Talk:Lab notebook

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This article really should have a discussion of standard lab notebook guidelines as well as what the law defines as a legal lab notebook. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.21.101.188 (talk • contribs)

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Lab notebook and Inventor's notebook are two pages on related subjects with a large overlap. I suggest to merge them. Anyone opposing this merge? Thanks. --Edcolins 20:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose I'd oppose this. I think that the large overlap is mainly in part to the way that the articles are written. The problem is that while lab notebook's can be inventor's notebooks, and inventor's notebooks can be lab notebook's--lab notebooks can be used for experiments with no invention and inventor's notebooks can be used outside a lab setting. They are related subjects but neither is a subset of the either and it would do a great disservice to merge them and suggest that. I do think that this issue can be handled by expanding the lab notebook article. Lab notebooks are used for everything from middle school students trying to verify the speed of gravity to scientists testing hypothesis of their own. And middle school students are not discovering the speed of gravity (just faulty equipement); there is a distinct difference. The article just doesn't really cover it. Lab notebook should most likely make mention of inventor's notebook and send readers there for more information on certain topics so that there isn't much of an overlap. TStein 10:31, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Fine, you've convinced me. Let's expand it with: lab notebooks in the context of education. --Edcolins 19:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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I have removed [1] copyright material [2] (see copyright notice there: [3]). --Edcolins 20:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)