Talk:Washout toilet

Incorrect description
The description in the article and this external link (as well as the picture on that page) are misleading and incorrect. The "shelf" is not "bone dry". (If it is "bone dry", then the toilet is broken or incorrectly designed.) By proper design, a shallow pool of water is supposed to remain on the "shelf" (which is slightly concave), so that fecal matter won't firmly stick to it and will be easy to flush away. This means that there are two water lines in such a toilet and not (just the) one below the shelf as the Wikipedia article currently suggests. The aforementioned site and this article were obviously authored by someone with no understanding of (the intended functionality of) this German toilet design. 31.16.117.157 (talk) 10:44, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Suggest page redirect to flush toilet
I don't think the term "washout toilet" is sufficiently important to warrant its own page. I suggest to move the content to the page on flush toilet and to place a redirect. These toilets are by the way not at all common anymore in Germany.EvM-Susana (talk) 12:10, 28 April 2015 (UTC)