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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Vinod 09:13, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Philologick. Firstly thanks for your additions to the above. However the following line seems to have been garbled:

Starting with the origins of the people of Phoenicia...

I have fixed it as I think it should be but you may like to refine it. The rest of this section seems to be fine. All the best. DadaNeem (talk) 05:02, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ellagic acid

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Hi, your edit added an erroneous nowiki and removed pecans and walnuts. You apparently noticed that your claim about these not being in the source was erroneous and put them back in, but you didn't notice the automatic warning about the nowiki edit. I've noticed that i make quite a few erroneous edits using the visual editor and a mobile device. You seem to be an expert in the field since you apparently have access to wiley.com. Could you add a free reliable online source or recommend where i can look for one? It's hard to believe pomegranates aren't a good source of ellagic acid since it was among the fruits it was first isolated from. --Espoo (talk) 17:22, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Black psychology

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Ways to improve Giant Rooks

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Variolation

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Hi and thanks for your edit (removal) of the claims that Chinese variolation came from India. I myself found that hard to believe when I was digging into the sources but couldn't disprove it. If you can, can you share the link with me, I'd be grateful. Thank you! Danial Bass (talk) 10:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I personally found it hard to believe because I've read a few monographs on the history of Indian-Chinese encounters and exchanges and that never came up - which seemed quite surprising if there was any evidence for it. That made me want to search for evidence.
Check out the last paragraph before Conclusions. Unfortunately, I can't find either of the sources cited as 15 and 16. It's becoming a major problem on Wikipedia that I've noticed - Indian precedence is being conjured up and inserted into Wikipedia articles all over the place, often somewhat hidden like in this case to claim Indian precedence without drawing much attention to it. I probably gravitate towards the types of articles that get vandalized in this way, but it's making me really worry about the future of Wikipedia as the rest of the world goes online and starts adding their own nationalistic rewritings of history to it. Our policy that we're not supposed to think, just make sure it's sourced is really going to ruin Wikipedia as more and more nationalists produce their own sources to then cite.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407399/ Philologick (talk) 08:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh defitinely, ethno-nationalistic re-writings in Wikipedia is a big problem here, that's what happens when anyone can edit. Thanks for the link! Danial Bass (talk) 11:24, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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