Talk:Specimen

message: In addition to my earlier comments, and while still maintaining that I'm no expert on any of the areas referred to by the disambig page, from a layman's POV, it seems to me that all meanings of "specimen" (except for the band and banknote) basically mean "an example of something used for analysis," which is essentially the Wiktionary definition. The biology, medical, typography and handwriting entries aren't so much definitions, they're just kinds of specimens. The reason the articles don't talk about specimens in themselves seems (to me) to be because there ISN'T anything else to say about specimens, and I question whether it really makes sense to have any kind of article about them. 
Alternate suggestion: a disambig page linking to the band, the banknote, and Sample (material), which is a pretty crap article but is about the meaning of specimen currently described with the biology, medical, typography and handwriting entries. Propaniac (talk) 20:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Addendum

message: While I genuinely appreciate the efforts to clean up the page, it still fails the standards of what a disambiguation page is and what it should look like. None of these links (except the band, and maybe the banknote; see my "Addendum" comment above  DDDDDDDDDDIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ≠≠≠≠→→→→§···13:58, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Response to most recent revision

message: The article (in its un-redirect state) is junk that serves no purpose; as far as I know, there's no possible defense for it that takes into account Wikipedia guidelines (since nobody has ever posted one). But I'm tired of reverting it and am taking it off my Watchlist; currently, it's still a redirect, but I'm sure someone will undo that soon enough. Propaniac (talk) 13:41, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Okay, I'm letting go

message: Seeing what links here make it clear that few refer to the band (in any case I've just corrected their redirects), but rather to the scientific use of specimen. I'll be the first to admit that the current specimen page is pretty mediocre, but when actually having the page the chance of it being improved is far larger. I'd add that numerous other biology related pages are in a similar state, and if the specimen page should be a redirect, you could remove most biology-related stubs (and I'm sure that's not unique to biology, but rather would be the case of most science-related matters, which often have a brief entry in dictionaries). Rabo3 (talk) 07:25, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Addendum2

message: Links to a band and a company with specimen in the name belong in a "See also" section.  There is no need to clutter the top of the article with links.  Rlsheehan (talk) 15:06, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is only a partial match, then yes, but that it not the case here. Specimen is the full name of the band (hence (band) in brackets of its article) and Specimen Products are commonly known simply as Specimen (to the extend that their logo, which can be seen in its wiki article, only includes the text Specimen). These are placed in the top of the article per WP:DLINKS. Regardless, specimen banknote is already used in the main text, and should therefore under no circumstance be included in a See also (WP:SEEALSO: "Links already integrated into the body of the text are generally not repeated in a "See also" section"). What can be questioned is if this page deserves a separate disambiguation page, as there are three separate articles (band, products, and banknote + specimen article itself) – WP:DAB#Disambiguation page or disambiguation links? • Rabo³ • 15:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: I added Herbarium specimen as an example under Biological specimen to clarify that specimens do not only refer to animals. RosemaryGlos (talk) 00:59, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herbarium specimen 

message: What was eugenics?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.115.8.99 (talk) 08:10, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History