Talk:List of rivers of the Americas

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Actually, the Mississippi is a tributary of the Missouri, geographically, although not politically. -- Zoe

Ah a'nt gonna tetch thet wunn... :-) But seriously, I was wondering about the value of putting tributaries under their "main" river in this list - somebody trying to remember some river that started with "S" is not going to find the Snake with the others. Stan 02:26 Mar 10, 2003 (UTC)

This page needs to be put into alphabetical order. The list of rivers in the USA is a mess. Michael Hardy 01:12 19 May 2003 (UTC)

Wait ... maybe I was misled by the fact that some entries are subordinate to others. Michael Hardy 01:15 19 May 2003 (UTC)

There are at least two ways to do a list of rivers, either as a purely alphabetical list of everything called "river", or hierarchically by tributaries. This list is hierarchical, with most tributary info in the separate articles and only a handful of best-known tributaries listed here too. I'm not 100% pleased with the scheme, but don't have any better ideas yet. Stan 05:09 19 May 2003 (UTC)

I'm for an alphabetic listing here. Put tributary information on the entries for each river. Bkonrad 03:48, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I'd arrange it as: Rivers which drain to the Pacific (North to South), Rivers which drain to the Atlantic, Rivers which drain to the Arctic Ocean, and Rivers which drain to inland basins. Mackerm 23:23, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

That'd be great if you already knew which river went where, not so useful if you only know the name. But we can have as many lists as we want - just leave this one alphabetical, create a new List of rivers of the Americas by drainage and cross-link to/from this list. Stan 04:15, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

For U.S. rivers, there is already an extensive alphabetized list at List of rivers in the United States. -- Decumanus | Talk 04:42, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

What about Nicaragua? :-) Stan 05:53, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

I guess the least damaging thing would be to take Stan's advice and create a new page, so that's what I advocate too. It was just that thie article's title begs for a listing by drainige. Mackerm 19:10, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

I got the basic structure the way I like it at List of rivers of the Americas by coastline. Its interesting that the people who made lists of rivers in Canada did them according to their positions along the coast, but the rives in the US states (except California) are alphabetical. Well, this should be interesting. Any comments before I add a bunch of links (and a few more rivers)? Mackerm 08:00, May 28, 2004 (UTC)

I made a note to the category:rivers discussion indicating a need for a cohesive philosophy for organizating river data. the notion of rivers of the americas seems odd to me given that there co-existing lists by country/state/province/etc. I could see some benefit if there was a list based upon non-political geography (e.g. a continent's watersheds) so that an article might describe a river for its entire length. In this not very useful wikiworld of never-ending lists (how many lists must be updated if a new article is added?), what would be truly useful are maps and a better philosophy for article organization. Ken Mar 9 2005 1630 (PST)

Is this page just for "major" rivers? what about the rivers on each caribbean island, like List of rivers in Saint Lucia for example? perhaps they would go on the List of rivers in Central American and the Caribbean, but not here? just a thought --Doviende 19:14, 24 September 2005 (UTC)