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Why is there no mention of beards and the relationship to the UNIX and open source? No picture of Richard Stallman? Boo! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.125.133 (talk) 04:49, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's okay to feature a picture of a white man...it's not racist

I seriously think people are trying way too freakin' hard not to be racist. We have this Nepali man featured, probably only because you don't want to be associated with "whiter power" and all that bullcrap. Guess what. It's moronic. Why feature this Napali? Chances are, a non-Nepali added that picture. It's okay to display white people... By trying so hard not to be racist, you're kind of excluding white people from the game here. It's just like with the page for "humans"; it features two Asian farmers. Come on, guys...this is ridiculous. We all know Asian farmers didn't add that picture. It's okay to be white.Swiiman (talk) 06:17, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This guy has a fantastic beard. Should non-white people only be featured if a good picture of a white person couldn't be found? 137.150.5.153 (talk) 23:11, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The photo was changed fairly recently. I don't think it matters what color the individual is; I think it's easy to argue that the current image is a somewhat superior photo compared to the old one (though the old one was perfectly serviceable). OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 23:25, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Latter-day Saints

I'm removing the section on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since there is no actual proscription, the unsourced tendencies of church members aren't notable. Any objections? Mateoee (talk) 02:38, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Famous beard-archetypes?

I removed Henry Thoreau from the Neckbeard part of Beard Styles, as he is pictured in the Chinstrap beard article. I think his beard is a chinstrap beard, not a neckbeard (the statue of Nero would probably be the archetype). Frankly, I think nobody should be listed in the "beard styles" section due to the difficulty in authoritatively classifying one style of beard from another, but I'm not going to make that call. I only took Thoreau out for internal consistency. 151.207.244.4 (talk) 19:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of bearded people

Is there really a need to list famous people with beards? Beards are fairly common today and were even more common at some points in history - its like a list of people with brown hair or people who wear T-shirts. I'm in favour of removing the list or changing it to a short one for people who were famous for their beards. 137.132.250.10 (talk) 13:08, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I could not agree more. I've already removed the list of fictional characters with beards. Unless someone was famous because of their beard or the beard received significant public attention they should not be mentioned. As it currently stands this massive list has no references whatsoever, so the easiest and probably smartest approach would be to remove the whole thing. If someone wants to rebuild using only sourced information on notable beards, they can do that. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:07, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. 2¢. -- Quiddity (talk) 04:48, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done Beeblebrox (talk) 18:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Language of the Beard

The Language of the Beard - Poets Ranked by Beard Weight was heavily linked via blogs, in summer 2009. Can anyone confirm the existence of this pamphlet he describes, and add it to the article? There's nothing in google scholar/books. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:58, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note

this is the greatest wiki page I've ever seen there should be something to distinguish it

Photo of Jimmy Wales

It says 2-day stubble, but this appears extremely unlikely. It looks like a week's growth or even more. Exploding Boy (talk) 22:06, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Civilian prohibitions

Regarding the prohibition of commercial pilots having beards, this cannot be correct. I know several Jewish Orthodox EL AL pilots who have fully grown untrimmed beards. From my own service in the IDF with a fully grown beard, I was also told by less informed ranks that I would have to trim my beard for operations involving gas masks, and this was not the case. It may have been an issue in the past, however it's no longer an issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.176.216.211 (talk) 00:52, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quality

'The name means something like "two-bearded, woody".' Really? Something like? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.241.87.213 (talk) 01:59, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Horrifible gallery smoat!

(Whatever that means)

The gallery is wild grown and doesn't provide any real information, just a meaningless extra loading time. I prefer it is replaced with some information about how different genetics and cultures affect the status of beards. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 10:06, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I don't know. Where else can you find Henry VIII, Rip Van Winkle, and Jimbo Wales all on the same page? The novelty of it almost makes it worthwhile! In all seriousness, though, the gallery is bloated and subject to more bloat. It might make sense to have a gallery if the inclusion criteria were more limited and well defined (e.g., images of people whose beards were famous, rather than famous people who happened to have beards). Rivertorch (talk) 18:08, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, the Image gallery policy takes a pragmatic stand: galleries are allowed whenever they are the best way to add encyclopedic value and reader's understanding on a subject. The style galleries of 1750–1795 in fashion are considered prototypical gallery usages on Wikipedia. A gallery containing one example of one kind of a beard, would be one such beneficial gallery usage. A gallery containing examples of people sorted by shoe number would be more like unencyclopedic, and random images likewise. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 17:15, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the quotations about beards be on wikiquotes?

There are a bunch of quotations of beards. Shouldn't they be on wikiquotes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.10.116.109 (talk) 17:45, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]