Category talk:Canals in Italy

Categorising navigable rivers
I don’t think that the current combination of canals and navigable rivers under the title ‘Canals in Italy’ is working optimally. There are two problems. Firstly readers are likely to be quite confused when they read an article about the Po and see it categorised as a canal. Secondly, not all the canals are navigable in any real sense: the irrigation canals were never even intended to be.

Accordingly, this afternoon (UTC) I plan to be bold and recategorize the rivers here under Category:Waterways of Italy, and add those canals which our articles say are, or have been, navigable to that category as well. (I think that for the time being, at least, it’s ok to count once-navigable waters as waterways, rather than introducing a separate category for them.)

I’ll also add the main sub-alpine lakes (at least) to Category:Waterways of Italy.

I hope that seems rational. Do complain and revert if you think it isn’t.

The rivers currently in this category are:
 * Brenta
 * Oglio
 * Olona
 * Po
 * Soča
 * Tiber
 * Ticino

—Ian Spackman 13:06, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


 * OK. I have moved the rivers mentioned above out of this category and into Category:Waterways of Italy. I have also added all the current canals to that category (obviously they stay here too!) with the single exception of Muzza Canal. As far as I have been able quickly to make out, that one has only been used for irrigation and and as source of power. —Ian Spackman 19:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)