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This WikiProject Lakes aims to consolidate and unify pages relating to lakes, lochs, reservoirs, and similar inland bodies of water around the world. This page includes guidelines and a number of resources that can be used to achieve our goal. All editors are welcome to join this project; if you wish to participate, please add yourself to the list of participants below.

Title

WikiProject Lakes

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to describe the Earth's lakes, lochs, reservoirs, and similar inland bodies of water in a consistent and complete fashion and to add the Template:Tlx template to each lake oriented article.

Guidelines

Please remember that these are only guidelines and may not apply in every situation. However, the Template:Tlx template should be included on every lake oriented article. In addition, please add the Template:Tlx project banner to the talk page of any lake articles that you may encounter (see templates below), allowing other editors to find this project and adding the talk page to Category:WikiProject Lakes.

Notability

To start, see WP:GNG and Notability (geographic features) most specifically the named natural features section: WP:GEOLAND.

New Page vs New Section

The guidelines to read first: WP:PAGEDECIDE.

Related WikiProjects

Parentage

The parent of this project is WikiProject Geography.

Collaborations

Currently proposed & under consideration: Reservoir Task force with WikiProject Dams.

Related WikiProjects

Complementary projects:

Projects covering other geographical features:

Open tasks

Backlog Dashboard

Backlog progress overview

Lakes needing attention

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(Please flag an article by adding attention=yes on the Wikiproject Lakes template as you come across them. This will add them to the Template:Clc. Leave a comment on the article talk page specifying the attention is needed. For articles under active development needing attention there is the table below as added visibility.)

Lakes needing immediate attention

Apply the attention parameter as stated above and add to the table below. The table below currently contains the legacy articles which were posted prior to converting to the table, but not all have comments which specify an actionable comment. Those without an actionable comment may be removed if how they need to be brought up-to-spec is not identifiable or will be switched to the attention=yes flag.

A comment should be actionable and not just "expand" or "stub", but provide direction of why that article should be a priority over others. There are many articles that are stubs and need expansion generally.

Cleanup listing

A range of tasks are available at Cleanup listing. User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription

Complementary Geo Templates

WikiProject Articles specifically around bodies of water with geographic coordinate should also make sure that the talk page also includes the WikiProject for that geographic area if it is in the scope for the project. For example Lake Michigan's talk page should include all the WikiProject for the states bordering the lake (WikiProject Illinois, WikiProject Indiana, WikiProject Michigan, and Wikiproject Wisconsin). Dual tagging lakes and local region helps to provide visibility to the article for maintenance and development. Additionally this may encourage topical and local expertise in assessment the article importance and identification of locally or topically known resources.

You can view a PetScan configuration of current projects with just WikiProject Lakes and no regional WikiProject template. It is possible new region templates have been added or missed, please add them to the "Templates&links" tab at the end of the "Has none of these templates:" list and update the PSID for the link or post to the talk with the missing WikiProject templates for PetScan.

Adding Infoboxes

Lake articles in need of an infobox: Template:Clc

Adding photos

Find a photo with a compatible license or donate a photo you have taken and help with the backlog. Finding photo tutorial.

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WikiProject Banner Flag

Articles where the WikiProject Lakes banner explicitly has been flagged needs-image=yes appear in Template:Clc

Infobox Body of Water Missing Images or Maps

The infoboxes can feature an image, this may include more than lakes, lochs, and static bodies of water without photos or pushpin maps. These are tracked via:

Linking with WikiData

WikiData helps track facts across languages and enables automatic import or suggestion of facts for inboxes. Help make a comprehensive lake database to link to articles and enable more maintenance tools to be developed.

Accessibility Review

Help check that articles, tables, and infoboxes are configured for accessibility. The accessibility features benefit not only humans, but search engines and automation tools too.

Article Accessibility

See Manual of Style on Accessibility for article best practices and tips. See Alt text Manual of Style for specific guidelines.

