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Is this a bot?TheDarkMaster2 (talk) 15:44, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

No, it's a user who was being friendly by adding a welcoming template to your user talk page. EvergreenFir (talk) 18:07, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like you to assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not do on Talk:Spanish flu#Spanish flu is an accurate and appropriate name for the disease. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Hi, first of all, the welcome was not a bot, it was me. I make an effort to welcome new users. Second, I do not think your edit at Talk:Spanish flu#Spanish flu is an accurate and appropriate name for the disease assumed good faith. I am at least familiar with the pandemic through The Great Influenza. I always thought the Spanish Flu was a misnomer since it is likely to have originated in America, & I have held this belief for about a decade. So contemporary politics does not enter into it, at least not for me. Peaceray (talk) 00:14, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

I ask again will you request the Spanish Painted Frog have it's name changed? Also Spanish Flu is just one of many examples of iseases named after locationsTheDarkMaster2 (talk) 11:52, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Are you here to build an encyclopedia or to "make a point"? EvergreenFir (talk) 18:08, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Your statement that "You must be very naive to think there are not political motivations for this sudden change." fails to assume good faith, by essentially accusing the editors advocating for a name change of a lack of a neutral point of view & implying chronocentrism. I have provided my own decade-old perspective above. I will also note that until less than two years ago, the article was moved to the present title from the title of 1918 flu pandemic as a result of this 2018 discussion. Therefore to cast aspersions upon a naming discussion as having "politically motivations" when there has been a long standing and meritorious debate is unacceptable behavior towards other editors. Yes, there may be some who have non-neutral political motivations, but please refrain from lumping the conscientious editors with the bad. Peaceray (talk) 19:12, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

I still need a counter argument to the Spanish Painted Frog argument I positedTheDarkMaster2 (talk) 19:39, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

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Those two, geographically speaking, are like comparing apples to oranges. Discoglossus jeanneae only exists in Spain. The virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic neither originated in nor only existed in nor was only predominantly in Spain. It was only named Spanish flu because of the wartime censorship that was occurring elsewhere. Thus, it was by circumstance that it was first generally reported as news from Spain. Peaceray (talk) 19:51, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

No, you don't a counter argument. This isn't a debate club. Participate to build an encyclopedia or don't. But stop being disruptive to make a point. EvergreenFir (talk) 00:15, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

I have made a good contribution in the form of the Gramma dejongi article. i would have made another page on Gramma linki (Yellowlined basslet) if I could find images in wikia commons. I'm not trying to debate I'm just stating that the act of naming an organism after a location is not inherently problematic or wrong. The Guinea pig is not from guinea, yet we call it that. There are many other diseases like Ebola or The Persian Plague.TheDarkMaster2 (talk) 11:18, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Please see File:Gramma linki.jpg. The Wikidata item for Gramma linki lists nine articles in other language Wikipedias. Perhaps you can use a translation of one of them as the base for your article. If you do the latter, please use the {{Translated page}} template to properly attribute the source.

German measles was the common name for Rubella when I was a child. Note that Rubella is now preferred.

Peaceray (talk) 17:58, 22 March 2020 (UTC)