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Edit war warning

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Herbicide. 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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Thanks Jytdog (talk) 12:56, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Expert

Hey Chemcol you appear to have a lot of expertise on herbicides and many of your contributions have been great, but you need to discuss things -- WP:CONSENSUS is the foundation for everything that happens here and that means talking about things. Please also do read WP:EXPERT. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 12:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You shuold ask first ...

@Edgar181 and DMacks: Before you revise the lede in many articles with reference to what I think is a questionable source, you should ask around. Anyway, these are compounds, not molecules! --Smokefoot (talk) 18:46, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The terms "bioactive molecule" and "bioactive compound" are synonymous and can be used interchangeably. --Chemcol (talk) 19:23, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the definition of small molecule. --Chemcol (talk) 19:31, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That might be how you see it... I buy compounds for my lab. Aldrich just will not give me a quote on molecules. I do experiments on compounds, although there are indeed some physics people who do single-molecule experiments. A fascinating area. I am concerned about the LD50 for various reagents, but invariably multiple molecules, say 10²² or so, are involved. So it may seem to someone who does not work as a chemist, that the terms are interchangeable, but the terminology gets in the way. So working chemists discuss compounds. On the other hand compounds dont have symmetry, molecules do. So for some aspects, we refer to the molecule. You might ask around. Its a good way to pick up perspectives, not that you are required to heed them.--Smokefoot (talk) 19:40, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In general, I think the first sentence of an article should describe a defining feature of the subject. For pharmaceutical drugs, describing their pharmaceutical use in the first sentence is best. The changes you’ve made to pharmaceutical articles, switching from wording such as “is an antibiotic” to wording such as “is a bioactive molecule” is not a improvement. Also, as a general rule, if you are going to make similar changes to hundreds of articles, it is best to get consesus from other editors beforehand. -- Ed (Edgar181) 08:58, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Between the fact that the source has been labelled predatory and that this is not how we should start our articles on medications I am reverting. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:18, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support reverting, per Doc James on the sourcing and both Doc and Ed on the specificity/focus on the pharmaceutical nature. DMacks (talk) 10:24, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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