Infobox Accessibility

The Body of Water Infoboxes should have a descriptive "Alt" tag for every Image or Map.

Lists and Tables Accessibility

Use of scope= in tables, and selection and use of colors can affect the ability to read a table. Wikipedia guidelines on list accessibility and guidelines on Table accessibility.

Articles with Lakes To Do list

Articles with {{todo, lakes}} with items to coordinate development and refinement: Category:Lakes articles with to-do lists

Assessment

Improve the article quality assessment by reviewing pages and setting priorities. The criteria for each is found on the Assessment page of WikiProject Lakes.

Quality of Articles

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Importance of Articles

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Article alerts

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New articles for "waterbodies":

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Article WikiProject Lakes Watchlist

A shared WikiProject Lakes watchlist:

Talk Watchlist by Category
Talk Watchlist by Class

Hot Articles

Frequently edited articles highlighted at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lake/Hot_articles. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Lake/Hot articles}}

Articles

All articles with the lake project talk page template are listed at:

Recognized Content

A bot curated list of WikiProject Lakes most recognized content.

Most popular

A bot curated list of WikiProject Lakes top 500 articles based on page views appearing at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes/Popular_pages.

Lists

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(This is a representation of lists types and is not comprehensive.)
Work lists:

Participants

Active Members

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Everyone is welcome to join WikiProject Lakes, just edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} - Lakes topic or region interest(s) to end of the following list of members. Display your membership by adding a Members Userbox on your user page.

  • Script error: No such module "user". - Well! Water bodies esp. lakes are one of most fascinating natural beauties, I have "Naltar lakes" (three water bodies near Gilgit) as my first article about lakes.
  • Script error: No such module "user".
  • Script error: No such module "user". - lakes in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northwest Territories
  • Mehraj Mir
  • Darwinek - created many articles in the past. This new project is a good idea.
  • feydey 10:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Script error: No such module "user". - in support of the local geography articles I do.
  • Dentren - will try add so many lakes in the southern cone as possible.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Interested in Quebec lakes.
  • User:Marqqq- I've written a short article on South Twin Lake (Maine)
  • Script error: No such module "user".
  • Karen Fasimpaur - adding photos of lakes across the U.S.
  • LeheckaG - Alaska, British Columbia, Washington State, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, ... filling in Geo-coding, InfoBoxes, Reference-citations, Research, Templates, ...
  • Ratzer - research data of lakes and put/complete infoboxes
  • Razzmatazz143 - Interested in lakes, working on lakes found in the Philippines
  • The Bushranger - Florida lakes, primarily
  • Fanyavizuri
  • Fredlyfish4 - working on lakes of central Idaho and Sawtooth National Recreation Area
  • User:Mar4d - Interested in articles related to lakes of Pakistan
  • User:Traveler7 - Lakes in the United States
  • User:Wpollard - Have been writing articles about lakes in Kansas and Florida
  • User:triptropic - creating and adding to articles on Scottish lochs. Have access to historic bathymetric data
  • User:Kospo75 - Expanding and writing articles about lakes in Finland
  • Frank R 1981 - Into geography in general but very much into lakes of Peru.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Working on Infoboxes, linking to OSM, WikiData completeness, Michigan Lakes
  • User:420Traveler - Working on lakes and adding infoboxes for New York lakes.
  • User:Ds2320
  • Jokulhlaup
  • Phoenix-Five - Lakes in Northwestern Michigan, especially Traverse City and Grand Traverse County.
  • User:Path slopu
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  • Naveen N Kadalaveni (talk) -- Interested in Lakes in Bangalore
  • Uninspired Username - Into lakes, especially in Canada and British Columbia
  • User:CJK09 - North America, especially the western US, especially California, especially the Sierra Nevada
  • User:TheGraw - Mainly lakes in Montana and Wyoming
  • User:jaberges - Lakes of all types; I teach a University Limnology Class in which students prepare data reports on their "Favorite Lakes" and I plan to add a Wikipedia editing exercise to the course this year
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  • ARoseWolf - Lakes in Alaska and Montana
  • Starkenborgher - canadian arctic
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Lakes in Rwanda
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Stub-level lakes in the US
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Lakes in Saskatchewan, Canada. I like creating new articles and bring stubs to at least starts.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Any lakes, usually expanding stubs, new to wikipedia.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Lakes in US

