Talk:Lake Erie

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This is coming along fine. I like the beginning much better. I'm not so sure about the "We" link to the list of users. Does it really add much info to the reader? Or is it a gratuitous link that takes him/her to a list with no real need or function? Am I more likely to contribute now that I see the whole list of users? --Dave 22:05, 24 Nov 2006 (EST)

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Not sure how everyone else does it, but I put all of my photo credits on their own page. Just click the picture.
-Ben

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OK. A little more inviting text at beginning. But why is Lake Erie arguably the most argued about lake? Nice line, but where's the punch line. What does this mean? And what is the first picture? Got some cutline info?

--Dave 16:26, 12 Nov 2006 (EST)

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Very cool, funky image to start with. i'd play it big as an invitation to read. Forget the thumbnail. And give me a little bit of story to engage me before dumping the facts and figures onto me. A little sourcing on the data and other information would be respectful of where you got it. Randy Newman link didn't link me to a Randy Newman song. Also, do the arts/culture people know about this? Very Nice basin map with AOCs. good external links - lots of info here. good images throughout, although I'd like to credit them in some manner. Nice to reference the Cuyahoga River fire, a seminal evenal great lake environemtnal event. Maybe the Cuyahoga could be fodder for your lede - but maybe not for a lake erie story - river may be seemed to be perpheral to the lake. I don't know enough to say. But I'd like you to find a way to grab my attention from the get go. I think some of your good stuff is deeper into piece Dave

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I have "aesthetics," from the beneficial uses list, linked internally to the Culture portal. However, I do not think that the term "aesthetic" necessarily belongs exclusively to the arts/external pleasures realm, but can be applied to the feelings one has participating in an activity meaningful to them. Therefor I think linking it to the Recreation portal would be equally fitting and would add that other piece missing of the sensual experience. I could argue both side of this for hours and get nowhere. It's all connected man, like the rug that "really brought the room together."

-Ben

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My AOC's will be linked to Rachel, Jaime and Sarah's pages. Also, developing the problems section, 'grassroots efforts' section (various small but important lake organizations) and the recreation/industry of Erie section. Would also like to clarify internal links between stuff like 'chemical dumping,' 'runoff,' and smatterings of other farming and urbanization lake effects under maybe one main section, like Jim's fledgling 'contaminants' section. But perhaps each method of runoff/seepage/spillage/dumping should be covered separately and more in depth, with a small history of past incidents, etc.

-Ben

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putting sources closer to the actual information.

adding battle of fort erie reenactments, cool newspaper series on the underground railroad, and other fun stuff

three eyed fish? some polluted mascot?

-Ben