User talk:Bon courage

I forgot, till now.

Could have lost my crown at any time. The very best to you. - Roxy the dog 01:14, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

And to you Roxy! Hope you didn't find the fireworks too scary (my cat did not approve). Bon courage (talk) 08:20, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

What's wrong with the source?

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According to a study published in January 2023, markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein unbound by antibodies was found in people who developed postvaccine myocarditis (vs. controls that remained healthy).

That's a recent publication in the esteemed peer-reviewed medical journal Circulation that demonstrates that markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein unbound by antibodies is associated with the development of myocarditis. That is remarkable and demonstrates that myocarditis post-vaccination and post-infection may have a common cause: the spike protein. Myosci (talk) 16:11, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

References

As you have been repeatedly told, by multiple editors, in multiple locations, WP:MEDRS applies to biomedical content and primary sources should not be used like this. Yet you appear to be on some kind of crusade to insert primary research about vaccines and myocarditis. If it continues I shall take you to WP:AE and ask that you be banned. Bon courage (talk) 16:16, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

The articles are full of "primary research". What counts is the quality of the article. A 08/15 meta-analysis is inferior to a good research article. So your argument is void. So again, what discounts this article in your eyes? --Myosci (talk) 16:22, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

If there are other badly used sources they should be removed; it is not an excuse to make the article even worse. You have expressed your view many times about primary research, yet it against community consensus as expressed in WP:MEDRS. This is why I think if you continue you will need to be sanctioned. You have already been alerted to the discretionary sanctions in effect for COVID-19 topics. Bon courage (talk) 16:25, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

You fail again to explain why. Again, on what grounds do you disqualify the source?--Myosci (talk) 16:29, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Read WP:MEDRS and WP:WHYMEDRS and WP:MEDFAQ and you will see why. You have no standing to evaluate primary research and insert it into an encyclopedia, which is a tertiary source and NOT a secondary one. Bon courage (talk) 16:34, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

So you consistently reject all sources that do not contain the label "review" or "meta-analysis" as source for Wikipedia for medical articles?--Myosci (talk) 16:38, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

The community generally does reject primary sources for WP:BMI. Bon courage (talk) 16:41, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

But you're not neutral. From the interactions I've in memory your deletions/reverts occur when a study is somehow critical of Covid vaccination. What's in my memory is one very telling example is where you deleted an article that was already in the wiki-article after I realized (and wrote it into the wiki-article) that it contained further information. All of a sudden the article was primary research. And I've tried to confront you and what you said was: "Dunno, probably still working out what to do and looking at sourcing. I cleaned it out later."[1] You're partisan and should refrain from lecturing others. Especially those who do not delete the information of others. I never deleted one of your edits (or of others) even if I don't agree with them. Only in the case of defamation I delete text.--Myosci (talk) 17:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

I specialize in fringe content, and I respect the WP:PAGs. You have been warned about what will happen if you continue to flout them in seeming pursuit of an agenda. Bon courage (talk) 17:12, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061025 IS NOT FRINGE CONTENT! Please read it, be more scientific. --Myosci (talk) 17:56, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

No thanks. I'm not going to delude myself I have the expertise to evaluate primary medical research. Meanwhile, I notice this paper has strong currency in antivax circles. Writing Wikipedia is not doing "science", it is merely summarizing accepted knowledge as found in good sources. Bon courage (talk) 18:07, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

The Mass General Brigham is not an antivax thinktank. Then read at least the supporting press article: Researchers Study Immune Response, Proteins in Blood of Young Adults Who Develop Rare Complication After COVID Vaccination

• Risk of severe COVID-19 continues to outweigh rare risk of post-vaccination myocarditis
• Among adolescents and young adults who developed this rare complication, researchers found no differences in antibody production, auto-antibodies, T cell profiles, or prior viral exposures, but detected elevated levels of spike protein
• Findings point to potential treatment to prevent or reverse post-vaccine myocarditis

How's that "antivax"? --Myosci (talk) 18:37, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

I was thinking more of twitter. In any case, this is beside the point: Wikipedia articles are based on secondary sources and we shall not be using primary sources in the way you want. Bon courage (talk) 18:41, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

The article is already mentioned in a non-English medical magazine, for instance in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt, see English translation --Myosci (talk) 18:46, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

