Talk:Shallow-water blackout

Proposed merge with Freediving Blackout

The page freediving blackout appears to cover this topic more generally and in greater detail, and with some passages even being identical. Pretty clear that that they should be merged. This page has some good sourcing though and a few extra tidbits that could be important, it was a bit bloody rash of me to just redirect it sorry. EDIT: Hmm, just checked through the page history and it was acknowledged that this was mostly a copy from the freediving blackout page. Why was this done? It seems to me like this page could have just been for disambiguation of terminology rather than duplicating the info, if it needed to exist at all. I'm no diver though. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 11:36, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Text copied from other articles may be used as a basis for summary sections and for developing content on different aspects of similar topics where some overlap is useful or necessary. This article is more than disambiguation, it explains the variety of types of shallow-water blackout in the contexts of the diving modes and profiles in which they occur, in one place, which is useful to the reader wishing to understand all of the meanings associated with the term, without the necessity to consult several sections of other articles. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 17:31, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Oh damn I was trying to avoid duplication and I have gone and duplicated the talk topic. For anyone else coming along here's a link to the other talk that has a bit more in it: Talk:Freediving_blackout#Merge_proposal_with_Shallow-water_blackout MasterTriangle12 (talk) 20:05, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

I like what you've done with the place! Not really what I had in mind but all the expansion has certainly turned it into a valuable page. Sorry I complained if it was already heading this way. I pulled off the merge proposal since that is well past done with. Great job! MasterTriangle12 (talk) 10:56, 27 July 2024 (UTC)