Talk:René-Levasseur Island

René (dash) Levasseur: Wrong in English!
In French, the convention is to use a hyphen between someone's first (prénom) and last (nom de famille) names when something is named for the person (e.g. Pont Jacques-Cartier). In English, however, it makes it seem as if the island is named after two people, one named René and the other Levasseur. I will change this myself if I think of it/have time, but if someone beats me to it, that would be great too. This will require a new page titled René Levasseur Island, and this page migrated to it. I don't believe this is controversial, but there it is. Cheers. HuntClubJoe (talk) 11:35, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

=origin of name= The item contains no reference to the origin of the name; who is this person important enough to have an island named after him ? 146.199.53.206 (talk) 05:15, 31 July 2019 (UTC)


 * René Levasseur (engineer) redirects here, so that's a clue; a more explicit mention would be good. Presumably René Levasseur, a French politician whose career apparently did not involve the New World, is not the eponym. —Tamfang (talk) 05:12, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

=native name= "native" seems to imply that the Innu (First Nations) name is "Ile Rene-Levasseur". is there a way to change this to say "official name" or "French name"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cynicalparakeet (talk • contribs) 20:22, 11 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Also what is the Innu name for the lake or island? 50.93.0.188 (talk) 17:05, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Fourth Largest Meteor Citation
Where the article says "the fourth most powerful known impact that Earth has seen" has a citation needed. Researching, I found multiple sources which suggest it is the 5th *largest*, which isn't exactly "most powerful", but could be helpful. I found them here (look at "Manicouagan"): http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/Diametersort.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Earth

Though this source says 6th largest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_Reservoir

Robisodd (talk) 00:11, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps it should be changed from, "the fourth most powerful known impact that Earth has seen" to "one of the most powerful known impacts known to have happen to the Earth". This is to prevent specific enumeration of impact sizes and... ya know... cause of "Theia"? :)

Robisodd (talk) 00:14, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Some Updating Required
"SOS Levasseur has submitted an additional 7 surveyed in the summer of 2005 and is expected to submit many more from the 2006 and 2007 expeditions." And it's now 2020. This is badly neglected!2001:56A:F0E9:9B00:702B:F8BF:8E10:3FE2 (talk) 20:44, 18 January 2020 (UTC)Just some wiki reader...
 * Also "The island is currently the subject of an ongoing legal battle, as the Innu First Nation of Betsiamites is taking legal action to protect its indigenous land from logging. The Quebec Court of Appeal made a ruling on April 28, 2006, allowing Kruger Inc. to resume its logging activities." Is this really "currently", "ongoing"? That's 14 years old!Nickpheas (talk) 14:25, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Times bigger or percents bigger?
Should it really say "several times larger in area than the annular lake"? The island's area is 2020 km² (compared to the annular lake's 1942 km²), so I think "times" should be replaced by "percents", otherwise that would look confusing and weird. For times, it would be 1942*X, which would mean X times 1942 = Y, or 1942 times X = Y. Cchww1384 (talk) 13:08, 3 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Need not say several anything. —Tamfang (talk) 03:34, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * That means "times" should be changed to "per cents", right? Cchww1384 (talk) 07:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, "several per cents" is unidiomatic in English. —Tamfang (talk) 20:54, 5 June 2024 (UTC)