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Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
let's give the guy his due - he wasn't only a "quack", but a pioneer, soldier, judge, postmaster, politician, surveyor, tax collector, bootmaker etc. - probably best summed up in the word "pioneer".@Gatoclass:
Sure, that’s a reasonable move; on the edges of more established places, most men and women have to do a little of this and of that just to get by. Almost as true today in rural parts, still. But the fellow wasn’t a trained physician, and he followed a school of thought whose only positive point was that the victims patients were being poisoned by certifiably organic means. Describing him as such, and linked to the main page, no less, is BS, although a welcome change from the usual agenda-driven BS.
Please don't revert without a requested page move, thanks)
Poisoning the well, how so? Other than that, I don't actually think your move was unreasonable, given that the page was originally at "John Steele (physician)" - "quack" would be a better description of his medical activities - just that I think it was shortchanging the guy to summarize him only as a "quack" when he made contributions in so many other fields. Gatoclass (talk) 23:15, 21 January 2019 (UTC)Reply
Well, perhaps my recent experiences elsewhere (available for your viewing pleasure at WP:ANI!) have left me a little jaundiced, but plunking one’s own prefered edit down with a plea not to edit-war it strikes me as exactly that, implicitly poisoning the well. Qwirkle (talk) 00:26, 23 January 2019 (UTC)Reply
