Talk:Scioto River

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[edit] Pronunciation

I added the a broad phonetic transcription of the local pronunciation in Columbus area with IPA. My experience is that most people in the Columbus area seem not to make the last vowel a schwa, but I have heard the schwa version from one person. Does anyone know what the best IPA representation of the unstressed, non-schwa [oʊ] in American English is?

Does it make sense to retain the non-IPA phonetics for those unfamiliar with IPA? WilliamDParker

[edit] Categorization

Is it reasonable to have the river in the categories of all of the counties it flows through? The Mississippi River article, for example, isn't in all of the categories for the states it flows through. WilliamDParker 21:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

That should answer your question—how would Mississippi River look if it had a category for every county and municipality it passed through? Let the scale of the river determine what is important to that river, rather than categorizing it by every topic to which the river is important. I think by county may be reasonable if the river is primarily in only one or two counties (or categorizing by state if in only one or two states), because its connection to that locality is going to be especially strong. But otherwise, that highly localized information is better handled another way, such as by describing in each applicable county article that a particular river flows through it. Category tags shouldn't be treated as a shortcut to establishing that information in the articles to which it is relevant. Postdlf 23:56, 13 November 2006 (UTC)