Talk:Garbology
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[edit] shut down at ASU?
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)
[edit] poor writing
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)
[edit] merger with dumpster diving
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)
- 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)
[edit] Re: shut down at ASU? Re: merger with dumpster diving
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)
- 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) <-- really me this time.