If it's mentioned or cited as a source in another primary research article, it still fails Wikipedia's requirements. It has to be evaluated as noteworthy in a peer-reviewed review article, with the review article as what gets cited as a source here. (Based on that English translation, that might be enough to satisfy our requirements for secondary notice, but I'm not sure about it.) Please understand, Myosci, that this isn't about what you think about what makes a good source, or what Bon courage thinks, or what I think. According to the way that Wikipedia does things, what matters is what WP:MEDRS says, and that's not up for debate here. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:14, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

This magazine (Deutsches Ärzteblatt) is the journal of the Bundesärztekammer and the Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung that informs the physicians in Germany about (current) topics in medicine: Deutsches Ärzteblatt is published by the Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, which is co-owned by the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer) and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung). It is the official journal of these two bodies, distributed to all physicians in Germany. --Myosci (talk) 20:37, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

And the rejection stems from this notion: Meanwhile, I notice this paper has strong currency in antivax circles. To even mention this "reasoning" is non-Wikipedian. Wikipedia is not here to take a stand whether one should get a vaccine or not but should report the scientific results. Some editors may be more in favor (or disfavor) of vaccines and therefore they typically find more positive (resp. negative) articles than the others - to a certain extent. Wikipedia rests on the assumption that the community as a whole will get to a unbiased article that mentions both sides according to the merits.

But for editors like him it's a thing for power-plays like "If it continues I shall take you to WP:AE and ask that you be banned." Because of content that is published in a peer-reviewed main journal of the American Heart Association and that is published in a medical journal like Deutsches Ärzteblatt??

Only because he thinks that this would be a battle between pro and anti-vax!? If he would actually read the article then he would realize that this specific article isn't one-sided. That the vaccines can cause myocarditis is already a established fact. The problem is what's the mechanism. And the results suggest that it's more likely not an auto-antibody problematic but the S-protein itself. That would actually be good news for the mRNA-vaccines: If it's the spike protein that caused this condition then people must only avoid future contact with the spike protein (in the booldstream) to avoid a recurrent condition. That would imply for these people to take extra caution to avoid (future) infections and perhaps take anti-viral medicine early when infected. Is that really what the Covid-is-harmless-but-the-vaccines-are-bad-as-hell community wants to hear? I don't think so. (And if it were then one would have to accept that, too. But here by chance it seams to br right in the middle of the anti-vax and the pro-vax position.)

To be clear: What I've written is only:"According to a study published in January 2023, markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein unbound by antibodies was found in people who developed postvaccine myocarditis (vs. controls that remained healthy)." That's the established fact that the Deutsches Ärzteblatt also finds worthy to communicate to the physicians in Germany. The further conclusion that one draws is up to the readers of the actual article. Wikipedia's readers have their own minds! --Myosci (talk) 21:42, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

When we have WP:MEDRS, then it will be worthy of encyclopedic coverage. Until then you're just wasting editors' time, not least your own. Wikipedia's purpose it to reflect accepted knowledge, not to put information out there and let people make up their own minds. Bon courage (talk) 07:25, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

There might perhaps be a quite a lot of editors that share the viewpoint that Wikipedia's purpose it to reflect accepted knowledge, not to put information out there and let people make up their own minds but the one major problem is: Who decides what knowledge is accepted? Some elected experts (by vote in Wikipedia?) or simply editors who think that they're up to the task? Is a publication in a highly regarded peer-reviewed scientific journal up for them to meta-decide? And I doubt that the majority of the ordinary editors and readers agree with that viewpoint since it's one of Wikipedia's main purposes to display the knowlege in science edited in Wikipedia by non-experts and read by non-experts, with the use of good sources (scientific journals). Wikipedia is not Nupedia! --Myosci (talk) 08:27, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

From WP:NOTEVERYTHING (policy):

A Wikipedia article should not be a complete exposition of all possible details, but a summary of accepted knowledge regarding its subject.

Accepted knowledge is published in the WP:BESTSOURCES and articles must be based on secondary sources (WP:PSTS), where the criteria for establishing what are reliable sources are decided by the relevant guidelines: WP:MEDRS in this case. Everything rests on consensus. If you want to change the way Wikipedia works you will need to change the WP:PAGs. You can check (again) at WT:MED if you think I lack WP:CLUE. Bon courage (talk) 08:47, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Who speaks of a complete exposition. It's only the sentence According to a study published in January 2023, markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein unbound by antibodies were found in people who developed postvaccine myocarditis (vs. controls that remained healthy) in the text and a longer quotation in the reference. The quotation (Extensive antibody profiling and T-cell responses in the individuals who developed postvaccine myocarditis were essentially indistinguishable from those of vaccinated control subjects, [...] A notable finding was that markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein (33.9±22.4 pg/mL), unbound by antibodies, were detected in the plasma of individuals with postvaccine myocarditis, [...] (unpaired t test; P<0.0001). is likely too large, it can very well be shortened. --Myosci (talk) 09:50, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Please re-read what I wrote. I have nothing more to add. Bon courage (talk) 09:50, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

