Talk:Eye care in the Western Region (Ghana)

This article was nominated for merging with Optometry in Ghana on 21 March 2011. The result of the discussion (permanent link) was Merge to Eye care in Ghana.

Merge discussion

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to merge to Eye care in Ghana. After copyediting to remove unsourced personal opinions, the remaining article is as Hairhorn says, really based around one or two facts regarding low service availability. On that basis it does not justify a separate article. I did not merge into the "Optometry in Ghana" article as optometry is a subset of eye care, and this would have added general content to what should be a specific page. The merge proposal hasn't been discussed for three years (!) but am happy to discuss further if anyone wishes to debate this merge. Euryalus (talk) 03:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

These topics are totally different and should not be merged as they both show different aspects of eyecare in Ghana— Preceding unsigned comment added by User:Crosstemplejay (talk • contribs)

Sorry, I don't see it. There's nothing in here that can't be fit into the original entry. There's also a lot of filler in this entry, such as the lead, which doesn't even mention eye care. Hairhorn (talk) 18:47, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Optometry and Eyecare are two separate topics. Fitting the two together will not benefit the two topics.Crosstemplejay 20:30, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

I still don't see a case here for a separate entry, just on this topic in one particular region. Spiralling out more and more less notable sub-topics from one notable one isn't going to fly. 21:49, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

One major reason why the two topics should be separate is the article Optometry in the Western Region, sheds light on the low number of eyecare professionals in the region. It has the least number in the country with the lowest number of surgeries done. By merging the article the current sitation of the problem may be lost, thereby not shedding any further light on the millions of people who yearn for eyecare services. Crosstemplejay 16:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

A single fact like this doesn't need an entire entry.... Hairhorn (talk) 17:54, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.