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 Phases of migraine terminology 

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2006-10-08T13:23:04 Msteri (Talk | contribs) m (?Aura phase - This was NOT a typo. ""Headache phase"" is appropriate AND from the source cited. Please do not change this again.) 

From User talk:Milomedes 
When I typed ""headache phase,"" that's exactly what I meant. It was not a typo. Headache phase is as correct as pain phase, and headache phase is the terminology used in the source that I very carefully cited. Why did you feel it necessary to make this change? It makes no sense to me to take up people's time in this fashion. 
Thank you, 
 

This is a community issue so I'm moving it to the talk page. Milo  

First, I didn't think it was a typo. Both ""headache phase"" and ""pain phase"" terms are (or were) in use, though I don't know which is used more commonly. I do know that ""pain phase"" is a better term for three reasons: 1) abdominal migraine isn't in the head, 2) the ""headache"" word is recursively overused, 3) ""-ache"" underdescribes the sensation, and, 4) ""pain"" is shorter. You can argue with 2), 3),4), but 1) is technically a debate stopper.
Second, with all due respect to your professional writing expertise, just because you carefully copied the words that were used in your source, doesn't mean that I can't substitute different words that I have reason to think are better. I quote from concluding text at the bottom of every edit page: 
""Please note: If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it. ""
Third, Wikipedia isn't about you or me. I didn't know you wrote it, and it shouldn't matter that you did. This is an interactive community process. If you think I'm taking up your time, then you probably don't have enough time to write here. Furthermore, if you assume that anything you write here is still going to be here, say, 10 years from now, then you probably don't understand the nature of Wikipedia. 
As to disagreements about which terminology to use in the article, that is usually handled with a talk page poll. I respectfully suggest that we use that tool as needed.  "