Talk:Dictionary of Laboratory Terms

Dictionary of Laboratory Terms is a guide to the terminology of laboratory for all users of laboratory instruments in industry and science. It explains terms of laboratory technology and related areas.

Specialized dictionaries
I suspect that &mdash;with some care to frame things suitably&mdash; we can make this work here, because WB:DICT only excludes general-purpose dictionaries. Our sister Witionary is, indeed, a general-purpose dictionary. This is why I chose not to oppose the concept when it was initially raised at the projects reading room. Seems to me it's a matter of finding the right words at the start of the book that present what it's doing in a way that fits it neatly into the Wikibooks family. Suggestions? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 20:52, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * That's OK for me too. Actually it could have been a new subcategory of wikt:Category:en:Sciences, but I've renounced to delete these lists since the lost of the battle against w:Category:Wikipedia glossaries. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 09:17, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Single-page
I'm considering how we might most usefully break this up into multiple pages. We don't want to lose the browsing-through aspect of the single page, which is an excellent thing about dead-tree books that has been largely lost in the electronic medium. The glossary of the Conlang book (link) is all on one page, but those are deliberately-short entries. The main section of the Jargon File has an alphabetical index (link) and then each entry is on a separate page; some of those entries are quite long. In between those, we could have a page for each letter (a page for each section, as the main page is currently arranged). I wonder if I'm overlooking some other worthwhile approach. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:45, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Multiple pages
Dear All, thank you for your help and feedback. After a moment of cogitation I came to the following idea/proposal:


 * DLT main page, essentially an intro and a Table of Contents, linking the other pages
 * other pages: serie of laboratory techniques + general index A-Z + bibliography

I took as model my favorite wikibook LaTeX Sgiani (discuss • contribs) 19:41, 5 April 2020 (UTC)