Talk:Hypoxia (environmental)

message: The creation of this page started after two suggestions that hypoxia (medical) merge with first hypoxaemia and then with oxygen depletion, which was well developed. David Ruben started a discussion on it. Ex nihil realised that there was a mess of redirects and confusion around hypoxia subjects generally, many of which were rather underdeveloped and subsequently created hypoxia (disambiguation). As part of that process a renaming of oxygen depletion seemed to clarify things a bit. The discussion text can be found at Talk:hypoxia (medical)
Ex nihil 01:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How this page started

message: The first line is wrong.  Partial pressures are measured in kilopascals, not units of concentration (%).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.112.20.204 (talk) 17:46, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
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message: The hypoxia disambiguation page currently lists the following under environmental:
In the environment:
* Environmental hypoxia at high altitudes the reduced partial pressure of oxygen available to organisms at high altitude leads to hypoxia.
* Environmental hypoxia in sea water or oxygen depletion, a reduced concentration of dissolved oxygen in a water body leading to stress and death in aquatic organisms.
* Hypoxic zones, or dead zones, are hypoxic areas in the world's oceans.
* Anoxic sea water is a condition where there is an abnormally low level of oxygen in the sea.
* The oxygen minimum zone is the depth in the sea at which the disolved oxygen level is lowest, or most hypoxic.
This list might be better if it could be reduced to:
* Hypoxia at high altitude
* Hypoxia (environmental)
...by merging Hypoxic zone, Anoxic sea water and oxygen minimum zone into the existing hypoxia (environmental) At least two of these articles are very brief and suggest a paragraph that might belong better in an expanded Hypoxia (environmental) article.  Perhaps this could be done in stages.  Any views on this? Ex nihil 04:05, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A redirect from dead zone to this article would bring users to the combined article. That is normal practice when articles are merged. The goal is to avoid duplicate article text, while providing links or disambiguations from all reasonable synonyms. The reason not to combine the articles would be if the topics are really distinct. Trevor Hanson 21:23, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge  multiple hypoxic pages 

message: This request and its discussion resulted in the page not being merged.
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I propose to merge this article, which is flimsy (to be kind), into Eutrophication, which is what this article on environmental hypoxia seems to be about.  Readership of Wikipedia will have a rich palette of articles on this topic:
* Dead zone (ecology)
* Anoxic sea water
* oxygen minimum zone
* Eutrophication
--Smokefoot (talk) 20:36, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand the concerns and agree that there is considerable overlap in the various texts. However I believe that the correct course of action would be to greatly reduce the text on oxygen depletion in :Eutrophication and link to :Anoxic waters instead. Eutrophic describes the trophic state of a body of water and eutrophication should describe the process by which a body of water reaches eutrophic condition. Anoxia is one of many symptoms of the eutrophic state but it does also occur in non-eutrophic waters such as cold deep lakes which may be oligotrophic. Certainly we need to remove the considerable overlap and improve the quality of some of these articles  but simply dumping anoxic water into eutrophication gives neither subject benefit.  Velella  Velella Talk   19:43, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal (December 2023)

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved.  – robertsky (talk) 09:13, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hypoxia (environmental) →  – Alternative solution to merging this article into :Eutrophication. Also, the current name of this article is somewhat ambiguous and the article mainly talks about hypoxia in water anyways and the new title will better match up with the :Anoxic waters page. The part about atmospheric hypoxia can be merged into :Altitude or be turned into a separate :Atmospheric hypoxia page. Enoryt nwased lamaj (talk) 21:32, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

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thread_title:  Requested move 10 February 2024