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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess_Platea Loess Plateau] has only six cites, last one dated 2006, doesn't even have the World Bank 2007 cite, and is quite short. Many figures from the World Bank page about the project<ref>[http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2007/03/15/restoring-chinas-loess-plateau Restoring China's Loess Plateau], March 15, 2007
</ref>Including: World Bank contributed about half of the funding (China was still eligible for International Development Association funding at the time of the project) For a cost of around half a billion dollars,more than 2.5 million people were lifted out of poverty, and incomes doubled, employment increased from 70 to 87%. Output per capita increased from 0.366 metric tons to 0.591 metric tons per year, Food security ensured, before the project frequent droughts required occasional government food aid. Now it has changed from a narrow range of food and low-value grain to high value products. Ecological balance restored in a vast area considered to be beyond help by many. Sedimentation of waterways dramatically reduced. Other cites they could use include: Soil erosion was reduced from 6579.55 tons per square kilometer per year to 1986.66 tons.<ref>Wang, X., Xiao, F., Feng, X., Fu, B., Zhou, Z. and Chan, C., 2018. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/soil-conservation-on-the-loess-plateau-and-the-regional-effect-impact-of-the-grain-for-green-project/ED153271361D40F95624548A926D2721 Soil conservation on the Loess Plateau and the regional effect: impact of the ‘Grain for Green'Project]. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, pp.1-11.</ref>, . Conserved 177,000 square kilometers <ref>Hirshfield, F. and Sui, J., 2011. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221912308_Changes_in_Sediment_Transport_of_the_Yellow_River_in_the_Loess_Plateau Changes in sediment transport of the Yellow River in the Loess Plateau]. Sediment Transport. InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, pp.197-214.</ref>
==Corrections I suggested on talk pages before I was blocked - not yet done==
It is very rare for any other editor to respond to these talk page suggestions to fix an issue - I normally would go back and fix it after the mention but I had a lot on last year, and I have a backlog going back a year of things I never got around to fixing before I was blocked.
===Suggested corrections with no response===
These are relatively minor edits that normally editors would just do on the spot under WP:BOLD. I was super cautious and posted to the talk page first. With no response then the natural thing is to just be bold and make the edit - and if another editor wants to revert or fix what I wrote in some way it is then up to them.
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Infrared_vision]] suggestion for new section about animals with infrared vision
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Copyright_law_of_the_European_Union#Copyright_reform]] - should mention impact on Wikipedia
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Apparent_magnitude#Faintest_object_seen_by_hubble]] 31.5 seems a typo surely is 31.2
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse#Updating_Post-Cold_War_attack_scenarios_section]] article is out of date
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Halton_Arp#Doesn't_make_it_clear_it's_an_out_of_date_theory]] should say theory is out of date
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Steady_state_model#Olber's_Paradox]] - should mention the historical solution to Olber's paradox for the Steady State model.
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Paleoclimatology#Atmospheric_pressure]] should mention that earlier atmosphere could have been different in pressure - either lower or higher
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Google_Translator_Toolkit]] - should say that adding new translations is no longer supported
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:ISS_ECLSS#Power_requirements]] - just missing info from article
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Apollo_Command/Service_Module#Skylab_Apollo_Command_module_half_white_half_unpainted]] Only half the module was painted white - caption incorrect
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Circumbinary_planet#Diagram_is_a_bit_misleading]] - diagram needs edited caption or redone to scale
===Implemented fixes myself after talk page mention===
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Lagrange_point_colonization#Stability_of_L4,_L5_questioned]]
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events/Archives/2018/February]]
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:WR_104#Not_going_to_hit_Earth_-_pretty_much_certain_now]]
===Other editor implemented suggested fix===
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:KIC_8462852#January_3_paper_in_AJ_Letters]]
===Edit proposal lead to discussion so far inconclusive===
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Coral_reef#Reefs_in_the_past_doesn't_mention_coral_reefs]] - my suggestion was unclear partly because of a glitch in the section title - I meant to type "sponge reefs" not "coral reefs". Would post a comment in clarification.
===Other editor reverted edit===
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:WR_104#Not_going_to_hit_Earth_-_pretty_much_certain_now]] . I added a short sentence summary to the lede of the new tilt measurements mentioned later in the article. Never noticed that another editor corrected my summary to remove mention of the tilt [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WR_104&type=revision&diff=825405087&oldid=825310841 diff]. I need to post to the discussion page asking if there is some reason this research shouldn't be mentioned in the lede. Also I have some new cites, see [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.08525.pdf] [https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/10/aa32817-18/aa32817-18.html].
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Perigean_spring_tide#Confusing_first_paragraph Perigean spring tide#Confusing first paragraph] - this was a mistake on my part and I agree with the correction.
===Other editor said to go ahead and do it (but only noticed after block)===
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:2012_(film)#Most scientifically flawed and absurd science fiction film ever made]] - that it should mention that NASA voted it the most scientifically flawed film ever made, in a conference held at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, in 2011
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Goldfish#Perhaps_should_menion:_popular_belief_that_the_common_goldfish_is_the_only_animal_that_can_see_both_infrared_and_ultraviolet_light]] To mention popular belief about goldfish and that it is incorrect, with cites
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Great_Oxygenation_Event#Was_the_great_oxygenation_event_a_mass_extinction?]] Should mention evidence for a mass extinction is not strong, with cites, similar edit for [[Wikipedia:Talk:Extinction_event#Was_the_great_oxygenation_event_a_mass_extinction?]]
===Mid discussion - would post another comment or add a new thread to the talk page===
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:Human_overpopulation#Article seems out of date - doesn't mention that population is leveling off naturally as a solution]] should mention that middle of the range projection of the UN population division is to level off naturally due to prosperity rather than scarcity, and that many countries including Japan already have declining populations. I have many cites we can use for this.<ref>Samir, K.C. and Lutz, W., 2017. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378014001095 The human core of the shared socioeconomic pathways: Population scenarios by age, sex and level of education for all countries to 2100]. Global Environmental Change, 42, pp.181-192.</ref><ref>[https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/ World Population Prospects 2017] online graphs of the World Population Division</ref><ref>[http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/09/18/world-population-to-keep-growing-this-century-hit-11-billion-by-2100/ World population to keep growing this century, hit 11 billion by 2100], University of Washington news</ref><ref>Gerland, P., Raftery, A.E., Ševčíková, H., Li, N., Gu, D., Spoorenberg, T., Alkema, L., Fosdick, B.K., Chunn, J., Lalic, N. and Bay, G., 2014. [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6206/234.abstract World population stabilization unlikely this century. Science, 346(6206), pp.234-237].</ref>
* [[Wikipedia:Talk:KIC_8462852#January 3 paper in AJ Letters]] suggested extra para in lede about latest research on Tabby's star.
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