`contest? I'm interested in this story. I would namely like to know if this Maria Doychinova is the same one who is a fashion designer. Thank you. My e-mail: figueira.ric@gmail.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by      ==Physical Posture/Exercises==  Information on physical postures/exercises to aid the release of uncomfortable intestinal gases may be enlightening for the article under the remedies section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by      ==Research?== Why limit farting (first paragraph) to mammals?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by      ==Cultures== I think giving specific details about which cultures find farting acceptable and which ones don't should be added. ACDCPres   == Farting ==  I reverted this article back to a recent version that contained the term fart. Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia (not a medical one), and its important to use a term that a majority of people know. Flatulence is no more or less a ``proper`` term than farting is, and its definetly not slang  its use is too common, everyday, and widespread. It would be a misservice the readers to simply ignore this important term. Its such a odd thing to want to sensor.    :I agree. Why use the word ``flatus`` all over the place? People don't know it's fart. Doctors know it's fart, and, well, doctors are people, but they ain't most people. The common term is fart or gas.  —   |   ::The reason seems pretty obvious to me: ``fart`` is a much rougher, less ``refined`` word. Using it casually is simply not appropriate tone for an encyclopedia. -     == Citations needed ==  Oh come on, not EVERY sentence needs a citation now, does it.. It makes articles really hard to read and is just silly. I am talking about the section ``Dietary`` where every second word has a citation or ``citation needed``. Whoever posted all that is obsessed with citations. seriously!   :I agree, especially since the rest of the article doesn't seem to conform to the extreme citation standards in the Dietary section. Additionally, some of the stuff is a given and doesn't really need a citation unless you happen to be an alien from another planet who is completely unfamiliar with Earth, in which case it remains a mystery how this alien learned enough english to understand this article without learning some basic information about humans and Earth. Not everyone is a wikipedia administrator, y'know.       == ICD infobox ==  Why is this article topped by a medical infobox? In the vast majority of occurances, flatulence has nothing to do with either disease or dysfunction.      == Post release ==  In 1998, Chester ``Buck`` Weimer of Pueblo, Colorado, USA received a patent for the first undergarment that contained a replaceable charcoal filter. [...]  The inventors, Myra and Brian Conant of Mililani, Hawaii, USA still claim on their website to have discovered the undergarment product in 2002 (8 years after Chester Weimer filed for a patent for his product  Was it made in 1994, or was it 4 years after his product was made?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by      == Merge ==  There doesn't seem to be much justification for keeping a separate article on the common word for a bodily function. The word really doesn't really live 