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I'm going to try and expand this entry over the next few days, please bear with me, and your comments are welcome !--PatVanHove 21:15, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Model pages

Going to procrastinate by chipping away at this over the next few months. Can someone point me to a good model for structuring this? Estevezj (talk) 07:37, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Did I say months? I meant years.— James Estevez (talk) 00:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

There's a similar article called Environmental microbiology. I propose that the two articles be merged. CatPath (talk) 16:52, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I did some cursory reading and I can't find anything authoritative that states this explicitly, but my sense is that environmental microbiology (EM) can be thought of as a subset of microbial ecology (ME). In my understanding EM takes a more physiological or biogeochemical perspective, where ME aims to include that information within a broader view that incorporates the diversity, distribution, and abundance of microbes within a given ecosystem. I think EM should be incorporated into this article using Wikipedia:Summary style—and any information in EM that would fit better here moved over as well—rather than merging the two.— James Estevez (talk) 00:47, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, except there's a serious problem with the EM article. Most of it was copy-pasted from the cited references, and the editor who created the article refuses to go through the proper channels to document that he/she had permission to copy/paste for the cited books, though he/she claims that permission was granted. The EM article needs to be deleted and rewritten from scratch. I won't delete the EM article until someone gets a chance to insert a summary of the article over here. But that needs to be done soon since articles with this sort of copyright violation are supposed to be deleted immediately. CatPath (talk) 23:36, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There's no need to delay any further on my account. I have a local copy, but I'm not going to attempt a direct merge on account of the COPYVIO.— James Estevez (talk) 01:56, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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— Assignment last updated by Bubbalovesicecream (talk) 00:38, 25 January 2025 (UTC) I would love to expand on this article. I believe this article can become a "featured article."--Bubbalovesicecream (talk) 02:55, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, I would like to rewrite the introduction to have a better flow within the article. I feel like there is ideas all over the place and no clear format.--Bubbalovesicecream (talk) 03:25, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted some sections, because it was confusing to read. There were a lot of factual statements that didn't seem to connect. I wanted the article to have a strong flow from the beginning to the end of it. In addition, I rewrote the introduction of the article to clear it up and provide a guideline of what to expect reading the article.--Bubbalovesicecream (talk) 04:47, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, over the past days, I have rearranged the article's section, to increase the flow of the information. There is so much room to add more information. I solely focused on creating a foundation to the article, because it did not have a great foundation to it. At first, it seemed like there was facts all over the place and no organization. I had to delete some major sections, because it did not make sense at all. The wording was either too technical or too shallow.--Bubbalovesicecream (talk) 04:10, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Microbes or larger living beings?

This article is entitled Microbial Ecology, but many of the examples are of multicellular organisms generally visible to the naked eye such as fungi or even nematodes. The size of nematodes varies from 1 mm to 50 cm depending on the species, so they are not microscopic animals. I think the examples should focus on microscopic single-celled microorganisms such as bacteria, archaea, protists or yeasts. Examples of parasitic microorganisms are those that cause infections, or persistent infections both prokaryotes as "Helicobacter pylori" and eukaryotes as "Plasmodium". Mycorrhizal fungi are important in soil and plant ecology, but they are not microscopic organisms per se. Also, the paragraph on Dionicia Gamboa is interesting but not very appropriate in the section entitled "Influential Scientists", which influenced the historical development of microbiology.--Miguelferig (talk) 20:51, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]