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Amazon or Nile?

I don't understand. Nile's length is 6,853, Amazon's length is 6,992, but Nile is still the first. Should it be edited or not? Andrey Tsyganov (talk) 02:38, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes this is weird. I am not expert of the subject though so don't want to tread on anyone's toes. Cls14 (talk) 13:29, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I like that the "officially recognized" lengths for Amazon and Nile are listed. The lengths are in dispute. One problem is that the new source of the Amazon (that would make it the longer river) is dry five months of the year ... but due to HUMAN intervention (a dam). This dispute makes the choice of "longest river" difficult.Kirin-rex (talk) 05:45, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[1][reply]

Can the wiki and English simple wiki please be aligned? General consensus is that the Nile is longer than Amazon (after the Amazons contentious source was debunked). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.108.73.47 (talk) 13:59, 6 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160516-why-it-is-hard-to-find-the-source-of-rivers-like-the-amazon

Semi-protected edit request on 17 February 2017

Please add "Wisła" after "Vistula". It is a river in Poland, and the Polish pronounce it as Wisła. 2600:387:0:80D:0:0:0:65 (talk) 22:52, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. DRAGON BOOSTER ★ 05:13, 18 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cauca River

The Cauca River should be removed from the list since it is taking into account the lower reaches of the Magdalena River. This is redundant, as the Magdalena River is already measured through its lower reaches (and its total length is longer than the combined Magdalena-Cauca length). --NoGhost (talk) 18:41, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved. Thanks User:Rmhermen! --NoGhost (talk) 18:31, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Why are most rivers in the table list without a source?
Also, why is 27. listed as "Saint Lawrence–Great Lakes" and not something like the "Saint Lawrence–Great Lakes–Saint Louis River"? tahc chat 02:46, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 1 November 2017

Indus–Sindhu nadi–ApurímacCite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). |3,180
(3,180) |1,976
(1,976) |7,050,000 |209,000 |Arabian Sea |[ Pakistan

How long is the Nile?

The Nile? or rather as called on Wiki "the 2 Nile rivers", "the white Nile River Flows into the Blue Nile River", "The Nile leaves Lake Victoria"

So according to the Article Lake Victoria is part of ONE of the Nile Rivers? So they are 2 Rivers and not a single river! and should be measured separately! The lakes page says "Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams" So a lake is different than a River and not part of it! When you see a lake you dont call it a river! Thus making the 2 Nile Rivers even shorter.--ArnoldHimmler (talk) 23:50, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Nile, like every river on this list, uses its most distant source to measure its total length. So for the Nile that means the main stem plus the White Nile, since that's the longer tributary. The Blue Nile has its own entry on the list. Kmusser (talk) 03:19, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 24 December 2017

It may be curious to add in the notes to the river table that "length of Vistula is affected by etno-political considerations as much as geography. In terms of river length alone distance from (Western) Bug spring (in Ukrainian Carpathians) to Vistula mouth is 1213 km (Source: Polish Wikipedia on 'Bug'), i.e. over 100km more than that from Vistula spring, possibly advancing it to 132 position in the table. On one hand, when they merge, 30km downstream from Warsaw, Vistula carries more water than Bug, on average. On the other hand, the naming convention may be also affected by the fact that Vistula conects the core historical provinces of Poland while Bug flows closer to the ethnic border between West and East Slavs (and historical Greater Lituania), so there was nobody to claim its importance. Western Bug belonging to Baltic catching area should not be confused with a different river Eastern Bug/Boh in Black Sea catching area. Exact name spelling for both rivers depends on Slav language in use."

Clarification: I propose to add my text above between " " signs in the Notes section of the list of rivers by length, with some editing, perhaps. I do not suggest change in the main table (in the Angara-Yenisiey style) because unsure how you define river length: by main stream (than present table entry is correct), or by the longest branch in the river catching area (aka Amazon length-than Bug-Vistula is more correct).

188.146.37.177 (talk) 14:33, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Upsidedown Keyboard (talk) 15:50, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I see what Anon wants done and am willing to make the edit, listing the Vistula-Bug rather than just the Vistula would be more consistent with how other rivers are listed. It would be nice to have an English language citation for the 1213 km figure, but from what I can tell it looks correct. Kmusser (talk) 16:30, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Ogooué River

According to Ogooué River, it is 1200 km, thus qualifying.S Philbrick(Talk) 22:52, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

White River

This list doesn't agree with the article it links to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_River_(Arkansas%E2%80%93Missouri) says that the white river is 1162 km.

This one says it's 1102 km. It looks like a typo or transcription error.

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2310 suggests it's 722 miles, which is 1162km

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