Inactive Members

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  • Jaywm - most interested in reservoirs of the west, with a focus on Colorado, Wyoming, and Washington state.
  • Marletbadeo
  • AlexD42 - Central IL
  • Em3rald
  • Sango123 (honorary member for assistance to Em3rald)
  • Revmachine21 - limnically active Lakes Kivu, Nyos, Monoun have been my babies.
  • Lethargy - Talk - Currently working on Utah's three large natural lakes: Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, and Bear Lake.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - filled in some gaps in List of lakes in Alberta
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Working on Rainy Lake as well as other Boundary Waters lakes
  • Script error: No such module "user".—Working on Nordic lakes, rivers & canals interstitially with other geographic interests.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - currently trying to rebuild List of lakes in New Zealand (1000+)
  • Script error: No such module "user". 05:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC) - helping with Philippine Lakes
  • Script error: No such module "user". - mostly work on the Thuringowa city the Ross River (Queensland), Ross River Dam and the Paluma Dam pages.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - I know a thing or two about lake chargog
  • Script error: No such module "user".- I would love to edit anything related to lakes.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Biologist with an interest in lakes, fish and also lake folklore.
  • Script error: No such module "user".
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Will try to add/supplement info on some lakes around the NW
  • Script error: No such module "user".
  • Script error: No such module "user". California Lakes
  • jaymzyates - Joe Pool lake
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Working on some of the Boundary Waters lakes
  • Southern Texas - I work on Lakes in Texas
  • Script error: No such module "user".
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  • Script error: No such module "user". -I fish a lot on local lakes
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Interested in Vermont Lakes and ecosystems
  • Script error: No such module "user".
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Interested in Great Lakes of U.S. and Canada
  • Script error: No such module "user". - general knowledge
  • Script error: No such module "user". - can help with basic data about lakes. General knowledge
  • Little Mountain 5 - interested in Oregon lakes
  • gppande - interested in lakes of India
  • User:Marcia Wright - Writing / editing articles on lakes and reservoirs in California
  • User:Swissphil - Working on lakes in Switzerland coverage.
  • moseljack
  • Kamal2099 - Web Admin for the Ganga Talao - Mauritius ( Www.gangatalao.org )
  • Lake Central - Lakes in the Canadian Shield
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Canoe Tripper in Algonquin Provincial Park and all across Northern Ontario.
  • Lakegeorge2008
  • Zebl3785 - I'm interested in the Lakes and Tarns of the English Lake District
  • Kevin Kelly - Lake Hyco in Person and Caswell counties in North Carolina
  • Jaromhuff21 - Working on the lakes of Utah and the western slope of Colorado
  • Ottre - Lochs of Scotland
  • Joshcvb - Lakes of Michigan and the U.S.
  • Drunk redneck - (only worked on Lake Niangua article)
  • User:Buffalo Bulls - interested in upstate NY lakes; would help on pages in disrepair
  • MikeGruz - Interested in lakes in the central plains region.
  • Eaglecap Backpack - Interested in high elevation lakes, specifically those in north west United States
  • User:Vdiest - Interest only in South Africa lakes, dams, Estuaries etc.
  • Handbook3
  • User:BGinOC - interested in lakes and researching bodies of water
  • ContrillionAU (talk) 10:01, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
  • User:VTBurtonRA - Lake Norman, NC, boating safey instructor, Lake Norman Sail and Power Squadron
  • User:Ramakrishna Battula - Lake KOLLERU, Kaikalur Resident Kaikalur
  • User:Floul4- Illinois Lakes editor
  • User:VisitLakeOconee-working on the Lake Oconee to update information and ensure that no marketing materials get posted again.
  • User:Bruin2 - Lakes and reservoirs in Oklahoma
  • Curtaintoad - All lakes
  • User:Kyle1081 - Lakes in the southern United States
  • User:Uberstadt - Bodies in the Puget Sound region
  • User:EvelynZ.Cutter- I like lakes and large bodies of water.
  • Peterye2005 - Lakes in the United States and Canada
  • Bilbo1997 - Pluvial lakes in South Central Oregon and surrounding archaeology.
  • Kau thænt - Lake
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Pyramid Lake & Lake Tahoe, as well as lakes in the West and National Parks.
  • User:El_Foes - Expanding Loch of the Lowes, hopefully more Perthshire lochs if all goes well
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Naming

