Talk:Pathology

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Founders

Either include a link to James Paget and Rudolf Virchow...or remove mention of them as the founders of the field on their pages. Pick one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.110.233.209 (talk) 11:38, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

suggested revert of deletion of introductory text

The revision of 18:16 21 October 2023 deleted material that is essentially introductory text which serves the purpose of providing perspective for the content of the succeeding sub-sections. As explanatory text (i.e. explaining the structure of the text), the {{citation needed}} tag was inappropriate and should not be restored. Fabrickator (talk) 21:10, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

I disagree. It's waffle and poorly written waffle at that. I had to read it twice to work out the meaning. We don't use introductions to sections as this should be covered in the Lead. The article is long enough without this padding. Graham Beards (talk) 08:39, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

I believe the removed content was originally my work (most of the article is), but I agree with Graham that it was inelegantly worded. Now, I wouldn't go as far as to agree that it was "waffle", as the distinction being made (that these sub-disciplines are simultaneously discrete fields of expertise but also areas which a general pathologist's work intersects with) is a meaningful one. Nevertheless, I agree that with the current length of the article, and there being very limited opportunities to trim the prose without hampering its technical treatment of a large variety of sub-topics, this is is a very reasonable removal of non-essential verbiage. SnowRise ^{let's rap} 23:48, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Double quotes always follow a period at the end of a sentence. They do not go before the period. I see that mistake in this article and it looks very bad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2025-33820-24 (talk) 04:00, 17 November 2025 (UTC)