Talk:Chin

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 2 October 2019 and 14 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Weldeyared Reda.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 17:28, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Updated
I made major update to this article because I believe that it is not updated and there are a couple of articles discussing this issue but not cited here. So, I included some brief developmental and functional perspectives, and the current debate about the origin of chin. I also cited some of the relevant literature on the human chin (i.e., reference number 1-12). The other references have been there and I never updated the Clift chin and double chin parts! I just replaced the chin photo with a better one! I believe that this page still an update, especially detailed explanation! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weldeyared Reda (talk • contribs) 17:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Pictures Irrelevant
The picture included in the article are not related to the chin. Yes, it shows the chin, but its content is about an artery running through the neck or somesuch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.181.246.63 (talk) 03:42, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Any possibility of Leno's picture replacing this? 69.80.182.165 (talk) 09:31, 16 January 2010 (UTC) (AKA, no one in particular)

I've cropped a photo of a skull from wikimedia and highlighted the chin. The original photo was also used in a Smithsonian Magazine blog on the origins of the chin, which I've also cited. The new picture nicely illustrates the bony protuberance and is more relevant than Gray's image of the neck. Pied Kiwi (talk) 11:28, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Famous people
I'm slightly worried this list is accumulating not "people famous for their chins" but "people whose chins were once noticed by some wikipedian somewhere". It seems to be too subjective. --Pseudomonas 18:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. Partly for this reason (although I would be happy for the whole list to go) I have decided to remove all the names that don't have an article about. It's a start... --JoanneB 19:44, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't see why there should be some random, bearded, music listening, indoor sunglass using guy on this article. Someone should remove it. I'm too tired right now, but please, the article looks very un-encylopedic with it. --84.217.117.35 (talk) 21:08, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

This page is bad.
It's a shame that a page of such importance (rated high importance) has almost nothing on it. I don't know anything about chins, but there must be someone out there that does! 81.77.28.178 (talk) 20:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Double chin
Can readily be presented within Chin#Society and culture section, with the additional benefit of bringing more context to the reader. Tom (LT) (talk) 22:32, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Have 'boldly' merged this small stub as previous closure of this was unnecessary - there had been no opposition and so could have just gone ahead. --Iztwoz (talk) 11:45, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Origin in humans and manatees
all things considered covered new research just now. We don't mention that manatees can be considered chinful. The researcher cited can be found with this search. --Jerzy•t 22:25, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Cleft chin
Small article better presented on target page which would itself benefit from the additional material Iztwoz (talk) 11:51, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Agreed, perhaps at such a time as the chin article is large and the cleft chin section is large, it may be made into an article again, if the community thinks it should, but as for now it would be better suited to merge. Iazyges (talk) 00:55, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Bad Archive
This citation is written in a language other than English, and it is archived. It would be good to replace this citation with an active link in English if possible: https://web.archive.org/web/20140808065350/http://www.loghatnaameh.org/dehkhodaworddetail-37e7cdd30d8843bf88822f21885bc505-fa.html Psy pherium talk page 18:26, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Not enough information
It says here: "A fully developed human skull has a chin of between 0.7 cm and 1.1 cm". Between 0.7-1.1 cm of what? Height, length or width? And how exactly is it measured? 212.90.38.86 (talk) 21:24, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

No respect to ethnic variance
Continental differences in human ethnicities have significant variations in factors of skull shape, one of which is the pronouncement or recession of chin. Unfortunately this article focuses only on the species variance, concluding larger chins are superior within the homo-ancestral family with Neanderthals have smaller chins. Without explicit acknowledgment of ethnic variation, it risks specious inferences. Balupton (talk) 21:57, 31 January 2024 (UTC)