Talk:Pith

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Re: the yew wood example. It appears that there are about 10+ years of growth in the outer light colored region an 20+ years registered in the central dark brown region that surrounds the very small pith area. Why the difference in color between the two major regions. Is counting the tree rings in both and summing a valid age estimate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.188.116.138 (talk) 11:20, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Function of Pith

What is the function of pith in plants? To carry water, or is it just leftovers from the outer layers?

Blakeops 00:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

pretty sure it's just leftovers, no function.

Bonasaurus1 (talk) 00:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone with definite knowledge of the function/lack of a function please edit that into the article? I'm thinking of the Appendix article, which states "The most common explanation for the appendix's existence in humans is that it's a vestigial structure which has lost its original function." Simple and to the point, near the top of the article.--MuséeRouge (talk) 20:08, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

@Tenbergen: I propose to merge Pith wood into Pith. It appears as though Pith wood is really a page that discusses the use of pith and should really be made as part of a new section under pith. --Caorongjin (talk) 21:20, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was kind of wondering about this when I started it, but it would make a problem of including the Template:Cleaning tools. I came across this looking at some clockmaking books, and there is actually a lot of other terminology in there that doesn't seem to have pages yet, which fits in with the fact that I could find a Template:Jewellery but not a counterpart one about watch and clockmaking tools (even though there are quite a few). This and Peg wood were just places to start. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tenbergen (talk • contribs) 04:35, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Tenbergen: One possibility is to add the section Pith#Uses and create a WP:Redirect for Pith wood to Pith#Uses. Besides, I would think having a section on Pith#Uses would be very useful, including its usage as a cleaning tool or something else. Perhaps take a look at the rationale for why articles should be merged if there is an WP:OVERLAP. --Caorongjin (talk) 23:19, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Caorongjin: I am a bit of a fan of the subject affinity templates like that cleaning tool one at the bottom of that page. They work well with the way I use wikipedia in that they allow me to browse from one topic to another along different dimensions. Your suggested solution of leaving a re-direct solves the category problem, but it doesn't really solve the template one. I am not sure if it would work well to e.g. put that template at the end of a Pith#Uses (or even Pith#Use as a cleaning tool) section. How do those usually get handled for merged pages? Tenbergen (talk) 20:22, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Tenbergen: There may be other views, but I think you should very easily keep a redirect page listed in the subject template; or you can simply call it "Pith wood" but have the wilink directed to the section in Pith (so [[Pith#Uses|Pith wood]]. Also, it is worthwhile for the section in the Pith article to have a manually defined anchor, in case somebody decides to change the name (see Wikipedia:Redirect#Technical notes), and include the Template:R to section. —Caorongjin (talk) 10:03, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]