Talk:Atchafalaya River

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[edit] Split?

This article seems to cover two distinct topics: the Atchafalaya River and Basin. I don't see any reason why they should be on the same page. --Smack (talk) 20:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it should have two different pages as long as there is a link ... possibily a title change to Atchafalaya River and Basin!  :>] I know there certainly is a lot more than can be said about this plus about the Atchafalaya Delta ... a huge partial island swamp wetland southward about 200 miles or so and still in Louisiana. User: Ostlerne ... 16 March 06

Typically things like this you don't split, you make a subpage. But that of course implies that the article is too long and needs to follow Wikipedia's policy Summary Style with a link to the main article using {{Main|Atchafalaya Basin}}. I'd look at other major rivers.. see what they do? drumguy⁸⁸⁰⁰ - speak? 03:23, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Smack, that they should be separated. Like the Mississippi River, there is a separate article under See also for the Mississippi River Delta. The Atchafalaya Basin is more than the river, "features in the basin include the Lower Atchafalaya River, Wax Lake Outlet, Atchafalaya Bay, and the Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black navigation channel...The Atchafalaya Basin is unique among the basins because it has a growing delta system with nearly stable wetlands." [1]

I suggest three articles: (1) Atchafalaya Basin and Delta with redirects e.g., from "Atchafalaya wetland", "Atchafalaya wetlands", "Atchafalaya River Basin", "Atchafalaya bayou" and "Atchafalaya swamp(s)" and "Atchafalaya Bay" (a separate article for the bay is justifiable, also). (2) Atchafalaya River to remain with modification, and (3) Atchafalaya (disambiguation) as "Atchafalaya refers to both a (a) river and a (b) large wetlands region; the name derives from the Choctaw hacha falaia, meaning "Long River." The river itself serves as a major distributary of the Mississippi and Red rivers, and runs through a swampy wetlands called the Atchafalaya Basin, which is about twenty miles in width and one hundred and fifty in length. [2]; there is also an official (c) Atchfalaya Trace Heritage Area [3] and (d) Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge [4] --Aaron charles (talk) 20:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)