Talk:Columbia River/infobox

watershed/drainage basin
the meaning of watershed is ambiguous. originally meaning the dividing line between drainage basins it has also come to mean drainage basins themselves, particularly in north american english. So the unambiguous drainage basin is preferred. I changed the caption to the map accordingly. (also the figurative use of watershed makes no sense for the second newer meaning.)--Mongreilf (talk) 07:47, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

order of countries, states and provinces
In order for Geobox to generate a valid region: code for the coordinates, the United States has to be listed first. I don't like it, but that's how Geobox currently works. If you put Canada as the first country, it generates region:CA-X. As far as I know, the order in which countries are listed in a Geobox has no other significance. --Stepheng3 (talk) 08:02, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Aha. All I knew it changed was the order of the "countries" field. Given there's a technical reason for needing it to be ordered a certain way, I have no objections for you to re-fix it. tedder (talk) 13:48, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for your understanding. Hopefully at some point Geobox can be fixed so that these details don't matter. --Stepheng3 (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2010 (UTC)