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This template currently has a slot for the countries making up the "basin" -- presumably the drainage basin -- of a body of water, but none for the bordering countries. There is a big difference in many cases -- consider the Black Sea, whose drainage basin includes Switzerland (via the Danube) and the Bay of Bengal, whose drainage basin includes Tibet (via the Brahmaputra). Could we include a "bordering countries" slot? --Macrakis (talk) 19:34, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Template-protected edit request on 11 April 2023[edit]
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Please, would someone see if can get a standard map parameter, usually integrated along with pushpin map, for an alternative usage: |map=, |map_size=, |map_caption=, |map_alt=౪ Santa ౪99°20:06, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit template-protected}} template. This template already has |image_map= and |map_size= and |image_size= and |alt_map= and |caption_map=, which are rendered in the infobox's |image= parameter; and and bunch of |pushpin_xxx= parameters that are rendered in the infobox's |image2= parameter. As such, it is unclear what the requester is proposing.
Can you please give a few examples where "Body of water" is "awful" and "useless", failing to meet the purposes of a short description?
If you find an article for which "Body of water" is a bad short description (SD), it is trivial to override the SD that the infobox provides by adding a {{short description}} template at the top of the article with more appropriate content. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:53, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I am arguing that it is never very useful for readers, and undermines WP’s quality and encyclopedic nature.
Furthermore, if an article is missing a short description entirely, it is somewhat more likely to attract editor attention.
What I’m suggesting is that a more specific shortdesc could be automatically generated from the parameters already in the template, say “type” and “location” -> e.g. “Endorheic lake in Graustark Region, Ruritania”
OK, I'll click on a couple more random ones. Anacoco Lake says "Reservoir in Louisiana, US". Backstairs Passage says "Strait in South Australia". When you are reporting a problem, always provide a link to a page where the problem is occurring. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:05, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Should we add a new parameter of Date_Drained?[edit]
There is already a useful Date_Flooded parameter which shows when the body of water came into existence. However there is nothing to show when it ceased to exist.
I have been studying lakes for the last 3 years and have found many examples in wikipedia of 'Ancient' lakes, lakes which have dried out or are about to dry out (e.g. Aral Sea) or where the dam has broken.
Sadly the instances of lakes drying out is increasing due to manmade interference with the water supply to the lake, and/or global warming increasing evaporation. There are also cases, especially with glacial lakes and landslide lakes, where the 'natural' dam has broken naturally or been broken by man in the name of safety to downstream places.
There are also many examples of Reservoirs where the manmade dam has broken. (e.g. Sanford Lake) While it could be argued that these should have used 'Infobox dam' instead of this Infobox, it is a fact that about 80% of the reservoir articles actually use this 'Infobox body of water', so the argument for adding this new parameter holds for them as well, just on saving the sheer amount of effort to changing thousands of article to use a different infobox.
If others agree with this suggestion, it would seem a very simple and safe parameter to add as it would not affect any existing article?MWchat (talk) 11:20, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Template-protected edit request on 16 November 2023[edit]
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I suggest that |native_name= be moved to the subheader. It makes little sense for it to be all the way in the body, completely separate from the name by the image and the location parameters. Đại Việt quốc (talk) 22:07, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]