Talk:Hypoxia

message: When defined in reference to a lake or water body these terms appear to have different meanings depending on the discussion.
As I understand it 
Anaerobic means the lack of dissolve oxygen which I equate to hypoxia
Anoxic,however carries a different meaning.  In a lake you have an aerobic area that is oxidized thru its interface with the atmosphere.  Below that you have an anaerobic zone where the dissolved oxygen has been consumed.  Below that you have an anoxic zone where the Where no oxygen exists.  Nitrate NO3 exists as ammonia NH4.  SO4 become H2S.  I think there is fundemental difference between these two words.  Anoxic doesn't = hypoxia.  anaerobic = hypoxia.
Can we have some discussion on this? FOK SD OA 18:14, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anoxic vs anaerobic vs hypoxia

message: The creation of a hypoxia (disambiguation) page started after two suggestions that hypoxia (medical) merge with first hypoxaemia and then with oxygen depletion.  David Ruben started a discussion on it.  Ex nihil realised that there was a mess of redirects around hypoxia subjects, many of which were rather underdeveloped and subsequently brought them all into this page.  The discussion text can be found at Talk:hypoxia (medical)
Ex nihil 07:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How this page started 

message: Only three of the articles linked from this page are actually about hypoxia. The others are all interesting but users will find them all by going to the main three links:
*hypoxia (medical)
*environmental hypoxia (altitude)
*environmental hypoxia (water)
I propose deleting all of the other links in order to prevent confusion. A user who searches wikipedia for hypoxia will be satisfied by the content of these links.
: Hello Fibrosis.  There is a history behind this page.  Originally hypoxia (environmental) was called oxygen depletion (I think) and it didn't necessarily stand out from the other ones on the page such as oxygen minimum and anoxic seawater which were really all about environmental hypoxia too and could have been the ones renamed.  I thought actually the way forward was to encourage the merger some of these as they overlapped a lot.  I'm not going to merge them myself but by putting them all on one disambiguation page it becomes clear how many pages we have competing for, and duplicating in, a similar space and maybe someone would rethink the scope of each and make some go away.  I can understand why you you would want to streamline it but if it were done the other 'hypoxia' pages would just descend again into the fog.  If you feel strongly about it 'though go ahead. By the way, have you created the membership name Fibrosis?  It comes up red because it doesn't exist.  If you create it at the logon top right you can sign out with four tildas (~x4) (see below) and it writes up your details and links auomatically like this:- Ex nihil 05:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the advice. I have done as you suggest. I've read the discussion on the hypoxia (medical) page and I think we should merge any other hypoxia pages into the three articles I suggest above. Fibrosis 01:56, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sounds sensible to me.  Suggest you give plenty of warning of proposed mergers or title changes and invite discussion, some people are very attached to what they perceive as 'their' articles.  There is a template for proposed mergers in the form  without the nowikis, which stop it executing.  I'm going to disinvolve myself from hypoxia related stuff, looks like there are others can do better.  If you have time you might want to do a quick technical crit. on the articles shallow water blackout and deep water blackout, which I believe are correct but which might benefit from a medically informed background. Ex nihil 05:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks again. I'll wait to see what other discussion happens on this topic. That should give me enough time to work out how to merge the articles! I'm afraid I don't know much about diving so I can't comment on the two articles you recommend, but they look very informative to me. Fibrosis 01:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Streamlining is needed here!

message: See the proposal to make multiple mergers in a bid to simplify this page at Talk:Hypoxia (environmental)  Ex nihil 04:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple Merger Proposal 

message: IMHO there should be a link here to pseudohypoxia ... err so I've added one, under medical. LookingGlass (talk) 11:04, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pseudohypoxia 

message: The formatting on this article is wonky. Please help.Widgetdog (talk) 19:41, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting