Talk:Accessory breast

Change of title?

Based on recent edits by User:Arcadian I'm wondering if this article should be moved to Accessory breast and the current title redirect to that title, rather than the current obverse. Thoughts? User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:08, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd support that move. --Arcadian 23:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I have moved the page from "Multiple breast" to "Accessory breast". (I could see a case for "polymastia" as the title as well, but either way is a major improvement. After all, two counts as multiple, but clearly not what the page is about. --Arcadian 21:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

This article needs a lot of work

I just removed some outright false information on incidence, but there's a lot more wrong with this one, including lack of citations, and a generally high schoolish writing style. The Darwin paragraph in particular strikes me as pointless. Who cares what Darwin thought over a century ago? It is not relevant to modern medical science. I'm going to edit that a little bit, but really someone with access to a lot of medical journals and the like would do well to update and improve this one! — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree. This article right now is breaking WP:RS quite badly. Some of the "sources" cited are sexualrecords.com, salon.com, and The Straight Dope. These are at best tertiary sources, and none are scientific publications. From the wikipedia Guidlines for physical sciences, mathematics and medicine: "Cite peer-reviewed scientific publications and check community consensus"; "In science, avoid citing the popular press". This is supposed to be an encyclopedia article in Medicine. If all we are doing is aggreggating stuff googled from sexualrecords.com and Salon, then there is little value to the article as it currently stands. I will try to help out with some changes. I'll also check out the proposed merger. Derek Balsam 20:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I moved the section with the Salon and Sexual Records "references" to the Popular Culture section, where it is more appropriate. I also removed one extra reference to Salon which merely referenced Darwin. There is no need to cite a tertiary source when the primary source is already cited.Derek Balsam 21:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

The source sexualrecords.com website is no longer active. 72.36.46.253 04:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Merge

Copied over fromTalk:Supernumerary_nipple:

This article needs to be merged with Polymastia/Accessory breast, badly. Both have salient facts that belong in both articles, the conditions are the medically the same except for a different ICD10 code, and either the facts as they appear in the article are going to continue to diverge and be piecemeal, or the articles will end up so similar you could pretty much just do a search-replace of "nipple" to "breast" to turn one article into the other. This is a prime candidate for a merge. Even the ICD10 code in the DiseaseDisorder infobox can probably be fixed like so:

ICD10 = Q83.3 (nipple) | ICD10 = Q83.1 (breast) |

Overall the content in Supernuerary_nipple is better than that at Accessory_breast, but there are some things worth saving from that article — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 11:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I have to say I'm in favor of the merge. Astrocom (talk) 21:56, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

image

I took a picture - it is found at Supernumerary nipple. I support the merge. Also read comments on the other talk page. PER9000 21:25, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I will thus remove the "picture request indicator". PER9000 21:25, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

The "picture indicator" was on this page (the talk page and not the article), I still removed it. PER9000 21:27, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Removed Salon link

The link to salon "reporting" a woman nursing a child from her thigh was actually a humurous anecdote involding Darwin and platypodes. It was not a reliable source. - 152.91.9.144 00:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Total Recall

This has a hooker who has a third breast. Need to add this one. 65.163.115.237 (talk) 08:31, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if it's encyclopedic but it's certainly notable and no more fictitious than the mythology examples. What the hell, it's been 3 years and no one has done it, if anyone considers it important enough to source go for it. 96.228.129.69 (talk) 03:57, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Been another 7 years. 10 years total. How has this not been added yet? Hppavilion1 (talk) 20:18, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm fairly certain the best source to cite for it would probably be the film itself, but I'm not certain that's the correct course. Also, it should be noted if it's present in the original short story, but since I don't have a copy, I can't confirm. I will be adding it to an "In popular culture" section and citing the original film to the best of my ability, but if that's not quite right, someone should probably fix it. Hppavilion1 (talk) 20:26, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

The fictional staff member you refer to has a third breast on the central midline. The real-world phenomenon seems to be restricted to developments along the "milk lines" from the armpit to the groin on both sides. Unless there are documented cases of real people with central mammillary development (far off the milk lines) I would put this down to fantasy; not genuinely related to polymastia at an encyclopaedic level. 49.180.6.249 (talk) 06:18, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Personally, I think that you should include it, and also mention that this is not how it would occur in a real world example. I just read the wikipedia article, and my first thought was Total Recall, but from the wiki article I did not understand that it would not happen like that. I only realized such when I read your comment. 193.255.88.119 (talk) 12:01, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Scaramanga

doesn't he have a 3rd nipple? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.66.96 (talk) 02:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

HHGG and Star Trek

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy makes several references to Eccentrica Gallumbits ("The triple-breasted whore of Eroticon VI") and a similarly-endowed woman is seen in a bar scene in The Star Trek Film The Final Frontier. G7mzh (talk) 19:50, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Both of those are creatures with three breasts as a standard. An accessory breast is a breast that is in addition to the normal ones. Padillah (talk) 14:50, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

In popular culture.

Perhaps we should add a section about third breasts/nipples in popular culture. E.g. in the end-titles of the movie Good Luck Chuck a woman with 3 breasts is shown, also in Total Recall (mentioned above) in the Martian bar scene, and I think a (fake) third nipple was a plot point in the movie Mallrats (or was it another movie?). Also see the Star Trek mention above. 195.35.160.133 (talk) 10:44, 16 March 2010 (UTC) Martin.

The Star Trek and H2G2 referenced above are creatures that have a different number of breasts as a standard. The other examples are fictional. I don't view this article as a dumping ground for "third nipple" stories. With as many real life examples as we have available I don't think we need a "popular Culture" section. Also, they invarriably turn into a dumping ground for trivia. If it's worth mentioning, work it into the article. If not, drop it. Padillah (talk) 15:05, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, those examples are fictitious, but no more so than the mythology section. The important question is whether these examples are noted in 3rd party sources - i.e. instead of citing the movie Total Recall, cite a reliable article that discusses accessory breasts and mentions the movie as a fictional representation. As long as those sources can be found, go for it. 96.228.129.69 (talk) 04:01, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

merged as requested

Merged Multiple breast syndrome with this article. Mostly intact but in multiple places. Fyunck(click) (talk) 06:25, 1 March 2012 (UTC)