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Piast writes about viruses as organisms

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Dear Jedzwarzywa, your repeated interventions are among the most extraordinary I have seen in many years of editing. I can only suppose either that you are looking at a different paper of Piast's, or are very tired or similarly incapacitated.

Whatever the case, I asked you plainly to discuss the matter on the talk page: it was totally incorrect of you to revert again without discussion. I have therefore started the discussion myself, and am now warning you directly that a third reversion on your part would be taken as direct disruptive behaviour.

I have now quoted the two passages in Piast's paper that the core of what I've written comes from; and I note that we appear to agree on the table, so I find it frankly incredible that you have seen fit to remove the table, twice, from the article even though it is plainly both correct and relevant.

If you have anything to say, other than "sorry", please do it on the article's talk page. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:43, 7 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of The bubble theory for deletion

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Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:41, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Virus

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Hi, I would be interested to know why you consider this a "shady citation". Dimmock NJ, Easton AJ, Leppard K (2007). Introduction to Modern Virology (6th ed.). Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4051-3645-7. Graham Beards (talk) 14:01, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply