Talk:Prevailing winds

Pronounciation
Prevailing winds is pronounced: prĕ-văl-īň wīnds

Expansion
This article has been significantly expanded, taking advantage of recently improved wikipedia articles to bulk up its content. Let me know if anyone seeing any significant gaps in this article's coverage. Thegreatdr (talk) 19:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Atmospheric circulation
This article is talking essentially about the same phenomenon as Atmospheric circulation and therefore a merger of two articles should be considered.

abhishek singh (talk) 00:58, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Not in my opinion. Atmospheric circulation talks about the 3D movement of air, while this article talks about the 2D movement of air at the Earth's surface.  This article is a subarticle of that one.  Thegreatdr (talk) 17:24, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

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Global wind patterns merger
This article had already been merged from 28 June 2017 to 24 June 2017, when the creator of this article, Benjamin Trovato, undid the merger and removed the merger notice. We had failed to come to an agreement (on my talk page) on whether the article should be merged into Prevailing winds. My arguments for such a merger were:
 * It was a worse version of the Prevailing winds article. It had no sources, no layout and thoroughly poor style, and it covered the same topic. It's not the norm to have a bad article serve as an "overview article" on Wikipedia. If one wanted an "overview article", as Benjamin claimed was his reason for the article, one would create an article named "Outline of prevailing winds" as is the norm on Wikipedia. However, it's not necessary for such a small article as Prevailing winds. Indeed, Prevailing winds is rated as a good article.
 * I also advised Benjamin that if he didn't like the Prevailing winds article or felt it was missing something, to edit it. This is what Wikipedia encourages.
 * Benjamin has tried to justify the lack of sources on the article by writing this in the References section. SpikeballUnion (talk) 14:53, 24 July 2017 (UTC)