Talk:Garbology

message: Review of Article by MTA student: This article has improved slightly on the citations, as requested by a previous reader. However, the final two sections on "present day studies" and "investigative studies" are still lacking in citations, and therefore could be challenged in terms of its validity. The History section of the article is really informative on the University of Arizona, as this was where the study of garbage originated from, but it might be useful to add more information about other universities that use Garbology as a study. As well, in the "see also" section, there are only links to two other wikipedia articles, and it would be interesting to perhaps try and locate more links so that readers can investigate further into other articles that are related to garbology. Jmmacphail (talk) 00:11, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The proposed merger is disparate, as these are not the same thing at all. People dive dumpsters for many reasons, garbologists do something similar (though auite rarely) for entirely different reasons. The merge should not go ahead, as the similarlity is superficial at best. ww 04:15, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

text: With regret, I have to disclaim the prior edit of 21:28, 19 July 2006. It's not my work, however much I agree with it. Not sure how this happened, but... ww 22:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The comment starting "Bill Rathje" was not written by ww but by Violacadenza who forged ww's signagture. Gwernol 02:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The result of this Google searh within arizona.edu and similar ones make me to suspect that the study is shut down. Any updates? mikka (t) 23:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: shut down at ASU?

message: I've just finished a copyedit in an attempt to clean up some of the wording. But his article is porly structured and conceptually confused as well. Can we have some volunteers with some ambition? ww 21:28, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: poor writing

message: The two topics are disparate and the articles should not be merged. Dumpster diving is an act, gabology is a discipline, sometimes academic, and is closely connected with archeology. Insufficient overlap to justify a merge. ww 21:28, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The proposed merger is disparate, as these are not the same thing at all. People dive dumpsters for many reasons, garbologists do something similar (though auite rarely) for entirely different reasons. The merge should not go ahead, as the similarlity is superficial at best. ww 04:15, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: merger with dumpster diving

message: Bill Rathje continues to do Garbology research from his post at Stanford University where he is a lecturer of archaeology.
Merging this article with Dumpster Diving would be an mistake, since as the last comment has pointed out the two have little to do with each other other than the fact that they involve garbage (more specifically it would be similar to merging the articles of grave robbing with archaeology). ww Violacadenza 21:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: With regret, I have to disclaim the prior edit of 21:28, 19 July 2006. It's not my work, however much I agree with it. Not sure how this happened, but... ww 22:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The comment starting "Bill Rathje" was not written by ww but by Violacadenza who forged ww's signagture. Gwernol 02:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: shut down at ASU? Re: merger with dumpster diving

message: *The field of garbology has also come under some criticism by Professor Mounir G. Abouhaidar at the University of Toronto. Abouhaidar suggests that garbology should be avoided. Instead, students should pursue graduate work in other disciplines. This is Dr. Abouhaidar's personal academic opinion and a commentary on the future and prospects within the field.
**Abouhaidar, MG. Lectures in Introductory Virology CSB351. 2008:Toronto.
This material appears to be sourced to an unpublished university lecture, and if so it is unverifiable.   Will Beback  talk   01:25, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lectures in Introductory Virology CSB351 

message: Hanna, Arlene. (2003). Lessons Learned Through Garbology. The Nebline, 15(8), 2-12. Retrieved on 19 Feb 2012 from http://lancaster.unl.edu/nebline/2003/aug03/page01.pdf Avpreston (talk) 20:38, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography of Relevant Research 

message: I appreciate the input by the MTA student. I have been taking your suggestions into consideration and have made some edits in response. I added freeganism and dumpster diving as other articles related to garbology in the "see also" section. I am continuously trying to come up with others. Another suggestion focused on adding more information about other universities, aside from Arizona that use Garbology as a study. I thought it would be interesting to research whether garbology is used in any elementary or secondary schools and was I was able to find a curriculum used at in Lincoln Nebraska which focuses on Garbology. I will discuss this programs and the tools which have been used to make it successful. I will also explain some of the effects that it has had on the children. Avpreston (talk) 19:59, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes in Progress 

message: Hello! Excellent and huge contribution to the article. Very awesome. No, this isn't the same review that I put on your talk page; your work deserves a much better review than the earlier one. EmeraldWithin (talk) 00:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review