Talk:Marañón River

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other meanings Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:27, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Gregorio Marañón
 * Marañón, Navarre

Page Moved?!?!
OK... due to a copy/paste move by anonymous user 80.58.48.172, I have renamed this page and reunited it with its history and talk page. An administrator might have been able to do a cleaner job, but I think this is working ok. Of course, if anyone would like to attempt to rename it or name it back, that's fine with me, as long as it's not a copy/paste job. Thanks. Gsd97jks 01:16,odm 27 October 2005 (UTC)

section Dams planned for the Marañón and opposition
This section is sheer political editorializing - nothing has actually happened there. The encyclopedia is not a forum for reporting news and debate. I propose the secton be deleted, or moved into a footnote.Sbalfour (talk) 17:40, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

descent history
The descent history paragraph belongs in the Guiness Book of World Records, not here. There are now other documented successes as well as tragic attempts to do this. I'm not going to add them. I think this paragraph smacks of WP:PROMOTION, as well as not in compliance with WP:NOT. I propose the paragraph be deleted.Sbalfour (talk) 17:49, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

La Condamine's descent
The section says his was one of the first "popular" descents of the Maranon. What's an "unpopular" descent? If I do a descent, is that "popular"? The whole section is quite a bit of tedious detail, and omits the thing of overarching importance: WHO was La Condamine, and WHY did he do the descent, since plenty of persons starting with Orellano, Tavares and Aguirre, made that descent before him. His was the first scientific study of the flora and fauna of the river. La Condamine was primarily a scientist, not an adventurer. The section needs to be restructured to convey the hydrographic and topological description separate from the details of La Condamine's journey, which are not significant. Wikipedia is not a tourist or travel brochure.Sbalfour (talk) 18:04, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

single, unreliable source
Most of the article is transliterated, if not outright cut-and-pasted, from what is basically an ecotourism website, http://www.sierrarios.org. Another cited reference is to an Amazon.com splash page for a book (evidently, if this is the best the editor could do, he didn't own or read the book). The text of the article is just a bit too "tourist-y" for a concise scholarly encyclopedia article. I don't see any outright inaccuracies, but the article's tone needs changed, and buttressed by properly styled citations to reliable published scholarly sources.Sbalfour (talk) 18:19, 28 February 2014 (UTC)