R310C
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Red meat
editHi, R310C,
Thanks for your message at my Talk page. For reference, your original message is here (permalink), where you asked me why I removed your inclusion of a new study that just came out about red meat and health.
To respond to your first question: yes, that was a good place to reach out to discuss it. Normally, I would respond in the same place, but since you're new, I thought it might be easier for you to have the conversation here, that way you're more likely to be able to find it again, if you look for it at some future point. It was a good question, because the answer isn't obvious, in that the topic of the question kind of straddles the boundary of two possible venues. Normally, the Talk page of an article, such as Talk:Red meat, is dedicated to discussion of how to improve the article. To the extent that your question of removal of content addresses the question of article improvement, the article Talk page would have been a possible venue for the question. In that case, to attract my attention there, you can use one of the templates {{ping}} or {{reply}}, and I'll get an alert to that page. A user's talk page is normally the place to address questions of user behavior. To the extent that your question dealt with my actions on the article, it's possible that my Talk page would have been an okay venue, also. So, your choice of venue was fine. Often, the choice of venue is more clear cut: if someone is vandalizing an article, that's behavior: venue is User talk page. If you're trying to figure out if the wording of the lead paragraph should be changed, that's an article content issue; the proper venue is the article Talk page.
With respect to your question about the article: I removed the material for the reasons I mentioned in the edit summary, namely: WP:PRIMARY, WP:NOTNEWS, and WP:BRD. Please take it to Talk, if you want to include the highly criticized (and highly recent) Dalhousie study.. The alphabet soup in that summary, are shortcuts to various Wikipedia policies and guidelines, which are kind of a set of rules, standards, and conventions we go by, in order to try to keep order, and decide what the best way to improve the encyclopedia is. Have a look at those links, and after you have, let's discuss it some more. Please add {{reply|Mathglot}} somewhere in your message, when you're ready to. Also, please read a bit about Talk page conventions at WP:TALK, and the conventions of conversational threading at WP:THREAD. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 09:02, 6 October 2019 (UTC)