Talk:Durance

References

Looks like we're treading on each other's toes here.

I've reverted your changes references. Doing it the way you do, you lose the page numbers.

A common way to do it is simply refer to the book then the Notes just give the page numbers. So the ref just says then ONE reference to the book in ==References== section,

then goes into Notes section. I don't know if you've seen that before. It's not perfect I admit, but I've restored for now since I don't want to lose all the page numbers until it's been discussed. SimonTrew (talk) 11:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

• Hey, there were dozens of other changes made. It might be better to start with my version and then add specific page numbers by viewing the older versions. I changed the punctuation of several footnote titles, many translations from French, and the layout of text sections, beyond just combining the footnotes with similar page numbers. Typically, if a footnote can identify 3 book-pages to check, that is close enough. When a source is a webpage, that webpage could be the equivalent of 15 (or more) book-pages. Hence, listing 3 pages in a footnote is a big improvement over citing a large webpage as the source. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:32, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

• I have quickly merged the 2 versions, combining all new translations, because I had revised translations all the way to the end (of the article) and into fixing the footnote titles, plus correcting the Latin terms & punctuation & other typos. At this point, I will allow you to continue translations & re-add some particular footnote page numbers (if you think they are critical to sourcing). -Wikid77 (talk) 12:34, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Massive nightmare re-translation

01-May-09: The article "Durance" was vastly expanded, in June 2008, with a rough translation text from the French Wikipedia article. Much of the text was auto-translated into "Yoda-speak" (meaning "proper word order often it doesn't" ). In late April 2009, re-translation continued, but there were numerous issues to consider:

• some marked phrases are unusual:

• "catchment" was replaced sometimes as "drainage area";
• "installments" is a strange word & perhaps refers to towns or bridges;
• "affluents" has been replaced a few times with river "branches";

• some of the ref-tag source footnotes have bad punctuation.
• all 60 ref-tag footnotes were edited to end with periods ".</ref>".
• about 65 page-number abbreviations "p" were dotted as "p."
• many footnotes were close duplicates of others and have been combined.

Only the top 30% of the article seems logically translated, the bottom 2/3rds still contains some very bizarre, awkward wording.

The semi-translation (in June 2008) expanded the article from a mere 1kb to over 44kb (44,000 characters) of data. As a result, the re-translation has been a long-term nightmare, of garbled text with random spacing and half-worded footnotes, being unscrambled by several people during the previous year. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:32, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Strange Text in Formations of islands in the river bed

Some of the text in this section looks very odd. "stuffed them, of the accumulations of trunks and wood flottés" I thought it was hacking, but it goes back a very long way, to 2008. My French is not up to checking against the original. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cerddaf (talk • contribs) 21:04, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Economic

The economic section doesn't contain information on the rivers effect on the economy therefore it should be deleted and merged.TheHappiestCritic (talk) 04:35, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

     Merged Economic section. TheHappiestCritic (talk) 04:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

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Has a lot of content machine translated, now needs finishing translating.Tom (talk) 01:18, 29 June 2008 (UTC) Can't believe this is start class. It is literally worse than useless. SimonTrew (talk) 11:21, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

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