Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lakes

Lakes crossing regional borders - discussion and examples for main page

Please add cases we should highlight as an example on the main page. Name the case or issue and suggest resolution.

Reviewer request

Several members of WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography are involved in a Wikimedia grant aimed at connecting students, educators, and content experts to generate quality aquatic information. Several students are generating new lake articles or improving existing lake articles and it would be great to have some WP Lake wikipedians review some of the content before it goes live. If you're interested in reviewing, please add your username here.

Abraham Lake, Alberta Canada

Hi all! I was actually watching a video the other day about dangerous bodies of water and stumbled across this peculiar [man-made lake]. I was wondering if anyone who has gone here before would like to contribute some more information regarding their experiences visiting this place. I personally want to check it out sometime as well :)

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. --ARoseWolf 13:11, 25 May 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. --ARoseWolf 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)

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)

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.