Talk:Drinking Water Equivalent Level

was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was MERGE AND REDIRECT

This article has no potential to be encyclopedic. Google finds, which defines DWEL as a measure used in defining the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal. MCLG seems to be a useful measure, judging from the referenced page, but DWEL is not. This article also has an associated redirect DWEL, which should also be deleted if this article is. 141.211.62.118 22:44, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge material to one of the articles on sewage or water contamination or pollution. It's a small definition of something that might well be a useful term (e.g. when does water get pure enough to be equivalent of drinking water?).  Delete.  Geogre 13:33, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. Agreed with User:Geogre's rationale, but, AIUI "merge and delete" is not considered a valid vote (as it loses edit history). Besides, since the current content is inoffensive, and it's conceivable that someone may search for the term, I see no problem with a redirect.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 21:33, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I know the point you're making, Gwalla, and understand it, even as I have my own private quibbles with the policy in question. What I am essentially saying is "delete" and "if someone would be so kind as to paraphrase this and put it in another, more appropriate article, it would be good."  I.e. not "copy and paste" (destroying history, which is just one author in this case), but "delete but preserve the information, if someone is inclined."  It's a technicality, I know, but it's a delete decision, with a preservation as an after thought.  I have no quarrel at all with a redirect and actually think you're right that a redirect is better than an outright delete.  Geogre 01:09, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * merge/redirect. I'm not sure I see the point of preserving this page's history, but it seems possible someone could search directly for this term, so I suppose redirect is better than delete.  --AHM 18:04, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I am merging DWEL with water pollution and redirecting the page to water pollution. See if it looks OK. --  CDN99 20:26, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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