Talk:Solo diving/Archive 1

Father of Solo Diving
Added citation needed to this particular title. The title itself makes no sense, being the father of generally independent minded people (many of whom probably existed before he was born) is like being an atheist minister. The concept of solo is a rejection of collectivism. That said, I've seen weirder things catch on with the general public. Are there any significant media sources backing this title up? (I think we'd need at least three for this one...) Sarysa (talk) 19:43, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Since no one seems to have any interest in this, I took down the dubious "father of solo diving" title and instead just mentioned the book (Robert) Van Maier is known for. Sarysa (talk) 16:39, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm immensely interested and I assure you that you've done the right thing. I actually think the whole article is riddled with OR and editorialising but if I added a citation needed for every unsupported assertion, it would double the article size. --RexxS (talk) 18:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

POV Template

 * Added POV section template within the 'Reasons for solo diving' section, specifically for 'Personal preference' and 'Special interests'. The language used in these paragraphs comes across as opinion-based and not neutral. For 'Personal preference, there is a reference to a book noted, but the chapter used is titled "Opinions". There is no reference noted for 'Special interests'. Karmaclub (talk) 15:43, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The POV template is currently in the section "Avoiding liability" I will remove it as it appears that it was not intended to refer to that section. I do not share your opinion that the personal preference section is POV (i.e. biased), beyond the basic premise that personal preferences are inherently indicative of the point of view of the persons holding those preferences. If you want the tag in the section "personal preference", you will have to put it there yourself. It is not clear whether you are suggesting that reporting that personal preference is a reason for solo diving is inadmissible in an encyclopedia, or whether you consider the way that the report is made in this specific case expresses a biased point of view. If the latter, could you give an indication of why you consider this to be the case?
 * The appropriate tag for unreferenced sections is unreferenced section, which has been added correctly to "Special interests" by another user. This is a very different issue from POV. Unreferenced is not urgent if there is no dispute about the content, and as no specific statement has been tagged as requiring citation, we can reasonably assume that there is no controversial statement, and that the tagger was simply pointing out that this is an aspect where the article can be improved. This does not appear urgent as the unsourced material is pretty much self-evident. However the tone can be improved so I will deal with that. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 18:40, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

B-Class review
Close but not yet. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 17:55, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Going to promote now and will add images if and when they become available. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:13, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

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