Talk:Lake North Pole

Oof
I'm sorry, but the name notwithstanding no body of water 40cm deep is a lake. It's a pond. "A pond is a body of water shallow enough to support rooted plants" is one definition I found. There aren't any plants there, but it's plenty shallow enough, if there were.

Most other definitions are "Well, it's subjective", but come on. I doubt if we characterize any other one-foot-deep bodies of water here as a "lake". Our article Pond has much more.

However, apparently the refs, who are tossing off a quick story and don't care about this level of accuracy, use "lake", probably proceeding from the notion that the name of the thing has "lake" in it. Another example of our rules requiring us to pass on false information to the reader, because our sources are inaccurate. =/ Herostratus (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2020 (UTC)