Talk:Durance

Massive nightmare re-translation
01-May-09: The article "Durance" was vastly expanded, in June 2008, with a rough translation text from the French Wikipedia article. Much of the text was auto-translated into "Yoda-speak" (meaning "proper word order often it doesn't" ). In late April 2009, re-translation continued, but there were numerous issues to consider:
 * some marked phrases are unusual:
 * "catchment" was replaced sometimes as "drainage area";
 * "installments" is a strange word & perhaps refers to towns or bridges;
 * "affluents" has been replaced a few times with river "branches";

Only the top 30% of the article seems logically translated, the bottom 2/3rds still contains some very bizarre, awkward wording.
 * some of the ref-tag source footnotes have bad punctuation.
 * all 60 ref-tag footnotes were edited to end with periods ".&lt;/ref>".
 * about 65 page-number abbreviations "p" were dotted as "p."
 * many footnotes were close duplicates of others and have been combined.

The semi-translation (in June 2008) expanded the article from a mere 1kb to over 44kb (44,000 characters) of data. As a result, the re-translation has been a long-term nightmare, of garbled text with random spacing and half-worded footnotes, being unscrambled by several people during the previous year. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:32, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Strange Text in Formations of islands in the river bed
Some of the text in this section looks very odd. "stuffed them, of the accumulations of trunks and wood flottés" I thought it was hacking, but it goes back a very long way, to 2008. My French is not up to checking against the original. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cerddaf (talk • contribs) 21:04, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Economic
The economic section doesn't contain information on the rivers effect on the economy therefore it should be deleted and merged.TheHappiestCritic (talk) 04:35, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Merged Economic section. TheHappiestCritic (talk) 04:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 13:55, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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