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Headbomb: Thank you for your many contributions to Wikipedia. I see from your userpage that you want to make the Internet not suck. You've also said there: "If it's good, do it, if it's bad, don't do it". I wholeheartedly join you in these sentiments. In that vein, please do reconsider your reversion of my edit to this article. The sentence I deleted (and you reverted my deletion) says this:
That assertion, which is very obviously a sweeping generalization (and no page number provided BTW), is cited to one document: online conference proceedings. The articles in the conference were written by medical students ("History of Medicine Days is an annual event which gathers medical students from across Canada to present brief papers on history of medicine at the University of Calgary"). There is an article (by a medical student) titled "Pharmacologocal Practices of Ancient Egypt". I assume that's where this assertion is being cited to? Let me quote from the conclusion of that medical student's article: "Our knowledge of the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt is clearly inadequate to support many sweeping generalizations about the effectiveness of the drug therapy regimens." So let's consider: An article by one author, and that author is a medical student, and the article says that sweeping generalizations are impossible, is being cited to support a sweeping generalization on Wikipedia that asserts that many experts hold an opinion that the author himself (a medical student) explicitly disavows... your reversion does not help the Internet not suck. Please consider self-reverting... Fair warning: It is quite possible, and indeed likely, that I'm going to be deleting a lot of text from this article, bit by bit, as I head for WP:GAN. In the future, please consider coming here to Article Talk to discuss before reverting my deletions. Thank you § Lingzhi ( talk| check refs) 15:12, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
I thought the article for heliocentrism is in need of more detailed content. As written, it seems to miss the impact of Copernicus' contribution. I added some suggested citations to improve the content. King of the Changes ( talk) 13:50, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
When the picture of Adenine structure is opened (Advances in Genetics section), the detailed description states that it is Thymine as opposed to Adenine. Is this a discrepancy? Zhedeye ( talk) 16:02, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
The Chinese Records of the Grand Historian#Sima Qian's historiography contain Sima Qian's device for recording negative information over the dynasties. Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China records the scientific skill of the scholar bureaucrats in hydraulics when they were constructing the great waterworks of China over thousands of years. -- Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 07:28, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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Headbomb: Thank you for your many contributions to Wikipedia. I see from your userpage that you want to make the Internet not suck. You've also said there: "If it's good, do it, if it's bad, don't do it". I wholeheartedly join you in these sentiments. In that vein, please do reconsider your reversion of my edit to this article. The sentence I deleted (and you reverted my deletion) says this:
That assertion, which is very obviously a sweeping generalization (and no page number provided BTW), is cited to one document: online conference proceedings. The articles in the conference were written by medical students ("History of Medicine Days is an annual event which gathers medical students from across Canada to present brief papers on history of medicine at the University of Calgary"). There is an article (by a medical student) titled "Pharmacologocal Practices of Ancient Egypt". I assume that's where this assertion is being cited to? Let me quote from the conclusion of that medical student's article: "Our knowledge of the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt is clearly inadequate to support many sweeping generalizations about the effectiveness of the drug therapy regimens." So let's consider: An article by one author, and that author is a medical student, and the article says that sweeping generalizations are impossible, is being cited to support a sweeping generalization on Wikipedia that asserts that many experts hold an opinion that the author himself (a medical student) explicitly disavows... your reversion does not help the Internet not suck. Please consider self-reverting... Fair warning: It is quite possible, and indeed likely, that I'm going to be deleting a lot of text from this article, bit by bit, as I head for WP:GAN. In the future, please consider coming here to Article Talk to discuss before reverting my deletions. Thank you § Lingzhi ( talk| check refs) 15:12, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
I thought the article for heliocentrism is in need of more detailed content. As written, it seems to miss the impact of Copernicus' contribution. I added some suggested citations to improve the content. King of the Changes ( talk) 13:50, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
When the picture of Adenine structure is opened (Advances in Genetics section), the detailed description states that it is Thymine as opposed to Adenine. Is this a discrepancy? Zhedeye ( talk) 16:02, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
The Chinese Records of the Grand Historian#Sima Qian's historiography contain Sima Qian's device for recording negative information over the dynasties. Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China records the scientific skill of the scholar bureaucrats in hydraulics when they were constructing the great waterworks of China over thousands of years. -- Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 07:28, 22 February 2024 (UTC)