Talk:Catchment area

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Reason for establishing page[edit]

I established this stub page as part of the process of working on the disambig page Catchment area. The disambig page had too much information on it and needed to be made more concise. Theflyer 06:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 10 June 2014[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:25, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Catchment area (human geography) → Catchment area – To complete a TWODABS move. – Ivanvector (talk) 19:51, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:19, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Catchment area" much more often means an area that catches rain which flows away as a river. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:19, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's why we have catchment basin, which redirects to drainage basin, which directs to this topic with a hatnote. Ivanvector (talk) 21:26, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support as per WP:TWODAB. Red Slash 23:53, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose it should redirect to drainage basin. A hatnote can be added there. -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:40, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support as nominator (I should have done this earlier). According to Merriam-Webster "catchment area" may be either an institutional service area (human geography use) or a watershed (physical geography use). However, a Google search for "catchment area" returns results nearly universally for the human geography usage, for mostly British and Commonwealth locations, however no results are returned for the physical usage. "Catchment basin" returns results universally for a drainage area. This reveals that "catchment area" refers to a service area in British English and is not commonly used to mean anything in American English; whereas "catchment basin" is understood to mean a drainage area to any English speaker. Therefore the primary topic for "catchment area" is the human geography usage, which this move supports, per WP:TWODABS. Ivanvector (talk) 06:39, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, Catchment should redirect to drainage basin. I'm not making any more changes until this discussion is resolved though. Ivanvector (talk) 06:41, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Broadly-speaking, "catchment area" is a concept that is applied to physical and social sciences. For example, it can apply to several disciplines, including hydrology, hydrogeology, marketing, public health (epidemiology), etc. While I would normally think of this term associated with drainage basin, there are already several synonyms for the hydrologic use. The term "catchment area" is well-supported in the literature for epidemiology and public health topics. I would encourage this article to be about the concept of a "catchment area" in general terms that could apply to multiple disciplines. +mt 02:02, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support per Mwtoews. "Catchment area" is a statistical/sociological concept derived from how drainage basins work, and the article should be about it applied across a broad number of disciplines. ^walk victor falk^talk 15:11, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Overlap with Metropolitan area ?[edit]

It seems that neither article is aware that the other exists, but perhaps should be. 108.246.204.20 (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]