Talk:Kauhakō Crater

Hawaii C‑class Low‑importance

	Hawaii portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hawaii, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Hawaii on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HawaiiWikipedia:WikiProject HawaiiTemplate:WikiProject HawaiiHawaii articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A fact from Kauhakō Crater appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 November 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the lake at the bottom of Kauhakō Crater has a greater depth-to-surface-area ratio than any other lake in the world?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2018/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kauhakō Crater.

Wikipedia

Possible future refs

I'm planning on expanding this article in the near future. I'm just placing the following refs here for easy reference, mostly for my convenience. Thought it would be better than spamming the article with random refs. :-)

--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 23:12, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Odd text

SkyGazer 512, what does ... Observations on December 8 and show of December 12ed ... mean? The Rambling Man (talk) 11:59, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Fixed, thanks for catching that. I don't know how that managed to stick in there, considering I had proofread the article several times.--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 12:50, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, looks like a drag/drop text shift issue, happens to me all the time. Glad to have been of service. The Rambling Man (talk) 12:52, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

With all due respect, it does looks like you (TRM) were actually the one who accidentally created the problem in Special:Diff/868010215. That's why I had thought I proofread the article and didn't notice the error! But it doesn't really matter who exactly did it, it's fixed now. :-)--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 03:20, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah really

I suppose that someone is trying to be some kind of jerk by concealing which of the Hawaiian islands this crater is located on.Lathamibird (talk) 01:37, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why would you talk like that? This is a useful, interesting article written by someone who wants to share their knowledge with you. You could look it up on Google, and contribute to the article. FiftusTheSixth (talk) 03:23, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ratio

"The lake, as confirmed by the U.S. Navy, has a depth of 248 metres (814 ft) and a much lesser width of 50 metres (160 ft), making the depth to surface area ratio of the lake greater than any other lake in the world." That's less interesting when you realize it depends on how big a puddle has to be before we define it as a lake. Although the article specifies width but not area or length, the length must equal or exceed width by definition, so the depth to area ratio is unlikely to be much more than 0.1 m/m² (depending on shape). A puddle might have a length and width of 0.3 m and a depth of 0.1 m, for a depth to area ratio of over 1 m/m². Similarly, there are presumably ponds that break that "record", without attracting attention or being called lakes. Art LaPella (talk) 01:47, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The intro cites 500 meters. The "Lake" section says 50. Might be worth clarifying that. FiftusTheSixth (talk) 03:17, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, I don't know how the heck I managed to add that extra 0 in there. Thank you so much for pointing that out, FiftusTheSixth, and sorry for that confusing silly mistake; I'll try my very best not to let something like that happen again!--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 03:22, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. This is how Wikipedia is supposed to work. Happy to help. Impressed that this is in real time. FiftusTheSixth (talk) 03:25, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]