User talk:Bjnihart

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Castle Rock Lake Review
Hi, I am Maggi Brisbin and I was asked to serve as an expert reviewer for your contribution to the Castle Rock Lake page.

The original page was largely incomplete and was probably classified as a stub. With the new improvements, the page is much expanded and more complete and would likely now be classified as an "A" article. Improvements include a cleaned up introduction, six new sections, six new photos, nineteen new references, and several graphs of environmental data collected in the lake. In addition, there are many wikilinks throughout the text, which helps readers find more information. A few small comments are provided below:

In the History section, you wrote that the lake was unnamed before 1951 but that the Ho-Chunk people had inhabited the area for 10,000 years. It seems unlikely that the Ho-Chunk people did not have a name for the lake. If you cannot find the name, I would just remove the sentence about the lake being unnamed until 1951 or edit it to instead say Castle Rock Lake did not receive its current name until 1951.

The piechart in the Flora section may not be the very best figure for that section. What about a photo of one of the plants you describe or of the lakeshore with specific plants in view?

In the pollution section, you might want to clarify that the phosphorous in runoff comes from fertilizers applied to farm fields. I wonder if nitrogen should also be mentioned?

There are a few typos dispersed throughout the page. I recommend doing one more careful readthrough before publishing.

Overall, this page was really nice to read. Thank you for your hard work!

Maggibrisbin (talk) 00:44, 2 December 2020 (UTC)