Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oceanic zone

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep, nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 19:58, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oceanic zone

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This topic seems to be already covered by a number of pages, in particular Pelagic zone but also the pages it links to. I don't know if there's anything in it worth merging: the existing pages look comprehensive enough but I'm not an oceanographer. JohnBlackburne (talk) 13:30, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Pelagic zone. I'm no expert either, but it seems this topic is already covered by the aforementioned article. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 16:05, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I may have been a bit hasty proposing it for deletion. Looking at Ocean, specifically here, the Pelagic and Oceanic zones are not the same thing. Oceanic zone is linked to from here, a link that wasn't just added. It may be it just needs better integrating into the other articles: remove duplicate information, add it here, maybe copy this image to a few more places so it's clearer how the zones fit together (I read a lot of articles but it only clicked for me when I saw that image). Definitely could do with some expert help on this. JohnBlackburne (talk) 18:34, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Yeah, upon closer examination I see the oceanic zone is a part of the pelagic zone, along with the neritic zone (at least according to ocean). However, neritic zone seems to indicate that the neritic zone is not part of the pelagic zone. Expert attention is definitely needed here, but I think it's clear oceanic zone should not be deleted at this point. Therefore, I recommend you withdraw your nomination; I'll tag both articles as being in need of expert attention. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 19:17, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw. OK, consider it withdrawn. I've updated the page and added a comment on the talk page. JohnBlackburne (talk) 19:54, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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