User talk:Jaucourt

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Proposed deletion of Élie Benoist

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Adding translation tags

Hi Jaucourt. Thanks for translating Pierre Michel from the French Wikipedia. We can always use more translators around here. Just wanted to drop you a quick note to ask that when you do translate a page, that you please add the appropriate tag on the new article's talk page to properly attribute the source of the article (needed for Wikipedia's license). WP:Translation#How to translate discusses this, though it really just boils down to attribution in the edit summary and adding {{Translated page|fr|Pierre Michel (écrivain)}} (filling in the language code and article name) to the new page's talk page. WP:Translation and related pages have other resources and ways to contact other users active in translation that may be of use to you. Thanks and happy editing! Zachlipton (talk) 07:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Edit to Hendry Lindlahr

You recently added sourced material to this article, the claims are not found in the source. I suspect you copied it from another article without verifying. This isn't good practice; if you're going to add a sourced claim, you should read the source yourself. If you can't find access to the source, then find a different one (or add without a citation at all - that's better than adding a citation you haven't read).

I found a copy of the sourced NYT article here https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/2009/records/eugenedebsobit.pdf. It does not contain any of the events you added to the page.

Best

--Tomatoswoop (talk) 01:17, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

update: I did some digging, the user seems to have been paraphrasing (badly) the claims of a 1932 book entitled Fads and quackery in healing : an analysis of the foibles of the healing cults, with essays on various other peculiar notions in the health field. A broader context for that account can be found here: https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1/clients/elmhurstil/History_Highlight_Eugene_Debs_202110281039409836_040a958b-7c16-45ab-b69a-554ebb4ef9a4.pdf. quote: “On the occasion of this last trip to the sanitarium, Debs was a dying man suffering from heart disease. In mid-October, Debs was returning from a visit to Sandburg’s home when he collapsed into a coma. “The naturopathic remedies were a cause of concern to Debs’s family members, who arrived in Elmhurst upon learning of his collapse. Doctors were brought in from Chicago, including Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, who later recalled that he was “well nigh aghast to see and hear what naturopaths do under difficult circumstances.””

Undoubtedly that sanatorium was a hippy and unscientific health spa type institution, unequipped to deal with a serious medical emergency, however it's not clear to me that this played any role in Deb's death; I'm not sure a 70 year old dying man going into heart failure could have been saved by scientific 1920s doctor's either (and the text of the 1932 book doesn't claim as much - there's no "if I had got there earlier I could have saved him" type claim, more just mockery of the incompetence of the naturopaths). Bear in mind this is the pre-penicillin era, hospitals were not a particularly good place to be either. The most relevant factor in his health decline seems probably to have been his imprisonment, not his time in this sanatorium. --Tomatoswoop (talk) 01:48, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]