Talk:Anti-scaling agent

I removed two links to commercial sites touting junk-science products purporting to remove scale using electromagnets. For good measure, added a link to a site that debunks several junk-science scale-removal technologies.

Merge with water softening and fouling?
The present article started many years ago as a well-intentioned, useful theme, but several related articles have cropped up that strongly overlap. Here is an overview of the topics:

Articles that overlap with anti-scaling agent
There are two things that fall out of water - scale and scum.
 * water softening, basically about the use of ion exchange and sequestration (including lime softening, a particular method)
 * soap scum short article about what reslts when hard water and dications meet
 * hard water, the source of the problems
 * Fouling, the effects of hard water, scale formation

Overviews of water purification
Inevitably some overlap and the topic is indeed very important.
 * water treatment, a weak and redundant article that is made redundant by Sewage treatment, a strong article it appears
 * Industrial water treatment, not sure the point of this article
 * Water purification, broad, includes removal of biologicals

It just seems to me that readers are not well served by overlaps in both the antiscaling and the overvew articles. --Smokefoot (talk) 00:15, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Wrong title for content
This article mixes up two different topics. An anti-scaling agent is one that protected against scaling. A descaling agent is a chemical that removes scale. Anti-scaling may be an important topic but descaling is more significant. Removal of scale is a problem for millions of households and business worldwide. The topic should be renamed 'descaling agents' or a separate topic created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.149.59.21 (talk) 10:52, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. I will mark the article. Widefox (talk) 13:12, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I created a new page for descaling agent, to separate this from anti-scaling and water softening chemicals --OmegaPaladin (talk) 01:13, 13 February 2014 (UTC)