Talk:Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

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[edit] Sources under Power section

I have added a source to the Power section heading. It is a newspaper, and the article spans several pages. Should I use a different source for each different page that information is found on, or should it all be one source? Lasdlt (talk) 23:32, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

If you're stating something that's supposed to be a fact, it needs to have an inline citation for verification purposes (see WP:CITE and WP:VERIFY. Citing a specifc page where you found the information (or a page range) is always best. -- Gmatsuda (talk) 23:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

BTW: The Castaic powerplant is jointly operated by the California Department of Water Resources and LADWP. -- Gmatsuda (talk) 23:47, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Citations should follow the format I used for the one I added about the Castaic Powerplant... -- Gmatsuda (talk) 01:10, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

FYI: You don't have a full citation for that book you've cited in the "Power" section... -- Gmatsuda (talk) 07:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conversions

Any better way to convert billions of gallons of water into liters? Lasdlt (talk) 01:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of. -- Gmatsuda (talk) 01:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

1 gallon is equal to 3.785 liters, usually rounded to 3.8. 1 billion gallons of water is equal to 263,157,894 liters.Nly8nchz (talk) 07:59, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citations Needed

Most of the information on Wikipedia is taken directly from the LADWP website here: http://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/cms/ladwp000509.jsp.Nly8nchz (talk) 08:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Great. How about providing the actual inline citations in the article? -- Gmatsuda (talk) 08:15, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Outside of vandalism, I don't think I've ever seen so many "citation needed" tags per word count in Wikipedia before. Tagging every uncited sentence, no matter how innocuous the sentence is, is seldom a good-faith effort and severely hinders readability. A general tag on the top of the article suffices and additional individual tags are only needed for either controversial or grandiose claims content. --Oakshade (talk) 01:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)