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Deletions at Diseases of affluence

I have been deleting content you added to Diseases of affluence, specifically the subsections on Public health initiatives. In my opinion, the scope of the article should be comparing prevalence of certain diseases in affluent countries to prevalence in non-affluent countries. The Causes section should provide support for reason to believe that the diseases covered in the article are caused by environment, including lifestyle and diet. Discourse on prevention or treatment of these diseases is not germane to the article. If you disagree with what I am doing, please discuss with your instructor. The proper step after that would be to start a discussion at the Talk for the article rather than reverting my changes. David notMD (talk) 16:59, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

More deletions

If you add content and an editor reverts it, the proper next step is to start a discussion at the Talk page of the article in question and invite the reverting editor to participate. Simply reverting the the other editors revert, especially if repeated (the three revert rule) can lead to both editors being temporarily blocked. I have started a discussion at Talk:Diseases of affluence. Make your point there. David notMD (talk) 19:31, 14 November 2018 (UTC)