Keithdyer101

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Paul Stamets

Hi Keithdyer101. Thanks for joining the discussion at Talk:Paul Stamets. Please hold off on further content changes until there's clear consensus to do so.

The RfC could use review and closure at this point. It looks to me like it supports some mention of "mycologist" in the lede. Unfortunately, the RfC is short on details, so there's still work to be done on exactly what is appropriate. It's also unclear if the changes made to the lede during the RfC suffice to address the concerns (I don't think so, and the RfC should help make it clear.)

Please take some time to review the talk page discussion, and consider contributing to the RfC before it is closed.

Thanks again. --Ronz (talk) 17:34, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Please respond. You're at risk of being blocked if you continue to edit-war over the content. --Ronz (talk) 17:35, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm going to assume that you've read the above given your comment here.

There is a formal discussion, an WP:RFC on the article talk page, here. You should comment there before it's too late to do so. --Ronz (talk) 00:34, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. I missed the RfC page.

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