Talk:Tongue cleaner

message: A tag has been placed on :Tongue cleaner, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. 
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material.  To do this, affix the template  to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Edikraft (talk) 22:34, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Old comments

message: This should probably be merged with Tongue scraper. They are the same instrument. --Versageek 23:26, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely merge/redirect --ukexpat (talk) 23:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Is it just me, or is this article sounding a lot like an advertisement?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.160.237.186 (talk) 02:12, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

text: I would merge this article into Tongue scraper. They are obviously the same thing, and I believe the instrument is more frequently referred to as a tongue scraper. - Dozenist talk 11:58, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree with Edikraft. The merge makes sense. Tongue cleaner sounds like the better name. If it needs to be changed later, that is easy. Redirects should help readers find the article. Walter Siegmund (talk) 15:49, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I would allow at least a week since some editors don't edit every day and some may be on vacation. To proceed, put a note at the bottom of this discussion with a tally of the opinions and the decision. Indicate that the discussion is closed. Perform the merge and delete the merge tags from the beginning of both pages. Please see WP:MERGE for a detailed discussion of the process. Walter Siegmund (talk) 06:12, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Waiting a week from the time that the merge tags were added to the articles is a good interval in my opinion. I'm not sure there is a consensus for the move to Tongue cleaner, but I didn't see any vigorous objections to it. Your search with google was helpful. Walter Siegmund (talk) 06:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Hi Edikraft; it is a pleasure to see the progress on the article. One small problem I noticed is the presence of inline external links. Those should be footnotes instead. When a reader selects a link within the article, the destination should be another WP article, not an external site. External links should appear only in the "External links" or "References" sections. Please review WP:GTL. I think single-paragraph sections are discouraged, but I may be mistaken. I see abbreviations and jargon that is not defined in the article, e.g., VSC. Spell out the first occurrences with the abbreviation given parenthetically. You may find the WP:MOS helpful. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 05:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge / redirect 

message: I think it is inappropriate to have the OraBrush tongue cleaner website as an external link. Based on the advertisements that I have seen on Youtube, it seems to me that they are behind some of the information on this page, and this makes that information biased. Shuey123 (talk) 14:40, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted it. Please see WP:EL and WP:SPAM for guidance. Walter Siegmund (talk) 16:10, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: Hi.
I think the article could use some references in the 'Importance of tongue cleaning' section, specifically the first three subsections - especially such claims as this, seem pretty obvious to have a reference for "Scientific studies have shown that in approximately 80-90% of cases, bad breath originates in the oral cavity, mainly from material on the rear of the tongue. Research shows that only about 10-20% of cases originate in the stomach or the tonsils."
I didn't place a tag on it yet, but I'd appreciate input from others.
Thanks!
Stefan Jensen (talk) 18:34, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, same goes for the last section; 'Who recommends tongue cleaning'. Unfortunately I have no knowledge in the field myself, or I'd do it. Stefan Jensen (talk) 18:40, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I would expect that most cases of halitosis have multiple causes, with one or two being predominant. Is it therefore correct to say that "these molecules account for 80 to 95 percent of all cases of halitosis (bad breath)"? Would it not be more accurate to say that "these molecules account for 80 to 95 percent of the bacterial which results in halitosis (bad breath)".Royalcourtier (talk) 19:47, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Causes of halitosis