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February 26

Reponse to your resume online

Is there a website where you can post your resume for a part-time in Toronto and you get reponses from different companies like No Frills, Food Basics, Shoppers Drug Mart, Metro, Toronto Public Library and etc? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.155.135 (talk) 02:49, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Monster.com has listings for Toronto. You can see here. If you post your resume with them, they may help. --Jayron32 02:53, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Please tell me how to handle Duplicate references

What is the best way to handle duplicate references? In this article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school_meal I just added some text and the same reference twice. "The provision of school food in 18 countries". I am unhappy about it being shown twice, in the fact that I do not see how to properly reference page 31 and in that I have just copied the text. I would like to learn about how best to handle the two problems with the references, but I got tired of trying to find the info, and then I remembered what a beautiful bunch of people you are here :) For the furtherance of my education, would you please tell me what the best way to handle this is? Star Lord (talk) 15:52, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

See this guide. Astronaut (talk) 16:08, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Adding the reference was useful, but I see your edit to Free school meal has a number of other problems. I've already remove your unnecessary breaking of a paragraph into separate lines - the browser rendering does that automatically and I'm probably not the only editor who could find that layout confusing in the editor screen. Adding just 2 paragraphs about other countries in the lead, leaves the article with quite an odd structure. It might be better to describe the idea of free school meals in the lead and then describe individual country's approach to it in subsequent sections. The "See also" section provides links to some other country's approaches to the concept, so maybe some of that can be incorporated. Astronaut (talk) 16:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Astronaut. That helped! Star Lord - 星王 (talk) 16:35, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Resolved

Quality of land for cultivation

I sometimes hear of land described as being extraordinary for cultivation. I've heard this description for the Rift Valley and Ukraine. A two part question. What makes land extraordinary for cultivation, far better suited than other places with robust agricultural activity? And what's the most robust land in the world in this sense?

Gullabile (talk) 19:10, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

The Ukraine is often called the breadbasket of Eastern Europe. You have a total of 13 edits, all to the misc and lang ref desks. New Jersey is called the Garden State. As for the Rift Valley, if you mean the Afro-Asian one, it stretches from Tanzania to Israel. As for your edit history, 10 of your 13 posts, "Gullabile", have been new questions, and you have never edited anything besides the ref desks. The claim anything is called "extraordinary for cultivation" needs a source for us to respond to it. As regards the Ukraine, I find no helpful hits. μηδείς (talk) 22:28, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Not sure why you are commenting on their edits. Their's no rule against exclusively asking Ref Desk Qs. StuRat (talk) 04:40, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, please do not WP:BITE. SemanticMantis (talk) 16:52, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

For Ukraine, see Chernozem. --Xuxl (talk) 09:35, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Good soil would have a complete mix of nutrients (the exact mix will favor some crops more than others), good irrigation and drainage (too much clay can be a problem for drainage), and be thick enough that it won't quickly erode away. Farmers also don't want too many stones, as those interfere with plows and other machinery. Flood plains often have good soil, as it is deposited there from the river. The Nile flood plain is a prime example. While much of Egypt, being desert, has rather marginal soil, the Nile flood plain and river delta has fertile soil. StuRat (talk) 04:40, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Soil quality, soil texture, drainage and synoptic climate patterns all play a role. E.g. the Napa Valley, with its deep, carbon-rich soils and Mediterranean climate make it ideal a good place to grow grapes. What's "robust" in this sense depends highly on if you allow irrigation or not, and what types of crop you want to grow, or if you want to grow a large variety. Rain-fed agriculture (...a surprising redlink) is restricted to certain areas, e.g. the corn belt, but irrigation allows us to grow virtually anything in the Central_Valley_(California). Potatoes grow great in Idaho, and oranges grow well in Florida, but neither of those states can grow a wide variety of crops the way central CA can with irrigation. And of course, you won't do well with oranges in Idaho, nor potatoes in Florida, but you can grow both in central CA! SemanticMantis (talk) 16:53, 27 February 2014 (UTC)