Talk:Hyalophagia

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There should also be some information here regarding glass eating as a performative artform, classically displayed in circus sideshows by artists such as Todd Robbins and the like. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.204.134 (talk • contribs) 22:39, July 26, 2007

Religion

Glass eating is also prominent in some religions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.183.39.245 (talk) 18:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hazards to the body

I have added a new section and the references section. This is part of my Psychology course assignment. If anyone has comments for me, please let me know. Steparaptor (talk) 00:56, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Steparaptor. It doesn't appear that your course has reviewed either our medical sourcing guidelines or our guidelines for the suggested sections and order of information on medical content. "Hazards to the body" is not a typical placement for that kind of information, and the source you have used is marginal. Perhaps Ian (Wiki Ed) and Ryan (Wiki Ed) can contact your professor and work with your course to help you understand Wikipedia guidelines and policy.

There are helpful links at the top of this page that you might use for finding good sources, and please take care not to duplicate content better covered at pica (disorder). Because there is not much written on this topic in good sources, my recommendation is that this article should be merged to pica (disorder) and redirected there; if you have some good secondary review sources, please list them here. If you don't have good sources, your time might be better spent working on pica (disorder).

Good luck with your course! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:11, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Paraphrasing

Steparaptor, I've copied your new text to here for reworking relative to WP:PARAPHRASE. Almost there, but a little more work to put the text into your own words without following the source to closely is needed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The risk of injury depends on the size, shape, and sharpness of the glass consumed. Small pieces of unnatural material can usually pass through the human gastrointestinal tract without problems, because of the cautious way the organs handle the contents that are digested, including sharp pieces. Should a sharp piece of glass cut the inside of any organs in this system, the wound is usually healed quickly with little to no leakage.^[1]

References

^ ^{[unreliable medical source?]} "Core Factsheet 15" (PDF). Core: Digestive Disorders Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2015.

Merge proposal

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#Hyalophagia. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:58, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[1] {[unreliable medical source?]} "Core Factsheet 15" (PDF). Core: Digestive Disorders Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2015.

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