Talk:Ontario Minamata disease

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Merge sections?[edit]

Since the White Dog and Grassy Narrows both are from the same incident at Dryden, should these two sections be merged and then if more needs to be said about specific community, then to create a subsection addressing the specific community? Also, supposedly there were a dozen different outbreaks in Ontario, of which the three mentioned First Nations were hardest hit. What are the other locations? What was the extent of those outbreaks? What did Ontario do about those other sites? CJLippert 17:21, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since the last time I was at this article, someone have contributed quite a bit at the Grassy Narrow's article, so I went ahead and swapped what was here with what was there and combined White Dog and Grassy Narrows together here. CJLippert 20:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The neutrality of the article is evidently no longer in dispute, so the caution should be removed.[edit]

The article has a warning that the neutrality of the article is in dispute, see the comment section.

I see no dispute here, so the warning should probably be removed. 50.71.203.92 (talk) 09:23, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Problematic article title, definition[edit]

While the topic of this article is clusters of cases of Minamata disease (mercury poisoning) that ocurred in the Canadian province of Ontario in 1970, I can find no evidence that there is a specific disease name or subtype referred to in the literature (lay or scientific) as "Ontario Minimata disease".

It looks like at some point in the past, someone just copied part of the introduction from Minamata disease. Compare:

Minamata disease, sometimes referred to as Chisso-Minamata disease, is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning.
Ontario Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning.

The article should be retitled (I'm open to suggestions) and the lead rewritten; as it stands now, we appear to be inventing a disease. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 20:38, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it would be better titled "Minamata disease in Ontario"? 206.177.43.73 (talk) 20:39, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Legit duplicate style?[edit]

Copying parts of the original Minamata disease seems legit since the O.M. disease's name itself is based on the original Japanese Mercury poisoning scandal that occurred in Minamata. Since a very similar incident (eco-crime) happened in the Ontario case, the two cases are very similar and the articles should be allowed to reflect that IMHO - maybe with a suitable comment?

I'm also for declaring the dispute as resolved. Otherwise I'd like to know what is, or who's interests are, misrepresented.

Content in this article is also used in related articles[edit]

I have added content to this article that I also added to related articles, including Paper and pulp industry in Dryden, Ontario, Grassy Meadows First Nation, Ontario Minamata disease, which focusses on the Minamata disease —severe mercury poisoning, and Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows, Ontario, Canada which will be part of a series of articles, "Mercury contamination in ....", similar to the Mercury contamination in California waterways. While working on these articles, there will be some overlap, and eventually pruning. There has been an increase in research, reports, media coverage, and other publications in recent years that is providing more details on various aspects of mercury poisoning in Northeastern Ontario. I am using this content as much as possible to clarify and at times, replace existing, and in some cases outdated content.Oceanflynn (talk) 17:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]