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Happy editing! Bon courage (talk) 04:42, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

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Bon courage (talk) 04:42, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

June 2024

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Martin Kulldorff. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Slow motion edit-warring is still edit warring. Bon courage (talk) 05:27, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

The edit war was instigated by Geogsage and Newimperial going forward with an edit without achieving consensus on the controversial portion. Although it may have appeared I made the first edit, this was not the case as they sought to end a talk page discussion without consensus and I simply attempted to minimize the harm done by their “consensus” by removing the most limited portion of their edit I could. There wasn’t really a good way to keep the portion I removed without redundancy if it were properly attributed to its source. You will note that similar text existed before their edit and I refrained from removal while good faith discussion on the talk page was still ongoing.

I find threats of a block from you ironic because of your own one-sided opinion on the same talk pages prior to this “edit war” and your pattern of reverting to reintroduce false allegations on this and similar contentious articles (see my edit on Gupta’s page) Tikitorch2 (talk) 02:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)