Talk:Carbuncle

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I am a dermatologist and when looking for photographs of Carbuncles using Google images I found a large number of images of a video game character, also apparently called "Carbuncle". Does this entry for Carbuncle require disambiguation? Furthermore, I would like to update this article and some of the other Wiki articles on dermatological conditions with images, but many of these would be gross and/or offensive to laypeople. What is the wikipedia policy on this? Thank you.

So I would look at Wikipedia:Image_use_policy. It generally recommends that one 'think twice' before uploading shocking pictures. What you might think about doing is, instead of putting a picture right on the page, provide a link to the picture with a warning that it is a graphic depiction of a medical condition. Also, as a side note, remember to sign your discussion page entries to make it easier to follow the conversation.--68.73.241.2 16:20, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

The sections overlap a bit, so I'm not sure how they'd best be split into separate pages w/ a disambig page, nor how to clarify it now. Specifically, the "In popular culture" section--the Japanese video game ones, and the Sherlock Holmes one, seem to refer to the gemology definition, while the Ed, Edd, and Eddy one seems to refer to the medical definition. --Peter 16:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

How about two seperate articles, one for the medical condition (Carbuncle (medical condition)) and one for the mythology (Carbuncle (mythology))? --DezSP 16:04, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

There should obviously be an article for the medical condition, as the main use of this term, which should be where searches direct. At the top of that page should be a link to a disambiguation page for other uses. Just do it! Tyrenius 20:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

How did one word come to mean all these different things? An etymology would be nice. -Toptomcat 17:24, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

The number of different topics relating to completely different meanings of "carbuncle" surely necessitate the need for a disambiguation page. It is simply plain untidy, as well as being less easy to navigate (and will become worse still as the articles grow) than if each meaning had a separate page. I'd vote for the main article being medical, with a link at the top leading to a disambiguation page (as Tyrenius suggested)! Yazza 06:00, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Agree agree agree

Don't want to start a new subject, but couldn't find an edit option on my screen for the orig. discussion.

• Definitely the medical condition should be handled as a separate article! Additional articles could be created / split out as needed, correct?

• I would love to see some of those gross pictures (I'm weird) but yes they should definitely be provided as a link with a "gross" warning rather than just thrown up on the screen within the article.

Glitterspray 19:47, 4 September 2006 (UTC) Can someone explaint to me what is "carbuncle" in CFD?