Talk:List of seaports
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[edit] Baltic Sea table
The Baltic Sea table, in the midst of a clean Wiki-friendly list, is quite jarring and renders the page much too wide for ordinary viewing. Unless someone has a reasonable objection (along the lines of "I'll fix it" or "I'll convert the whole list to tabular form"), I plan to move this table to its own article and convert the Baltic Sea section here to the standard form with a link to the new article. -- Jeff Q 09:09, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I noticed the same, but didn't actually see this done fully. I've replaced the table here with a link now. --Joy [shallot] 12:48, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Somebody forgot the ports in Black & Azov Seas
Somebody forgot the ports in Black Sea & Sea of Azov. AlexPU 16:56, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Criteria?
What criteria should be used to add or delete ports from this list?
Should some minimum volume of tonnage transhipped per year serve as a criteria? Should some minimum monetary value of goods transshipped per year serve as a criteria? Should each body of water have different criteria?
There are cities on this list that very clearly aren't seaports -- like Sacramento, California. It is over one hundred miles inland! There is nothing on the Sacramento page to indicate it is any kind of port. Is it a riverport? When is a riverport a seaport. If the list is to include riverports that are accessible to seagoing vessels then there are more deserving candidates.
Then there are ports like Houston. Houston is not on a sea. Houston is inland. Houston is at the end of a ship-canal. Is this sufficient to be considered a seaport? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Geo Swan (talk • contribs) 22:19, 21 January 2005 (UTC).
- I am not sure about global criteria, but for UK ports I would suggest that we use those listed in block capitals at uktradeinfo.com. The significance of the block capitals is that the UK Government (through Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) consider them large enough to have their own separate trade statistics, as opposed to the merged statistics for the smaller ports. If no one objects to this criteria, this would include at least one inland port using a ship canal (Manchester). Road Wizard 15:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Clarification needed on Penang and Klang ports listed under South China Sea
I was surprised to find that the ports of Penang and Klang are listed under South China Sea. I feel they should be listed under the Andaman Sea or Malacca Straits, which are a part of the Indian Ocean; whereas now they are being listed under the Pacific Ocean. Could the relavant authors check this up and make it clear to all of us who use Wikipedia.
[edit] wikiproject Ports
all the list has links to the towns or cities where the ports are, not to the ports.This is because very few ports have articles on them. This is an important project to work on. Mexaguil 11:44, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Non-sovereign territories
User:Huaiwei has edited this list that in effect has made non-sovereign territories presented in the same way as ordinary subnational entities [1]. — Instantnood 06:42, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
- OH NOES! - —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SchmuckyTheCat (talk • contribs) . 07:50, December 9, 2005 (UTC)
