Talk:Head

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Previous discussion of the renamed page Head (now Head (anatomy)), can be found at Talk:Head (disambiguation), as its discussion is more relevant to Head (disambiguation).

At this time, the only relevant topic for this talk page is redirection of Head.

--Jerzy (t) 00:09, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC)

According to Little Wayne & Shawwna head is used as a metaphor by saying I was "getting some head" meaning sex, as sung in their song. To "get some head" is to suck face. :) The name of the song is Gettin Some Head.

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 + Ex:Last night Michael Jackson was gettin some head.  
 + Ex2:Grandma & grandpa was getting some head the other day   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.159.102.109 (talk) 08:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC) 

I don't know where to place this as all talk pages don't seem to have any information. Does it make sense that the human head is anterior only? It is also posterior. The face is anterior, but the head is both the face and the skull. It is indeed, the most superior part of the body, but I really can't see it being labelled as anterior. --yosiea 2005 Jul 25

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Is there a reason why this redirects to Head (anatomy) instead of head (disambiguation)? unsigned

Yes, thank you for asking. The vast majority of all internal links were in the anatomical sense, and it's the most logical thing to expect when typing the word--nearly all other meanings derive from the anatomical one. head (anatomy) has a link to head (disambiguation). Since I produced this primary topic disambiguation, a number of articles have had head added to them, and nearly every single one has been a reference to head in the anatomical sense, which seems to confirm that the choice to perform this kind of disabiguation was the correct one. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:21, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Another response, whose composition overlapped with the above one:

  This is Talk:Head, which redir-ed to Talk:Head (disambiguation) until you mucked with it; by "this", you must mean Head.

  I'll tell you how to find out why it should, which is much more interesting: go to the list of articles that link to this talk's corresponding article page. (Eventually we can expect those lks to get retargetted appropriately, so there's an unlinked ugly version of the list, for the longterm record, below, between the next two horizontal rules.) Ask yourself how likely future legitimate lks to Head are likely to resemble these. Then go to Head (disambiguation), and ask yourself how useful it would be, to people reading such articles, to follow a link from one of those pages to Head (disambiguation) instead of one named Head (anatomy) that begins

  For other uses of the word head, see head (disambiguation).

  --Jerzy (t) 00:14, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC)

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Has this COTW died out or something? Check out the tag above. If this page is empty after a while, I will finish the page. PhatRita 19:55, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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Head picture

Can someone put a pretty head picture there. I didn't like the previous one and changed it but I'm not sure if I did right. Thanks.

A picture of just one human head would be preferable.

Someone reverted to previous picture which contains another person in the background, so I think we can do better than that. I've just wasted an hour searching the common gallery. What I had in mind was a female head picture not obstructed by much hair, like a Sinéad O'Connor head picture, that would be best, but I couldn't find one. I give up, for now.

Why is this guy the definitive human head? What does this image even add? I would be shocked if someone could use their web-browser to navigate to the "Head" article of Wikipedia and not know what one looked like. Perhaps an anatomical diagram would be of actual interest to someone? Appropriate Username 04:30, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree, the current image is a very poor choice. I think a plate from Gray's Anatomy could be nice, or maybe a bust of someone. Besides that, I think the rest of the article is in need of attention. jerd 09:26, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

How many people need a picture to show them what a human head looks like? Shouldn't the image just be removed? I can't see that it serves any purpose.

I agree. Does anyone have any reason's why we should keep the picture? AstroMark (talk) 15:26, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Missing sections

This article is missing the history of the evolution of the head, and is missing discussion of the head of the most notable animals and creatures which have heads. It is also missing a section about the features of the human head. This article could also have a section explaining known head diseases. What does everyone else think? — Wackymacs 18:27, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree, the article as it stands is too focused on the human head. It needs some pictures of non-human heads, and a discussion of how the head came to be, why heads exist, etc. Head diseases might also be nice, but it could just turn into a long list of brain diseases, dental problems, sinus problems, eye problems, hair loss, etc. ONUnicorn 20:14, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

agree, ATM it has nothing more than the use of the word "animal" in intro paragraph. They need thier own section, but that won't make any sense until all the human stuff is broken down better

jerd 09:42, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Article Needs Work

