Talk:Egg

Maybe we should have an article on eggs in the usual English sense here, and the gamete bit under ovum. Otherwise, there's no good place to discuss bird eggs, the amniote egg, and so on. Vicki Rosenzweig

Just continue the article. As I originally framed it, it had the technical definition, and then actually talked about the common usage. Sure, the details of gametes should be in an ovum or gamete article, but the distinction between common parlance and technical term needs to be made clear in this article (i.e. suppose a kid's mom is visiting a fertility clinic, and the kid hears a discussion about his mom's "eggs." A kid may not know what a gamete is, but saying the technical definition here and linking to the article about the technical side will help point where to find more info). Basically, I think that the structure is fine (a short, technical clarification, followed by more depth about the common use is perfect for this article, IMHO. --BlackGriffen

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On further thought, I decided that the ovum/egg-in-shell pairing doesn't work. For one thing, when fertilized the ovum becomes a zygote; for another, I want to include fish and insect eggs. Much work to follow. Vicki Rosenzweig

What in the world is that long paragraph about Chinese egg preservation? - Montréalais 00:51, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Exactly my question.

From the article:

"As much has been said about the mode of preserving eggs, it may not be uninteresting to say a few words about the Chinese methods, as related by a French chemist, M. Paul Champion, who has lately visited that country, and published a very interesting book on the ancient and modern industries of that curious people."

Sounds as if it has been copied verbatim from the 1911 Cookery Britannica. --KF 01:46, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I say we remove it, or trim it down to the bare minimum. I don't think we need to go into detail about the method here. We just need to get across the point that "rotten eggs are considered a delicacy in China". dave 21:54, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)

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I also have a problem with these egg proverbs. I have only ever heard of one of them in my life. I think the rest are probably from 1911 as well. dave 21:55, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)

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"weighs x grams" is fine in informal use for articles like this -- in physics or engineering articles we should make the weight/mass distinction, but the imprecision here due to the lack of distinction is far less than that of approximation, unless you've got a very high gravity gradient across your lab. -- The Anome 15:04, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ok. I was the one who added the picture with the caption, and I didn't know if it was ok to write weighs. Thanks for the help. (BTW, should I include the english system measurements as well?) --Ed Senft! 15:09, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

True or false??

True or false: it is better to have this article at Egg (disambiguation) and Egg (food) at Egg. 66.245.87.154 01:18, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It would probably be best to have more than one entry. 137.240.136.81 06:57, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

• I would prefer rather to have Egg (biology) moved here to Egg. --

HI KEVIN!!! :)Revolución (talk) 01:59, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

there's some weird dash thing that is clearly not relevant, i dno how ot take it out

Addition

I added The Egg (building).--Scallop 22:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

EG&G

Would anyone object to a link to EG&G here? Their website is www.egginc.com, so I could see confusion. Lord Bodak 16:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

go for it. Jon513 16:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

geometrical egg

can egg also be considered as a geometrical shape? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.197.57.169 (talk) 07:50, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

General Question

What comes first? Chicken or the egg? I say chicken.. It evolved from whatever then layed an egg. Staka2ont) 03:15, 23 July 2007 (UTC).

There is an article The chicken or the egg which deals with this question. I don't think that is should be reference in this disambiguation page. I can't imagine someone typing in "egg" who expected that article. Jon513 10:23, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism?

I reverted an edit that looked like pure vandalism.

I'm not one of the people working on this article, but I just happened to be visiting this page right after it happened. Finnicks 05:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

good job. For some reason this page is commonly vandalized. Jon513 06:26, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Egg carving

I didn't find anything on wikipedia about egg carving, so, if it's interesting for somebody, we can share some information...

My carved eggs gallery: http://public.fotki.com/newballsas/ballsas-carving-eggs/ (log in needed)