Talk:Lists of lakes of the United States

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On 8 March 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from List of lakes of the United States to Lists of lakes of the United States. The result of the discussion was moved.

Origins

This page was originally part of the List of lakes page, but took up over a third of the article, so I extracted them onto their own page. I plan to make a "List of lakes in <state>" page for each state and move the list elements from here to those pages. I'd like to keep notable lakes for each state here (deepest, longest, largest etc) and include the most notable lakes in the US back on the main List of lakes page. My US geography is very sketchy however so assistance would be welcomed. Malathos 06:48, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe we very dearly need to get back to this concept.

Largest (capacity), Deepest, Longest, Highest (altitude)
Thus no more than 4-5 per state WITH their respective qualifier from above
No redlinks; they should ONLY appear on the state specific articles until created.

As such, I am going to start moving redlinks (if not already on the State page) and trying to "qualify" for at least the states that I tend to care about. Mjquinn_id (talk) 20:48, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Greenwood

I've collected a disambiguation page with all the Lake Greenwood articles, because I noticed that the article on the Lake Greenwood I was familiar with (where [[|B-25 Mitchell|B-25C]] 41-13285 was retrieved) was named Lake Greenwood (South Carolina). As there was no article on "Lake Greenwood", I decided to collect the names of these lakes or similar names (such as Greenwood Lake). It's not a huge list, but I have created it. Should this be added to the category of U.S. lakes, or not? Zchris87v 04:19, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 8 March 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 02:09, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of lakes of the United States → Lists of lakes of the United States – Initially, I was going to bring this to AfD as an indiscriminate "list of X of Y". However, if moved and cleaned up, it could function as a "list of lists" type page. — Anonymous 04:11, 8 March 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 15:35, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are only lists for 31 of the 50 states, the other 19 redirect here. If they are split this can be changed to a list of lists. Peter James (talk) 14:35, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject United States, WikiProject Lists, and WikiProject Lakes have been notified of this discussion. ASUKITE 15:35, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: This looks like it may need more approval to go ahead with - and relisting seems appropriate as the alternative here might end up being deletion. ASUKITE 15:35, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support split (to the redirects that are currently present) and move, like Peter James mentioned. Bobby Cohn (talk) 17:30, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.