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Review of changes and additions to Green Lake

The Wikipedia article on Green Lake has been substantially improved by your group's efforts. Well done, and thank you! Below I list some edits to consider to improve the quality of the article.

General comments

• Table of contents much improved!
• Infobox also much improved!
• Glad to see the inclusion of Native American history here

Minor comments

• Recommend making “Northeast” lowercase and changing to “northeastern” when referring to shore the city of Green Lake is located on; that said, I could be wrong about this
• Is it possible to make the 2 superscript in the units of the lake surface area (i.e., 30 km2)
• Do you have a citation for this sentence? With the increase of European settlers, the Winnebago were subject to forced relocation by the United States government multiple times, removing them from the Green Lake area and later granting land back to them through the 1862 Homestead Act.
• The European Settlement section would benefit from a citation or two after the first sentence. Or if ref [6] is the relevant reference, maybe place after last sentence?
• Be consistent with either using the number (e.g., 3) or spelling it out (e.g., three)
• Do you have a citation for this sentence? Green Lake has a retention time of 21 years, relatively long for a temperate lake of its size. This has implications for lake health because with very low rates of flushing, there is a large lag for reversion of fertility changes.
• The first paragraph of the Ecology of the Warm-water Fishery would benefit from a citation or two
• Capitalize “Iowa” when referencing the Iowa darter in the 2nd paragraph of the Ecology of the Warm-water Fishery section
• Add a “the” to: Recent surveys in Green Lake have shown that the cisco population has slightly declined
• Consider re-wording: Cisco are also at high risk for the effects of climate change to “Climate change severely threatens cisco . . .
• This sentence and the following sentence need a period after them: The Wisconsin inland lake record lake trout was caught on Big Green Lake by Joseph Gotz on June 1, 1957 and weighed 35 lb 4 oz (16.0 kg)
• Add the word “Lake” to: The Wisconsin record cisco was caught on Big Green Lake on June 12, 1969 by Joe Miller and weighed 4 lb 10.5 oz (2.11 kg)
• Consider making the Ecology of the Warm-water Fishery and Ecology of the Cold-water Fishery subsections of the Ecology section which currently has no content
• Provide a link for “oligotrophic” and “mesotrophic” in the Pollution section
• Consider making this long sentence two sentences: Green Lake is now considered to be mesotrophic because of increased nutrient loading from both natural and anthropogenic causes in the lake and the surrounding Green Lake watershed, and water quality has since decreased and is considered “impaired” per standards laid out in the Clean Water Act by the Environmental Protection Agency.[3]
• Consider removing “as being present” in this sentence: Hybrid water milfoil and curly-leaf pondweed have been documented as being present in Green Lake since 1971
• Consider removing the word “has” here: In a survey in 2014 by Onterra, hybrid water milfoil has increased in dominance
• Consider rewording this: Another submerged species named Najas marina, known as the spiny naiad, was to "Another invasive plant species, the spiny naiad (Najas marina), was"
• Also, be consistent with whether you include the latin Genus species for each organism throughout the article
• Consider revising this: The presence of the Zebra mussel species influences the growth of an algae named Cladophora glomerata to "Zebra mussels positively influence the growth of the green algal species, Cladophora glomerata"
• Consider removing this sentence. While interesting, it is slightly irrelevant to this article, in my opinion: One was the Pleasant Point, which opened in the early 1880s,[20] was criticized for the exclusion of Jewish patrons in 1923,[21][22] and burned down sometime before 1956.[23]

Dr.dwk (talk) 16:11, 1 December 2020 (UTC)