Talk:Mississippi River/Archive 2

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GA failed

1. Well written? Fail
2. Factually accurate? Pass
3. Broad in coverage? Fail
4. Neutral point of view? Pass
5. Article stability? Pass
6. Images? Pass

Additional comments :

  • WP:LEAD does not comply with the guideline.
  • There are no references for the non-inline cited material present in section Geography.
  • Wikilinks are needed to help the reader, e. g. silt, plume ...
  • A subsection cannot be named Present for it is time-dependant. Also, this section doesn't give much information except trivia.
  • Can the Major cities along the river section be turned into prose in order to give a little information to the reader on why are these major cities and why should they be mentioned on an article talking of a river.
  • The section Notable bridges should have its name changed as it is pov-oriented and the bullet-point information should also have a lot more to give to the reader as to why they are notable.
  • Popular culture section should remove non-notable stuff. And Trivia section should be removed.
  • I think the articles is missing a lot of inline citations and a lot of references (only encyclopedia or encyclopedia like books at present).

The most important comment the article should work on is citations and sources for the time being and to remove questionable facts. For more insight into the article, please contact me and come back to GAC once there is work done on the article. Good luck, Lincher 02:04, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Scheduling of Professional Sports Contests

The Mississippi River is not the determining factor in scheduling sports contests, National Football League games for instance. The actual deciding factor is the time zone. Thus, Eastern and Central time zones have "early" games while Mountain and Pacific time zones have "late" games (except that some Eastern games are arbitrarily moved to a 4 p.m. schedule for the benefit of the television networks).

Consider, for instance, that games in Minnesota, St. Louis, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, and New Orleans (as well as Oklahoma City and San Antonio in the wake of Hurricane Katrina) are scheduled "early" because all these localities are in the Central time zone.

I will remove the sports scheduling reference soon, as it is completely inaccurate (and, for that matter, unsourced).

Paul 03:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Pollution

It's good to see that "pollution" isn't mentioned in the article. It really isn't that important since the river is in such good shape after all the industrial use it has seen. The fish still taste great, despite the warnings not to eat it. Top job, guys.

Now now, no need to hide behind sarcasm. First of all, you could have signed your post; nobody's going to bite you. Second, you could edit the article yourself, and add information about pollution. Third, I notice that the Upper Mississippi River and Lower Mississippi River articles do mention pollution. Finally, we generally add comments to the bottom of a discussion page, rather than the top (oops). -- Lorrette 15:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll check if that has been fixed. If not, I'll add a new section in about Pollution. And please, sarcasm coulds up articles and if everybody made unproductive statements the pages would be clouded.(even more so)Dan 15:09, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I have added a large paragraph about pollution. I hope you like it, as i took a long time to write it.Dan 15:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

It couldn't have taken too long to copy and paste from here, even with some slight rearrangement. You can take information, but not text, and such slight rejiggering of the prose does not prevent it from being a copyright violation. There are other problems aside from copyright with that text, too. The tone was all accusation with no source citations. By "source" I mean scientifically reputable sources of hard data. If I hadn't deleted the text as infringing I would probably have plastered it with {{citation needed}} tags. E.g., which schools' crew teams? Typhoid is not caused by industrial pollution as the paragraph seemed to suggest, and can be a concern in any flood situation. What does "centern" mean? "Theoretically" is a weasel word – we should know whose theory specifically. In short, the tone was all advocacy and not encyclopedic. This article certainly does need a proper section on pollution, though. Some of the links listed on that other page may actually prove useful as suitable sources of information (not prose). --Kbh3rdtalk 02:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


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