"contest? I'm interested in this story. I would namely like to know if this Maria Doychinova is the same one who is a fashion designer. Thank you. My e-mail: figueira.ric@gmail.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.220.42.31   

Physical Posture/Exercises

Information on physical postures/exercises to aid the release of uncomfortable intestinal gases may be enlightening for the article under the remedies section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.192.71   

Research?
Why limit farting (first paragraph) to mammals?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.9.247   

Cultures
I think giving specific details about which cultures find farting acceptable and which ones don't should be added. ACDCPres 

 Farting 

I reverted this article back to a recent version that contained the term fart. Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia (not a medical one), and its important to use a term that a majority of people know. Flatulence is no more or less a ""proper"" term than farting is, and its definetly not slang  its use is too common, everyday, and widespread. It would be a misservice the readers to simply ignore this important term. Its such a odd thing to want to sensor.
  
I agree. Why use the word ""flatus"" all over the place? People don't know it's fart. Doctors know it's fart, and, well, doctors are people, but they ain't most people. The common term is fart or gas.  —   | Talk 
The reason seems pretty obvious to me: ""fart"" is a much rougher, less ""refined"" word. Using it casually is simply not appropriate tone for an encyclopedia. -  (Talk at me) 

 Citations needed 

Oh come on, not EVERY sentence needs a citation now, does it.. It makes articles really hard to read and is just silly. I am talking about the section ""Dietary"" where every second word has a citation or ""citation needed"". Whoever posted all that is obsessed with citations. seriously!217.231.205.126  
I agree, especially since the rest of the article doesn't seem to conform to the extreme citation standards in the Dietary section. Additionally, some of the stuff is a given and doesn't really need a citation unless you happen to be an alien from another planet who is completely unfamiliar with Earth, in which case it remains a mystery how this alien learned enough english to understand this article without learning some basic information about humans and Earth. Not everyone is a wikipedia administrator, y'know. 74.56.36.34  

 ICD infobox 

Why is this article topped by a medical infobox? In the vast majority of occurances, flatulence has nothing to do with either disease or dysfunction.

 Isotalo 

 Post release 

In 1998, Chester ""Buck"" Weimer of Pueblo, Colorado, USA received a patent for the first undergarment that contained a replaceable charcoal filter. [...]

The inventors, Myra and Brian Conant of Mililani, Hawaii, USA still claim on their website to have discovered the undergarment product in 2002 (8 years after Chester Weimer filed for a patent for his product

Was it made in 1994, or was it 4 years after his product was made?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.235.253.187   

 Merge 

There doesn't seem to be much justification for keeping a separate article on the common word for a bodily function. The word really doesn't really live