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Merge proposal

The Sting (biology) is basically the same topic. Stinger (organ) title is more precise. mikka (t) 17:06, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This should definitely be merged. No question about it. Soakologist 01:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
sting (biology) is still too general if you look closely. no way to put nettle stings, scorpions, and apocrita under one heading. this article here should instead disambiguate to the three subtopics and bee sting should be merged with stinger (organ). -- Kku 11:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Honeybee stingers & mammals

The section on honeybee stingers specially mentions mammals. Do these bees never sting birds or reptiles? Ashmoo 01:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They do sting birds. I don't know of any reference to bees stinging reptiles. DS 01:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Honeybee Stingers

A small question here. Why is it that the honeybee stingers are barbed? The article says that the sting is suicidal only if the attacker threatens to wipe out the whole colony. Wouldn't it be better if every bee survived rather than only those which didn't sting the attacker? BeefRendang 09:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus^(talk) 05:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

stinger (organ) → stinger — And stinger to stinger (disambiguation) - because the organ is the most prominent stinger and the term from which all other uses take their meaning. Yath 11:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Support as nom. --Yath 11:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom.--Planetary 15:31, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Warofdreams talk 15:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Injuries

Regarding the word, "Stinger": An announcer on a pro football game was complaining that the word "stinger" did not fairly describe the intensity of pain associated with the injury in sports that is called a "stinger". He said the pain was much worse than a sting and suggested that the media come up with a better, different, more descriptive word. My point to you is this, upgrade your present definition to include the phrase "stinger syndrome" describing a pro athelete's multiple pain reactions to a viscious hit. That way Wik stays in the game on the word, and people like me who look it up on Wik will at least find something to read about it. As to crediting the etymology of the new phrase, no need to, life is busy enough without undue adulation! ciao,

gregorio da gama

gregoriodagama@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.142.190.182 (talk • contribs) 12:37, 24 August 2007

Stinger vs Sting

I wonder who made this rather condescending remark and based on what. Look in Merriam-Webster and the word stinger is explained, without any comment on a more proper use of "sting". If you look up "sting" as a noun, it provides various explanations, one referring directly to Stinger, implying stinger is the more accepted term, and other meanings that imply the feeling of having been stung etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.247.180.199 (talk) 13:03, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As no citation is given for this I'm removing the "more correctly" and changing it simply to an "or" Sxoa (talk) 11:31, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]