User talk:Wachala

This user is a student editor in University_of_Wisconsin_Milwaukee/Limnology_1_(Fall_2020) .

Practice

Just practicing with the talk page

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Wachala (talk) 20:08, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Wachala, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:24, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ping test, hello

@Wachala: Hi I am just practicing the ping wiki code by using the first student I found on the class list, which is you. Thanks! Recipe4dsastr (talk) 02:47, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Units - significant figures and infobox - needs convert templates

Thanks for making some edits to a Wikipedia Lake article! Some edits like Lake Wylie removed the conversion template in the Infobox and body of the article which is the preferred format. How about giving this edit another try to put the proper measurement in the convert template? If you have any questions on how to do this use {{reply to|wolfgang8741}} at the beginning of your response to this message. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 00:04, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Review for Trout Lake page additions

Hi Wachala, very nice work on adding information about Trout Lake - I have some comments / suggestions that hopefully will improve your contributions to the Trout Lake page and I'm basing my comments off of your draft here.

Intro

No need to include a section header called "Introduction". If you remove that header, then the first paragraph text will go above the table of contents and will constitute the lead section of the page.
When you refer to a measurement (e.g. 240 km³), use the convert template to convert between metric and imperial units (e.g. 240 km³ (190,000,000 acre⋅ft)). Typically, list the unit of measurement that is most commonly used by the country in which the lake resides - since Trout Lake is in U.S., use the imperial units (ft, miles, acre-ft, etc..) and convert to metric units (km, m, etc...).

I think the volume of Trout Lake listed is much too large (240 km³ would be one of the largest lakes in the world), and I assume this was just a unit conversion error. The volume should be closer to 0.24 km³. I also recommend adding references to the lake size - the LTER site is a good reference https://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/researchsite/trout-lake and also https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4319/lo.2014.59.1.0167

instead of stating 'unknown island' state 'unnamed island'

Article structure

try to follow the article structure laid out by the WikiProject Lakes group - https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes#Article_structure . Following this structure, I recommend putting your physical aspects, water quality, and wildlife sections immediately following the lead section, then followed by the history and human use sections.

Origins and History

Add at least one sentence to the Native American History subsection, otherwise it should be deleted. You could add a single sentence and reference the link you have. You could also add the expand section template in the section so other editors will know to expand upon that section.

physical aspects

Nice temperature profile figure! Include a reference of where the data come from - maybe https://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/researchsite/trout-lake ?
In the hydrology subsection, include the primary inflows in this section (primary inflows listed in the infobox).

Wildlife

remove the elk reintroduction section unless you plan on adding a sentence or more.

Infobox

use the convert template to convert between metric and imperial units, and I'd recommend listing the imperial units first since Trout Lake is in U.S.
Add some references to the units you are reporting. https://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/researchsite/trout-lake is a good reference.
Add references to the frozen days and min / max temperatures. The min and max temperatures also seem quite exact - are these the min and max ever observed?

Let me know if you have any questions / concerns with my comments above Jayzlimno (talk) 13:37, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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		Great work adding to the Trout Lake page! Jayzlimno (talk) 13:37, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Trout Lake

Hi Wachala and Pdietry - I moved your article back to your sandbox because there's already an existing Wikipedia article at Trout Lake (Wisconsin). You should focus on merging your changes into that article instead of creating a duplicate one. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:59, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ian (Wiki Ed), Thank you for moving it back to the sandbox, I wasn't aware there was a way to do that. Essentially, when I first moved the article out of the sandbox and into the mainspace, my instructor realized that I should have merged our changes into the existing article instead of creating a new one. So, yesterday I merged our changes into the pre-existing article at Trout Lake (Wisconsin), and recommended the article I moved into the mainspace for speedy deletion. Since this is now back into the sandbox, that works too. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. Pdietry (talk) 21:38, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]