Talk:Excretion

Moved to talk

I moved the following text from the main article which contain details which seem to belong in the urine and or feces pages:

"While urine and feces are both waste material of body processes, they are in completely different categories. Urine is a waste product of the urinary system process while feces are waste products of the digestive system. Feces may contain about one-third bacteria, most of which are harmless, even beneficial while in the gut, but dangerous to others and they may also contain virulent and even deadly pathogens in the form of bacteria, viruses, amoebae, and various parasitic worms. Urine, on the other hand, megue contains excess water, salt, and protein waste in the form of urea as uric acid, and seldom any pathogens; should a person be in a situation of insufficient water and in danger of overheating due to lack of perspiration, urine may be safely used to dampen clothing to aid cooling. It is futile to attempt to drink it (or salty ocean water), as it requires more water from the body to excrete the salt than is available in the fluid. Some sea birds are able to efficiently excrete excess salt through the tear ducts associated with the eyes. Such birds can drink sea water without harm."

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Link added for elimination links to disambiguation page, but I still think it provides a usefull and interesting additional path of information. Possibly more correct to link it to clearance or defecation (which is already in the "see also").

Stop Vandalizing This Article

I don't know who inserted the word "turd" and the phrase "I Like Eggs" into this article, but I found it disturbing. I simply deleted those words and inserted a "protected" template onto the article. Hopefully, this won't happen again. After all, this is an encyclopedia, not a place to write irrelevant phrases.

You're only feeding the trolls who vandalize by saying you find it disturbing. Articles like this get vandalized all the time. There are several useful things you can do about it however. You can start by reverting it on sight. Make sure you get all of it, don't just revert to an unclean version. Also be sure never to do it manually, as you may end up deleting a section that was fine before the vandal messed around with it. If people do a lousy job of reverting themselves, let them know about it (politely). Secondly, don't just add a misleading template. If you want it protection, go to Wikipedia:Requests for protection and ask. If you want political change with the Wikipedia system, campaign to require a login to edit (almost all vandalism comes from IPs, but then they also contribute good stuff as well, so it's a tricky issue. You are presumably an anon yourself, so you can see my point).

If there's anything I can be certain about it's that this article will be vandalized again. Don't complain about it, just revert it. And please sign your posts. Richard001 07:23, 15 August 2007 (UTC)