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