Talk:Needle

Accupuncture, Tattoo, Body Piercing

I think I agree with User:Commander Keane that these entries don't really belong here. It seems unlikely to me that somebody looking for an article about Acupuncture would type needle into a search box. Would somebody type hammer if they were looking for Carpentry? If we had an Acupuncture needle article, then I think it would make sense, but we don't currently have such an article.

In any case, I object to the use of the piped links. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) says not to use them in a dab page. If the consensus evolves that those links should stay, at the very least they should be reworded to use the non-piped forms.

--RoySmith 18:27, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

• I put them back in, without the piping. I can see how someone might type in "needle" and expect to go to an artcile about a phonograph stylus. The bottom entries could still use some re-wording though. --Commander Keane 03:30, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
  • Added a few more found via http://www.wikiwax.com/ -- feel free to delete any of the new See Alsos you feel are irrelevant, I tried to limit it to significant uses. — Catherine\^talk 22:04, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

External links?

Are external links needed on the face of the disambiguation page? Why can't it be on the related encyclopedia article as the external links from each of the articles are otherwise fair game.

Request for an external link to articles on Surgical needles

Wikipedia already has 3 external links to Wikisurgery articles, Scalpel,Retractor (medical) and Scissors, adding more value than a Wikipedia Featured Article.

Wikisurgery has a group of articles on Surgical needles of a similar high standard.

Would the editors care to include an external link from Wikisurgery to the Wikipedia Needle article?Michael Harpur Edwards (talk) 08:29, 2 September 2008 (UTC)