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 :)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:13, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello project members! Note that per WP:PIQA, all the class ratings are being harmonised across different WikiProjects so we are looking to remove any non-standard classes like SIA-class from your project banner. Would you like to automatically reclassify these as List-class or Disambig-class perhaps? Alternatively it could just be removed and then the articles in Category:SIA-Class Lakes articles would inherit the quality rating from other projects (or just become "unassessed" if there were no other projects) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:43, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

SIA will now classify as List-class, and the banner has been converted to use the standard scale. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:21, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

@MSGJ I find the lack of notification frustrating as I had no indication of any of these discussions prior to getting a notification that the category would be deleted. Posting to a talk page is insufficient notice as users do not get an email or notification message via the bell when posting to a talk page unless they 1. check the page often (which is not my case, I rely on a push notification not idle checks for pages that don't change often) 2. users have to subscribe per thread. This is quite disruptive to have a notification after all the work has been completed and not in any means that actually ensure notice and trust there was engagement of members of the project. Posted notice without any engagement doesn't necessarily mean agreement, it could mean a breakdown in communication. ~~~ Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 12:46, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Sorry but posting to the project talk page is the only reasonable way we have to communicate with the project. The message above was posted in April 2023 and if members do not respond then we can only assume there are no active members, or they do not have any opinion on the matter — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:00, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Proposed refactoring of geographic feature notability

We are discussing a proposal to refactor the guidelines for geographic feature notability. Please feel free to join in the discussion of this proposal. — hike395 (talk) 03:46, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Norris Lake (Tennessee)#Requested move 13 June 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Norris Lake (Tennessee)#Requested move 13 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:50, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora#Requested move 25 November 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora#Requested move 25 November 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Polyamorph (talk) 10:23, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Lake Skadar#Requested move 5 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lake Skadar#Requested move 5 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 23:44, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. CMD (talk) 07:49, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Merger discussion for 2024 Lake Suviana explosion

An article which may be of interest to members of this project—2024 Lake Suviana explosion—has been proposed for merging with Lake Suviana. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. IgnatiusofLondon IgnatiusofLondon (he/him • ☎️) 13:37, 10 April 2024 (UTC)