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Emergy, etc

You posted your comment on my talk page, instead of User:24.159.243.21, the one with the vendetta against you. I was able to convince him that these were real things. My doctoral advisor was a student of Odum's - I'm the last person who would be critical of this stuff. Guettarda 02:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Truth is, I am not an ecosystem ecologist, not of Odum's school in that sense at all. I will keep an eye on the articles, but you need to vote Keep on the AfDs. Guettarda 03:27, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Style notes

Just a note on style with some of your edits. There's no need for all the excessive bold and italics. If you put something in <nohtml>

</nohtml> it should be an actual quote and have an attribution. If it's not a quote, don't use the blockquote tag. For most quotes you should just use "quotation marks." Take a look at some of my edits on Principles of energetics for an idea on how to do this. A lot of those quotes there either need attributions (or they are not quotes at all, it was hard to tell.) Thanks. Peyna 04:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Please see my recent post at Talk:Principles_of_energetics. Thanks. Peyna 04:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopaedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to Principles of energetics, are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the hard work of others. Thanks. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 05:30, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah yes. Ok just getting used to the rules!!! Sholto Maud 21:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Who's Odum? and AFD nominations

I've been away all day and just saw your note. I didn't nominate any of your articles for deletion. It was 24.159.243.211. Thanks.

Maximum power, maximum empower

All I'm looking for in these articles is an explanation of the ecological concepts they refer to, rather than merely a statement that the ecological concepts exist and Odum developed them. You are correct that without such explanation they are not worth much, but the answer to that is fixing them, not deleting them. The material I removed was not about ecology at all; it was about electronics and thermodynamics. Gazpacho 21:18, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Principles of energetics

Hi, Sholto, I happen to know enough about ecology to know something about Odum's contribs to that subject, but I also know quite a bit about physics and math, and I am with Linas and others on this: the present article is sadly deficient:

• doesn't clarify whether you are
  • summarizing Odum's writings
  • summarizing writings by other ecologists commenting on his early work,
  • making your own proposals
• lacks any real content.

It's nice that you added some citations, but citations are only the beginning: a good encyclopedia article fairly and accurately summarizes whats in the research literature, including a fair and accurate description of any controversies.

It would be helpful if you added to your user page more information regarding your own background in ecology and thermodynamics.---CH 03:14, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

User:136.186.1.118

Why is this user making edits to your user page here and are they valid? I would have reverted them but they don't really look like the work of a vandal.CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thought that's what it was but just wanted to be sure. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:31, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Received Giannantoni's book

Sholto, that's for the tip on the book. It looks interesting so far; especially about the part on speculations of fifth and sixth laws of thermodynamics - that made me laugh! I'll let you know when I get up towards page 50-100. Later:--Wavesmikey 12:35, 13 December 2005 (UTC)