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On 4 September 2020, it was proposed that this article be moved from Gut flora to Human gut flora. The result of the discussion was consensus against move.

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Some sections of this article probably need some updating. Fishgibblets (talk) 21:07, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that many of the citations in the overview section (particularly those involving numbers) date back to the oughts. In the 20 years since those citations we have learned a lot more about the microbiome, and discovered a lot of species. Early on, all of the microbiome data was from a handful of countries. We have since examined a lot more metagenomic data. Fishgibblets (talk) 21:09, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]