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Just to let you know: your contributions are highly appreciated! I work on butterflies and moths myself, but are glad someone is picking up writing about other African Insects. Keep it up! Ruigeroeland (talk) 14:06, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

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Moved articles
I've moved both the drafts you created to your own user space, with the User: prefix. They're at:
 * User:Alandmanson/notes on humus
 * User:Alandmanson/draft article on SOM

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Thanks much

 * Agree! -- Paleorthid (talk) 17:46, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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Soil organic matter
Improving article content related to SOC and SOM is an area of interest for me. This is an area of understanding that is going through a massive paradigm shift as researchers work to validate assumptions on humification. I don't believe this scientific revolution of new ideas in SOM is widely recognized. I appreciate your recent edit summed as "humus is not always highly stable". Perhaps this is indicative that you are aware of these new ideas such as blogged about yesterday at http://www.gardenmyths.com/humus-does-not-exist-says-new-study/, commenting on the conclusion that humification does not involve the stepped reduction in molecular size to increasingly resistant/persistent forms of carbon that we thought it did. I follow the work of these the two authors, Lehmann and Kleber, of the Nature article, can vouch for them as world class scientists working on important questions. Lehmann was a co-author on Mao 2012 which really dug deep into the charcoal derived fraction of SOC.

Mao 2012 resonates with the 2001 statement by a Canadian research team: a considerable change in conceptual understanding (a paradigm shift) appears imminent

I look forward to your article improvements! -- Paleorthid (talk) 17:42, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks much for you work on Plant Nutrients
You've done excellent work on plant nutrition. I meant to get back to that article but I am easily distracted by shinny objects and loud noises. Zedshort (talk) 17:06, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

four-coloured bushshrike
careful on four-coloured/gorgeous bushshrike. not agreement on split......keep as four-coloured with gorgeous as a subspecies......Pvmoutside (talk) 21:11, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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What larks?
Please can you have a look at the last Calandrella link in Larks Birdlife-HBW August2017? It's pointing to a disambiguation page. I guess it should be Mongolian short-toed lark Calandrella dukhunensis but it's not my subject area, so I'd rather someone more knowledgeable fixed it please. Thanks, Certes (talk) 16:30, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the catch! You are correct, it is dukhunensis. Alandmanson (talk) 16:41, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

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I am a regular contributor of the birds by location section, an 'atlas project' in which users can literally browse bird species according to their geographical presence worldwide (retrievable from the BirdLife International website) via relevant sub-categories, many of which correspond to environmental (e.g. "birds of the miombo") as well as political (e.g. "birds of Southern Africa") geographical regions. e.g. the Birds of South America cat. previously included a random and incomplete list of bird entries, but has since been ammended and improved, whereby now : birds with a pan-range of presence are listed on the home page, while many birds' ranges of presence tend to correspond to an environmental geographical region, to which they are particularly confined to ; e.g birds of the Northern Andes etc. All in all, the project now allows for a clearer, well-structured and fathomable browsing of birds according to their geographical presence...

I am currently implicated in a debate against several other contributors who claim that such refined environmental sub-regional categories are needless and should be removed and merged into their political parent categories (e.g. whereby birds typically present throughout the miombo region would be upmerged into the vaguer and broader, less relevant "birds of Souther Africa" category): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_February_3#Category:Birds_of_the_Miombo. Despite my clarifications and counter-arguments, I seem unable to convince them otherwise.

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Orthetrum stemmale
Hi Alan. Warwick Tarboton seems to have authenticated this specimen from South Africa, yet it is not listed in my copy of his book The Dragonflies of South Africa. Can you explain this please as you reference the book on the page List of Odonata species of South Africa. Perhaps I've got an old edition. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:53, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yip, see https://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/Dragonfly%20Book.html for the 2015 book - I see that an ebook is now available. We have seen huge advances in SA dragons over the past 15 years! Alandmanson (talk) 13:52, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * See also: http://addo.adu.org.za/index.php?taxon_id=80600 Alandmanson (talk) 15:01, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi
Just came from the FB post on the Hymenopterists' group, wonder if you were at Wikimania in Cape Town about a year back. I was there and also managed to find some time out to meet Les Underhill with whom I see you have worked! Shyamal (talk) 06:05, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi - Nope, I was not at Wikimania (I live at the other end of the country), but happy that you could visit and meet guys like Les - Cape Town, its people and the Cape mountains have a special place in my heart! --Alandmanson (talk) 07:48, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Permission to use photograph
HI,

I am giving a presentation over Zn usage in plants and I would like permission to use your picture of maize with a zinc deficiency for my slides. It is a lovely picture. My email address is wildersl@missouri.edu.

Thanks you,

Stacy Wilder 67.6.37.94 (talk) 17:20, 27 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Stacy - Yes, please feel free to use any of my images on Wikipedia.Alandmanson (talk) 06:03, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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