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Merged chewing article with this mastication article --Djanvk 03:58, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is my first time actually creating an account and logging into Wikipedia. I was hoping that after I logged-in there would be some way to flag this article. I'm not sure I should edit this, but in the first paragraph at the top of the page, someone has placed some "garbage" in there. Can I just edit this myself? How does this work - I'll go read the docs or whatever - but I just thought I'd place it into someone else's "knowing" hands before taking matters into my own. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NoellyB (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia has the same slogan as Nike - just do it. WLU 17:48, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boldface terms

Some of the terms here are in boldface because they are redirects to this page. Because this article is intended to encompass terms like muscles of mastication without having a separate article for the term, the boldface is used so those arriving from redirects are able to find what they were looking for quickly. Without this, the redirects may cause confusion and defeat the purpose. I've replaced the boldface on the aforementioned muscles of mastication, because I was the one who unlinked it as a redirect to mastication. BigNate37_(T) 19:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

I've never seen this before, is there a policy? I don't think the boldface is necessary and would prefer plain text - boldface gives the term an added importance or cues the reader to pay more attention to it, which isn't really the purpose you give above for bolding the terms. Besides, in this case, there's a section heading. Better might be to correct the redirect link to go right to that section. I'll do so. WLU 20:04, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, to me it seems like the term could be in boldface as the subject of that section, much like the subject of an article is in boldface in its introductory paragraph. However, it is fine as it is. As long as you're aware of my reasoning as you remove the bold markup, it's fine with me. BigNate37_(T) 23:00, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

I really think the bold is distracting to readers, and I've never seen a page with similar bolding. What I did was every link that was directly to the muscles of mastication redirect I corrected to link directly to the section - no need for bold if it goes right to a section named for what the link is. WLU 18:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, that may not be the best solution. Easter eggs are bad (yes, that was ironic). BigNate37_(T) 19:11, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Huh, hadn't seen that before. I'll think on it, but if I recall correctly, all my piped links are from [[Muscles of mastication]] to [[Mastication#Muscles of mastication]], so it's not too traumatizing. Good policy though, it'll affect my wikilinking from here on. Thanks! WLU 20:54, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Now that you've put them side-by-side and I see the difference between Muscles of mastication and Mastication#Muscles of mastication right infront of me, I don't think piping muscles of mastication could be considered an easter egg anyways. Glad to have pointed it out, though. BigNate37_(T) 21:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good

Let's include certain things that are good to chew. We could have a list. Areally awesome list of all our favorite things to chew. Let's do it. Feel free to post up a few things you like to chew. Chewing rocks!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.33.143.96 (talk) 03:20, 12 November 2007 (UTC)