Talk:Wick River

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[edit] A lengthy edit summary

Started editing to just do this:

  • Moved the OS co-ordinates from being the main 'nouns' in the majority of the sentences. This greatly improves the readability of the article. This was mostly a case of switching the order of things like "this is near Wick Harbour" and the co-ordinates themselves. Someone reading this article either offline, most likely without access to the appropriate OS map, or possibly someone who is completely unfamiliar with the OS reference system would get confused, discouraged, or both by reading an article which uses them as the main points of reference.

Then got a little carried away and did this too:

  • Wikified the first instances of the units km, miles, metres etc.
  • Changed most of the references to highways to roads. Although (or possibly because) the internet is an international thing, even I think of US motorways when someone says highways.
  • Removed a bit of the tributaries section which was essentially duplication. Shifted all the linked burns to the itemised list which followed, hence also removing the bolding.
  • Wikified some more random things; harbour, watercourse, source, island etc.
  • Changed the format of the description of the river crossings from the rather unnatural: "There is a road here. It is called blah" to something more like: "The blah is here."
  • Wikified port and starboard
  • Fixed some stray typos, many of my own creation

— PMcM 01:48, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I also changed a few of the links which don't yet point to active pages: Strath Burn, Bridge Street and Service Bridge, as I'm sure there are many of these across the world already, almost certainly more important ones than those listed here. I stuck in some bits to further differentiate them. I'm not sure that my version for Strath Burn (Strath Burn, Wick) is entirely appropriate, as I'm not certain that it's in Wick, but I thought that there were probably other Strath Burns in Caithness, certainly in Highland, and definitely in Scotland, never-mind the rest of the world! If anyone can think up a more appropriate name I'd be grateful. — PMcM 02:00, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I am thinking that Strath Burn, Wick River might be better than Strath Burn, Wick. Also Strath Burn would keep me, at least, informed of development of any article about another burn with this name. Disambiguation would become then appropriate. Laurel Bush 09:22, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC).

Yep, I think that's an excellent name. I've moved the Strath Burn page to Strath Burn, Wick River now rather than later, as it's good practice to pick a good name early rather than try to adapt a less good one later.
If you want to keep track of any other Strath Burns which might be made, you could set up a watch on the plain Strath Burn page, which is now a redirect. (Just because the redirect is there doesn't mean it's a good idea to link pages which talk about the Wick Strath Burn to [[Strath Burn]], assuming that they will redirect to the correct one, as someone may come along and write a whole new Strath Burn page there, then probably about not giving it a good name, at which point plain Strath Burn will probably become a redirect to Strath Burn (disambiguation).) Like I said earlier, it's lots easier to try to set these things up "properly" early on than it is to try to fix once things get more complicated. Cheers, — PMcM 14:50, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thinking I might prefer to see Strath Burn as a disambig page, without the redirect. Laurel Bush 15:52, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC).

Yep, that'd work too. — PMcM 16:55, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)