User talk:Chris Vane

User Organic Geochemistry at BGS: I see you are new to Wikipedia and are trying to add content to the encyclopedia documents on mushrooms and wood decay topics. I found your addition today on the shiitake page under "Decay processes" to contain sections that appear to be plagiarism, such as (^ text below removed) Please review WP:PLAG and WP:MOS. Also, Wikipedia is sensitive about content written for specialists or experts in a scientific field. I find your section under Shiitake on wood decay processes to be outside general reader interests, so am reverting it. Please review WP:NOTJOURNAL.--Zefr (talk) 16:53, 13 January 2015 (UTC)


 * ^ Decay processes


 * Shiitake Mushrooms have been used to investigate the effect of fungal decay on hard woods (4,5). The purpose of these studies was, in part, to better understand the degradation of various chemicals such as lignins and how the elemental composition of wood changed with fungal attack but also to ascertain how long the wood needs to be decayed for before it would make a viable organic fertiliser and compost.
 * As a type of white-rot fungi, Shiitake mushrooms should be able to produce manganese peroxidase (which acts as a catalyst) and protein laccase (which directly oxidises lignin).  These are two of the main enzymes involved in the breakdown of lignin and so are good indicators of the fungi’s ability to degrade these compounds. Analysis of the extracellular fluid of shiitake mycelium showed that these mushrooms have a high concentration of both enzymes.

I have also seen you are not following WP:CITE to use existing templates for your references. By not using these templates, your references will need to be edited by other editors, causing extra work when this is a simple process you can follow yourself. Thanks. --Zefr (talk) 16:57, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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I noticed your username that seems to indicate this account is part of a class and that it's likely shared. Accounts should not be for a group, nor are such names permitted, but rather each individual should have their own account (WP:ISU). If this is part of a class, I highly suggest going over to the Education program page especially here to see how instructors should be setting up a class here if they editing Wikipedia as part of that class. The folks there try to be pretty helpful with instructors in making sure things go smoothly. I'm happy to try to address any clarifications you might need too. Kingofaces43 (talk) 17:19, 13 January 2015 (UTC)