Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lakes/Archive 4

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Archive 4

Requesting some inputs

Greetings,

Requesting your visit to article Black Sea and inputs on splitting and restructuring @ Talk:Black Sea#Some article restructuring and overhaul

Also please do have a look at Talk:Black Sea#Coastal cities, requesting help; and help expand Black Sea#Coastal and port cities on Black Sea coast and trade.

And also requesting to visit Draft:Avret Esir Pazarları, an article is about Ottoman times female slavery with a special focus on the state of non-elite common women slavery in those times; presently looking for more specific inputs and expansion regarding female slave trade across Black Sea coastal cities and help expand the same if you find yourself interested in that topic too.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 15:23, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

FAR notice

I have nominated Great Lakes Storm of 1913 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm _Talk 05:30, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Assessment / Quality Review for 'Brown Lake (Stradbroke Island)

Hi Wikipedians,

I have made several improvements to the stub Wikipedia page 'Brown Lake (Stradbroke Island). I would like to request this page to be reviewed in a quality assessment

Stub; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Lake_(Stradbroke_Island)

SnoMurWal (talk) 01:09, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

SnoMurWal - Reviewed and assessment posted to article talk page. --ARose Wolf 13:11, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Dartmoor reservoirs#Requested move 9 August 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dartmoor reservoirs#Requested move 9 August 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibbolethink ^(♔ ^♕) 20:04, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Lake Zurich#Requested move 19 December 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lake Zurich#Requested move 19 December 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibbolethink ^(♔ ^♕) 17:23, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Grouping of "Island Lakes" - is this proper?

Hello,

I noticed a new page Island_Lakes was recently created with information on three lakes in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area in Washington State. This new page contains information about Island Lake, Blazer Lake, and Rainbow Lake, and says the three together are "a set of closely related freshwater lakes".

What I am unclear on is how it was decided that these specific lakes are part of a "group" and that group should be called "Island Lakes". I don't see evidence that these lakes are considered a group in any official maps, nor are they colloquially referred to in this fashion.

I understand that individually, each of these lakes may not be notable. However, it seems like inventing a new name called "Island Lakes" to group these three lakes into one page is not the right solution, if such a grouping only exists in Wikipedia.

Please excuse me if this issue has been already discussed somewhere else - I only learned of the WikiProject Lakes today.

Bendgilbert (talk) 07:24, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Bendgilbert, I apologize for such a late response. If I had to guess I would say that the editor that created the article did so based on the USGS GNIS designation for these lakes in which it does group them together as such[1]. The GNIS cites Hitchman, Robert. Place Names of Washington. State Historical Society, 1985. ISBN 0-917048-57-1 as its source which seems to indicate it is grouped together this way in a published document. --ARose Wolf 13:50, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

For additional clarity I am tagging the creator so they can possibly add further details or confirm my assessment: Fimbriata.

Requesting inputs

Greetings

Requesting (brainstorming) inputs regarding Manual of Style proposal @ Chronological listing of coastal townships

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 06:16, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Project on Loch Ness

Over the next week, there is going to be a work project on Loch Ness by the Wikipedia Discord server as part of an attempt to get Loch Ness to B-class and we would appreciate your help. They are trying to get all vital articles to B-class. (Oinkers42) (talk) 00:14, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

WP:FASA

Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Great Lakes Storm of 1913/archive2. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:04, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Fishing Video Games

Hello. A number of notable US lakes feature in some prominent fishing video games such as Bassmaster Fishing 2022. Neutral, non-biased edits to such pages (example Chickamauga Lake) have been removed due to being 'promotional content' but their inclusion in such a widely used area of pop-culture is notable and I believe worth of at least one sentence. Could someone please consider adding this information in whichever way is deemed 'non-promotional'? In the example above a number of non-biased citations are available. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:CB83:1901:8C5B:4084:7050:B88F (talk) 08:26, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Reservoirs

Does this project look after reservoirs as well as natural lakes? I've noticed that quite of lots of articles on reservoirs use {{Infobox Dam}} instead of {{Infobox body of water}}. Which is correct? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:05, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

RFC on whether citing maps and graphs is original research

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RFC on using maps and charts in Wikipedia articles. Rs chen 7754 15:36, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

The RFC, now at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Using maps as sources, has questions related to notability. --Rs chen 7754 06:12, 30 March 2023 (UTC)