User talk:Forestecology

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Star  Mississippi  02:03, 6 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Star Mississippi! Yes, I am one of the researchers on this Smithsonian ForestGEO plot. We are beginning to release as much information about this forest and the forest ecology findings to the public domain as we can. These old-growth forests are rather rare in the western USA, and we hope people will be able to learn more about them. So, all of my edits would only be of a factual nature (backed up by the citations). In terms of employer, mine is Utah State University. I don't get (nor do I ever expect to get) any compensation for edits and contributions - I only get paid for teaching and research (actually publishing peer-reviewed papers). If you have suggestions, I would *really* be responsive to anything. Forestecology (talk) 02:25, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The information you added to your userpage is helpful. Do you have any connection with Cloyd11, who created the draft you edited?
 * Please just ask if you have any other questions. Happy to help. Star   Mississippi  02:42, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Star Mississippi. Cloyd11 is the uncle of a postdoc in our department. I have heard that he is a long-standing contributor to Wikipedia and understands the proper procedure and formatting for creating topics. The postdoc and I sent him a draft, and he edited and uploaded it. I seems that it would be very difficult to create a page as a new user. Forestecology (talk) 02:52, 6 March 2023 (UTC)