Talk:Waterboarding

Lede
I just spent a good portion of my evening rewriting the lede, which was seven paragraphs long and featured a confusing chronology, a factual inaccuracy, excessive detail, a challenged assertion that had been tagged since June 2015, and a near-complete focus on the 21st century U.S. debate over waterboarding. The lede is dramatically improved, but could still use more work. Editors have generated pages' worth of archived talk page debates and discussions about this >15-year-old article. It's disappointing that no one had expended an equivalent amount of time and effort to write a coherent lede. SunCrow (talk) 08:25, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 December 2020
Please delete this instance of the word "the": "and said that the its use could yield unreliable information" 81.100.37.20 (talk) 11:31, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Thjarkur (talk) 11:41, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

MythBusters Waterboarding Demonstration
I was surprised I didn't see a mention of the MythBusters Water Torture episode under demonstrations. For those who don't know which episode I'm talking about, here's a link to the section on youtube: <- Link redacted ->

While it doesn't involve a mask or face covering, it's still pretty similar. Would it make sense to add it to the article under that header? 2601:1C0:8500:1161:E802:4299:719A:734A (talk) 2601:1C0:8500:1161:E802:4299:719A:734A (talk) 06:06, 19 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I have had to redact the Youtube link you provided, as the video appears not to have been uploaded by the copyright owner. We do not permit links to copyright violations.


 * As for anything Mythbusters did on the subject of waterboarding, it is unlikely to be seen as a reliable source for anything of significance. We have credible scholarly and media sources discussing the topic, and we don't need to resort to content made for entertainment. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:13, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

"Dry drowning" should be edited out
"Dry drowning" is a discredited term and should not be used in this page. Its wiki article says this when you click on it. I apologize if I'm writing this post incorrectly- I made this account recently. Thank you! Treepersonified (talk) 10:05, 6 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I was wondering the same. One of the articles is clearly wrong. 2800:300:6291:7F50:0:0:0:2 (talk) 07:18, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Edit needed
If you read the sources quoted in footnote 119 and 120 it states that the supervising soldier was courtmartialled. But the article describes 2 US soldiers involved as shown on the picture of the event as well. I found that confusing so I propose to add the word “supervising” to “soldier”, at the place where it reads that he was punished. 2A02:A467:9E7C:1:9DF5:A18C:C999:F444 (talk) 13:58, 29 July 2023 (UTC)