Talk:Fullo

Plenty of relevant details, and well-written (no typos and solid language); fairly well-organized.

"Fullones also left containers on street corners that Romans filled with urine" seems a bit of a digression. You might make this flow a little better.

It still works well as it is now, but a couple of organizing titles would definitely not go amiss. It would hold everything together even better.

The link for Fuller's Earth does not work - I'm not sure why this is, since searching this does bring up the right website. If you can't get it to work, I guess you can just take it out. Or see if the following format works instead: "Fuller's Earth" in place of Fuller's Earth (assuming the latter is what you've used).

Finally, I'd also suggest putting the archaeological evidence at the beginning rather than the end.

Great work, though!

199.74.100.151 03:04, 12 May 2007 (UTC)Hariharan Vijay

Rob Jackman
This is an interesting work of cultural history and you wrote it well. Watch out for the passive voice (i.e. second paragraph, first sentence.) Subtitles would be nice to help situate the reader. I suggest the categories of people, method and social significance, but whatever you think best would be just fine.

Make citations so the reader knows where you're getting your information from. Wikipedians need to know where to go if they want to conduct further research, and page numbers would be a great help.

Finally, I would be interested to know why C. Flamminus and L. Aemilius thought the work of fullones was to be taken seriously and codified, yet Elgabalus claimed the process was undignified. Did something change in Rome between these two periods? Does the differing opinion reflect distinct social positions, etc. Great work and good insights on the whole.

Alex Sandhu
This is definitely an impressive level of insight and information on a relatively obscure topic. First, one may want to create a quick summary of the topic at the beginning of the article and then divide the rest of the article into sections, although this seems like it would be quite difficult. Second, although you do a good job naming the primary source that the information comes from, one may also want to include the Wikipedia referencing numbers. Finally, as noted above, does the view of fullones relate to relate to the time period or to the class of the observant. Does it say something about Rome at the time overall? One might want to address these issues but be careful to remain factual. Also, how does one become a fullo? Altogether, this article includes almost everything about a fullo in a well-written, logically connected entry.

Anise K. Strong
This is a truly excellent article. I'm so glad you got this topic. It is thorough, impeccably researched, the image is wonderful, and you do a great job of both describing the practice and the profession. While I agree with your editors that it provokes many questions about potential changes in the social status of fullones, that's probably more an appropriate topic for a major paper or scholarly article than for Wikipedia. (For the record, if you're interested in continuing work on this, I could direct you to the appropriate types of journals. I may write about fullones myself at some point and footnote you. Well done!