Talk:Divemaster

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While this is fine as a "place holder," much of the text appears to have been lifted from the PADI website and thus is not really applicable to anything but PADI programs..Wiki4robert&me (talk) 00:11, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

With the addition of SDI to the mix we must, I fear, come to a major decision: all through the diving section do we have subjects like "Divemaster" that we then discuss in the mos general terms and have subheadings for each agency (as time and interest permit) to talk about the specifics of that agency (combining those that are identical or almost identical would be fine too) or do we ignore agency differences and strive for the most general possible descriptors without any mention of this agency or that? The way we are headed appears to me to not be a productive one. I suggest the former, with the work that would entail in all the other certification level entries, though I might be easily persuaded to the latter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki4Thal (talk • contribs) 22:55, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is not difficult. We don't have any decision to make at present. Everything in the article needs to be sourceable to a reliable source, and we should remove all the verbiage that is unsourced. At present there are 3 sources given:

"Divemaster Courses - Lessons, Training, Tips & Professional Careers - PADI Scuba Diving Training Organization". Retrieved 30 December 2011.
"NAUI Worldwide Leadership Courses Instructor". Retrieved 30 December 2011.
"Diving Course Syllabus - British Sub-Aqua Club". Retrieved 30 December 2011.

All that is needed is to read those sources and summarise what is contained there. That would consist of:

the role of Divemaster in the PADI system and in the NAUI system;
the relative level of DM in each of those two programs, and in comparison to the BSAC program;
the pre-requisites and training required to become a DM in PADI & NAUI.

If any other relevant sources and/or topics are available, then perhaps they could be indicated here. Once all of the sources have been collected and read, then writing the text will be straightforward, as long as we avoid writing stuff that isn't properly sourced. There's no deadline so I suggest we revisit this in a week and work from what is available then. --RexxS (talk) 00:25, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pointing out the differences between the way in which programs are organized so as to explain the "superior" position of the divemaster in the NAUI program is hardly promotional.