Amazing guide Quigon. It's about time someone compiled everything into a nice little post! Some comments though...
Being a psycho about threat, I do think a 12/5/44 talent build is better for threat. You can stand to lose IDS (and the 1 point in UBW) and get Imp Tclap/Anger management. Of course with either way, there's pro and cons, and either side can be argued for really. I also made a mock-set of the threat set you posted, and I do think 4 piece tier 6 is still the way to go. Timing shield slams with 2 piece t5 (very possible, since I did this for a while =P) is kinda impractical for the most part, so it really comes down to the 4 piece t5 bonus vs the 4 piece t6 bonus. I'm sure the 4 piece t5 bonus comes out on top, but a t6 threat set has the added value of more health/avoidance/bigger shield slams. There is also the factor of how much TPS you would actually need to output before anymore is useless of course.
Negivacat - Character - World of Warcraft - WoWDigger - check out the TPS set vs Default set - TPS set being the t5 threat set and default being the t6 one.
I'm surprised you ranked the Phoenix-Wing Cloak ahead of Slikk's. 6 defense rating/2 dodge rating vs 238 armor seems like a no brainer to me for mitigation. It seems like you like stam more than armor from the guide (though you did an amazing coverage on what armor does for a tank). While I agree stam is good, I do think that - like all things - stam isn't better in certain cases like 10 stam vs 240 armor on gloves. You're right though, everyone has a different opinion on what they need as a tank.
One last thing
Hit rating:
15.77 hit rating = 1% hit chance
Hit rating improves your chance to land a taunt, and challenging shout; it is currently assumed that hit rating it improves your chance to land a taunt at 15.77 hit rating per percent.
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Though everyone should know what hit rating does, the way you worded this sounds like hit only works for taunts =P
Great guide otherwise, thanks for taking the time to post this up.