User talk:Drsruli

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Which particular post?
- These ones, [1] [2] [3] - please use ~~~~ at the end of your post. starship .paint (talk) 11:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- You are still not signing.[4] Is this a problem with understanding what you need to do, a problem with remembering to do it, or some other kind of problem? ―Mandruss ☎ 08:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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A toast sandwich for you!

Thanks a lot for sharing the valuable information. :) Dr. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 20:16, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw some of the article you are editing and want to share that I support research and evidence over opinions. Just felt like sharing it shared. Thank you. -- Dr. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 20:38, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Abhijeet Safai: Thank you very much. Drsruli (talk) 23:45, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding a new comment to an old Talk section can be missed. Better to have started a New section. David notMD (talk) 15:20, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References for contentious health topics require that the refs meet critera explained in WP:MEDRS. Describing a hospital protocol would not suffice. David notMD (talk) 15:30, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Since you claim not to know the change you made at Propaganda, you changed sourced text to mean the opposite.

" In most cases, his army was actually smaller than some of his opponents'" to "In some cases, his army was actually smaller than his opponents'". Doug Weller talk 06:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Do you see what I did there? Do you see the problem with the original sentence? I'm not aware that I changed the meaning, and I don't need a new source to fix the English.Drsruli (talk) 08:16, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Most does not mean "some" and I don't understand how this was fixing the English. The original text said " Another early example of propaganda was from Genghis Khan. The emperor would send some of his men ahead of his army to spread rumors to the enemy. In most cases his army was actually smaller than some of his opponents". Did you check the source? I've changed this to "The emperor would send some of his men ahead of his army to spread rumors to the enemy. In many cases, his army was actually smaller than some of his opponents'" which matches the source more closely which says " Genghis Khan sent agents in advance of his Mongol armies to plant exag gerated rumors about the huge numbers and ferocity of his fighting men. Actually, the Mongol armies were often inferior in number to their opposition". Doug Weller talk 10:22, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest that you just include the sentence " Actually, the Mongol armies were often inferior in number to their opposition" in quotes, since you believe that my change is substantially different. (I don't.) As it stands, the "Most" is completely unwarranted, and is also implicitly contradicting "some". The sentence "In most cases, his army was actually smaller than some of his opponents'" is not only bad English, but it is a significant deviation from the original text ("often" means frequently; "most" means more than half of the time.) Drsruli (talk) 14:50, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Changing it to "in many cases", also works. (This is not semantically different from what I had done.) (As you can see, the original source does not either assert that this was the case "most" of the time.) Drsruli (talk) 14:53, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Which is what I did. You still didn't give an adequate explanation for your change. Doug Weller talk 16:10, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You must know why I changed it, since you changed it yourself, equivalently. The main problem was the "Most" (which was unlikely anyway, and also not contained in the original) contradicting "some" in the same sentence. (The better question is why you took offence to this.) Drsruli (talk) 16:27, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you’d said it wasn’t in the source, fine, but your edit summary just mentioned English which isn’t the reasons you’re giving now. Doug Weller talk 16:49, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It was poor English style. I said "English" but I really meant the wording, the language used. Drsruli (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk:2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel

Hi. I'm not sure how this happened but in this edit you apparently voted in an RM from three months ago and in doing so restored a three-month-old version of the page, so I reverted the edit. Levivich (talk) 21:00, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know. In any case, the talk page up now is current. Drsruli (talk) 02:58, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think that I followed a link that another user left on a different talk page today. Drsruli (talk) 03:05, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, notwithstanding, three months later, and I still see the event commonly referred to in the news as October 7 attacks, etc. At what point is this subject eligible for re-examination? Drsruli (talk) 03:08, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The last time this was discussed was at Talk:2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel/Archive 5#Requested move 26 January 2024, which closed on 5 Feb, or two weeks ago. There isn't a rule about exactly how long before someone can propose that move again, but in my personal opinion, it's some months, not weeks. It's unlikely that the reliable sources have changed significantly between 5 Feb and today. They might change in the future, and if they did, it would be appropriate to revisit the issue. But I can't say how long that might take. Levivich (talk) 03:35, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]