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criteria?
With over 15,000 lakes in the state, how do we decide which lakes to include?
Kdammers (
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Since the majority of those lakes would probably be considered notable (and thus would be kept if they had articles), not sure if any can be excluded. As a practical matter, this page mostly includes lakes with articles. If someone ever feels the need to expand this to include the rest of them, it can be split by region or county; I don't think there's a need for that yet though.
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List of lakes in a county
There are pages for List of lakes in Vilas County, Wisconsin and a List of lakes in Oneida County, Wisconsin. I would like to see a List of lakes in Marinette County Wisconsin. Is it appropriate to create such a list? — Preceding
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As it is right now, this is just a silly, random list of non-notable lakes in Wisconsin. Just trying to make it into something rational and coherent. --
Mesconsing (
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14:03, 24 December 2012 (UTC)reply
I think that there are levels of notability, and that merely being notable enough to warrant a WikiPedia article will eventually yield a large number, and it is not too early to have that discussion. However, I don't think it is at that point yet. Also size should not be the only criteria for notability. I would add things like a lake of any size which is eponymous with another geographic feature (like a town name), any lake that is the source of a river, etc. This still will yield (eventually) a large number of articles, and so the "list" article will then have to be organized. So the point is well taken, but IMHO for the time being I would leave it alone and see how big the list gets. Right now (BTW) some very large lakes in the state are not listed at all -- I just added Lake Nokomis myself the other day (and have a
Lake Nokomis Draft Article), which I am pretty sure is in the top 100 of size.
Laurentian Shield (
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15:18, 24 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose the same can be argued for all limited listing lists on Wikipedia. At other instances, the decision has been made to not use the word "notable" as part of list titles, as the list entries must meet some level of notability to be listed, and the change in title does not help in determining it, it just makes it a longer title. A simple criterion used on some of these other lists is that the listees must have articles or sections in other articles. We have {{Importance-inline}} to tag iffy entries. --
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20:22, 24 December 2012 (UTC)reply
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List of lakes of Wisconsin is within the scope of WikiProject Lakes, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of lake-related articles on Wikipedia, using the tools on the project page. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LakesWikipedia:WikiProject LakesTemplate:WikiProject LakesLakes articles
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Scope and Name : Discuss scope and name for consistency with other U.S. States. "in" for man=made "of for natural.
criteria?
With over 15,000 lakes in the state, how do we decide which lakes to include?
Kdammers (
talk)
Since the majority of those lakes would probably be considered notable (and thus would be kept if they had articles), not sure if any can be excluded. As a practical matter, this page mostly includes lakes with articles. If someone ever feels the need to expand this to include the rest of them, it can be split by region or county; I don't think there's a need for that yet though.
TheCatalyst31Reaction•
Creation22:03, 9 August 2010 (UTC)reply
List of lakes in a county
There are pages for List of lakes in Vilas County, Wisconsin and a List of lakes in Oneida County, Wisconsin. I would like to see a List of lakes in Marinette County Wisconsin. Is it appropriate to create such a list? — Preceding
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Spkal (
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04:53, 24 April 2012 (UTC)reply
Requested move
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As it is right now, this is just a silly, random list of non-notable lakes in Wisconsin. Just trying to make it into something rational and coherent. --
Mesconsing (
talk)
14:03, 24 December 2012 (UTC)reply
I think that there are levels of notability, and that merely being notable enough to warrant a WikiPedia article will eventually yield a large number, and it is not too early to have that discussion. However, I don't think it is at that point yet. Also size should not be the only criteria for notability. I would add things like a lake of any size which is eponymous with another geographic feature (like a town name), any lake that is the source of a river, etc. This still will yield (eventually) a large number of articles, and so the "list" article will then have to be organized. So the point is well taken, but IMHO for the time being I would leave it alone and see how big the list gets. Right now (BTW) some very large lakes in the state are not listed at all -- I just added Lake Nokomis myself the other day (and have a
Lake Nokomis Draft Article), which I am pretty sure is in the top 100 of size.
Laurentian Shield (
talk)
15:18, 24 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose the same can be argued for all limited listing lists on Wikipedia. At other instances, the decision has been made to not use the word "notable" as part of list titles, as the list entries must meet some level of notability to be listed, and the change in title does not help in determining it, it just makes it a longer title. A simple criterion used on some of these other lists is that the listees must have articles or sections in other articles. We have {{Importance-inline}} to tag iffy entries. --
70.24.247.127 (
talk)
20:22, 24 December 2012 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a
requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a
move review. No further edits should be made to this section.