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"Valders"? Or "Greatlakean"?

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I haven't been paying attention to this article.

Early in this article's development the following passage was added: "The drawing on this page is accurate but uses the obsolete term, 'Valders'. Valders was replaced by the term 'Greatlakean' when stratigraphic problems forced Valders to be abandoned."

I have several concerns with it.

  1. the assertion is unreferenced;
  2. the assertion contradicts the article's current references;
  3. I don't understand this passage -- in particular I don't know what "stratigraphic problems" means in this context;
  4. I am worried that the assertion is "unencyclopedic".

The contributor who inserted this passage may be correct. But this passage lapses from compliance with our policy on verifiability. We don't aim for "truth". We only aim for "verifiability". Using our current references the term is "Valders".

FWIW I spent ten or fifteen minutes trying to see if I could find a reference that definitely said the term "Valders" had been superceded by "GreatLakean". No joy.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 01:54, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:34, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]


– The prefix "Glacial" is usually unnecessary disambiguation and is WP:OR in many cases. The lakes in question are rarely referred to in sources as "Glacial Lake So-and-so". Many of these glacial lakes such as Lake Chicago and Lake Agassiz are already at deglaciated names. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 10:52, 14 July 2012 (UTC) AjaxSmack  03:41, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This move request does not cover lakes with ambiguous names such as Glacial Lake Iroquois (although they would be better located at titles with parenthetical disambiguators). —  AjaxSmack  03:41, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
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