Talk:CycleBeads

major issue
"cycle beads" sounds like a product - however its nature is left wholly to the imagination. ViniTheHat (talk) 01:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

merger proposal
can we merge this to improve the information available to users not familiar with this particular product and also bring more awareness to this topic? Rythm_method ViniTheHat (talk) 01:28, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Notability
This article appears to have been rewritten sufficiently that it no longer resembles an advert so I have removed that tag, and I have added wikilinks to other articles to improve the "wikification" of the page, and so have removed that tag also. I left the notability tag because while there are references in the article I didn't see that any of them provided significant coverage of the product itself, which is what is required to show notability. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:05, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It still sounds a bit like an advert in my opinion. -- D•g Talk to me/What I've done 23:26, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

major issue 2
Description speaks of "white beads" and pictured beads use different colour code- fertile days are blue there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.78.188.4 (talk) 13:42, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Male involvement
How is male involvement in birth control seen as a negative and by whom?

Is this a mistake, is someone trying to get a bunch of women pregnant?
The linked site, http://www.cyclebeads.com/cyclebeads/, reads "If a woman wants to prevent pregnancy, she should avoid having unprotected intercourse on Days 8 through 19 (days represented by glow-in-the-dark white beads) as this is her potentially fertile period".

But this article reads, "On white bead days, she has a very low risk of pregnancy".

This is disinformation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Midnightguy (talk • contribs) 02:27, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It was changed here [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CycleBeads&diff=567638327&oldid=567306174]. I don't think the IP was doing anything malicious. Their changes were clearly right for the example picture File:Geburtenkontrollkette.jpg in our article which does use this colour coding as another IP noted above. It does seem that George Town University/official Cyclebeads uses a different colour coding. The link in the article to the Austrian Aktion Regen [//aktionregen.at/index.php/en/whatwedo/rain-tools] which I suspect made the example in our article (since it has Regen) shows a similar necklace albeit with yellow instead of white beads but still with blue beads to indicate fertility. CycleBeads themselves seem to consistently use white for fertility but non fertile days may be something else [//www.cyclebeads.com/shop/CB-DELUXE] [//www.cyclebeads.com/shop/CB]. The only thing which seems consistent for all of them is sort of red for period day/starting day I assume for the obvious reason. While this article is title CycleBeads, I'm not sure if the specific product made by George Town University is notable enough for its own article. It would probably be better if this is made into a general article on the concept whether with this title or some other title. For this reason, I've removed all mention of specific colour coding except for the red bit. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CycleBeads&type=revision&diff=867379893&oldid=849913096] I wonder if it would be better to genericise it more, our article also mentions an example where bead shape is the primary indicator and this was also mentioned above. Nil Einne (talk) 10:19, 5 November 2018 (UTC)