Talk:Coastal seas

Suggestion about different redirect
My suggestion is to redirect "coastal seas" to "coastal waters". What do you think, User:Epipelagic? EMsmile (talk) 09:50, 1 July 2022 (UTC)


 * That's fine, if by "coastal waters" you mean "Coast#Coastal waters". That's better than "marine coastal ecosystem". Ideally it would be redirected to "Sea#Coastal seas", except that section doesn't exist. As an aside, Sea and Ocean are not structured appropriately - Ocean should be the senior article, with Sea clarifying overlaps and differences and otherwise including material related to seas only. But that would be awkward to achieve given Sea already has FA status. — Epipelagic (talk) 11:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's what I meant. I've changed the redirect now. And about ocean and sea, I share your concern and also think that ocean should be the "main" article. About one year ago I tried to improve the situation. At the time, the ocean article was very under-developed and there was lots of overlap between sea and ocean. So now we've improved the ocean article but trying to work on the sea article was difficult because those who had originally brought it to FA status guarded it quite fiercely. So I experienced a fair bit of backlash, some of it felt unpleasant. You can see on the talk page of sea e.g. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sea#How_to_reduce_overlap_with_ocean? . So I gave up in the end on changing the sea article any further. EMsmile (talk) 11:50, 1 July 2022 (UTC)