Talk:Eyepatch

message: This is an excellent section, and serves as a very informative paragraph, but the grammar and sentence structure is rather sloppy. If some sentences could somehow be merged, altered, or corrected for gramamar and better flow, it would make this already informative paragraph easier to follow.
Also, it should be noted that non-stereotype pirates and privateers often did wear eyepatches for actual reasons. 
We must recall the actual pirates, not the stereotypes. Treasure wasn't the onlt thing pirates were after. In many case, pirates would seize entire ships if they wanted and/or needed them. When fighting or attempting to seize another ship, shanghai a passenger, or steal items for their wealth or their country's wealth (like in privateers), it was very common to suffer severe damage in an eye. Sword or not, daggers and other pointy items can gouge an eye severely, thus disabling is ability to see. Add the fact that pirates often held their "booty" for ransom instead of killing itFeldman, David. Imponderables, page 191. The Readers Digest Association, Pleasentville, Ney York. (all the more fear), and an eye could and probably did get severely damaged in lieu of rescuing a captive. Pirates were known to strike fear into other vessals and their crew, more often with privateers to make other nations fear their homeland.
In short, the "peg legs", eye patches, hooks, ect. all served as Prosthesis for a damaged limb or other organ.
Eye patches may have served as a cover-up of a gouged eye, not just because it's ugly, but also because it would prevent any blood from flowing down their face and inhibiting their senses all the more. In piracy and sailing in general, it pays to be on alert for the unexpected.    74.184.65.160 (talk) 20:01, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eyepatch in Sailors section (and Pirates) 

message: I'm doing some general improvements to the article. Of course, anyone is welcome to add further changes or to revert something I have done, but please, consider not reverting everything I did before starting it clean your way. We should learn to work collaboratively.Thanks, --damiens.rf 17:29, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvements 

message: This section definitely needs cleanup. There is no justification for a complete list of fictional characters with eyepatches within this article. I see no reason why that list should exceed the length of the list of famous real people with eyepatches (which I might note makes no attempt to be complete). --207.171.180.101 19:17, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This section is unencyclopedic and should be removed. 203.7.140.3 (talk) 07:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Done. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:37, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Someone else has reverted. I have no time to argue it out currently. Will leave this note to show potential for future consensus. -- Quiddity (talk) 05:05, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to agree that the list does not serve a purpose. I would not expect to see a list of notable wearers of some item of apparel in that encyclopedia entry. Maybe if it were limited to a few characters, or those where the eye patch was important, the list would seem less useless. For one, if the character in question doesn't even have a page, they aren't important enough to warrant inclusion. The list should be, at most, as long as the non-fictional characters list. --74.78.103.230 (talk) 21:53, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. I'll be stalking it to see if it returns. Absolutely full of nerd references, not notable characters. Patricoo (talk) 21:48, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fictional eyepatch wearers

message: Sprite jokes have absolutly nothing to do in particular with eye patches in general. This does not belong here, it belongs in an article about sprites.Removed Completely
the guys in knight riderhad a patch !! 216.113.96.83 14:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sprite

message: many medical pages link to this page, the lead image was not appropiate for this page, I deleted it. Kiatdd (talk) 06:49, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Why is it that you said that eyepatches worn by pirates are fictional :( ? It's offensive to pirates, or - their proper name - advantageous sailors. Anyway heres a link https://www.childrensmuseum.org/blog/why-did-some-pirates-wear-an-eye-patch 182.255.99.214 (talk) 09:37, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Offensive to pirates 

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message: I see no reason for this section to exist. It's just a place to put an editor's favorite characters that wear one. Pelliesh (talk) 11:00, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional eyepatch wearers (again)