User talk:Justinleif

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello Justinleif! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! +A.0u 05:02, 22 March 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Attribution • Neutral point of view • Notability Conflict of interest • Autobiography Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Citing sources • Footnotes Image use policy • Copyrights • Fair use External links • Spam • Vandalism Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry What Wikipedia is not • Deletion policy The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The "perfect" article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Great job! Here's your somewhat belated Wikipedia greeting ;). +A.0u 05:02, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Primary production

Hi Justinleif. Thanks for sorting out that merge over at Primary production. It's been nagged at me for months, but never enough for me to actually do the right thing and sort it out. Good job. Cheers, --Plumbago 08:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Detritivore

Could you help clarify the difference between detritivores and decomposers? From the detritivore article:

Detritivores (also known as saprophages, detrivores or detritus feeders) are organisms that recycle detritus (decomposing organic material), returning it into the food chain.

If they are defined as 'organisms' as opposed to say animals, I don't see where the difference is. Are detritivores strictly limited to the kingdom animalia? This is what my intuition suggests, but perhaps you could make this clear in the definition. Richard001 00:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Decomposer/Saprotroph merger proposal

Hi –

I'm opposed to the merger of the two articles, the reason's for which I've left over at Talk:Decomposer#Merge_with_saprotroph. I think you'll find my reasons sound, but I definitely value your perspective on the topic as an ecologist.

Cheers – Peter G Werner 06:12, 25 May 2007 (UTC)