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If you keep deleting citations from reliable sources you will be viewed as engaging an edit war and will be reported to an Admin to be blocked from editing Wikipedia, before you engage in an edit always cite other sources to start a conversation page, or else removing sources will be viewed as an edit war, therefore your previous uncited edit would be reverted. CtasACT (talk) 19:46, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

In fact it is you who are edit warring, by repeatedly inserting your preferred text. You need to discuss this on the article Talk page. Try to follow WP:BRD maybe? Bon courage (talk) 19:47, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

I have cited objective facts from again as i stated Cambridge university and two other publications, if that in fact is starting as you say and edit war by simply adding missing data backed up by my citations than Wikipedia itself is an edit war, this is a legitimate warning do not edit without giving other sources which contradict my previous edit. CtasACT (talk) 19:51, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

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“this guy's antics”

Obv there’s more latitude on a talk page, but we should beware appearing POV ;) Best wishes, Springnuts (talk) 19:50, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Indeed, in general Wikipedia is not going to pretend that any "vocal figure for hesitancy about Covid vaccines" is anything other than what they are. That's NPOV folks! Bon courage (talk) 19:58, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Wholesale reversions with minimal explanation

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Your recent reversions are not acceptable as they were multiple and your explanations were dismissive and inaccurate. Please seek consensus on the talk page of the relevant article and desist from viewing yourself as having the last word on the matter.Budgewoi (talk) 03:43, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

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Edit warring: Circumcision

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Err, since I just templated you with this I am obviously aware of it, so it looks like you're trolling. Also, aren't you at 5RR or something? Bon courage (talk) 05:28, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Your persistent personal attacks are truly pathetic. I was under the impression, that you always give a user a warning, if they are engaged in edit warring. If I’m wrong, please lead me to where it says not to warn users that are already aware of policy. Prcc27 (talk) 06:40, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

I have seen editors sanctioned in the past for retaliation templating. Use your common sense, if you were to report me for edit warring would a defense of "I didn't know about that!" wash, when I'd just issued the template myself? Your evidence-free accusation of "persistent personal attacks" is pretty serious. It's what you getting for focusing on content in the circumcision space, I suppose. Bon courage (talk) 06:46, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

I’ll keep this in mind in the future. But honestly never heard about retaliation templating in all my years as a Wikipedia editor. If you want evidence for your behavior, feel free to peruse the article talk pages. But I digress. Prcc27 (talk) 02:42, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

You accusations about personal attacks are false. Bon courage (talk) 05:43, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Carnivore diet

I have just been looking at the carnivore diet on Wikipedia and its history, I have never seen so many sock-puppets get banned on such a silly diet. The thing is, the diet does have some history well before the modern internet trend and history of diets is what interests me. I just noticed that science-based medicine covered the diet recently [2] so we have reliable sources for its modern version. I would like to create the carnivore diet article and add the history. Do you think that is a good idea? I have checked over the history of the carnivore diet article on Wikipedia it has never really existed in good detail, one sock-puppet tried to re-create it a few times but was blocked. I am not seeing any consensus on the original talk-page not to keep the article. This all might be a bit controversial so thought I would ask your opinion but I think an article would be better than keeping it at monothropic. Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:09, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

As you say, it's been a magnet for crazies (and one WP:LTA in particular). I have no objection to an article being created for the CD; just so long as everything is kept NPOV - which I'm sure you'll be good at ensuring  ! Bon courage (talk) 20:15, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Cryonics. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Reverted edit

Hi,

I saw that you have reverted my edits in the COVID-19 vaccine clinical research and Methotrexate articles. Was the problem that is is cited primary research? I thought that because COVID-19 is a relatively new topic and there are less reviews available, larger primary research could be mentioned and I think there are many already in the article. Also NIHR Evidence articles go through a round of selection based on their importance and I let the Wikiproject Medicine community know that I'll be using them in medical articles. What do you think?

