User talk:Brimbą

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

Loser!
Hah! You've been blocked!