Talk:Cooling tower system

Response to merge suggestion of User:samw
I did merge most of it with Cooling tower a few weeks ago. However, I felt it also deserved to be a stand-alone article as well. Thanks for your remarks. - mbeychok 16:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Google of "Cooling tower system" has 23,000 hits so you're right, it probably merits a separate entry. However, the current contents are virtually identitical to a subsection of cooling tower.  Furthermore, cooling tower is a relatively short article right now and there's no reason why significantly more content can't be added into the cooling tower article for now until it merits refactoring.  Finally, in general, it's a bad idea to duplicate contents between articles; it makes the material harder to maintain.  Any objections if I convert this article on "cooling tower system" to a Redirect? Samw 18:17, 25 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Samw, I am still strongly of the opinion that Cooling tower system deserves to be a stand-alone article and so I ask that you do not convert it to a redirect. In my opinion, the  Cooling tower article is quite poorly written.  I did in fact merge my article into it as a section in an attempt to improve it.  The main thrust of that article is to explain what a cooling tower is, whereas the main thrust of my article is to explain what controls the operation of a cooling tower.  As an analogy, an article explaining how to drive an automobile is distinctly different from an article explaining what an automobile is.


 * As for your point about maintenance of my standalone article as well as the section in the Cooling tower article, I am quite capable of making sure that is taken care of. In reality, I don't anticipate my ever significantly changing either one.


 * Thanks for your comments and help. - mbeychok 20:08, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Duplication with Cooling tower
The exact same material should not exist in two different pages. As the consensus here seems to have been to keep the pages separate, I will delete the material from cooling tower. Fireproeng 02:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I really don't think you should unilaterally take that step. It should be discussed on the cooling tower talk page and a concensus be reached before you delete that complete section from the cooling tower article. - mbeychok 02:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)