Talk:Articular

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I know that the wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a dictionary, but "articular" is both a noun describing a specific bone in some animals and an adjective ([1] & [2]). The wikipedia correctly has the entry for the noun and correctly doesn't define the adjective. That being said, it is confusing to find no reference to the adjective on the wiki page for articular. IMO, no need for a definition, just a reference that "articular" has alternate meanings. I'm sure there is a standard way of doing this in the wikipedia but I'm not familiar with it.

Furthermore, should the wikipedia entry for the noun be "articular" or "articular bone"? I'm far from an anatomy expert on tetrapods but a quick Google search shows that "articular" AND "articular bone" produces about 7.2K hits while "articular" AND -"articular bone" returns about 3.4M. This differs from other bones such as the "humerus" which has about 12.5K hits for "humerus bone" and just shy of 800K hits for "humerus".

Now after having written this up I seem to be more clueful as to what should be done. The current wikipedia entry for "articular" should be moved to "articular bone" and "articular" should be a disambiguation page. The wiktionary entry for "articular" has many "derived terms" that could and probably should be added to the wikipedia as well.

Neil Smithline (talk) 04:12, 24 December 2007 (UTC)