User talk:CheeseburgerSmith

Ocean acidification
Hi CheeseburgerSmith. It's probably as easy to reply here as on my talkpage. In the first instance, as per the above, welcome to Wikipedia! And thanks for your well-sourced edits to the Ocean acidification article. By way of my explanation for my editing, I thought that what you'd added was good, but that it disrupted the flow and meaning (as I see it) of the section on upwelling of ocean water onto the continental shelf. The processes that you mentioned are important, although they form part of the natural background of the ecosystem against which the studied anthro effects were quantified. Anyway, as you'd created a good block of text, and I didn't want to lose it, I moved it down to its own paragraph and tweaked to form continuous text. I hope that the end result is still OK.

As an aside, a less important reason for me moving the text was to avoid unintentional dilution of the description of ocean acidification. In the past, this page - like other climate change-related pages; although probably less so - has attracted the attention of climate denier editors, who have watered-down, deleted or added unsourced inaccuracies to the article. So I'm alert (probably over-alert) to any added material - even good material like your's - that could complicate the readability of the article. I know from my own scientific writing that it's very easy to turn something straightforward and easy to understand into something much less so by adding qualifications, footnotes and "however, ..." statements. I find breaking out such qualifications tends to make the whole text more readable. However (!), I appreciate that the mileage of others may vary on this point.

Anyway, I hope the above helps explain what I was up to. And, again, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you find editing here fun as well as fulfilling. Cheers, —P LUMBAGO 09:06, 22 July 2021 (UTC)