Talk:Polydactyly

message: this term is used several times throughout the article, but never defined. For those of us not in the know, what does it mean?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by talk) 08:21, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: @ 43.247.41.17 (talk) 00:07, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Post Axial?

message: I was thinking maybe there should be something added about polydactyly appearing in The Princess Bride, looking for the man with six fingers on one hand? I don't know whether or not people think it would be appropriate in a encyclopedic article, but it is a fairly popular instance.--MacAddct1984 14:29, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
:This is kinda similar to the Marilyn Monroe insert. It isn't important to the article, and if people really want to find out about this, they should look up The Princess Bride. -Darth Panda 14:08, 25 November 2005
::I think it would be interesting to have a section about "Polydactyly in Popular Culture", or something to that effect. The book of second Samuel in the Bible mentions a six-fingered giant. (This was picked up on by Frank E. Peretti in his children's book "The Tombs of Anak") Mikepurvis 23:08, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You might want to go to List of polydactyl people and add those facts. I'm not sure if Samuel is mentioned there. Darth Panda 17:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polydactyly in The Princess Bride 

message: In the Ural cultures (finno-ugric) extra fingers were the sign of newborn being destined to become a shaman (a kind tribal wizard and visionaire). 195.70.32.136 07:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beat the drum with six fingers 

message: I saw a picture in another article on wikipedia some time ago of a family (I think in pakastan) that all have 6 (of the functional type) fingers and have attached some sort of prestiege to it.  The picture was very old but it had a small paragraph about them in the article.  Does anyone know what this is?  I will look for the article I think I edited it (doing disambiguation link repair) so I am going to look though my edit history. Dalf | Talk 19:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useful picture for this article 

message: "In the cult movie Gattaca, an embellishment of one of Schubert's Impromptus becomes a piece only playable with twelve fingers."
:Is calling the movie Gattaca a "cult movie" really NPOV? The article on "Gattaca" does not contain any reference to it being a "cult movie".-Royalguard11Talk 03:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article on cult films contains a reference to Gattaca.  Google picks out rather a lot of like references.  Brilliant film, possibly there is a transatlantic difference in emphasis on the meaning of "cult film"?  Google: 
 Cult film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 Cult films often become the source of a thriving, obsessive, ... Night of the Living Dead, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, The Hills Have Eyes, Gattaca, ...
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_film - 41k - Cached - Similar pages
Coriolise 15:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV? 

message: Where in the world can you find doctors who actually know what to do for people who have this disorder?  Are there so few of them that they are hard to find?
Scorpio 1950 16:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A report in my local paper suggests that for extra fingers containing no bone, a procedure known as "tying off" has been employed when the baby has just been born . Presumably this is similar to the principle used by farmers to remove tails and/or testicles from young animals. The article would be improved by the addition of information on surgical measures and any ethical differences of opinion surrounding them. Rugxulo (talk) 22:57, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doctors who operate on Polydactyl patients 

message: All of the entries in that list seem to be about people, so it seems redundant since there is an existing list of polydactyly people.  Should that section be merged with the existing list and just provide a link? -Mizi 22:10, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  About "Extra digits in popular culture" 

message: See the bossip web page... LILVOKA 02:30, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Oprah

message: Natália Guimarães, Miss Brazil 2007 and Miss Universe 1rst Runner Up, was born polydactyl. Her father also had the condition and she says her eventual children would be candidates of being polydactyl, but she thinks that's no real problem. In portuguese: 
http://ego.globo.com/ENT/Noticia/Gente/0,,MUL82462-8334,00-NATALIA+GUIMARAES+FALA+SOBRE+POLIDACTILIA+QUE+A+FEZ+NASCER+COM+SEIS+DEDOS+N.html
Aldo L 23:07, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miss Brazil 

message: When someone with polydactyly on non-thumb fingers, which finger would he or she use to give the bird to someone, typically? Oh yeah, and there's fingerspelling and ASL, both of which assume five-fingered hands.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickyrab (talk • contribs) 03:12, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd would say by using the longest finger. My other questions are having to custom order 6 finger gloves and how awkward are handshakes? Night Tracks (talk) 02:20, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Giving the [[middle finger]]

message: and it makes buying shoes a pain!
Sunnycal 02:54, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have 12 toes 

message: How is it that this article has been up since 2003 and it is still not categorized?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.34.217.222 (talk) 20:40, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories, people! 

message: The Bible passages mentioned do not refer to Goliath. It seems to refer to another giant from Gath, probably one of Goliath's brothers. So, I'm fixing this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.187.0.164 (talk) 16:30, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Goliath

message: The references in the section on fictional and mythological polydactyls seem to be there; they simply are not written out in the standard bibliographical format.  The 24-digit giant has Book, Chapter, and Verse references for the Bible, although the translation is not specified, nor is "The Bible" mentioned for those who do not recognize II Kings and II Cronicles.  The Author of Redwall is identified, but not the publisher or copyright date.  Hanibal could be better identified.  Nevertheless, the statement that there are no references seems unjustified.  (Replace it and tell me otherwise if you dissagree...)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.84.183.96 (talk) 19:21, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Who believes in a Bible that doesn't have those books in it?  I've never heard of such an idea existing today; do you mean that we should accomodate followers of Marcion?  Nyttend (talk) 02:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mythical References

