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Adoption as a Project

I've decided to adopt this article in an attempt to fully develop it, hopefully to good-article or feature-article status. Edits will be found at User:Strombollii/sandbox, until fully revised. Any advice or suggestions are more than welcome via this or that page. Thank you! --Strombollii (talk) 01:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Strombollii - and congratulations on taking on this article, which really could do with some work. May I make a suggestion? Rather than editing your new version entirely in your sandbox, and then releasing it fully fledged, I would recommend tinkering with the existing article, and introducing your improvements here bit by bit (while also working on the full improved version in the sandbox). That way, (a) people who are watching the article will have time to get used to the changes, and the new version won't be as likely to be met with hostility; (b) you'll prompt other people to chip in with suggestions and improvements - and you can transfer these to the sandbox version as you proceed. Remember that Wikipedia is a collaborative project, and you'll find that an article that is being visibly worked on will pull in collaborators - you won't like everything that others do to "your" article, but both the process and the end result will be improved by the collaboration. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 07:51, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, thank you for the advice: really I'm just afraid of angering the "Wiki-gods" and publishing something unfinished, or in progress. However, when put that way, it sounds like a fantastic idea. I doubt I'll get far without others helping. THanks again! --Strombollii (talk) 15:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Everything is unfinished, permanently. Everything is always in progress. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 16:32, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The challenge here will be to determine your focus on such a broad topic. It's almost a subject that lends itself to a text book with many many chapters or its own encyclopedia; than a single Wikipedia entry. On the upside, there must be a billion references you can access! Good Luck. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JimmyButler (talk • contribs) 00:23, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In my search for FA Medicine topics (trying to find what an FA should look like), I came across Human_anatomy. Perhaps you should move your topic of choice to this pre-exsisting article or suggest merging the two because, from a quick glance, they seem to share a common focus. Sorry if this dismays you - I just saw it and didn't want you to get too far before having to merge/move. FoodPuma (talk) 23:51, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rally vehemently against a merge: as discussed, there is a distinct difference between the two. --Strombollii (talk) 03:53, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Second & Fourth Paragraphs of Reproduction

There seem to be some missing words at the beginning of these paragraphs. They just start with 'pelvis' and make little sense. I tried looking back to see if I could find what they used to be, but to no avail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.192.170 (talk) 17:06, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

pictures

I suggest that a better female picture be found as the current female is too fat to represent a common female body. Just slightly too fat. Almost like someone copy and pasted it from some porn site and then added labels.

Also, what about using the famous leonardo da vinci body diagrams? I think they would be much better.