This note pertains to Figure 2 of the DiPALS report in Lancet Neurology. There are tic marks on both lines in the chart: the upper line has about twenty of them and the lower line about ten. The caption regards them as indicating censored patients. The term censored is sometimes used to indicate cases excluded from consideration because of missing criterion(s): the report suggests some datums were instead interpolated because they were not received. I have wondered whether the tic marks indicate a patient passed the point where their speech was no longer intelligible? Such an indication would be scientifically valuable. Surely they do not mean they told the patient to shut up.