I'm back. I won't spend a lot of time here, but there are still a few things left to do. I'm going to prioritize my efforts to where they'll do the most good, for wikipedia and the people who rely on it for information. I'm finding some of our articles on pharmaceuticals and compounds which have the potential to either become pharmaceuticals or lead compounds in drug development need work. Regrettably, some appear to be promotional material for investigational new drugs. Plenty of work for me, still.
For those who confuse the perfectly legitimate use of a nickname on wikipedia with something more devious, please educate yourselves. Look my nickname up if you're curious. I'm done with explanations that just get snarked at by other editors.
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On my user talk page, I recently gave people on both sides of a controversy over politicizing which sources are reliable enough to use in wikipedia (or even to try to engage other editors in building a consensus about) a soapbox to use on that page.
So, I archived everything and replaced it with the following discussion on my talk page.
One of the editors whose conduct I described (but whom I did not name) asked an admin to admonish me about the propriety of placing opinion essays in my talk page, so I moved the discussion to this page at the admin's suggestion. It's appropriate at this point to thank the admin involved for exercising restraint - as she reminded me in her talk page, she had the option to simply delete the text in question from my user talk page and considered doing so. Instead, this admin explained where I'd gone wrong and allowed me to fix the problem myself, which I did.
I hope that the editor who complained about me "drops the stick", for this isn't a personal matter, it's an issue which is important to the project's WP:NPOV ethic. I have no issue with the editor, but some of that editor's comments are recent examples of an issue we ought to talk about as wikipedia editors. Pretending it doesn't exist isn't an option.