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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 17:39, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

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EdJohnston (talk) 21:02, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

You were promising to sock in your edit summary: 'I'll JUST KEEP PUTTING IT BACK from different IP addresses..' EdJohnston (talk) 21:07, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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Neither Spanish flu nor Ebola virus originated in their namesake locations.

Hello. Thanks for your comment on my talk page criticizing my opinion about the naming convention for the Spanish flu, but I don't know why you bothered to post it there (not that I mind). I certainly don't have any control over Wikipedia, and I doubt any of the bigwigs over there read my little talk page. I just gave my opinion (one of very many!) on the article's talk page, that's all.

Everyone's entitled to his opinion, so I have no problem with your giving yours. I should also say that I totally believe you when you say this has nothing to do (as far as your motive) with the Chinese flu. Really, I don't doubt you, although the strangely coincidental timing of this Wikipedia controversy, and the passion with which many are arguing the point, make me wonder if many of the other commentators might not have a political purpose.

I didn't say Spain was the origin of the Spanish flu. It was called that because Spanish media was the first to publicize the outbreak that occurred in Spain, even though it originated elsewhere. That's one of the ways a disease can receive its popular name. For example, the German Measles did not originate in Germany. It got its name because it was first described by German doctors. And the Ebola virus originated in the Sudan—it got its popular name "Ebola" because it was first widely publicized after a later outbreak in the Ebola River area of the Congo, just as the Spanish flu wasn't originally from Spain but was first publicized after an outbreak there. Perhaps we'd better get on that and get them to change the name of that (Ebola virus) page, "for accuracy's sake." — Embram (talk) 23:48, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

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