Talk:Tuttle Creek Lake

Start
I started this article yesterday and although it contains lots of information, it needs more content. There is a lot to tell about this lake, and I haven't said half of it. If you have the time, please contribute to it. Nick Warren 14:58, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Latest photo
I'd like to remove the latest photo from the article because its proportion is awkward, it is obscuring the infobox, and it is not a good depiction of the lake IMO. Nick, it would be great if in the spring you could find a higher spot further from the reservoir where you can get a photo of the dam and a good bit of the reservoir extending back from it. Would the normal lookout point work for this or is it too close? --GregU 21:41, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

To be honest, I'm not too fond of that picture myself. I just put it in mostly to get a wider view of the lake and also to show it while being frozen over. I plan to get a better photo someday, but until then, could we leave that one up? I never intended it to be permanent, just sort of a placeholder...until I get a better camera. I do have several pictures of the dam and they show portions of the lake as well, but they're not very good, and probably don't belong on Wikipedia because of they're poor quality. So, please just leave it up for now. I promise to get some better pictures when it gets warmer. Nick Warren 08:34, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, but I had to move it down as it was hiding half of the infobox that I put a lot of work into. Hope this is ok. Look forward to seeing a brighter picture. --GregU 01:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I asked the Corps of Engineers if I could use photos from the Tuttle Creek website and they said yes, so I uploded this one:. Should I put that in the article? Nick Warren 13:04, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * That's actually the image I was envisioning when I was asking for a better picture, as I'd seen it before. From my understanding of the image use policy, just getting permission to use is not good enough. They have to explicitly release it to the public domain (for anyone to use) or under one of the free licenses. However I'm thinking that it's in the public domain anyway since it's a work of the federal government, so I slapped a PD tag on it. We still need to add source info or they may still delete it. --GregU 15:08, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok I added source info to the image. You can add it to the article now. --GregU 16:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Done.Nick Warren 15:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Manatee
I am removing the section on the "Tuttle Creek manatee." I do not believe it is possible for a manatee to survive the cold waters, and frankly believe the section is a prank. - Kgwo1972 (talk) 05:04, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've searched all over the internet to verify this and I can't find anything. The writter of that section says that it was mentioned in The Mercury on November 20, 2007, but I can't find that newspaper to verify that. I'll bet you're right, It sounds like a hoax. Who would have a manatee, which is an endagered species, I beleive, as a "pet"?!


 * Either way, I'm still going "manatee hunting" tomorow! Would a picture of a manatee in Tuttle Creek count as original research? ;) Nick Warren (talk) 05:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I also did a search on The Mercury archives online before deleting, and found nothing. Good luck on your hunt. - Kgwo1972 (talk) 15:15, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I just went ahead and took it out. It's a dumb local myth and doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. All it's done is propagate an easily debunked urban legend Starfishprime1989 (talk) 04:07, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Just because you don't believe, doesn't mean you should remove it entirety. An easy google search shows that there's plenty of evidence that "something" is there, and local folklore says it's a manatee. http://themercury.com/articles/is-there-really-a-manatee-in-tuttle-creek-lake — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.185.3.77 (talk) 19:31, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Longest bridge in Kansas?
I removed the statement about the K-16 bridge being the longest bridge in Kansas because I couldn't find a source for it. However, as far as I can tell, this is true. Having traveled all over Kansas, I can say from my own experience that there aren't that many long spans in the state, and Tuttle Creek is the only place that comes to mind as a candidate for longest in the state. I searched "longest bridge in Kansas" on Google and the result I got was the Centennial Bridge in Leavenworth. However, just | glancing at the bridge on Google Maps shows it to be much shorter than the K-16 bridges | one mile span, and part of that length is in Missouri.

Can someone help me find a source for the statement that the Tuttle Creek bridge is the longest bridge in Kansas? I intuitively feel that it's true since it's part of common local wisdom and I can't think of any bridges in the state that are longer. Thanks. Starfishprime1989 (talk) 13:18, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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Someone absolutely butchered this article
And it's in desperate need of a rewrite. The entire thing reads like a high school English report. Ugh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.255.217.64 (talk) 06:42, 12 September 2020 (UTC)