message: From reading this article, it is clearly limited to Polydactyly in humans.  However, polydactyly occurs in other animals as well.  Only two options present themselves to us:  do we add information on non-human animals with polydactyly, or do we rename this article "Polydactyly in Humans" and make a seperate article for the definition of the overall concept?  I would vote for a single combined article on all forms of polydactyly.
As an example:  Cats typically have five digits on each front paw, and four on each hind.  I have personally known cats with up to seven functional digits on their front paws, and up to five on their hind paws.  -Kasreyn (talk) 15:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mismatch between title and content 

message: I remember,when I was young, watching a TV show with my parents; some adventurer would travel to exotic locales, and show the films.  The films were silent; the adventurer would comment in voice-over as we watched.
One time, he visited a people who practiced fire-walking.  He tried it himself, with less than good results.  I remember that in the course of it, it came out incidentally that he had six toes--at least on one foot.
Does anybody (cough) older than me remember this?  Now I find that in 1960--about the right time--David Attenborough did some shows like this, including an episode about fire-walkers in Fiji.
It was almost comical, in a way.  The adventurer tried walking across the coals, and took about a step and a half before dancing and leaping off.  He sat down, and one local examined his foot.  The film showed the foot up close, and the adventurer remarked in voice-over that we will notice he has six toes.  We saw the local man look puzzled.  He then, with a finger, counted the adventurers toes, paused a moment, then with the same finger counted the fingers on his own hand.  Then he shrugged, and that was the end of it.
Anybody else remember?  David Attenborough?   140.147.236.194 (talk) 12:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  An adventurer?  Possibly David Attenborough? 

message: Very few of the people listed as being Polydactyly have references listed. In particular, Anny Boleyn. The page on here seems to indicate that it was a rumor started by radical Catholics after her death.--70.176.251.1 (talk) 08:51, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anne Boleyn 

message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyKgCAO6Ko  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigshotnews (talk • contribs) 12:24, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  12 fingers, 14 toes 

message: "Varalakshmi V, a girl born with a rare case of polydactyly with 27 fingers and toes. She is from Bangalore and has eight fingers in each hand and about four to five extra toes in each foot."
This doesn't add up, eight fingers on each hand is 16, four to five extra toes on each foot (can't they just count them?) is a minimum of 18, that makes 34 fingers and toes. Muleattack (talk) 02:50, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Varalakshmi V 

message: "Hampton Hawes, jazz pianist, was born with six fingers on each hand (surgically removed shortly after birth).[11]"
I am new to the editing and contribution side of Wikipedia so am reluctant to edit the main article, but the above entry rather implies that poor Hampton either had all six fingers, or maybe even "each hand" surgically removed rather than just the supernumerary digits. Should we make a change?
Chris
89.168.65.63 (talk) 19:42, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hampton Hawes 

message: The section "Evolutionary consequences" is opinion and has no references.  I believe it should be removed.  The just of the section is to say that Polydactyly some-how invalidates evolutionary theory.  There is no rule to evolution that prevents Polydactyly nor does it "need" to be explained by evolution.  Indeed that fact that Polydactyly can be hereditary gives credence to changes in population over time (which is exactly what evolution is).  This can be further supported by examples outside of humans such as the Norwegian Lundehund which has 6 toes across the entire breed, and gives it an evolutionary advantage (better hunting of the Puffin).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chronofish (talk • contribs) 12:41, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolutionary consequences 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Maybe the portion on what populations are likely to have different forms of polydactyly was copied from a 1906 Encyclopedia Britannica or a similar source, but I don't think that's any excuse for it to use terms that Wikipedia itself describes as problematic and outdated.  Could we get an update with some more current terminology? 66.193.250.244 (talk) 15:34, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That appears to have been vandalism that was missed at the time (2016) that it was made. I have reverted back to the previous wording, which still isn't great (it uses the term "blacks").  I'm concerned though about the source; the link that should take us to the source instead takes us to an alphabetical index that does not mention Polydactyly. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 22:45, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of "Mongoloid" and other antiquated "Great Race" terms 

message: I've just removed:
* Gemma Arterton, an actress who has starred in Prince of Persia and Quantum of Solace, was born with an extra finger on each hand. The vestigial digits were removed when she was a child.
IMDB is expressly identified as an unreliable source. The other appears within a list of gossipy items in Parade magazine. An encyclopedia should be based on better sources than either of these. -- Hoary (talk) 00:12, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Arterton

message: It would be nice if the article could show the global frequency (of polydactyly), as a table. Does not have to be a long sub-article, just so that we can see where this is most frequently found, and how often it occurs. Right now this partially exists in regards to the part "epidemiology" of polydactyly, but this refers mostly to africa, not to the global situation in regards to this disease/condition. 2A02:8388:1641:8380:3AD5:47FF:FE18:CC7F (talk) 02:03, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global frequency 

message: I worked with an Indian man (ie, from India) who had a Y-shaped thumb. Both phalanges were duplicated. It was totally functional. Both thumbs moved together; he could not move each separately. From what is stated here, that would seem to be very very rare.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:E414:3A01:FC23:1544:ADCE:9E2A (talk) 09:08, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  An unusual example