Talk:Organ

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''Where do glands such as thyroid or sex glands go? Also, subparts of organs, e.g. the pituary gland or hypothalamus within the brain are distinct regions of cells within a mulitcelluar organism that perform a distinct function, hence by the above definition they would be organs, yet normally they are not seen as independent organs but rather as parts of organs.''

Sea Organ, Wave Organ and Tidal Organ all appear to be sea-based organs. Perhaps the list needs altering to group these together, or a separate "Sea Organ" list creating? Any comments? MattKitty (talk) 04:13, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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Organisation of the most common meanings
The entries that are sought by the greatest number of readers are Organ (biology) and the various musical instruments. Currently, they're arranged at top, each in their own section ("Biology" and "Musical instruments"), and I think that's a good setup. The Biology section contains a single entry – such tiny sections are almost always to be avoided, but that appears justified here given how many readers will be interested in that one link.

There was a suggestion to group the biology and music meanings into a single section called "Common meanings", but I'm not sure that's an improvement: some of the other meanings, though not accounting for a lot of traffic, are also common (as in: organ of an organisation or organ as a publication) and we probably shouldn't be listing them at the top.

A related question is how many, if any, of the types of organ to list here. These are all obviously subtopics of the main article, but some of the links do get clicked by readers quite a lot, which means they're likely helpful, and – on a more fundamental level – there's at least one of those musical instruments – the Pipe organ – that's almost always referred to as just "organ" and so may be the one musical instrument that readers expect to be at the title. – Uanfala (talk) 17:44, 5 March 2022 (UTC)