Talk:Splinter

Removal
I'm sorry, but what the hell?

"Common medical techniques include the Elliptical Technique and the String Technique.[5] In the elliptical technique the surrounding are of the splinter is sliced in an elliptical formation. From there the flesh in the elliptical are is cut (in the shape of an upside-down cone) and the whole chunk of flesh, containing the splinter is removed. "

The vast majority of splinters can be pulled out with a pair of tweezers, or even just bare fingers. Going to the doctor and having an expensive procedure done when five minutes with a pair of tweezers will solve the issue on the spot is just dumb. Save the doc visit for when you get one in your eyeball or something. 74.240.231.32 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:06, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Let nature take its course?
In the movie War of the Worlds (2005), a character gets a splinter and refuses her father's assistance at removing it, declaring that, if left alone her body's natural defense response will eventually expel the foreign object (an obvious trope for the film's larger theme of invasion). Is there any substance to this claim? Orthotox (talk) 09:04, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Incorrect defintion of splinter, article probably should be merged
I think this article may need to be renamed or reworked. The first sentence currently states, "A splinter is a fragment of a larger object (especially wood), or a foreign body that penetrates or is purposely injected into a body." Which is false, a splinter is a splinter regardless of whether it penetrates a body. Here is how Webster's defines a splinter

1 a: thin piece split or broken off lengthwise : sliver b: a small needlelike particle 2: a group or faction broken away from a parent body

Which is far more accurate. Most of the information in this article should be merged with Foreign body. 208.90.213.186 (talk) 20:43, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 16 July 2019

 * 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The result of the move request was: withdrawn. I mean heck, in 2012, I was the editor who put Splinter where it currently is. Steel1943 (talk) 05:38, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

– Per a |Splinter_(disambiguation)|Splinter_(Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles)|Splinter_(The_Offspring_album) pageview comparison with Splinter, Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Splinter (The Offspring album) and Splinter (disambiguation), there seems to be no primary topic for the term "Splinter" in terms of page views. (Not sure though, since the current de facto primary topic seems to be the term which many of the other "Splinter" topics got their name from.) Steel1943  (talk) 20:02, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Splinter → Splinter (fragment)
 * Splinter (disambiguation) → Splinter


 * Oppose. Pageviews aren't everything and splinter seems like an obvious primary topic to me. PC78 (talk) 22:02, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose incredibly obvious primary topic.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 04:55, 17 July 2019 (UTC)


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