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PDQ.PhDMarkWilliamSchae1960 (talk) 22:03, 19 September 2018 (UTZ)

August 2019

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages such as Talk:Huntington's disease are for discussion related to improving the article in specific ways based on reliable sources and the project policies and guidelines, not for general discussion about the topic or unrelated topics, or statements based on your thoughts or feelings. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you. Ttwaring (talk) 15:51, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Huntington's disease

Please identify the issues, specifically, so that they could be addressed, rather than simply blanking the entire article. El_C 08:41, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I understand your frustration with that article, and some of us have had to put efforts on hold to deal with it systematically due to the coronavirus pandemic. But we can't just delete an article because it is outdated (that would go against Wikipedia's notability policies); the tag at the top is the best we can do for now.

Separately, you have mentioned that it has copyrighted material. If you can specifically identify that material, then the article can be temporarily blanked until COPYVIO is dealt with. If you have specific examples of copyvio, could you post them to Talk:Huntington's disease? Please don't be frustrated; the article can be fixed, and desperately does need to be fixed, but has to be done so according to policy. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:18, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

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