Talk:Immersion foot syndromes

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Article categorization[edit]

This article was initially categorized based on scheme outlined at WP:DERM:CAT. kilbad (talk) 17:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merger Proposal[edit]

I propose that Trench Foot be merged into Immersion foot syndromes, or vice versa, as trench foot is the most important and more widely known and recognized affliction by far of all three within the category. The other two pages within the category of immersion foot syndromes, tropical immersion foot and warm water immersion foot should also be merged into whichever page is dominant in the end, and I vouch for immersion foot syndromes to be that article, being the category containing the other three. I think that the content in the trench foot article can easily be explained in the context of immersion foot syndromes, and the immersion foot syndromes article is short enough that a merge of either into the other would not create an article of unreasonable length. In fact, of the three articles, only 'trench foot' is of any substantial length; 'immersion foot syndromes doesn't even have prose outside a listing of the three afflictions within.Anon423 (talk) 05:48, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That merge make since and I like your idea of "immersion foot syndromes" with sub sections. --Gene Hobbs (talk) 14:09, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the above consensus, I've completed the merges. Because of the length of the article trench foot, and the cultural and historical significance attached to trench foot, I've created a short summary here, but retained the main article. LT90001 (talk) 22:12, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]