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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 5.28.89.25 (talk) at 22:37, 15 August 2013 (==Why is there no image of a dog penis?== There should be. You might argue that there would be one on the dog penis article, but there wasnt, untill i re added it. This one would be fine here - thumb|The penis of a dog - and woul). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Wrong information

The section where it talks about growth of penis during puberty cites a research that supposingly found out that penis stops growing after age of 17. The thing is that its not even what the research was about. I cant edit the page so if someone else can please do.

Elephant penis confusing/contradicting info

The article says: "An adult elephant has the largest penis of any land animal at 6 feet (1.8 m) on average.[2] An elephant's penis can reach a length of 100 cm (39 in) and a diameter of 16 cm (6 in) at the base." So is it 180cm on the average or 100cm at the extreme? Needs clarification.

Picture

Why is there no picture of human penis? An article about penises should have a picture of human penis. Maybe several, with one from each age group.

Trust me, we have been through that discussion ad nauseam. Meanwhile note that there is a hatnote directing curious parties to the human organ, or vox humana. JonRichfield (talk) 13:39, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This is not true. No reason has been given, other than prudishness. JonRichfield is one of the main censors. His answer above is reflective of his argument - but perhaps he could expand. I second the request above.5.28.89.25 (talk) 22:31, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Penis

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Penis's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "courtship":

  • From Urination: Szykman. M., Van Horn, R. C., Engh, A.L. Boydston, E. E. & Holekamp, K. E. (2007) Courtship and mating in free-living spotted hyenas. Behaviour. 144: 815–846.
  • From Cat: Akihiro Yamane; Teruo Doi; Yuiti Ono (1996). "Mating Behaviors, Courtship Rank and Mating Success of Male Feral Cat (Felis catus)". Journal of Ethology. 14 (1): 35–44. doi:10.1007/BF02350090.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • From Animal sexual behaviour: Szykman, M.; Van Horn, R. C.; et al. (2007). "Courtship and mating in free-living spotted hyenas" (pdf). Behaviour. 144 (7). doi:10.1163/156853907781476418. Retrieved 11 July 2012.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:55, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reference overkill

There are too many references in some areas; one sentence has around 25 citations. Is this necessary? Melonkelon (talk) 02:11, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. I have no idea what's up that overkill. --NeilN talk to me 02:24, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@User:NeilN and User:Melonkelon: I wasn't even aware of the concept of citation overkill until now - I didn't realize that it was possible for an article to have "too many citations". Can this article's quality be improved by deleting its least reliable citations, while leaving its most reliable citations in place? Jarble (talk) 18:49, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Judging by the deletion discussions here and here, WP:OVERKILL appears to be an essay which many editors strongly disagree with. Jarble (talk) 19:18, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I directed Jarble to WP:Citation overkill and this section of the talk page, as seen here, here and here. Considering that the Penis article and therefore its associated talk page are undoubtedly on his WP:Watchlist, I'm not sure why he's just now responding to you guys. One reason for his citation overkill, as currently seen with the first line of the Mammals section, seems to be to cover text that states "different" or "many," or something similar. But like I stated, he should find one or two WP:Reliable sources (or even just stopping at four would be fine) that state "different" or "many," or at least shows one or both of those aspects, not add a bunch of WP:Reliable sources just to support that text. There is a How to trim excessive citations section at WP:Citation overkill for guidance on this matter. WP:Bundling, for example, which is a guideline and cites WP:Citation overkill, is very useful and I use that; it can be used not only with the examples currently shown at WP:Bundling. But there is no need to bundle many reliable sources; 25 references is extreme no matter what. WP:OVERKILL is an essay that is often followed; despite being an essay, it is deferred to in WP:Good article and WP:Featured article nominations. You will never see a Wikipedia article make it to good or featured article status with as extreme of citation overkill as Jarble has displayed in this article. Flyer22 (talk) 19:26, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@User:Flyer22 I've moved some of the references to the article's bibliography so that they no longer add clutter to the text of the article. Jarble (talk) 18:27, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there no image of a dog penis?

There should be. You might argue that there would be one on the dog penis article, but there wasnt, untill i re added it. This one would be fine here -

The penis of a dog

- and would make the article clearer, and easier to understand.5.28.89.25 (talk) 22:37, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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