User talk:Rouxpurtj

March 2014

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Brominated vegetable oil, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 04:29, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

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"Tlingit aspirin"

Not a huge deal, but just FYI that is a direct quote from the source. [1] Beeblebrox (talk) 20:53, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Right, but the original text claimed that Natives referred to it as "Tlingit aspirin", which doesn't make cultural sense. The Tlingit would call it "s'áxt'". Rouxpurtj (talk) 02:08, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

It's a fairly basic principle of Wikipedia that verifiability is the basis of all of our content and we do not make edits based on our opinions or personal knowledge. In other words, I'm not saying your wrong, but your opinion of what the source says doesn't really count for anything. If you have another source that verifies what you are saying that's different. If you actually listen to the full story, the reporter uses the term "s'áxt" and the actual Tlingit person she is talking with uses the term "Tlingit aspirin" when explaining how it is used. As someone who seems to be familiar with Native Alaskan culture, I'm sure you are aware that pretty much all of them speak English as well, and often use lightly humorous metaphors like that. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:21, 18 July 2015 (UTC)