Talk:Sense of smell

Luca Turin

As far as i'm aware, Keller and Voshall's brief communications in Nat Neuro was the first, and only, independent test of any of the predictions made in Luca's origional Chemical Senses paper. They were not able to replicate his key predictaions about human psychophysics (importantly, using non-experts; I wonder what their results would be like if they contracted perfumers?), however he makes many predictions about receptor pharmacology that have not been tested (to my knowledge). As this is my understanding of the status of this debate, I have taken out the reference to supporting evidence for Luca's theory.

Please cite publications that state otherwise as they emerge. mattv 19:30, 28 April, 2006 (UTC)

editor needed

Someone was screwing around with the article and put up that joke about Jews' noses. lol it's funny and all but someone remove it...

Requested move 11 May 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Elli (talk | contribs) 09:44, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

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Olfaction → Sense of smell – Per WP:COMMONNAME, got no objection at talk page, cannot move myself because page already exists Ganesha811 (talk) 01:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Posted to WP:RM/TR but I think it needs a community discussion as the current title has been stable since 2002. (t · c) buidhe 02:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

• NGRAM Google Scholar results since 2020[1][2] (t · c) buidhe 04:17, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

• Move as proposer - in addition to the Ngram shown above, a search for site:en.wikipedia.org "olfaction" as compared to site:en.wikipedia.org "sense of smell" shows that even on Wikipedia itself, 'sense of smell' is more commonly used. Major newspapers all use 'sense of smell' far more frequently than 'olfaction.' Even in academia, 'sense of smell' is used about 70% as often as the technical term 'olfaction.' Altogether, WP:COMMONNAME indicates that we should move this article. Ganesha811 (talk) 04:36, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

• Until recently, vandalism pre-emptive full move protection was in place, likely a factor in the stability of the name. –xeno^talk 04:39, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

• Move - what in the world, this is as easy as pie. Common name Red Slash 18:56, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

• Move per Buidhe. Bibeyjj (talk) 16:02, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
• Support. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:47, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Sence organ 103.167.158.186 (talk) 15:05, 11 September 2022 (UTC)