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Contents 1 Headline text 2 Page title 3 Gale Norton and Colorado River 4 Colorado River and its native fishes 5 "At full flow" ?

[edit] Headline text

I rewrote part of the intro of the article, which seemed to imply that the Colorado is dry in northern Mexico because of natural evaporation, which is false. Prior to its use as a water source, the Delta was a lush marshland. Also the statement that it drains the region between the Rockies and the Sierras is broadly misleading, since its drainage is skewed much more to the western slope of the Rockies, with few of its tributaries penetrating near the Sierra (which is the Great Basin). -- Decumanus 21:13, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Page title

I would suggest that this page is moved to either Colorado River or Colorado River (Gulf of California). "Colorado River (U.S.)" makes no sense because: 1) It flows not only through the USA, but also through Mexico. 2) It is not the only river with that name in the US, there is also the Colorado River (Texas).

Replacing the disambig page at Colorado River might be OK because this is the biggest of all of the rivers with this name. If we don't want to do this, I think the best way to distinguish rivers is by their destination -- a river may cross several countries, but it always has only one body of water into which it empties. Comments? -- Chl 16:12, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request.

I would prefer destination style "Colorado River (Gulf of California)" , even if it is the biggest there might come wrong links otherwise. Disambig at Colorado River is nice. Maybe disambig should show which is the biggest/most important of these Rivers. Importance might differ, question: who out of 5 billion would know that the C.River in US is the biggest. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 03:41, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The links to Colorado River almost all mean the one that flows through the Grand Canyon, so I agree with moving this article to that title and moving the disambiguation material to a new page, "Colorado River (disambiguation)". The other two article titles are OK. This article, if placed at "Colorado River", would begin with the "other uses" notice to direct readers to the dab page. JamesMLane 05:35, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support Colorado River (for this river) and Colorado River (disambiguation). –Hajor 19:54, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, majority opinion is: move Colorado River to Colorado River (disambiguation) and move Colorado River (US) to Colorado River. I have done the first move, need an admin to do the second. Thanks! --Chl 17:14, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gale Norton and Colorado River

[1] May be this article should mention briefly the Colorado River Interstate Compact. I visited it expecting some encyclopedic article about the whole compact

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Discussion about the title of this article and its recent change can be found at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (acronyms)#Changing article titles from XXXXX (US) to XXXXX (United States). Feel free to contribute. -- hike395 16:25, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Colorado River and its native fishes

I keep deleting the last 2 paragraphs from the engineering section because they are a political discourse on the status of a species recovery program that has nothing to do with the engineering of the Colorado River and is more opinion than information. Apparently, people worried about vandalism keep putting the paragraphs back in. I would suggest that those people actually read the paragraphs before replacing them. They may be used as intersting commentary in an article dealing with the Endangered Species Act and the costs of such programs, but they have no place here.

I agree that the information on native fishes has nothing to do with engineering; however, the topic of wildlife seems relevant to the subject of the article. Added a new wildlife section and linked to a separate article on the recovery program, which can cover the details of that program and the controversy surrounding it. This is my first "real" edit (usually do minor grammar/formatting edits) so please correct me if needed. Jfredrickson 09:16, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "At full flow" ?

Someone removed the statement that "at full flow" the Yukon is larger. The Yukon is larger on average, but what does "full flow" really mean? Perhaps the comparison sentence could be made more precise. -- R27182818 15:37, 3 November 2006 (UTC)