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The cycle is not the cycle unless one person completes it. Four players accumulating the hits is a trivial coincidence. — KV5 • Talk • 01:12, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

I am asking you to revert your change on Hitting for the cycle. The scope of that article clearly states that it is about single-player cycles, the only cycles recognized by major statistical sources like Retrosheet and Baseball-Reference, as well as Major League Baseball. Your addition of trivia is adversely affecting the article's integrity. Continued disruptive insertions (see history) could result in further warnings or a block. — KV5 • Talk • 01:27, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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What I saw was sulfur in the wrong oxidation state, and that was the intended edit. Zinc of course is in the +2 oxidation state in all normal compounds. Mix-up unintended. Pbrower2a (talk) 12:59, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

I was mistaken as to your intentions, my bad. Thanks for catching my zinc sulfate errors. I should have first looked at the change notes to see what you actually did instead of just noticing it was off. Sorry if I came off as condescending. Happy editing and thank you again for fixing my mistakes. ThunderSkunk (talk) 13:09, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

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"More doctors smoke" example

Are we sure this is truly an example of an appeal to authority? It doesn't quite seem to fit the bill - they're not saying they're experts on cigarettes and as such should be trusted on them. Its an appeal to respect or honor, but it doesn't quite seem to be an appeal to authority per se. What're your thoughts? 24.252.141.175 (talk) 05:15, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced authority -- the consumer preferences of a highly-respected profession (an unnamed national survey) on a commonplace object. If an advertisement were of something more benign than cigarettes -- apparel, ballpoint pens, marques of automobile (I remember when Buick was widely known as "the Doctor's Car"), literary magazines, or choices of vacation -- it would still be abuse of the authority that physicians have. It is the ad agency and a tobacco company, and not the medical profession, that attributed authority (more doctors smoke XXX Cigarettes) that does not exist.

Physicians have legitimately accrued some authority; they can tell people to change their ways. They can tell a patient to stop smoking, stop drinking, change a diet to lose weight, move their asthmatic children away from respiratory distress, avoid illegal drugs, eschew reckless sexuality... People with such authority have good cause to not cheapen it by applying it to irrelevancies. Physicians lose credibility when they become hucksters. For good reason we rarely see physicians appearing on TV to promote anything other than their medical practice.

The fault with the fallacy of an appeal to authority is not that authority is always to be distrusted; if a physician tells a drinker who has a liver in the early stages of cirrhosis must stop drinking, then that authority is valid. The appeal to authority becomes fallacious when the authority is suspect. The advertising agency that created the ad in question abused the legitimate authority of physicians, an authority that physicians legitimately need for doing their job effectively. Pbrower2a (talk) 10:41, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

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Argument from authority page

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