Best,

Adam Harangozó (NIHR WiR) (talk) 11:02, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

I think for COVID it's more important that we're strict about WP:MEDRS (and there are plenty of sources). I was intrigued by the NIHR source as although it's of course reputable it was apparently "just" a lay-language reflection of a primary source, without any of the analysis, synthesis or evaluation which would make it meaningfully WP:SECONDARY. I'm actually not sure that this is a good idea from a medcomms perspective for NIHR - but by all means raise at WT:MED for discussion - I'd be interested to see what other editors think. Bon courage (talk) 11:07, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

CT notices

The new setup confuses people a lot. [3] should have been used Template:Contentious topics/alert/first. Do you want to fix it or should I? Doug Weller talk 10:41, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, noticed that - it's from the alert template which used to give a DS notice. I assumed some discussion somewhere had determined the wording needed to be softer. What is the fix? Bon courage (talk) 10:51, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Delete the old one, give them a first alert. Doug Weller talk 21:01, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

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RE opinion pieces

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You said that "Generally I don't think SBM articles are opinion pieces, a concept largely from news media; they are more analysis, synthesis and commentary on a topic like you'd find in review articles." and I found this a little disturbing given the fact that analysis and commentary are in fact opinion pieces.

"Editorial commentary, analysis and opinion pieces, whether written by the editors of the publication (editorials) or outside authors (invited op-eds and letters to the editor from notable figures) are reliable primary sources for statements attributed to that editor or author, but are rarely reliable for statements of fact."

I take it there's some cleanup that needs to be done? Presumably you've used a lot of opinion pieces for statements of fact without realizing it, if you could identify to the best of your ability those instances and we can begin working on the cleanup. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 16:44, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

No. If a review article analyses the state of research in a topic and states drug X does (or does not) have effect Y then that is not 'opinion' but knowledge. Attributing knowledge can have a WP:YESPOV problem. Bon courage (talk) 17:44, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

A review article would probably not make that statement, they would say that previous research suggests that drug X does (or does not) have effect Y. An absolute statement would be something more along the lines of an opinion and we would most likely choose to attribute that statement to the authors. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 18:03, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Facepalm So if a review article surveys a field and says 'The most common side effects of opioid usage are constipation' you think that's just an 'opinion'. And you have the temerity to suggest other editors need to check their work. Sheesh. Bon courage (talk) 18:15, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

I would say overall this conversation with HEB is going nowhere. They do not have consensus in favor of their preferred changes. — Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 18:17, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

"The most common" would be a qualified statement based on the field (I assume based on the plural "effects" that its a sentence fragment and not a complete statement), you really don't find such absolute statements in review article most of the time. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 18:24, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thank you for your cleanup of EMDR, I encourage you to continue. I'm not a topic expert but there's been like four decades of pseudoscience promoting EMDR, and the smidgin of effectiveness studies shouldn't outweigh the mountain historic redflags. It seems (to my uneducated eyes) that a few otherwise-reputable folks practice it, whie some clients may enjoy the extra doodads in the way an infant enjoys distraction before an injection but the current article does NOT go far enough in warning readers against unscrupulous practitioners who make pseudoscientific claims. I don't know enough to help you fix it, but you're clearly on the right track. Thank you. Feoffer (talk) 10:47, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

I am just amazed how viewed that page is. I thought maybe it was to do with the Prince Harry stuff but no, it's been a high-traffic page for years. Shame it was so FRINGEPOV for all that time! Bon courage (talk) 11:07, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

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POV pushing

This revert[4] raises concerns about civil POV pushing by you. The description you reverted was paraphrased from the Washington Post. The WaPo is far from WP:FRINGE. Furthermore, please don't delete references. Adoring nanny (talk) 14:31, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

How to characterize DRASTIC has been discussed already, and you just went ahead and watered it down to sanitize their aggressive side. So yeah, POV pushing. I'll delete any reference which is not helping the article thanks! Bon courage (talk) 15:10, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

WP:NPA

Please refrain from making personal attacks, as you did here[5] and here[6]. Personal attacks in edit summaries are particularly troublesome. And instead of "borderline illiterate", why not say that the clarity could be improved. It gets the point across in a more helpful manner. Thanks! Adoring nanny (talk) 19:32, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Those are not personal attacks. WP:CLUE is a thing and so is WP:DE. The trouble with your "borderline illiterate" suggestion is that you have offered it as a final option. The time for wordsmithing would have been WP:RFCBEFORE (even assuming this RfC was worthwhile, which I doubt). It's also pretty interesting you're not templating the user who did make a personal attack. Makes it look like you're playing games. Bon courage (talk) 19:36, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

