Talk:Lake Hume

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[edit] Re:Merge

I'm not convinced. Most times where a lake is formed by a dam there are separate articles on Wikipedia for the two: Lake Dunstan and Clyde Dam, for instance, or Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. The article on the lake needs expanding, not merging. Grutness...wha? 07:57, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

If I'd found your first example, I'd suggest merging them, too. The second is borderline, but the lake article is fairly short. In this case, there is hardly anything useful in Lake Hume that is not also in Hume Dam. In fact the dam article has more useful information about the lake than the lake article does! As counter to the "most times" part of your comment, I offer Lake Mulwala, Mount Bold Reservoir, Happy Valley Reservoir, Barossa Reservoir as articles covering both the dam wall and the retained water body. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Just seeing if I can take care of some of the proposed merge backlog. Can this conversation move towards consensus one way or the other so the tag can be taken off or the articles merged? Tedernst 23:15, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

My view is still to merge, probably under the title of Lake Hume, but I don't feel strongly which name is primary (Hume Dam, Lake Hume, Hume Weir). I'd add the next upstream Dartmouth Dam as another example of lake and weir in the one article. --Scott Davis ^Talk 00:09, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree that the articles should be merged. Local residents use either name to describe and locate tje same place, Emily144.131.70.34 11:20, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I would support a merge and suggest that seems to be the concensus above from admittedly only a ffew contributers over quite some time. The title is probably better to be Lake Hume as that is the body of water's official name.--A Y Arktos 10:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I also support the merging of these two small articles. As a local I can agree with 144.131.70.34 that the two terms are used interchangeably. Blarneytherinosaur 03:11, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I've merged the two articles into Lake Hume. A further clean-up is still required though. Mdhowe 01:37, 6 January 2006 (UTC)