User talk:Powell1222

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Content forking
You have created two articles: Farmland degradation and Farmland Degradation in the USA that largely duplicate content that already exists at land degradation. Creating an article that duplicates an existing topic is known as content forking, and is discouraged.

Farmland degradation may be a special case of land degradation, in that the land being degraded is farmland, but that does not seem a sufficient reason to start an entirely new article on the topic. Rather, I would suggest adding a section within the land degradation article that covers any topics that are specific to farmland degradation. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:39, 4 March 2013 (UTC)