You both did. I'm getting to it. Multiple things are going on for me in RL. Adoring nanny (talk) 19:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Also, Adoring nanny, since you're here, I've been meaning to raise this for a while - to ensure WP:SCRUTINY answer me this: have you ever edited Wikipedia with one or more other accounts? Bon courage (talk) 19:49, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

No. I did some ip editing before I made my account. I have also accidentally edited logged out on occasion, which once led to some phone calls I would prefer not to have received, so I try hard to avoid it. Adoring nanny (talk) 20:05, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for being crystal clear you have never edited with another account. Bon courage (talk) 20:07, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Roswell incident up for GA

Roswell incident up for GA, Talk:Roswell incident/GA1 § Lingzhi (talk) 03:40, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Roswell

Thanks for the input! If you aren't already (I haven't checked), you should consider being a GA reviewer. Or FAC. Cheers. § Lingzhi (talk) 07:10, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Please stop describing material sourced to mainstream news organizations as WP:FRINGE.

As I'm sure you are aware, neither the Washington Post nor ABC News is a WP:FRINGE organization. Describing material sourced to them as WP:FRINGE is inappropriate and disruptive. Please stop. Thank you.[7][8] Adoring nanny (talk) 17:01, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Yeah but the politicians are pushing fringe nonsense, and you're parroting it, which is bad. Bon courage (talk) 17:16, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Closing discussions at articles where you are WP:INVOLVED

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Closures like this[9] are not appropriate. I suggest you revert your close. Per WP:INVOLVED, Non-administrators closing discussions and assessing consensus are held to the same standards; editors closing such discussions should not have been involved the discussion itself or related disputes. Adoring nanny (talk) 14:11, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

I did not comment on that thread and I wasn't "assessing consensus". These off-topic posts on that article Talk page are getting disruptive. If you want to discuss a category of sourcing in general, RSN is the place as we all know. Bon courage (talk) 14:39, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

You appear to be highly involved in the discussion on that talk page. You may not have commented on that particular thread but there doesn't appear to be many more involved in related disputes than you... Horse Eye's Back (talk) 14:49, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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Third Opinion on Talk:Aquatic ape hypothesis#Intro relevance

I intend to offer a third opinion on the above-topic per the request for one, but it wold be helpful if you could please crystalize your main points on the talk page here. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:49, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Not applicable as there are already more than two editors discussing this, but thanks anyway. Have hatted this on the Talk page. N.B. This has also been raised at WP:FT/N. Bon courage (talk) 18:50, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I will formally decline the third opinion request and note that involved editors should seek dispute resolution. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:51, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

WP:BATTLEGROUND

Hi! please note that I am not your enemy, and I do not appreciate being subjected to stuff like this over a mere word choice dispute. Thank you for your understanding. --Licks-rocks (talk) 20:46, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Correct it's not a battleground, but I think your edits here are very bad for a number of reasons and will say why with those reasons given. Arguing against your editing is not arguing against you (and, ironically, thinking so would be a bit battleground-y). By the way, the question in that diff was a genuine not a rhetorical one: from what the source says how can you think the text you reverted is not justified to the extent it warrants complete removal? You have read the source right? Bon courage (talk) 20:51, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

See my reply on FTN --Licks-rocks (talk) 21:34, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I am none the wiser as to whether you've read the source or not. You know, this WP:CTOP thing ... you signal you're aware of it and you template other with it. It's got meaning:

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Nordic diet

I just read over the AHA new statement on dietary patterns [10] and they rate the Nordic diet the highest. We do not have a page on the Nordic diet, but I noticed there is this New Nordic Cuisine.

A few sources I found on the Nordic diet [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]. It comes up in the medical literature (two reviews) [16], [17], [18], [19]. Is it worth do you think me creating an article for the Nordic diet? You may know more than me about this. I am confused to what the New Nordic Cuisine article is. It reads the same as the Nordic diet, so is it worth just expanding that article? Based on what I have seen the Nordic diet seems similar to the Mediterranean diet. Psychologist Guy (talk) 00:10, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

• Talk page stalker Nordic Bishonen is a little surprised. Those sources don't seem to mention the three mainstays of Nordic eating: burgers, pizza, and princess cake. We're supposed to eat venison, rabbit, and bison? And to avoid alcoholic beverages, lol?[20] Amazing. Bishonen | tålk 20:36, 9 May 2023 (UTC).

