User talk:Jfponge

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Springtails
I see you've been adding info about springtails to the article about them. Could you please take a look at the article's talk page and see if you have anything to say about the taxonomy issue? Thanks, --Yerpo (talk) 15:25, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Altschuler et al.
Hi. I see someone finally tried to insert that fraudulent paper by Altschuler et al. (J. New York Entomol. Soc. 112(1):87–95, 2004) into the Springtail article. Are you aware of anything other than Janssens' website that rebuts it in print, or a retraction by the JNYES editors? That paper was an embarrassment to the entire scientific community, but since most of the exposure and condemnation took place online, it's very difficult to satisfy Wikipedia's policy requiring citations for those criticisms. One dedicated crank is all it takes to push the issue to treat that paper as if it were true (by insisting that the criticisms are not from reliable sources, even if one of them was a co-author on the paper in question!), a mistake which would do irreparable damage. Everyone in the scientific community knows that springtails are not parasites, but no one has ever imagined that they would have to PUBLISH a statement to that effect in order to counteract a fabrication such as Altschuler's; thanks to the way Wikipedia operates, we may need to find and incorporate such a published statement, hopefully citing and refuting this nonsense. Either that or we may be forced to sit on our hands as thousands of readers who come to Wikipedia for statements of fact are treated instead to lies. Sincerely, Dyanega (talk) 05:33, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Machilid authority?
Hi again. I have a question: you seem to know everyone who works on collembolans, but do you know who there might be that works with Machilidae? A student here has a research project on montane machilids in Nevada and Utah, but she has not yet found either a person or a definitive reference work to help her identify her specimens. Any revisionary studies or contact person information you might have would be appreciated. Thanks,

Journal titles
Hi, just letting you know that you don't actually need to italicize journal names like you did here. Using a template automatically italicizes the text included within the   field. By italicizing them, the result is actually that they are then wrongly not italicized.-- O BSIDIAN  †  S OUL  12:30, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help. I will try to remember that for the next time jfp 09:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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OrphanReferenceFixer: Help on reversion
Hi there! I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. Recently, you [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=776934166&diff=prev reverted] my fix to Soil.

If you did this because the references should be removed from the article, you have misunderstood the situation. Most likely, the article originally contained both  and one or more   referring to it. Someone then removed the  but left the , which results in a big red error in the article. I replaced one of the remaining  with a copy of the  ; I did not re-insert the reference to where it was deleted, I just replaced one of the remaining instances. What you need to do to fix it is to make sure you remove all instances of the named reference so as to not leave any big red error.

If you reverted because I made an actual mistake, please be sure to also correct any reference errors in the page so I won't come back and make the same mistake again. Also, please post an error report at User talk:AnomieBOT so my operator can fix me! If the error is so urgent that I need to be stopped, also post a message at User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/OrphanReferenceFixer. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 09:27, 24 April 2017 (UTC) If you do not wish to receive this message in the future, add  to your talk page.

jfp 14:06, 24 April 2017 (UTC) I understand. I apologize for the nuisance

Thanks, and a request
Hi - Thanks for your recent edits on the Soil page - some great references! I have recently worked on the Soil pH page, and have requested a review (Peer_review/Soil_pH/archive1). I would appreciate any comments. Regards, Alandmanson (talk) 12:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

jfp 14:02, 8 June 2017 (UTC) The page looks fine, indeed. Great!

Thanks! --Alandmanson (talk) 12:26, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Predatory open access
See predatory open access. These journals have no effective peer review, they publish based on payment not academic merit. Not all open access journals are predatory, but the ones I removed definitely are. It's an OMICS journal: not only have the FTC taken action against them for fraud, they are also banned form Wikipedia for citation spamming. Guy (Help!) 08:18, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Soil enzymes
Hi Jfponge. I have made a stub for this article. Not sure if you would have anything to add? I am a chemist and a keen gardener but this is far from my field of expertise! Meodipt (talk) 23:18, 30 December 2020 (UTC) Jfponge 09:35, 31 December 2020 (UTC)It's OK for me

Would you like to nominate Soil to be a "good article"?
Hello Jfponge,

As you can see I have split soil moisture from soil - any problems let me know.

