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Slang terms

I am inclined to remove the entire list of examples from the "In language" paragraph. It suffers from a very bad lack of verifiability, and there are numerous attempts to popularise newly coined terms by adding them to this list, usually without evidence of usage. JFW | T@lk 15:00, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scalpy (talk · contribs) has been repeatedly inserting the term "shouting to Huey". When Googling for this term, one needs to embrace it with "quotation marks" to get the actual number of uses. I get 18 hits with this, none of which appear to be reliable sources. It isn't even on urbandictionary, usually an indication that it is one of thousands of colourful terms for vomiting that does not belong on Wikipedia. I am waiting for a response. JFW | T@lk 17:21, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The user has not responded here, but in an edit summary makes the fair point that many of these terms listed have exactly the same problem on being of unverifiable relevance. I have now removed the entire paragraph, and await responses here. JFW | T@lk 20:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To my knowledge, the phrase "call for Hughie/Huey" (and "call for Ralph") for vomiting originates in a sketch by the well known Scottish comedian Billy Connolly almost 30 years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.53.69.150 (talk) 07:36, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mammals that CANNOT vomit (i.e. rabbits)

Just read that rabbits cannot. It would be interesting if someone with the knowledge would post a list of mammals that also cannot.

Gastric wall

Please change "gastric wall" to "gastrointestinal wall," whoch has an entry in Wikipedia 2605:C900:2:DFE0:E547:D11D:5DC9:86E4 (talk) 14:04, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Change human anatomy article links to neutral ones.

Can I make a request that someone change some instances of certain anatomy links like human nose and human mouth to their general anatomy articles? This is because vomiting is not a human only thing, it happens in almost every animal ever and thus should not be linked to exclusively human anatomy articles. 2001:FB1:94:DDF5:B45B:57AE:8F50:7992 (talk) 08:52, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Being sick" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Being sick has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 24 § Being sick until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 03:46, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]