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Late comment I am the person who started this mess (though in my very stubborn opinion, I still believe that I cleared it). I can see that Mdewman6 correctly sees that "vitamin B3" and "nicotinic acid" are distinct, so I would like to once again outline the mess and explain my view on the "ideal situation". I hope this is not seen as an attempt at a Last Word -- I welcome everyone to throw question at me so we can, maybe, get it fixed once and for all. And I hope I'm not counting as adding further edits, because this is outside of the green box!
My ideal state for the pages is therefore:
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on top.I executed the split partly because I judged, from the many discussions around Archive 2, that people do realize these two are distinct things and find the intermingling confusing. Nicotinic acid was unavailable for move, hence the pretty screwed-up parentheticals.--Artoria2e5 🌉 22:44, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
@Shibbolethink: thanks for the close. Some of the subpages belonging to this talkpage including the GA-review are currently subpages at talk:niacin (disambiguation)/ Draken Bowser (talk) 06:18, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
The article seems to describe sustained-release (SR) niacin and extended-release (ER) niacin as the same thing, but reference 15 ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK548176/ ) seems to indicate that SR niacin and ER niacin are actually two different products, with SR niacin being available over the counter while ER niacin is prescription-only and is what is sold under the name Niaspan, and SR having a much higher risk of liver toxicity. I can't seem to disentangle which is which and what they're each made of enough to edit this into the article myself. (This might be useful, though I'm not sure https://www.ajmc.com/view/sep02-145ps308-s314 . ) Wombat140 (talk) 05:34, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
No article referring to maize should use the word 'corn'. It's confusing outside of North America and surely all North Americans know what maize is, which is unambiguous. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Names 84.203.21.239 (talk) 17:37, 19 February 2024 (UTC)