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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.
Theflyer06:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Requested move 10 June 2014
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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
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. +
mt02:02, 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.
walkvictor falktalk15:11, 16 June 2014 (UTC)reply
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