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THANK YOU for not having an article on this, it's soo nasty. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.224.143 (talk) 22:37, 19 March 2007‎ (UTC)[reply]

So is child molestation, but you wouldn't want Wikipedia to omit that, would you? — Mütze (talk) 13:55, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Southern Mountain Cranberry

Why does this redirect to Southern Mountain Cranberry? By far the most common usage in English is to refer to the pieces of poop that stick to your asspubes after taking a dump. See here. The only source on that other article doesn't mention "dingleberry" as an alias either. Is this the work of a vandal? D-Fluff has had E-Nuff 18:34, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

request fixup

{{editprotected}} The current page, a redirect to Feces, seems rude, appears like the work of a vandal-administrator, as the page is fully protected. The target page does not mention dingleberry. There are other uses, as given in wiktionary definition link that was previously included. Also apparently an alternative name for Southern Mountain Cranberry, however that target page does not mention dingleberry either. Request replacement of the redirect by the old wiktionary link page. doncram (talk) 17:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, one of the slang meanings of this word seems to have to do with feces, but I agree that the wiktionary link is best. Thank you, Amalthea 18:16, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Southern Mountain Cranberry again

Why doesn't this re-direct to Southern Mountain Cranberry? 126.25.73.198 (talk) 08:55, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly what I want to know. Redirecting me to Wiktionary just so I can click to back to Wikipedia is stupid. The word is a legitimate name for a type of cranberry. Yes, it is also a slang term, but it is not slang for an encyclopedic topic. (thought it could be if you want to redirect it to a section on body hair and how it can impede clean defecation.) But locking it without so much as a discussion is a clear violation of not only the policies of Wikipedia, but what we actually stand for.

As it is, you've created precedent for anyone to make an article on a word just to redirect you to Wiktionary. Wiktionary is a completely separate project, designed because we are not a dictionary. So we shouldn't be doing the work of a dictionary as we are here. The only encyclopedic term is a reference to the plant, so use that. At least as a disambiguation page.

I'm literally offended by this page being blocked. No other terms are so censored on Wikipedia. In fact, we think censorship is a bad thing. We have articles on shit, cunt, fuck, but because this might refer to feces, we can't even have it be a redirect to a legit article. WTF is up with this?

— trlkly 09:44, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I added a more concrete source to the southern mountain cranberry page for the plant actually also being called dingleberry. I'm hoping that with this source this page could be redirected to the southern mountain cranberry page again, but preferably kept locked to prevent confused people and vandals from redirecting it to the feces page again (as 'dingleberry' is also common slang for small bits feces, probably likened in size to dingleberries). I also read that adding a tag on this talk page will help draw attention here, so here goes. Turdas (talk) 04:02, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Per last writer, add: #REDIRECT [[Vaccinium erythrocarpum]] Christian75 (talk) 08:32, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done: I've reduced the protection to semi-protection, and I've converted the page into a disambiguation page, as there a couple more common meanings that people might be searching for. If people want to make this a redirect and have the disambiguation page at dingleberry (disambiguation) instead, then that's fine by me, though. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Page violates WP:OR and WP:VERIFY, to the utmost

Disambiguation entries must link somewhere, and that somewhere must contain the information that substantiates the appearance of the disambiguation entry. If they do not, they are providing unsourced information, violating both the letter and spirit of the two cited policies/guidelines. (To be fully compliant—and this is going too far, I understand, for the perpetual work-in-progress that is WP—the substantiating material at the wikilinked article must itself be sourced with a reliable citation.) Notably, here, at least, is the fact that the feces page does not disambiguate the entry appearing that links to it. (Dingleberry does not appear on that wikilink-targeted page.) We must add a Wiktionary link to cover those disambiguation entries supported by Wiktionary definition components (or create or edit articles to which currently unsubstantiated entries can be wikilinked in support of the entries), or remove disambiguation entries that are not and cannot be supported by terminal sourced information in the Wikipedia and/or Wiktionary. We cannot have it both ways. This is either a principled encyclopedia, or it is not. Information that does not end at a point in the Wiki-information universe, with a source, makes disambiguations no better than Urban Dictionary. 73.211.138.148 (talk) 21:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Disambiguation entries checked, Wiktionary tag/link added, and information made consistent with these terminal points of Wiki-information space (including addition of manufacturing connotation). Leprof 7272 (talk) 21:42, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]