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Delete? Just going downhill...

The original article, created just 6 months ago,[1] was reasonable, though perhaps not very encyclopedic. Since then it has gone slowly and steadily downhill and led to continued vandalism and sloppy editing. Should we just delete this and redirect to the disambiguation page? --NealMcB (talk) 21:57, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"This article may require cleanup..." LOL. The article doesn't seem to have changed much since I started it - just some jiggling due to vandalism. I have plans for expansion and have just cited a substantial sources for this notable topic which I will summarise further. Colonel Warden (talk) 23:02, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I dunno it looks alright to me.. perhaps the composition of 'dirt' could be mentioned.. or some extra categories added.. the article doesn't look that bad overall though. -- œ ^™ 06:16, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Soil?

I came here expecting the article which is actually under "soil". Instead, I got an article telling me about sex perversions. Shouldn't this redirect to soil instead? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.190.179 (talk) 03:59, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The meaning of the article title here is that given in the OED as Unclean matter, such as soils any object by adhering to it; filth;.... The meaning of Mud; soil, earth,... is described as a colloquialism. Warden (talk) 10:31, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Foci" section

It's an interesting tidbit of information, but I don't see why it should be the only piece of information there. I think someone should either add more information to it to balance out that one piece, or delete it entirely and move the bit about keyboard dirt elsewhere in the article. 64.30.122.18 (talk) 13:56, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the "Foci" section and relocated the bit about keyboard dirt to the "Health" section. Contamination by microorganisms was not mentioned elsewhere on this article as a way of being "dirty", but this is a commonly used sense of "dirtiness". I added some additional text preceding that tidbit to explain that point. The rest of the "Health" section discussed the benefits of dirt vis a vis microorganisms, but did not include this additional, relevant information. It might be helpful to discuss at greater length the connection between "dirtiness" and the potential for contracting disease. The way this changed over time is also relevant, especially the perception of this before and after the development of the germ theory of disease. The article referenced for the keyboard tidbit has some information about this, as well as some discussion of bathing. Bathing should also probably be discussed in this article, since its function of removing dirt from the human body is definitely relevant to an article about dirt. -- -- Benjwgarner (talk) 06:08, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Smirch" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Smirch. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Hog Farm (talk) 17:46, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is it alive?

This page doesn't include any real detail of whether dirt is alive or not. I'm trying to find out the correct information but different sources are saying the exact opposite things.

I don't like stuff like this. ^[1]^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

– ChessMaster431 (talk) 17:44, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Western-Centric

Article talks a lot about perspectives in urban US and UK. It might actually be an interesting article rather than a goofy novelty if it talked about cleaning and perspectives on dirtiness worldwide. IronMaidenRocks (talk) 20:43, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.google.com/search?q=is+dirt+alive&oq=is+dirt+alive&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l4j69i61j69i60l2.2135j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[2] ttps://www.naturespath.com/en-us/blog/difference-soil-dirt/

[3] ttps://www.uen.org/lessonplan/view/617

[4] ttps://foodandclimate.ecoliteracy.org/systems-perspective/pg0008.xhtml

[5] ttps://bioventures.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/is-dirt-alive/

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