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The very nice photo Sunrise over the Derwent River is actually of the Derwent Estuary. The river feeds into the estuary but they are two distinct, quite different geographic features. Is it accepted to conflate river and its estuary on wikipedia? 86.130.20.230 ( talk) 22:51, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Which Enterprise? Which Missouri? - 129.2.40.144 01:54, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I know it is a real PITA to do this immediately after the links have been changed, but shouldn't this article have the primary Derwent River article name - going by how many other articles link to the Derwent River (SA) and Derwent River (Tas) articles? -- Chuq 00:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Barrylb changed the etymology from "valley thick with oaks" to "clear water" on the basis of the site http://www.derwentestuary.org.au/ I have changed it back because every other reference I can find—and there are many, I just listed the first 3 as references—agrees with the original version. (Rather more worringly, the www.derwentestuary.org.au not only disagrees with everyone else, but does so without giving an actual etymology, and in a context where they are effectively using this "evidence" as a supporting argument.) -- Securiger 08:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I would like to change the explanation of derivation of the name to this:
The name is Brythonic Celtic for "river lined with oaks" [1] [2] or "clear water" [3]
It seems there are two possible derivations of the name. I also removed the internal reference to Etymology_of_Cumbrian_Place_Names#Rivers because it is based on one of the references already given.
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The coordinates need the following fixes:
The lat/long for the Derwent River (Tasmania) is placed outside the mouth of the river. This URL shows the extent of the river better: Derwent Estuary Twang ( talk) 05:55, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
I've removed the following sentence:
'The Derwent is often referred to as the river of the "Salmon Pink Sunset" as a reference to the magnificent salmon pink glow that emanates over the region once the sun sets'
I've lived in Hobart for most of my life and I've NEVER heard the Derwent referred to as such; nor can I find any references to a Tasmanian "Salmon Pink Sunset" online except on Wikipedia. If anyone can find a citation to support the inclusion of the above sentence, feel free to reinstate it!
German wikipedia has a whole set of articles about or identifying tributaries, gleaned from travel maps and bonzie, as a result the wikidata article for this item has the bizarre situation of links to q numbers and german articles about tributaries with no names but q numbers only (no english names in labels or descriptors)
and there is nothing here in english wikipedia about them, considering the relative complexity of the issue, the 'geography' section of this article lacks any adequate explanation of the inter-relationship between the tributaries/hec structures and works/ and the river JarrahTree 14:59, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
The river Derwent in the UK is in Derbyshire, not Cumbria as stated in Wikipedia. 2601:601:4100:7FF0:84B0:273A:CF41:5CBB ( talk) 22:24, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
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The very nice photo Sunrise over the Derwent River is actually of the Derwent Estuary. The river feeds into the estuary but they are two distinct, quite different geographic features. Is it accepted to conflate river and its estuary on wikipedia? 86.130.20.230 ( talk) 22:51, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Which Enterprise? Which Missouri? - 129.2.40.144 01:54, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I know it is a real PITA to do this immediately after the links have been changed, but shouldn't this article have the primary Derwent River article name - going by how many other articles link to the Derwent River (SA) and Derwent River (Tas) articles? -- Chuq 00:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Barrylb changed the etymology from "valley thick with oaks" to "clear water" on the basis of the site http://www.derwentestuary.org.au/ I have changed it back because every other reference I can find—and there are many, I just listed the first 3 as references—agrees with the original version. (Rather more worringly, the www.derwentestuary.org.au not only disagrees with everyone else, but does so without giving an actual etymology, and in a context where they are effectively using this "evidence" as a supporting argument.) -- Securiger 08:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I would like to change the explanation of derivation of the name to this:
The name is Brythonic Celtic for "river lined with oaks" [1] [2] or "clear water" [3]
It seems there are two possible derivations of the name. I also removed the internal reference to Etymology_of_Cumbrian_Place_Names#Rivers because it is based on one of the references already given.
{{geodata-check}}
The coordinates need the following fixes:
The lat/long for the Derwent River (Tasmania) is placed outside the mouth of the river. This URL shows the extent of the river better: Derwent Estuary Twang ( talk) 05:55, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
I've removed the following sentence:
'The Derwent is often referred to as the river of the "Salmon Pink Sunset" as a reference to the magnificent salmon pink glow that emanates over the region once the sun sets'
I've lived in Hobart for most of my life and I've NEVER heard the Derwent referred to as such; nor can I find any references to a Tasmanian "Salmon Pink Sunset" online except on Wikipedia. If anyone can find a citation to support the inclusion of the above sentence, feel free to reinstate it!
German wikipedia has a whole set of articles about or identifying tributaries, gleaned from travel maps and bonzie, as a result the wikidata article for this item has the bizarre situation of links to q numbers and german articles about tributaries with no names but q numbers only (no english names in labels or descriptors)
and there is nothing here in english wikipedia about them, considering the relative complexity of the issue, the 'geography' section of this article lacks any adequate explanation of the inter-relationship between the tributaries/hec structures and works/ and the river JarrahTree 14:59, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
The river Derwent in the UK is in Derbyshire, not Cumbria as stated in Wikipedia. 2601:601:4100:7FF0:84B0:273A:CF41:5CBB ( talk) 22:24, 20 February 2023 (UTC)