Articles

As of the first stages of development, no written-in-stone rules apply to lake articles; however, this may change. Please discuss this at the project's talk page. More general guide on naming is found at: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) while project specific cases are addressed below.

Multiple lakes with the same name

Due to the fact that there are countless lakes in the world with the same name, the following method of disambiguation is proposed:

  • The most well known lake can stay at the un-disambiguated title, lesser known ones add a qualifier. Perhaps [[Fork Lake]], [[Fork Lake (disambiguation)]], [[Fork Lake (Alberta)]].
  • Where a number of lakes with the same name exist in a region, the disambiguation may need to include a subregion and a Set Index Article. Create a set index article to aid in common region naming which is the current common practice for the common names like Mud Lake and Clear Lake. [[name (region)]] such as Clear Lake (Michigan) which are similar to lists, but with different rules allowing for redlinking and help with disambiguation and navigation. Lakes linked within the index should include the a subregion and region such as Clear Lake (Berrien County, Michigan) most often the administrative region where it is located.

Lakes with multiple names

Some lakes have names with multiple spellings which vary with the different countries the lake borders. Occasionally, a lake can have several genuinely distinct names. The following rules are suggested for choosing a primary name for such a lake:

  • If the lake is particularly famous under one name, then choose that name.
  • If the portion of the lake that uses a particular name is much more distinct than other sections, then use that as the article's name.
  • If everything else is equal, then choose the name for the largest portion of the lake.

Lakes crossing regional borders

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This naming practice of lakes that cross borders should follow the naming resolution for Precision and disambiguation. If you find an article and are unsure you can apply the controversial moves template to add move suggestion and rational.

Example:

Lists

This guide aims to expand upon the practices outlined at Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists), and Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists#Special_names_of_lists to address cases and application to WikiProject Lakes. Discuss changes on WP Lakes Talk.

Natural vs Manmade

  • If the scope of the list is primarily of natural features ie lakes for consistency with Categories the format should use "of" [[List of Lakes of Country]]. Add a redirect for the "in" variant.
  • If the scope of the list is primarily man-made features like reservoirs for consistency with Categories the format should use "in" [[List of Dams and Reservoirs in Country]]. Add a redirect for the "of" variant.
  • When a list scope and title is a mix of man-made and natural features the type follow the convention of the existing lists, but if no others exist use the of the majority of the article's content to dictate if "of" or "in" should be the primary article name. Add a redirect for the name variant that was not selected.

Article structure

Lead paragraph

The first paragraph should be a self-contained description including the most important things to know; name(s) - both historic and current - in bold, location (continent/countries/seaboards), and notable facts about the lake, such as largest port (see Wikipedia:Lead section for guidelines).

Hydrology

The narrative description of the lake should proceed from the main inflows of the lake downstream to its outflows, noting direction, major tributaries, human settlements and statistics. This should be at least a paragraph, maybe several paragraphs for famous lakes. This section would also include numerical data on length, volume, drainage basin, etc.

Info on water basins can be found at World resources Institute (site is down; archive). Antarctic water basin information can be researched using USGS maps.

Geology

The evolution of some lakes has been well explored. Such information should be placed here, with a suitable discussion of all point of views when possible.

