed to me to improve the article to give context and importance of the term. Thanks. Harro5 07:54, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about the deletion. Hopefully you will become a valued contributor to Wikipedia in the future - you obviously know your stuff! Harro5 07:59, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] mrcolj

Hey, I don't know where to respond to your question, but it's here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mrcolj#Benson_Institute

[edit] Underutilized crops

I think we might have a common interest in seeing underutilized crops used to provide food in developing nations. I've added a few odds and ends to your Moringa oleifera article, for example. I've put together a category called Category:Underutilized crops (that's been CfD'ed and may therefore turn into a list). Perhaps we could combine forces a bit, and develop the general concept in WP a bit? Waitak 08:12, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anchor baby

Thanks for the note. The trouble stems from "birth tourism", which is almost identical in practice but with different motives. Perhaps we shouldn't try to cover both in the same topic paragraph. Rather than stretching the one term to fit both uses, maybe we should split the birth tourism topic off into a seperate article? There are other sources available for it, I'm sure. What do you think? Cheers, -Will Beback 00:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notifications About Your Edits

You have removed links that I added to the sustainability external links page. Can you please tell me why? mkdriscoll 17:00, 16 May 2006

[edit] Re:71.253.57.234

Yeah i know, he has edited the the same pages under the ip that i have a dispute with him at, i have loged it on WP:WQA, though i am not sure how much if anything will come of it. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 02:09, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Noted, the user has admited as such on the same page. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:26, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Panem

Thanks for the heads up. I've listed the article at AFD. [1] --cholmes75 16:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hate Groups

Well PoV is PoV, one group, MEChA's national constitution starts out: "Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlán must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlán."

So you can see where some think this is a hate group. Thanks Dominick (TALK) 15:30, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Humm, had to change my vote again after what you placed on my talk page. I am so use to seeing Penam writing horribly one sided stuff, it never accrued me he may be correct once in a while, or that he might use a valid source. Thanks for the clarification. Brimba 15:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Tony Atwater.jpg

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We just need something like what is done at Image:Webelongtogether.jpg or Image:Starship troopers2.jpg. --Rory096 07:07, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Tony Atwater

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[edit] Moringa oleifera

Hiya, Brimba. I've reverted your revision on the above. The image that the last poster removed had been removed from Wikicommons, hence the removal from this article. I'd love to replace it with a different one, but in the meantime.... --Waitak 15:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can you take a look?

Could you pleae take a look at the unilateral actions of User:Psychohistorian? He has redirected and merged Illegal immigration to the United States onto United States immigration debate without consensus, and is selectively deleting content that is well researched and sourced. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 16:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Stormfront. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox.

You have commited an act of vandalism by blanking part of an article. Stick to the Facts 05:21, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I should have used the template for blanking, not adding nonsense. Stick to the Facts 05:23, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sock/meat puppetry

You have been reported for suspected sock/meat puppetry. Stick to the Facts 05:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Development stuff

Hi Brimba,

I noticed your good work on Cook stove. Note that Smokeless and wood conserving stoves covers a similar topic and I've proposed a merge between the two. Your thoughts on the preferred article name would be appreciated.

You may be interested to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject International development. Also there's Appropedia (a wiki for non-encyclopedic material on development & sustainability issues). --Singkong2005 talk 04:04, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strange Close & Re-List

The Afd that you voted on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James W. Walter has been closed and relisted by an Admin at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James W. Walter (second nomination). Before re-listing, the vote was 19 delete, 5 keep. Morton devonshire 21:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

 For offering your opinion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lori Klausutis (third nomination). The article was deleted. "The quality of mercy is not strain'd . . . It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice." ~ Wm. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV Scene 1. Morton devonshire 22:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fact Tag

I noticed that you deleted a sentence that was marked with a {{fact}} tag with the statement "Rm statement that has been tagged for verification for over 7 days." It doesn't bother me that the sentence was removed but I was curious about the over 7 days statement as I've never heard or read about this policy. It doesn't say anything on the fact tag page or any linking pages that I could find. Could you clarify as I find this policy quite odd and a very limited timeframe for many articles that don't recieve much attention. Morphh (talk) 03:04, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Checkuser

You might also try asking Psychohistorian. He might simply admit it. -Will Beback 19:21, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Good choice. Some points aren't worth pressing. -Will Beback 11:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Fee sites

WP:RS doesn't prohibit the use of sites that charge fees. Many newspapers and journals charge to view their archives, yet they are excellent sources. On the other hand, WP:EL does discourage linking to pay sites. I think the theory is that ELs are not necessary, just extra information,so there is less of a reason to promote commercial ventures. -Will Beback 22:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anderson Cooper revert

Thanks for that. It didn't show up in my Watchlist. And by the way, the vandal is apparently at Stetson University in Florida. Surely he/she has homework to do!Mowens35 18:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chemtrail theory page

Chemtrail_theory

What is the deal with completely deleting my entry out of that article without a good explaination. There are already many links in the article that source things. I don't think it would be appropriate to source every sentence. Then what would the purpose of wikipedia be? I see many other edit histories of that article that are attacked as if somebody is trying to censor a controversial topic rather than make a more suitable article. Somebody actually took the time to do all the google searches sourced in my image and claim it's a possible copyright infringement when the images were taken from public domain and that I'm supposed to go through some lenthy process to prove why it should stay. This sounds like a guilty until proven innocent situation. Still, just because you don't like the topic is no reason to attack my contributions. (Bart80 09:08, 12 November 2006 (UTC))


[edit] Merge Tag

Hello, I noticed that you removed the merge tags form the econ growth pages. If you look at these pages, you will see that they are very much alike (first few paragraph are word for word.) I left them there because I wanted people to comment on my decision. Currently I have much work, but I will merge them as soon as I have a day to devote to it (I have never done it before, so I want to have some time.) I think it would be cool if you added the merge tags back and actually expressed your opinion on the merge in the respective talk. Take a look, and you will see that merging is defenetly right. Thanks and have a good one,

Brusegadi 02:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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