Talk:Health effects of alcohol
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The content of Health benefits of quitting alcohol was merged into Health effects of alcohol on 25 September 2025. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.
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On 7 February 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from Alcohol and health to Health effects of alcohol. The result of the discussion was moved.
- The following is a closed 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) —CX Zoom [he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 17:57, 16 February 2025 (UTC) Reply
Alcohol and health → Health effects of alcohol – More clear description of the subject, as in other languages and with other topics, such as Health effects of tobacco, Health effects of wine, Health effects of salt, Health effects of coffee and Health effects of tea. 84.226.7.83 (talk) 19:48, 7 February 2025 (UTC) Reply
- Support. The proposed title is clearer and more natural language, and also seems to be consistent with similar articles. –CWenger (^ • @) 20:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC) Reply
- Support but keep the redirect to allow the casual user to find it.
- Bearian (talk) 19:26, 13 February 2025 (UTC) Reply
- Support. The proposed title is clearer and more natural language, and also seems to be consistent with similar articles. –CWenger (^ • @) 20:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC) Reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- To merge Health benefits of quitting alcohol into Health effects of alcohol for context, short text (noting also no expansion since May) and overlap. Klbrain (talk) 20:50, 25 September 2025 (UTC) Reply
There's a new article on Health benefits of quitting alcohol that overlaps with the content here, and is better merged for context. I accept that 'stopping' is different from 'not starting', but the effects are similar and best discussed in one place. Klbrain (talk) 16:02, 19 May 2025 (UTC) Reply
- Reject - merging the article about the benefits of quitting into this one may generate confusion; I think the two topics should be distinct articles, like two arrows originating from the same point but going opposite directions; if anything, Long-term effects of alcohol and Short-term effects of alcohol consumption should be merged into this. Itemirus (talk) 06:54, 20 May 2025 (UTC) Reply
- I understand that as the creator of Health benefits of quitting alcohol you think that it should be kept. However, as you have already noted, we have 4 articles currently covering the scope of Health effects of alcohol, and I think that the former structure of 3 is suffcient. Alcohol intoxication (short term effects) seems sufficiently distinct; Long-term effects of alcohol, at 243 references, is too long to merge here (remember WP:TOOLONG); merging Health benefits of quitting alcohol, with 13 references, is the simplest way to consolidate. Klbrain (talk) 21:06, 25 May 2025 (UTC) Reply
- It is a relatively short article, with only 13 references, maybe because it is just ten days old? This merge request is a bit premature, IMHO. If one year from now this article has remained the same, it may have sense a merge proposal, but what if it triples in size? Just my two cents. Itemirus (talk) 14:09, 26 May 2025 (UTC) Reply
- I understand that as the creator of Health benefits of quitting alcohol you think that it should be kept. However, as you have already noted, we have 4 articles currently covering the scope of Health effects of alcohol, and I think that the former structure of 3 is suffcient. Alcohol intoxication (short term effects) seems sufficiently distinct; Long-term effects of alcohol, at 243 references, is too long to merge here (remember WP:TOOLONG); merging Health benefits of quitting alcohol, with 13 references, is the simplest way to consolidate. Klbrain (talk) 21:06, 25 May 2025 (UTC) Reply
- Support some kind of merge – I haven't gone through each of the four articles in detail yet but I'm in favour of reducing overlap in a logically consistent manner. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 02:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC) Reply
- Support I think the more objective well sourced parts of Health benefits of quitting alcohol should be merged over. Intentionally Dense (Contribs) 05:27, 8 June 2025 (UTC) Reply
- Support, it makes sense to keep all of the health effects together. I'd prefer a selective merge since a lot of the article is essaylike and needs to be trimmed. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 20:10, 29 July 2025 (UTC) Reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
In the main section of the article, you state the only beneficial uses of alcohol in modern medicine, however fail to list its use as a treatment for antifreeze poisoning (specifically ethylene glycol poisoning) of which ethanol is a common treatment. ~2026-31932-00 (talk) 01:25, 30 May 2026 (UTC) Reply