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Sylvia Plath

I saw that you restored a recent change by an anonymous editor to this article, undoing my reversion with an edit comment that just said "stop". For at least a year, the article has said that Plath "died by suicide". The anon changed it to "committed", and I restored it to "died" per WP:STATUSQUO and, admittedly, my preference for the more direct and modern, and less euphemistic phrase. As far as I know Wikipedia has no policy or guideline requiring use of the euphemistic term, so I presume that, absent discussion, STATUSQUO is the advice to follow here. Pburka (talk) 00:15, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This has been discussed on wikipedia many times; recently here. "Died by suicide" is the euphemism for the far more common and also neutral "committed suicide". Natureium (talk) 00:25, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Social distancing

Where chickens belong.

How does an image of raw chicken belong there? WP is not a place for comedy. The article is serious, the section talks about polio and you use a picture of chicken ("pollo" in Spanish). Please explain your revert. -- Alexf(talk) 02:57, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that totally serious discussion of polio [1] shouldn't be sidetracked by levity. EEng 03:19, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
How I see it, article space is not a place for comedy, but talk pages can use small bits of levity. You reverted EEng's addition as vandalism. I can understand if some saw his comment as disruptive, but it isn't vandalism, and seems pretty harmless to me. Natureium (talk) 03:03, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia is no place for humour.
Everything is very serious here and we are all terrifically important.

"Stay the fuck home" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Stay the fuck home. Since you had some involvement with the Stay the fuck home redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Djm-leighpark (talk) 14:50, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ITNC RD

I noticed you redacted an RD candicate who had died from COVID, saying there would be a lot of COVID deaths. I could understand if the article was miles from quality, but the article looked fine save one or two CNs. There's present no special handling of COVID yet, nor do we plan to give any special weight (extra or less) to COVID deaths, outside of how they may be presented in the box, so I'd recommend putting that back, I'd do it for you but I want to make sure you have the credit. --Masem (t) 15:59, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll put it back and see how it goes. Natureium (talk) 16:53, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Felt you'd appreciate this

Cutting strawberries with the little person but thought you'd need to see this: https://twitter.com/adam_harrison13/status/1244639011597156353 ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:17, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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