# Talk:The sea in culture

The article Impact of the sea appears to be about much the same topic, and it may be appropriate to merge them. Probably with redirect. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 20:26, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Redirect: That recent essay-like student article seems indeed to describe a part of the topic of Sea in culture, which however has a far broader scope in time and subject area, taking in for example early history, symbolism, literature, film, and music. The student seems to have had a strong focus on America and African-Americans; there is scope in Sea in culture for a brief section on the "transportation" by sea of criminals (Britain to Australia) and of slaves (Africa to America and the Caribbean). Much of Impact of the sea is an opinion-piece with broad allegations ("the sea was their natural habitat"); and none of the book references include a page number, so there will be little that can be merged from there; it would be better to start afresh on the transportation topic, avoiding the essay-like tone and working directly from the sources. Further, the essay goes over the ground of existing articles including the Atlantic slave trade and Penal transportation. I would support a redirect. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:26, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
To save a lot of faffing about, I've created a section on Human cargo with links to existing articles on the topics mentioned above. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:43, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
About a month ago, Peter Southwood and I were involved in a discussion to possibly improve or merge that Impact of the sea article. Given the points made by Chiswick Chap above, I am going to simply redirect that article to here as suggested. Thanks. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:03, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Many thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:04, 12 February 2019 (UTC)