Talk:Oil desulfurization

Move Article Oil Desulphurization
Oil Desulfization should redirect to Oil Desulphurization which is the term most often used in the field of Chemical Engineering. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Picomp314 (talk • contribs) March 20, 2006 (UTC)


 * You really should sign and date your postings in Discussion pages as explained above. I don't agree that either desulfurization or desulphurization is the preferred one in chemical engineering. One is the American spelling and the other is the British spelling. As I understand it, the Wikipedia policy is to accept whichever of those two spellings was used by the original author who first wrote the article.


 * That applies to many other words as well: vapor versus vapour, modeling versus modelling, power plant versus power station, etc. mbeychok 03:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge this article with Hydrodesulfurization and Hydrotreater
Wikipedia now has three articles covering exactly the same subject, namely: Hydrotreater, Hydrodesulfurization and Oil desulfurization. For people in the petroleum refining, petrochemical production and other hydrocarbon processing industries those three names are synonomous. In other words, they mean exactly the same thing. There is no reason why Wikipedia needs three separate articles on the same subject.

The only explanation I can come up with as to how this happened is that the original authors of the three articles failed to make a thorough search as to find out if the subject was already covered in Wikipedia.

I propose that the three articles be merged into a single one and I am tagging all three of them with a "Merge" tag. Any comments? mbeychok 03:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I am far enough along on the merger to invite all of you to read the draft and to make or offer edits. Please note:


 * There is no "See also" section because every pertinent Wiki article I could think of is linked in the text of the draft article.
 * The "Miscellaneous uses" sub-section needs some additional uses of hydrogenation ... but please try to brief them down to just a few sentences each, if possible. Also provide references, please.
 * The Categories will be assigned after the draft is completely ready ... so don't worry about them now.
 * The article still needs an extensive section on the catalysts used in hydrogenation and I will work on that tomorrow (December 1st, for me).
 * The title will be "Hydrodesulfurization". The existing Hydrotreater and Oil desulfurization will be redirected to the merged article. The Hydrogenation article will remain as a stand-alone article.


 * The draft is in my sandbox at User:Mbeychok/MRB's sandbox and it has a Discussion page as well. Regards to all, - mbeychok 08:49, 1 December 2006 (UTC)