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First it is fully permitted to remove an incorrect entry, however it is considered better to fix it rather than remove it. So if it would be more correct to say "suffers damage from neutron radiation" instead of "suffers from radiation poisoning" feel free to make that change.
Assuming it is not part of an edit war. Once an entry has 3 back and forth revisions you are hitting edit war territory and mods start banning.
Repair, Don't Respond and Edit War are good reading when it comes to making changes to other peoples entries.
Edited by Daefaroth This signature says something else when you aren't looking at it.

Hi, all. I was browsing through the entry for the film Passengers (2016) and saw a factual mistake:
As written: Jim stands in a tube through which the contents of a malfunctioning fusion reactor are being vented, almost frying his spacesuit, but he doesn't appear to suffer from radiation poisoning, just as Aurora stands in the control room of said reactor (the shielded window of which is cracking) and she doesn't get radiation poisoning either.
The problem is that a fusion reactor doesn't produce ionizing radiation, at least not in any appreciable form. It does produce neutron radiation, but "radiation poisoning" - itself an incorrect term - refers to damage caused by alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. So the entry is factually incorrect as it currently stands. It would be correct, however, to point out that sitting in what amounts to a neutron shotgun doesn't seem to wreck Jim's day, either, and that little locker door is unlikely to have prevented his demise. (In the interests of full disclosure, I could go into all the science involved, but in the interests of brevity, I'll just say for now that the only ionizing radiation involved is induced radioactivity through neutron bombardment, but that has nothing to do with the plasma, only the reactor vessel and only over time.) And it's also fair to point out the thermal effect of standing in a jet of plasma, which "frying in his spacesuit" is a pretty apt description. Thus, the issue is only with the "radiation poisoning" part.
So, I don't want to just delete the entry because it's (as far as I know) not permitted to do so, and it's also not exactly polite, but correcting it essentially means erasing it anyway and replacing it with the correct information. So I thought it best to check with the folks who have been here longer and better know the operation of the wiki. Guidance is deeply appreciated.
Edited by Scifiwriterguy