Talk:The World Without Us

message: One of the longest lasting effects on earth is the Columbus Effect, or the movement of nonnative species to north america. That will persist for millions of years, and will effect evolution across the planet. That wasn't mentioned, but h may not have said it, or I may be wrong. Check me on that. Bobo the Talking Clown 01:01, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are many introduced species in North America doing very well (pigs, horses, starlings, for instance) and muskrats are doing well after being introduced from North America to Europe and Asia. Steve Dufour (talk) 17:13, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Columbus Effect 

message: I find the article contains a little too much opinion about the book from various sources.  Especially that a lot of it seems to be speculation on its possible political influence.  Both right-wing and left-wing bloggers are perfectly willing to give their takes on the political impact of everything that happens, but that is not really all that important to the rest of us.  I think most people read the book for entertainment and/or for its thought-provoking effect and didn't consider the politics at all. Another example of the same thing is the movie: March of the Penguins. Steve Dufour (talk) 17:20, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That is good point. I tried to keep the opinion-related material isolated into the Reception section, but some invariably slips out. For this book, I read dozens of published reviews (non-blogs) but very few were negative. And of those negative reviews they were all critical of the book's concept more than anything else. But for the sake of a balanced Reception section, that presents what the reviews focused upon and what they liked and didn't like about the book, this perspective was included here. But I won't object to removing some of the material or re-framing it so it isn't so politically-oriented. maclean 18:51, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Too much opinion?

message: I just came by to read the article, since it was at the front page today. One of the first things I noticed was that someone had vandalized the page, by writing a discriminating sentence across the article with CAPS LOCK. Which is kind a sad. Could'nt some Wikipedia-worker semiprotect the article, so it can't be vandalized?
--Urbanscape (talk) 21:13, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Protection of main page FAs is a topic of on-going debate. See Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection for previous thoughts. --maclean 22:00, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Hi, I've noticed that in this article the word "coda" (in the structure of the book) is linked to a wikiarticle about the use of the term in 'music'. There is a disambiguation page for the term (see Coda (disambiguation)) but there seem to be no specific usage of the term for literature. Having said that, the basic notion of "summary, conclusion" seems to be clear from the context.  Is there any opposition to change the current link to at least the "disambiguation" page, or at best to a new wikiarticle about the use of this term in literature?  Regards, DPdH (talk) 04:17, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The wikilinks were introduced earlier today when it was on the Main Page.  I have no objection to the proposed change. --maclean 04:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Coda" wikilink 

message: Is there a name for the phenomenon of the built environment succumbing to nature? Or a specific academic area of study? Opencooper (talk) 10:52, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

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