Natural history

Mention distinctive plants and animals associated with any part of the lake.

History

Describe what is known about the different inhabitants along the river, along with a description of the scientific exploration expeditions/efforts.

Economy

Countless lakes have been used as means of transportation, fishing, power generation, etc., and are still used so today. All such information should be described here. Stylistically, this can be a good segue from history, connecting past uses of the lake to present-day uses.

Lists

List the cities and towns around the lake, complete with identifiable info such as population. List the major flora and fauna such as species of interest.

References and external links

Preferably refer to history, ecology, public policy, books, websites, etc.

Infobox

The following may be used:

Images

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Articles where the infobox doesn't include an image yet are listed at: [[:Category:Articles using infobox body of water without image ]]

Indexing

The article List of lakes is only for major lakes, ordered by continent.

Categories

The main subcategories of Category:Lakes are listed on the right:

Lakes
Lakes by continent
Lakes by country
Lists of lakes
Reservoirs

Categorization by location

Lakes by continent
Lakes of Africa
Lakes of Antarctica
Lakes of Asia
Lakes of Europe
Lakes of North America
Lakes of Oceania
Lakes of South America

Every article should belong to a category. If the lake is restricted to one or more states/provinces in a country, use separate categories for each one, e.g. Lake Tahoe belongs in Category:Lakes of Nevada as well as Category:Lakes of California. If it is restricted to one country, list in Category:country lakes. If it exists within several countries, list in each country category and maybe Category: continent lakes.

Please use categories carefully to get the right one(s) linked on your page. It is fine to use more than one... in fact, it may be encouraged. However, don't categorize a lake where it doesn't belong. If there are any questions, please use the Talk page.

Categorization by type

If the category for the specific type of lake is available, please add it in addition to the category by location.

List structure

A guide for the List Structure of Lakes Project list articles (Category:List-Class Lakes articles is currently under development on the talk page.

The discussion is currently developing a guide for Lakes, Lochs, and Reservoirs focusing the guidelines from WikiProject Lists in the context of WikiProject Lakes' scope. Additionally, work previously done is being documented to help check the existing list articles and inform their expansion. Please feel free to contribute to this discussion.

List Types

Types of lists within WikiProject Lakes scope: (To be expanded in discussion)

Set Index Lists

  • Lakes with the Same Name in Region

Lakes or Reservoir in Region(s)

  • Lists of lakes/lochs of a given Country
  • Lists of lakes/lochs of given Country Region
  • Lists of dams and reservoirs in a given Country
  • Lists of dams and reservoirs in given Country Region

Largest Measure

Lists of lakes/lochs/reservoirs by largest:

  • Surface Area
  • Depth
  • Elevation

Defaults

The default parameters to be included in all list articles are being discussed. Proposed options include:

  • Sort Order (To be expanded)
  • Columns - Name, Coordinate, Region, Surface Area, National Identifier (optional) (To be expanded)

Templates

Talk page banner

The message box Template:Tlx is available and preferred to add to talk pages of lake articles and gives: Script error: No such module "WikiProject banner".

Early pages of the project were tagged with Template:Tlx and result in the same banner, but Template:Tlx is the format closely following WikiProjects article tagging practice. WP:WikiProject coordination

Talk page todo

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Navboxes

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Infobox

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Set Index Page

The Lake index tag {{Lake index}} offers functionality similar to Disambiguation, but for just the same type ie lakes. Functionally similar to list pages, but often contains more than just a list. The index pages also works well as a focus list for creating the articles with redlinks. The Lakes Set Index Category highlights current indexes.

Stubs

The Wikipedia WikiProject Stub sorting created: Category:Lake stubs and the articles with [[Template:Lake-stub|Template:Tld]] included on the page will appear in the category. Country specific lake stubs are in the format country-lake-stub ie Template:Tld.

Userboxes

Members

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Expressing Interest in Lakes

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Barnstar

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Categories

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Resources

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