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January 23, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
February 5, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed
March 24, 2023	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

calcium baby

dead baby in womb being attacked by cells Ballseater (talk) 17:29, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ballseater be more specific please, UnsungHistory (Questions?) (Did I mess up?) 00:01, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 1 December 2024

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There is a grammatical error in the World Health Organization statistics in 2012, where a writer wrote "persons" instead of people. Madrilla21 (talk) 12:58, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Persons is also grammatically correct. If there is any other rationale to change it to 'people,' you're welcome to open another request The AP (talk) 16:16, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Poorly written article

There are a lot of issues with this article, especially when you get to the psychology and the culture and Society pieces. The paragraph structure and grammar is off . It seems like the purpose of the paragraphs is not clear. It seems like the writer is trying to make an argument rather than provide information. And I strongly question the thinly veiled arguments that are being made. It reads like it was written by someone who overestimates their argument, composition, and just general writing skills. It needs to be revised by somebody with a little bit more technical skill in writing, and someone who has a little bit more understanding of those topics and knows how to represent that in an informative writing style. 24.237.159.221 (talk) 13:14, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"The way all good men go" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect The way all good men go has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 February 8 § The way all good men go until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 19:19, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

philosophical death

when and how does a man die philosophically? By becoming an active nihilist and go back to sleepwalking? or what are other ways that a man dies 211.53.31.222 (talk) 00:42, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Brain death" section

I don't like the writing of this article but that's alright, it communicates information well enough. But the brain death section should probably be re-written, and why does it say "our" and "we" referring to humans? I thought you weren't meant to do that on wikipedia... I feel like this article has NPOV problems also but i'm just an ip address what do i know 58.96.74.147 (talk) 10:16, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]