Talk:Protocol

message: I reverted edit by 62.134.124.42(03:02, 4 Dec 2003) because most of the links made weren't relevant to the topic. See Wikipedia:Make_only_links_relevant_to_the_context. And it would have been difficult to revert once others started making revisions to it. (which is what is happening to Java programming language edited by the same user with the intention of providing more interwiki links.) Jay 14:14, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Irrelevant links

message: Sometimes I think I'm parodying computer-science types' word usages when I break the news to them that some words begin with lower-case letters or tell them that the English language existed before computers, or that they didn't invent everything that was used in ancient Greece or the 17th century (many of them do literally think that mathematical induction originated in computer science!), but when I see what pages link to this one, and some of the things this page has said in its various former edits, I really think they do literally think the word protocol was first invented in the field of computer science and that that is the main way in which the word is used.  It's hard to make fun of them sometimes. Michael Hardy 21:26, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Other meanings for "protocol"

message: Please comment at Talk:Communications protocol#Confusingly similar articles. Noel (talk) 20:48, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusingly similar articles

message: I think we should keep the medical protocol and guideline pages separate, lathough we may want to mention the other in each page. When something is referred to as a medical protocol, the implication is of a much more rigid application then a simple guideline. Guidelines are (often research-based) recommendations, such as the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) guidelines published by the American Heart Association, which are meant to recommend the order of medication and treatment delivery that might be best for a patient. Protocols are often developed by agencies or leadership and may even have the force of law, although they usually contain guidelines for how to deviate from the listed treatments properly. An example of those would be paramedic protocols, such as those found at http://miemss.umaryland.edu/Protocols2002.pdf, which were determined by the Maryland state legislature until recently (within the last 10 years). --catseyes 11:47, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Medical Protocols vs Guidelines

message: protocol \pro-te-kol, -kol, -kal, -kel\ noun [MF prothocole, fr. ML protocollum,
   fr. LGk protokollon first sheet of a papyrus roll bearing data of manufacture,
   fr. Gk prot- prot- + kollan to glue together, fr. kolla glue; perh. akin to MD helen to glue]
   (1541)
   
   1:   an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction
   
   2:   a: a preliminary memorandum often formulated and signed by diplomatic negotiators
           as a basis for a final convention or treaty
        b: the records or minutes of a diplomatic conference or congress that show officially
           the agreements arrived at by the negotiators
   
   3:   a: a code prescribing strict adherence to correct etiquette and precedence
           (as in diplomatic exchange and in the military services)
        b: a set of conventions governing the treatment and esp. the formatting of data
           in an electronic communications system
   
   4:   a detailed plan of a scientific or medical experiment, treatment, or procedure
   
   (C) 1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
This Disambiguation Page is so outrageously ORIGINAL that I thought it necessary to include a complete QUOTE from a STANDARD DICTIONARY at THE TOP OF THIS PAGE --Ludvikus 14:45, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merriam-Webster's 

message: Updateing Protocol (natural sciences) to better reflect the updates made to the actual page. The numbering as a defining feature seemed strange and limited in terms of natural sciences as a whole. Further comments, edits etc, in this category can go in this section.
--My wan 08:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing Protocol (section)