Talk:Lake Jackson
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Lake Jackson, at Jackson Lake State Park?[edit]
_ _ A colleague has removed an entry which i had tried to redo & preserve, on my understanding that it is not uncommon for the lake for which
is named to be referred to as
- "Lake Jackson"
rather than "Jackson Lake".
_ _ The evidence is profoundly ambiguous.
_ _ What i understood turns out to also have been the clear intent of Thefroman (talk · contribs). (TheF is a registered editor with
- 35 edits affecting article content in a 5-month period,
- an accusation of vandalism of a user page, (while -- if true, incredibly clumsily -- using an IP as a sockpuppet), without blocking,
- one more edit, clearly in good faith, after a five-month hiatus, and
- no activity (in the 18 months) since.
_ _ My Google search yielding
- 447 for "Lake Jackson" ohio -wikipedia "Jackson County" -"Lake Jackson County" -"Lake Jackson Lake" -"ohio river"
is far from definitive, because it definitely includes bad hits and probably excludes good ones.
_ _ While i won't miss it, my time-consumingly crafted entry (in case my acceptance of TheF's view should eventually be vindicated, was
- * [[Lake Jackson, Ohio]] <!-- [[Oak Hill, Ohio#Landmarks|landmark near Oak Hill, Ohio]] has a sentence ostensibly about the lake, but actually covering [[Jackson Lake State Park (Ohio)]] (which includes or is adjacent to the lake). Either of them could eventually have link-worthy info abt the lake, if the lake article still doesn't exist -->
--Jerzy•t 19:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Errm, whatever. The park name is Jackson Lake State Park which at present is the only relevant entity that has an article. The actual body of water is also named "Jackson Lake" according to U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Jackson Lake, although certainly a simple variant such as transposition of terms is not unlikely, which is why it is included under See also on this page. The article on the lake, if it were ever to be created, would properly be located at Jackson Lake (Ohio) and not at Lake Jackson, Ohio as implied by your time-consumingly crafted entry. Such comma-delimited names in the U.S. are used for populated places and civil divisions. Geographic features are disambiguated by parentheses. Cheers. 02:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)