Talk:Anti-scaling agent

I removed two links to commercial sites touting junk-science products purporting to remove scale using electromagnets. For good measure, added a link to a site that debunks several junk-science scale-removal technologies.

Merge with water softening and fouling?

The present article started many years ago as a well-intentioned, useful theme, but several related articles have cropped up that strongly overlap. Here is an overview of the topics:

Articles that overlap with anti-scaling agent

There are two things that fall out of water - scale and scum.

water softening, basically about the use of ion exchange and sequestration (including lime softening, a particular method)
soap scum short article about what reslts when hard water and dications meet
hard water, the source of the problems
Fouling, the effects of hard water, scale formation

Overviews of water purification

Inevitably some overlap and the topic is indeed very important.

water treatment, a weak and redundant article that is made redundant by Sewage treatment, a strong article it appears
Industrial water treatment, not sure the point of this article
Water purification, broad, includes removal of biologicals

It just seems to me that readers are not well served by overlaps in both the antiscaling and the overvew articles. --Smokefoot (talk) 00:15, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong title for content

This article mixes up two different topics. An anti-scaling agent is one that protected against scaling. A descaling agent is a chemical that removes scale. Anti-scaling may be an important topic but descaling is more significant. Removal of scale is a problem for millions of households and business worldwide. The topic should be renamed 'descaling agents' or a separate topic created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.149.59.21 (talk) 10:52, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I will mark the article. Widefox (talk) 13:12, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I created a new page for descaling agent, to separate this from anti-scaling and water softening chemicals --OmegaPaladin (talk) 01:13, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]