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Please further discuss Lake Washington's salt content, including how the salt mixes with [its] freshwater, and how this content relates to, and interacts with the other connecting lakes. [--21:51, 18 September 2005 67.170.113.110]

Summary: gr per MoS, + {subst:Footnotes}, see Talk:
Explication: Corrected grammar in topic paragraph, per Wikipedia:Manual of Style, added template. Summary per Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. See also Talk:Seattle, Citing sources.

"Washington State" is a proper noun. Wouldn't a reader recognize that Washington State and Seattle are in the U.S? ("USA" is redundant.)

Where is "/" a formal grammatical character?
Recommendation by WP:MoS: Slashes:
Avoid joining two words by a slash, as it suggests that they are related, but does not say how. Spell it out to avoid ambiguities. Also, the construct and/or is awkward outside of legalese. Use "x or y, or both," to explicitly conjoin with the inclusive or, or "either x or y, but not both," to explicitly specify the exclusive or.--15:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

{{Citation needed}}: Citations needed for Wikipedia:Verifiability.

Ravenna Creek is part of the Union Bay Natural Area system, of which University Slough is not the only or most significant.

--GoDot 16:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)