That's interesting. The original Mediterranean diet was actually white bread and white pasta with little olive oil. They changed it to become more healthy when it became famous in the 70s and 80s. The same has probably happened with the Nordic diet. I will probably create an article on the Nordic diet. The diet is supposed to mimic what Nordic populations eat but like the repackaged Mediterranean diet it has clearly been updated with modern ideas about healthy eating. Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:10, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

@Bishonen: I've never princess cake and now realise m life is lacking! Bon courage (talk) 06:53, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, you haven't lived, Bon Courage. Bison is no substitute! Bishonen | tålk 08:22, 18 May 2023 (UTC).

You haven't lived until you've eaten reindeer steak and reindeer meatballs (frikadeller). (I have shot 16 of them while living in Greenland. The reindeer hunt is the high point of the year.) Because it's very lean meat, fat must be added: butter, cream, red wine, salt, pepper, garlic, and juniper berries, all in a roasting bag to keep it moist. Then use that to make the gravy, which is "to die for"! Eat with cranberry sauce. A recipe. Read more about reindeer in my article Reindeer hunting in Greenland. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 19:56, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Santa says you're naughty. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:41, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

LMAO! Here's another. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 21:54, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

I recently saw a documentary (Noma: My Perfect Storm), about the restaurant Noma, which is at the center of the New Nordic Cuisine. It was very interesting, and well worth watching. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:03, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Sadly, it's closing.[21] Bon courage (talk) 18:07, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Interesting, particularly what it says about unhappy workers there. The documentary largely makes René Redzepi look like a nice guy to work for, but also has scenes that seem to go the other way. Often, we just don't know what really goes on inside some workplaces. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:05, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks as ever for your efforts Robert, but in this case I shall decline - I already noticed this raised at WT:MED and have just contributed there. Bon courage (talk) 05:52, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

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Please join active discussion instead of unilaterally reverting

Hi. On 04:35, 13 May 2023 you reverted my edit, which was made after the discussion had ended for some time. I had even linked the discussion in the edit summary; therefore, it would have been good practice to join the discussion instead of reverting unilaterally. If editors just revert when there is an active discussion then it destabilize pages and become edit wars. Sincerely, Thinker78 (talk) 06:01, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

No. Especially for a change to core policy a WP:NOCON situation urges caution. Trying to lock in a bad change on the basis that there's "active discussion" is a no-no. Bon courage (talk) 06:38, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Sigh. If you see the discussion I simply followed editors advice and seeming consensus. Also, I waited a week after there was no further input. If you had concerns why didn't you jump in to discuss instead of imposing your personal view without discussion? That action seems to be against the WP:CONSENSUS policy. And if you notice you got reverted by another editor, precisely the scenario I warned about. Let's avoid edit wars. Thinker78 (talk) 23:58, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

If I can make an edit to improve things, I do it. There obviously is not "consensus" for the change you made. Bon courage (talk) 02:27, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Check the discussion and my edit. I discussed the issue, took in the feedback of the other editors, and edited attempting to reflect what I perceived was a consensus in the discussion. I even waited at least a week to make sure there was no further input in the short term before I implemented the change. You instead just edited without waiting for anyone's input, disregarding the link to the discussion I had attached to the edit summary. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 03:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Why do you assume I disregarded it? It was a bad (even nonsensical) edit and so I reverted it. I don't regard a handful of people deciding on such a bad 'tweak' to policy as having any kind of "consensus" that can override the need for decent quality policy text. Consensus is not a vote. Bon courage (talk) 06:22, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

You unilaterally decided it was not consensus instead of discussing the issue in the relevant discussion. That's not how consensus works at all. At least I attempted to reflect what I perceived was consensus and if you notice the participants of the discussion did not revert me but rather either accepted the edit or offered new input. Sincerely, Thinker78 (talk) 01:09, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Edit warring

I let you know you are about to violate the 3 revert rule of edit warring. No idea why you are deciding to do this instead of continuing the discussion. Thinker78 (talk) 00:12, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

You need to understand what a revert is, and to understand what "instead of" means. Bon courage (talk) 02:28, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

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Well, I was asleep in the 31 minutes since your "warning" above. What happened? Bon courage (talk) 02:29, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, it was not an incremental thing but rather I analyzed the situation further and decided to report. Sorry it came to this but I was perplexed why a senior editor would ignore requests to join a discussion instead of engaging in what I perceived was edit warring and in essence undoing edits borne out of consensus. Sincerely, Thinker78 (talk) 05:26, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

How did I "ignore requests to join a discussion"? I was in the discussion. Bon courage (talk) 06:07, 24 May 2023 (UTC)