Talk:Three Gorges Dam

Error in hyperlink
Why does the text saying "Taiwan Military" have a hyperlink to the Chinese military forces? Surely there should be a link to the Taiwanese military. 137.220.71.103 (talk) 13:14, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Necessity of Structural integrity chapter
I had noticed a sub chapter called "structural integrity'. It seems written by someone who knows nothing about engineering and is somewhat embarrassing to see this written on Wikipedia. As it is purely sensational and taking what is a fairly normal benign feature and make it seem like it is unprecedented and spells immediate disaster. To explain in layman's terms, there's to be an expected range of deformation when a dam first fills up and then fill up again and designed to change shape. Not so unrealistic for cracks to appear and generally only really a problem when it's not repaired for a long while if monitored to be serious. Typical example is say 12 years without any routine maintenance. But I highly doubt the Chinese government would neglect that basic duty given the immense political significance of the dam, and so with consistent maintenance and proper management, that is not an unprecedented issue. Perhaps it's the media who likes to make clickbait stories, but I had expected Wikipedia to be a bit more professional. Though to be fair, even the media outlets informing of other dams cracking and at least also give necessary context by engineering experts on why people should not be blowing this out of proportion. Anyways the chapter should not even be there because there has not been a single thing there that's particularly noteworthy or unusual for a dam. All dams go though deformation and cracks and yet the article writes it as if it's unusual for it to occur, and hence is both highly unprofessional and unnecessary to have. Engineertakes89 (talk) 00:42, 19 April 2023 (UTC)