Talk:Dolos

message: The greek God Dolos!  
My english is not good enough.    
 - Please look in German or French Wiki - 
The God Dolos!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.51.42.202 (talk) 22:07, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

message: I know, I know: if it is unusually-shaped we should have a decent photo. I'll do my best.  --Adam Brink 07:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: A nice article.  You write that 'there is a competing theory that [the word] refers to doll oxen as ox vertebrae were used by children as toy oxen. While such a practice did, and may still, exist, the etymology is unlikely as the Afrikaans word for doll is poppie'.  But my copy of Boshoff and Nienaber's 'Afrikaanse Etimologieë' supports this theory, stating that the word comes from the Dutch 'dollen', the verb 'to play' with the word 'os' added for 'oxen'.  They compare this to 'kleios' - 'clay' plus 'oxen' for clay ox toys.  (Afrikaanse Etimologieë, SPE Boshoff and GS Nienaber, Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 1967).  If Adam Brink has no objections I intend changing this section to reflect this. --Queequeg Pequod 06:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: I have undone the (anonymous) edit saying 'Aubrey Kruger still has a copy of the original design plan (Plan No. BH 103. I. 400.) dated 12 July 1962, which contains his signature. Putting to rest that he was indeed the original designer of the Dolos and not Merrifield.'  It isn't clear to my the fact that Kruger's signature on the original plan would show that he came up with the design.  He may have prepared the plan on Merrifield's instructions... There is also no citation.  [It would be nice to have a copy of the original plan linked to the article, if it is in fact available] --Adam Brink 16:02, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kruger v Merrifield 

message: I have cut this reference out: 'Dolos are most famously used in Crescent City, CA where they protect the city residents from future tsunamis. Dolos in Crescent City, CA are used in combination with Tetrapods'. There is no basis given for this particular use (as opposed to the thousands of other sites around the world) being the most famous use. Nor will the article be improved by listing every site where they are used. Adam Brink 07:26, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  'most famously used' 

message: This article reads as if the dolos was an entirely novel design, unrelated to any other. Dolosse are a type of tetrapod, tetrapod being a generic term for objects like this used for mitigation of erosion by wave action (tetrapod = shaped like a four-limbed animal https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tetrapod) Designs shown in Pierre Danel and Paul Anglès d'Auriac's US patent of 1951 are tetrapodal, and designed to interlock, as are dolosse: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2766592A/en Tetrapods of that type were used at Roches Noir power station east of Casablanca in 1950 https://journals.tdl.org/icce/index.php/icce/article/view/1812? Dolosse were thus a development in a pre-existing field, and the article should mention that, perhaps with a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod_(structure) in a sentence added to the introduction 'It is a type of tetrapod. Robert P Connolly (talk) 09:13, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: yes, this is anither case of apartheid propoganda being used to pretend that a particular shape of wave dissipating concrete blocks being made in South African means that the broader class was a South African invention. The same with epoxy glue and pool cleaners. 156.155.85.159 (talk) 04:39, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dolos/tetrapod