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Regarding your edit of COVID-19 pandemic
Do not add 'early' to the second sentence again (diff. id 956761286) without seeking a consensus. You are going against an established consensus (no. 12 here on the page and I'm sure you are aware of the community sanctions in place. Instead, bring up your proposal for consensus change on the talk page with the RS that support your claim the outbreak had been identified in early December 2019. Thank you very much. Acalycine (talk) 05:14, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
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Copy edit request
Thanks for your edit at the racist article. If you are interested would you please do a copy edit at Death of Elijah McClain. Best, Gandy Gandydancer (talk) 22:16, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
- Sure I guess. Just two questions: why can't you edit the article yourself? What copyedits would you like me to make to the article? Yodabyte (talk) 23:06, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
- The problem is that I wrote most of it and I work very hard at it, but I'm really not much of a writer. Also, I have a terrible time trying to avoid copy vio mistakes and I think that my wording is, at times, somewhat tortured. Plus, there are a few places where I'd like to change something but another editor added it and I worry about appearing to have taken ownership of the article. I am in the habit of working with a really great copy editor on several other articles and I know what magic a good ce can do. Or...maybe you'll find it not too bad after all. At any rate, I've come to feel very bad about the whole incident and would like to see the best article possible for the family and others that are working to find justice. Gandydancer (talk) 01:01, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, I have done a few little things connected to edits made by others and I feel that the article is now in pretty good shape. If you don't care to edit this article I understand as my what I call my "miracle worker" copy editor once, without comment, ignored my asking him to do a copy edit on my White Cliffs of Dover article, I'm sure something he had no interest in, to say the least.
Best, Gandy Gandydancer (talk) 15:59, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, I have done a few little things connected to edits made by others and I feel that the article is now in pretty good shape. If you don't care to edit this article I understand as my what I call my "miracle worker" copy editor once, without comment, ignored my asking him to do a copy edit on my White Cliffs of Dover article, I'm sure something he had no interest in, to say the least.
- The problem is that I wrote most of it and I work very hard at it, but I'm really not much of a writer. Also, I have a terrible time trying to avoid copy vio mistakes and I think that my wording is, at times, somewhat tortured. Plus, there are a few places where I'd like to change something but another editor added it and I worry about appearing to have taken ownership of the article. I am in the habit of working with a really great copy editor on several other articles and I know what magic a good ce can do. Or...maybe you'll find it not too bad after all. At any rate, I've come to feel very bad about the whole incident and would like to see the best article possible for the family and others that are working to find justice. Gandydancer (talk) 01:01, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
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Your claims that neither possibility is more plausible than the other is mistaken. It was predicted that more spillover from nature would result in future epidemics or pandemics as it has in the past, and that the risk was more elevated with the increased destruction and interaction with the environment and wild animal habitats. It thus also remains the default hypothesis unless contradicted by compelling evidence, from a scientific perspective. Of course, a leak could also have occurred from a sample taken from humans. If so, it would already have been in human populations. It is also considered unlikely that a lab leak would result in a pandemic, considering standard procedures including heightened tracing that would allow to control very recent tiny outbreaks before it becomes epidemic. Circumstantial evidence (connecting dots or events and claims) and lack of information are speculation fodder. Investigations pursue including to find the natural origin. Some also keep investigating the possibility of a lab leak. It doesn't mean that the latter is considered as likely by the scientific community. —PaleoNeonate – 22:52, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
James Baker
Hi! I don't see what the problem with this edit was, [1] it says right there Sussmann was indicted for billing the Clinton campaign after lying about it. Can it be fixed somehow? Thanks. Nobs01 (talk) 01:38, 22 September 2021 (UTC)