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Dear Sfan00 I'm not sure why you deleted the image of the Large Castle Dynamo. It is: a) valid image of one of J.H. Holmes & Co's products b) long out of copyright c) was from my family's company (J. H. Holmes & Co), where my great-grandfather (Theodore Holmes) and great-great-uncle (John Henry Holmes) were Directors.

Please reinstate this image. Thank you.

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You have shown interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in pseudoscience and fringe science. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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Hello Tgeorgescu,

Thank you for your message.

I was a little surprised to receive your message as I had just made a few minor edits to this page which is of interest to me on Rolfing. I have been under the impression that Wikpedia was a neutral space, and is not driven by particular interests. However I was unsettled to see someone delete my few changes so rapidly, including a reference to the work of the well respected Harvard physician Bessel van der Kolk which is relevant to Rolfing. This was all removed with no good reason, and this highly rapid deletion of my few edits made me wonder who was behind doing this. McSly wrote: "non neutral, incorrect changes" - which has no basis and is untruthful.

Request No. 1: When I make relevant edits like this, will you kindly investigate and take action against McSly who was essentially vandalising them on an unscientiic basis. Thank you.

The current Wikipedia page for Rolfing struck me as having been written in quite a biased manner, seeking to discredit Rolfing to a high degree, rather than to simply inform people about the basis for Rolfing, and what it does. As another example, I noticed at its Wikipedia page that Ida Rolf has a PhD, and I included this at the Rolfing Wikipedia page. During the time I have bben typing this message to you, a user called Roxy the dog has also deleted this edit! This shows obvious bias and vandalism. It is a fact that Ida Rolf had a PhD, so why would somebody remove it, except as an act of vandalism? It seems there are particular interests at work here trying to ensure that Rolfing is put in a bad light.

Request No. 2: will you kindly take action against user Roxy the dog for vandalism of this page.

I am a genuine private Wikpedia user, who simply wishes to add some useful information and balance the Rolfing page more. Users like McSly and Roxy the dog (are they even different people?) seem to have a vested interest in biasing the page to his or her own agenda, and is vandalising the page in doing so.

Thank you and please let me know if and when you have been able to take action against these users for vandalism.

John R Chamberlain JRBC1 JRBC1 (talk) 11:24, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

You've been here a while, so you should be already aware that accusing editors of being sock-puppets - even obliquely "(are they even different people?)" - is a serious matter, and unless you have some evidence of the case, it would be wise to strike that comment and reconsider. Two people disagreeing with your edits is not evidence of sock-puppetry. With regard to the inclusion of PhD - see MOS:PHD. Chaheel Riens (talk) 12:36, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Relocated from my userpage

Hi Chaheel I saw your message, which I found for some reason diverting away from the main issue of other users deleting my quite small and valid edits.

For some reason your message stopped when you started to talk about a deletion of my inclusion of Ida Rolf having a PhD.

Please complete your train of thought about this.

I am not a regular user of wikipedia so I find your comment about "you've been here for a while" an unjust reflection and not relevant to the deletions.

You also did not address the fact that the deleters quite improperly said that my edits were incorrect or innacurate when they were fully accurate - so they were indeed innacurate and vandalising.

Please kindly keep in mind and address the main points of my concern (as opposed to finding something against me), bearing in mind it was my edits which got deleted and not the other way around.

Thank you

Firstly, as per my edit summary - please continue discussion where started, rather than on my userpage. I have no real interest in engaging in WP:FRINGE, which is why I limited my involvement to your behaviour. You first registered here on Wiki back in 2010, and although you've only got 250+ edits, that's still long enough to be aware of basic rules and etiquette here on the project - and that includes making accusations of sock-puppetry, something I personally take seriously. You made an oblique accusation that two editors are one and the same - either back it up, or back down. That has nothing to do with the content of your edits, and is purely behavioural.

As for the PhD issue - have you read the link? It explains all. Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:33, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Dear Chaheel Riens Your comment about "You've been here for a while" I experience as presumptuous and patronising. I am not immersed in Wikipedia and use it occasionally as I'm sure you can check on my usage history.

I wrote regarding my factual edits being vandalised which you unfortunately did not address.

Please would you kindly address these and let me know these have been addressed.

I do not see a way to edit my post above as you have requested. Please advise how to do this.

Thank you.

Thank you. JRBC1 (talk) 13:27, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Chaheel Riens 3rd request - please kindly address the issue of vandalism to my factually correct edits on the Rolfing page

2nd request - please advise how to edit previous entry on Talk page as I see no button

Please do not "presume" an obligation of knowledge or skill onto another. That is abusive and patronising.

Thank you

JRBC1 (talk) 13:48, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Words

From the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles:

"Allopathy is potentially confusing to readers in different cultures, as it could refer to traditional enantiopathic preparations or to mainstream modern medicine, depending on context. Avoid using allopathic to describe modern Western medicine; instead use conventional medicine or mainstream medicine. Not all mainstream medicine is actually evidence-based medicine, and not all alternative medicine is traditional medicine. See Wikipedia:Alternative medicine for help with terminology." WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:41, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Allopathic medicine is a well understood term by many people. However, to ensure no clarity and no confusion I have added the words (western conventional) in a couple of places after allopathic. As we know, Wikipedia has a global readership, and the use of terms such as 'conventional' should not be seen either as western-dominated or ambiguous to readers in, say, India and China, home of about 2.6bn people combined, where their regularly practiced or conventional medicine may well be Ayurvedic medicine or Chinese medicine. JRBC1 (talk) 11:02, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Ayurvedic medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine aren't called "conventional" in those countries. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:48, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Yes. We are biased.

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, once wrote:

Wikipedia's policies ... are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse". It isn't.

So yes, we are biased.

• We are biased towards science, and biased against pseudoscience.
• We are biased towards astronomy, and biased against astrology.
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• We are biased towards medicine, and biased against homeopathy.
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• We are biased towards medical treatments that have been proven to be effective in double-blind clinical trials, and biased against medical treatments that are based upon preying on the gullible.
• We are biased towards astronauts and cosmonauts, and biased against ancient astronauts.
• We are biased towards psychology, and biased against phrenology.
• We are biased towards Mendelism, and biased against Lysenkoism.

And we are not going to change. tgeorgescu (talk) 14:59, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

References

Page-blocked

Since you have been persistently making tendentious edits to Rolfing, such as changing "established medical knowledge" to "allopathic medical knowledge" (not to mention this nonsense), I have blocked you from editing that page. Note that you can still edit the article's talkpage, as well as the rest of Wikipedia. You can request unblock from an uninvolved administrator by placing {{unblock|your reason here}} on this page. Bishonen | tålk 15:18, 23 November 2022 (UTC).

No personal attacks, please

Also, you need to immediately stop falsely accusing other editors of vandalism. It's considered a personal attack. Please read Wikipedia:Vandalism to see how the word is defined here. Bishonen | tålk 15:25, 23 November 2022 (UTC).

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