Talk:Syringe

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Ok then when or where syringe is used? To me, the article is too context-dependent. -- Taku 01:18 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)

A syringe is a syringe no matter where you use it. If you are using it in surgery, it is a syringe. If you are using it in the kitchen, it is a syringe. If you are using it to apply glue, it is a syringe.

Indeed; it would be clutter to link to medicine, and cooking, and recreational drug use, and artificial insemination, etc. It would be downright misleading to link it to surgery, because an injection is not a surgical procedure.

Ok how about what article we should put at see also of this article? I am not advocating something I just try to make context more clear. Please give me more constructive advice. I will appreciate. -- Taku 01:28 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)

There is no need for any 'see also' link of any kind.

how about 'see also' useful tools invented by humans ?

"See also" is a useful technique to impose tied connections into wikipedia sturcture. To explain Syringe, I don't think see also is necessary but "see also" provides convinient paths to other articles. Don't you imagine any kind of articles that readers of this article might want to head for? -- Taku 01:40 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)

If Taku is confused, then the article should be fixed so he is not. Articles should be accessible to people with little knowledge of the subject (if there are exceptions, it should be terms that are only of interest to specialists, but a syringe is surely not one). I see no reason why not to have a paragraph describing the various uses of a syringe, which would be more informative than a see also. Tuf-Kat

Sorry, writing this comment here so I can keep myself from defacing the article. For some reason I think it would be really funny to add a big section on turkey basters.65.87.167.22 02:51, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

I uploaded this hypodermic syringe to have a more sightly picture for the MKULTRA article, but it didn't last an hour there. It might be interesting here if we expand the text a bit. -- ke4roh 14:04, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)

I think we need to mention retractable syringes and probably create a seperate article. Retractable syringes are constantly being hailed as the solution to several problems (needle stick injury, disease transmission) but have yet to become a commercial success. xaviergisz 6 June, 2006

[edit] formatting (images and white space)

I noticed that you removed my edits. Sorry if my format editing was intrusive. The reason I moved the images to the upper section (where there was a list, nothing was deleted) is because the article will automatically format for all sizes of computer screens. I have a larger display, so there was white space created in the middle of the article when viewed from that perspective. Perhaps my changes looked arbitary to you depending on how your display might have shown it. Most people do not object if an image for a section is not immediately adjacent to the text in a particular section, and it solves the untentional white space issue. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. mbbradford 16:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Remove injections in nature

• I think this section is just trivial, and the article would be improved overall if it were just removed. Any objections? mbbradford 20:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Leave it in. It is relevant to the topic of injections. Anthony Appleyard 09:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• I wont take it out then. But the topic is syringe, not injections. Bees do not use syringes! mbbradford 17:08, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• I have moved it to Injection (medicine). Anthony Appleyard 19:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)