I think Head should be the disambig page. Head (anatomy) should be about the anatomical head in all animals. Finally, this article should be moved to Human Head. Furthermore, references to oral sex have no place in this article, they should be on the disambig page as well. Even then, this article could use some serious organization- it goes immediately into baldness, then to a detailed list of the bones in the human skull (which belong in Human skull), then to non-humans, then cultural references, then phrenology. This makes very little sense. --Karuna8 03:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Also, I don't understand what the long list of random articles is doing on this page, even after viewing the referenced post. --Karuna8 03:35, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

The article states, "The cranium can be stupid into a skull cap (or calvarium) and base." The word "stupid" is obviously wrong. It just doesn't make sense.

For this sentence to parse, one would expect a past participle instead; "divided" comes to mind.

Did someone try to type a different word, but their spelling checker suggested "stupid"?

138.88.174.114 06:31, 5 May 2007 (UTC)Eli

"Humans have the largest head size relative to body size of any species" -- Wait, what? Elephant, anyone? Dianaramadani (talk) 10:39, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

PICTURE OF FRONT OF HUMAN HEAD IS REALLY SILLY

I think it's safe to assume that every human being looking at this page is familiar with what a human face looks like. I don't think any aliens will be surfing Wikipedia, and if they do, they certainly know what a human looks like. User:zooboat 17:45, 19 December (UTC)Eli

Mass?

what is the average mass of the human head? Kingturtle (talk) 15:16, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Merger with Cephalic

Per Wikipedia's policy on article title format, "adjective and verb forms... should redirect to articles titled with the corresponding noun". "Cephalic" is the adjectival form of "Head", and should therefore redirect here. Any valid content currently located on the Cephalic article would be better located here on the Head article, which is currently so short that we should have no length problems with merging the content over. Neelix (talk) 16:56, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

See also Cephalon (arthropod head). Wbm1058 (talk) 18:20, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

• Support as you state these should be on the same article. --Tom (LT) (talk) 01:27, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

 Done Let me know if you have any issues with my merge. - Thanks, Wbm1058 (talk) 02:29, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Idiomatic expressions

I felt that the explanations for some of the idiomatic expressions in the section Head#Idiomatic expressions were insufficient for a non-native speaker of English to be able fully to grasp the meaning of the expression, but I see these were taken from a website so I don't know if it is all right to amend a few of the explanations. I'd like to suggest the following changes. If it is all right to make these changes, and there is agreement that it would be a good idea, I'll go ahead and make them. I've put into italics what I would add:

• come to a head – events have reached a critical point such that action has to be taken
• all in your head – something one imagines
• bite someone's head off – criticize strongly
• can't make head or tail of – can't understand it
• head start - an advantage to make quick progress ahead of others
• head and shoulders above others - significantly better in some skill than (most) others
• head on a platter – someone makes you so angry that you want their head on a platter
• bang your head against a brick wall – continue vainly to try and achieve something with no success
• head in the clouds - not paying attention to what is going on around you because you are so absorbed by your own thoughts

– Corinne (talk) 19:04, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Science section headings

The science sections of the article could usefully be organised thematically; more like the current hand page. In particular:

• Structure and Function - The common/typical features of heads (inc. containment of brain, multiple sense organs, food intake)
• Evolution - currently vaguely titled Other animals, but should include Cephalopoda, and various worm body-plans with a very basic head. Should also mention animals that do not have a head and why.

I think this would make it less of an assortment of statements, and more of a coherent article. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 05:01, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

NB, useful refs:

Richter, Stefan (2013). "The Arthropod Head". Arthropod biology and evolution (1 ed.). ISBN 978-3-642-36160-9.

Onai, Takayuki; Irie, Naoki; Kuratani, Shigeru (31 August 2014). "The Evolutionary Origin of the Vertebrate Body Plan: The Problem of Head Segmentation". Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 15 (1): 443–459. doi:10.1146/annurev-genom-091212-153404.

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