Talk:De minimis

message: I think the trivia section is worth including because students (secondary as well tertiary) will from time look up the term in Wikipedia and find the verse both diverting if useful. It should not be deleted because it might offend the sensibilities of some... (re-edited by author)  Albatross2147 06:07, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hmmm citing Wikipedia as a reference in secondary or tertiary level papers probalby merits a fail I would have thought - even Jimbo says that (ref his speech in Sydney April 2007) but perhaps that is not the case in North America. Albatross2147 02:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Limerick

message: Are images that are too small considered de minimis and non-copyrightable? For example, emoticon images, can sometimes be as small as 15x15 pixels, and I've been told that they are not copyrightable. I've been looking for an actual law around this and I can't find anything about it. Would this term cover it? If so, could we get some references to add this to the article? There's a few other articles that could use a reference. --Dan LeveilleTALK 17:59, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small Images =  De minimis? 

message: I have noticed that on the German wiki, there seem to be two articles,de:De minimis and de:minima non curat praetor. James500 (talk) 07:12, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other languages 

message: The citation in the sentence,"The de minimis rule in American drug law requires a usable quantity of the substance in question before charges can be brought, known as the minority rule.[7]," is to a book about Canadian law, not U.S. law. Speaking as a layperson, not a lawyer or a law student, I wonder if that is misleading. Will the reader who doesn't go down to the references misunderstand it? Maybe the sentence should read, "The de minimis rule in Canadian drug law requires a usable quantity of the substance in question before charges can be brought, known as the minority rule.[7]" Being a layperson, I will ask before making a change in an area where I am not expert.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgndenver (talk • contribs) 19:34, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed it to "North American". Thanks for pointing this out.--Auric (talk) 17:06, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The de minimis rule in American drug law 

message: Looking at the first part of the "examples" section
 In criminology, the de minimis or minimalist approach is an addition to a general harm principle. 
 The general harm principle fails to consider the possibility of other sanctions to prevent harm, 
 and the effectiveness of criminalization as a chosen option. Those other sanctions include civil 
 courts, laws of tort and regulation. Having criminal remedies in place is seen as a "last resort" 
 since such actions often infringe personal liberties – incarceration, for example, prevents the 
 freedom of movement. In this sense, law making that places a greater emphasis on human rights, 
 such as the European Convention on Human Rights fall into the de minimis category. Most crimes 
 of direct actions (murder, rape, assault, for example) are generally not affected by such a 
 stance, but it does require greater justification in less clear cases.
I find myself completely unable to parse this. Is it just me, or is this section really obscure?
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 22:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example 

message: ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.246.178.222 (talk) 06:59, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA 

message: Stumbled in reading this section for various reasons:
* The paragraph seems to consist of four circular restatements of the same idea.
* The phrase it refers means specifically what? The term de minimis or the concept?
* The therefore sentence is not a logical consequence of the first sentence, but a restatement.
* The virtually safe statement is kind of a circular-but-negative definition, but 'the highest level of risk' would be 'virtually dangerous,' as we're approaching danger upward from the point of zero risk. The reference is from toxicology, where the standards presumably would be evidence-based through scientific study? Some is unspecific. 
* The fourth sentence contains surely a partial list of fields of application, but then uses may refer to and then restates the concept. 
* What is ASA 1?
Mvsmith (talk) 16:10, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section: Risk assessment 

message: I am not a legal expert, but "de minimis" has an important relation to shipping via "Section 321 Programs" and how they relate to the controversial shopping platforms of Temu and Shein. Can somebody with the knowledge add this shipping exemption to the article? Thanks! -1ctinus📝🗨 14:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shipping