Talk:Microbial ecology

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Untitled
I'm going to try and expand this entry over the next few days, please bear with me, and your comments are welcome !--PatVanHove 21:15, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Model pages
Going to procrastinate by chipping away at this over the next few months. Can someone point me to a good model for structuring this? Estevezj (talk) 07:37, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Did I say months? I meant years.— James Estevez (talk) 00:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Merger proposal
There's a similar article called Environmental microbiology. I propose that the two articles be merged. CatPath (talk) 16:52, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I did some cursory reading and I can't find anything authoritative that states this explicitly, but my sense is that environmental microbiology (EM) can be thought of as a subset of microbial ecology (ME). In my understanding EM takes a more physiological or biogeochemical perspective, where ME aims to include that information within a broader view that incorporates the diversity, distribution, and abundance of microbes within a given ecosystem. I think EM should be incorporated into this article using Summary style—and any information in EM that would fit better here moved over as well—rather than merging the two.— James Estevez (talk) 00:47, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * That's fine, except there's a serious problem with the EM article. Most of it was copy-pasted from the cited references, and the editor who created the article refuses to go through the proper channels to document that he/she had permission to copy/paste for the cited books, though he/she claims that permission was granted. The EM article needs to be deleted and rewritten from scratch. I won't delete the EM article until someone gets a chance to insert a summary of the article over here.  But that needs to be done soon since articles with this sort of copyright violation are supposed to be deleted immediately. CatPath (talk) 23:36, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * There's no need to delay any further on my account. I have a local copy, but I'm not going to attempt a direct merge on account of the COPYVIO.— James Estevez (talk) 01:56, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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