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Archive1 July 2005 - January 2006

If you have replies to any ongoing discussions now in Archive1, please restart the thread on this page. Tearlach 19:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

How Can I Help You?

You seem to have some concerns expressed here ]

First time I have heard of them. Might be worthwhile spelling out what is bothering you to see if there is anything I can help you with.

Look forward to hearing from you.

The Invisible Anon 16:51, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

The only part pertaining to your edits is my comment on openly stated bad faith assumptions about editors who disagree.... In my view, the material at User:86.10.231.219 is well within the area of personal attack, and a breach of Misplaced Pages:Assume good faith. Such 'hit lists' and detailed documentation of perceived wrongs are never seen as creditable to a user. The objections are well summed up at User talk:Jfdwolff#Advice re:86.10.231.219_requested. Tearlach 18:45, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Does the dialogue here ] today with Kd4ttc assist? The Invisible Anon 23:42, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

No. If you want to infer motives or collect evidence for whatever takes your fancy, there's nothing stopping you doing it privately. Doing it publicly is the breach of the personal attack policy and good faith guideline. Tearlach 01:36, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I have taken a further look at the personal attack policy. Whilst I am not sure I agree with your interpretation, I will modify my user page in the light of your comments. The Invisible Anon 01:56, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks also. You might also reconsider the bit I understand that conventional western medicine is termed "allopathy", and its practitioners are termed "allopaths". As you'll gather from the page Allopathic medicine, it is used by (and taken by) some as a derogatory term, so it could be taken as antagonistic. Tearlach 05:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

There are practical issues over this terminology ... link to diff ... I hope that explains and that there clearly is a need for a name to describe our western kind of medical practice. The Invisible Anon 16:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't - and this is another problem. I tell you that some people find a term pejorative, and you bludgeon me with a 500-word essay on the problems of finding terminology and how the whole categorisation is fuzzy anyway. It's like asking someone not to use the term "queer" because of its pejorative sense, and getting back 500 words on the problems of finding a term for homosexual people and how there's a continuous gradation between gay and straight anyway. In either case, the theoreticals are irrelevant. I told you that the specific terminology you're using, "allopath", is taken by some as derogatory. Tearlach 17:33, 6 February 2006 (UTC)