Talk:Nasal sebum

Sources tags

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Nose_grease&action=edit Added some fact tags to sections and a sources template to the article. The assertions about the uses for nose grease really need justification IMO. Anchoress 22:08, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

The beer foam is readily verifiable by anyone with access to beer and a nose. I have added a reference to Lyot's paper mentioning the use of nose grease as an antireflective coating. zowie 04:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

A) If it isn't referenced it's Original Research. Even if it's referenced it's still not necessarily encyclopedic. B) I read the first five pages of your reference, skimmed the rest and searched it for the word 'nose', and I didn't find anything about nose grease. Here's the link. Anchoress 08:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Holy cow, you are right! I have seen the quote from Lyot (in English) in several places, and assumed it was in his description paper (just about the only paper of his that is in English). I'll have to look through his French-language stuff and see if I can find it. zowie 14:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I found the original quote that piqued my interest -- it is in some notes I took at a conference several years ago. But you're right, Lyot's indexed papers in English (there are only three in the ADS) don't seem to have the actual reference. Likewise, I browsed through several of his French papers looking for "nez" and can't find it. I think, therefore, that the quote fails WP:V for the time being. I won't delete it quite yet as I'd like to do a little more asking around -- but if I haven't found anything by tonight I'll cut the quote out. zowie 16:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Another development: Harold Zirin, in Astrophysics of the Sun (Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 32, writes:

"Lyot solved the scattered light problem through a number of clever precautions. He seleceted an objective lens (O1) free of sleeks and bubbles and highly polished. By rubbing his finger at the side of his nostril and carefully spreading the noise oil over the lens, he obtained a surface free of static charge and dust. I personally always got a mess, which shows that the coronagraph business still has as much art as science in it; thus there is much dispute over the merit of the noise-oil treatment. The use of old diapers, washed many times, has its partisans."

(the emphasis is mine). Since Hal is still around, I'll contact him directly and ask where he found the information. (Zirin used to run the Big Bear Solar Observatory and will know). (Old diapers are useful because they have no phytoliths in them, unlike clean paper wipes or new fabric, and hence are soft enough not to damage optical surfaces) zowie 16:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Medical name

What is the medical term for it? And if it can be found, shouldn't that be the title? --MacRusgail 03:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that's the point, really. There's already an article on the scientific name, sebum. IMO there's really no need for this article, any more than there is a need for the second knuckle of the ring finger. Anchoress 03:52, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't object to the article content as a whole (but which I think is over the top), but it could do with being somewhat more scientific. NB could "nasal sebum" do the trick? --MacRusgail 03:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Ed Kolpin citation

The citation to Ed Kolpin comes right after the reference to fingernails, but a little research indicate that Mr. Kolpin's area of expertise is the pipe. Is the footnote reference in the wrong place, is it wrong to cite a non-expert in fingernail buffing, and does this "personal conversation" constitute original research? It was this sentence that made me wonder whether the Onion had branched out.... 69.141.41.214 (talk) 15:01, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Cinematography

The first time I'd ever heard of "nose grease" was in reference to lubricating the gate on a movie camera. Google ("nose grease film gate") comes up with quite a few citations, and some of them might be usable, here. Something to do later... Mdwyer (talk) 15:25, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

New source?

Wasn't the fly fishing ferrules tip also referenced in the famous book by J.R. Hartley - "Fly Fishing"? --Roxy the dog (talk) 23:35, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

this is real, keep it around

I just came here because I was notified about the link to Stray Light. The funny part is that someone (I can not remember yet who) was telling me about nose grease, just a couple of days ago, something about which I was previously unaware. A very odd coincidence perhaps, but because of my experience I believe this is a real subject, which some people have been sharing and exploiting for a while. I will try to remember who was telling me about it; maybe it will lead to some more citations. And, by the way, I have a real problem with the idea that orally transmitted knowledge is somehow not important. A great deal of the good stuff I know, I did not read. AJim (talk) 13:52, 13 August 2019 (UTC)