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Problems with a lake area

The following is copied from the Wikipedia help desk. I hope an interested editor will be able to do something with it. -Arch dude (talk) 14:32, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Area of Lake Bafa

List of lakes of Turkey says that its area is only 60 km² but Wikidata says that its area is 176.5 km². 217.117.125.83 (talk) 10:44, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also there’s a difference for Lake Eber. 217.117.125.83 (talk) 10:48, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And other lakes from the list… 217.117.125.83 (talk) 10:49, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. I investigated for Lake Bafa itself. What a mess. There is no reference in our list article and no area in our Lake Bafa article. The Wikidata item is (apparently) used for both the lake itself and for the nature preserve that includes it, and it gets its data from the French Wikipedia article, not directly from a reference. The French Wikipedia article is about both the preserve and the lake, and has a ref to a "birdlife" web site, and its archive, which lists the area of the preserve as 17650 ha (i.e., 176.5 km²) and down in the text says the lake has a max area of 6708 ha (i.e., 67.08 km²). I don't even know how to start cleaning this up. The Wikidata item needs to be split, our list article need references, our lake article needs an infobox and may need to be split, and the French article may need some attention. Wikidata and both the Wikipedias are edited by volunteers who pick their own tasks. We will need to find one or more of then to undertake these tasks, and I assume we will find similar problems for the other lakes. Can you Help? -Arch dude (talk) 14:27, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]