If you want to try and get soil rated as a good article I would be happy to co-nominate if you would like me to do the donkey work with you providing the subject expertise (of which I have none).

Regards Chidgk1 (talk) 14:36, 19 April 2021 (UTC)


 * It's OK for me, the key point being to see clear links to main articles dealing with detail soil topics. For the rest, do as you want. Even though I have some expertise about soil biology I must admit that I am not an expert in wikipedia affairs (votes and so). So, yes to help you. Just let me know what I have to do. Until now my purpose was just to check and seek for sources (preferably freely available) for the numerous assessments previously done by other contributors, and add some more information issued from my personal knowledge of soil. When something was doubtful I replaced it by safe information or I added "citation needed". Until now this is just what I did on this page (I more deeply contributed to other pages, in particular Collembola). I know that more illustrations would be desirable, and a clearer presentation, with more subtitles and so on, but this is out of my skills, unfortunately. Jfponge 15:18, 19 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Hmm yes I think you are right that such a general article should be mostly summaries and links to main articles with more details. I have made one or 2 good articles before but never a general one like soil. So perhaps I will stick to my speciality instead. Mostly I am doing stuff related to the climate change project. So on reflection I think I will take our project off the talk page of soil but mark soil carbon and soil organic matter as high importance for the project. I read the first sentence of Collembola and was surprised they are not insects - thanks for that interesting fact. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:32, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Moder humus
Hello! As a fellow soil-science content editor, I am hoping you can help me. I am working on the lead paragraph for Draft:Moder_humus, trying to achieve a WP:NOTATEXTBOOK goal here. But I am stymied by my lack of working familiarity with the subject matter. I am excited by the comparatively higher zoological activity in particular with moders, I want to communicate that to the reader. Also hoping to use the article to connect moders to biodiversity, ecosystem health, endangered plant species, invasive earthworms, and whatever else are the popular issues that moders participate in. But I am getting lost in the L-F-H structure: Do we call out the zoo-active F layer in the lead paragraph? Is moder a humus type (not really, that's what F-L-H layers are, types of humus), or is it a floor cover type made up of several types of humus? I am confusing myself and it is keeping me from crafting the simple lead statement this article needs. Trolling for your thoughts. I will continue reading scientific articles until I can see a clear path through the terminology. I am probably closer than I think. -- Paleorthid (talk) 17:30, 3 September 2022 (UTC).


 * Hello! I am not surprised to see that you are afraid with terminology problems about moder. This was a hard task to tackle with that. Mull, moder, mor, and also amphi and tangel are the main humus systems (or humus types) we have described with several colleagues for terrestrial environments, trying to define them better than in former times. I suggest the following articles that will help you for creating the moder humus wikipage:
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46419751_Terrestrial_humus_forms_ecological_relevance_and_classification
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320848305_Humusica_1_article_1_Essential_bases_-_Vocabulary
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318658907_Humusica_1_article_4_Terrestrial_humus_systems_and_forms_-_Specific_terms_and_diagnostic_horizons
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247161342_Plant-soil_feedbacks_mediated_by_humus_forms_a_review
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222567430_Humus_forms_in_terrestrial_ecosystems_a_framework_to_biodiversity
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335751017_An_improved_classification_of_the_humus_systems_linking_concepts_and_field_practice
 * The best would be that you create the page at your convenience. Then I will improve it or correct it if needed. Is it OK for you?
 * Best wishes. JF Jfponge 07:28, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you! -- Paleorthid (talk) 22:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

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Linking to copyright violations
Prof. Ponge, please do not change references to add links to a shadow library. Per our policy WP:COPYLINK, "if you know or reasonably suspect that an external Web site is carrying a work in violation of copyright, do not link to that copy of the work without the permission of the copyright holder." Thanks,  Sandstein   18:25, 26 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I fully understand. I apologize for the nuisance to the copyright holder, although I am still convinced that Wikipedia should only refer to freely available sources, not those protected by a copyright. I personally think that Wikipedia is not prone to freely make the promotion of books or persons. Jfponge 08:28, 27 May 2024 (UTC)