Talk:Body of water

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Canal
A canal is not a natural pool of water, is it? Expert opinions on this, please ;) 143.93.63.222 19:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

What's the definition of a body of water?
Here's what the article currently says in the intro:


 * A body of water is any significant accumulation of water such as an ocean, a lake, or a river, usually covering the Earth or another planet. Some bodies of water can be man-made, or artificial, such as a pond, lake or harbor, but most are naturally occurring geographical features. Bodies of water that are navigable are known as waterways. The term 'body of water' can also refer to a reservoir of water held by a plant, technically known as a phytotelma. In common usage, the term 'body of water' is usually used to refer only to a large accumulations of water, such as oceans, seas and lakes. It is less commonly used to refer to smaller pools of water such as ponds, puddles or wetlands. Rivers, streams, canals and other geographical features where water moves from one place to another are not always considered bodies of water, but are included here as geographical formations featuring water.

I just added the last three sentences because, I was mulling over this and in my mind as a native English speaker, a body of water is generally only a "big" body of water. Smaller things such as ponds & puddles wouldn't really be bodies of water. Also, I'm not sure if rivers, streams and other "moving" water would be considered a body of water. What do you all think? Maybe this article should be renamed/forwarded to something like "Geographical formations featuring water" but then it wouldn't take into account man-made ponds, canals, harbors etc.

Anyway, that's just my rambling for ya. LinguistAtLarge 00:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Sea Loch definition
This article describes a Sea loch as "a sea inlet loch." It describes an Inlet as being like a sea loch. And it describes a Loch as being like a sea inlet. That's not helpful. - Shaheenjim (talk) 17:22, 23 August 2008 (UTC):]

Hydrographic features
This article should be renamed to Hydrographic feature to be more inclusive. Brad7777 (talk) 13:05, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

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Dogs
Dogs are cut but so thick dam boi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.48.60.106 (talk) 14:51, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Question
Hi! I noticed that most of the sources are an online dictionary. So my question is, have you tried looking up or using academic sources? Thanks --Karahheater (talk) 19:41, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Table
When I turned this into a table, my plan was to at least consider adding columns for the following items:

+ Column names for table on main page

-- TimNelson (talk) 10:05, 8 September 2023 (UTC)