Talk:Great Salt Lake/to do
- Make sure the article is thoroughly copy-edited. See: Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
- Expand info on recent findings about mercury and selenium (sources: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]).
- Add basic Legacy Highway info about controversy, threat to the lake, etc.[8]
- Mention the "lake stink" and its causes, possibly with its own section.[9][10]
- Create a Recreation subsection of the Commerce section. Should include bird hunting, sailing, hiking on Antelope Island, etc.
- Add early superstitions about the lake (e.g. whirlpools) See:Great tales surrounding the Great Salt Lake
- Include info on recently discovered organisms in the lake (more info [11][12])
- Expand information on the causeways (plenty of information here).
- Create a History section.
- Mention proposals to dike parts of the lake for freshwater usage, including info on Willard Bay.
- Include some of the information from this Deseret News page.
- Include more specific information to back up vague comments like: "lake level varies greatly". Perhaps tables or historical lake levels, etc.?
- Seems to be an inconsistency with the Dead Sea article concerning the relative salinity of the two lakes. The GSL article says the salinity of the DS is 30.4% while the DS article says the dissolved salts are 30.4% NaCl and what I suppose is the salinity including all chemical "salts" averages 31.5%.
- The Encyclopædia Britannica references lead to a dead link. The new link is here
Completed or in-process:
Use footnotes to cite sources.Include something about the importance for migratory birds in intro.Split Geography and hydrology into separate sections.Create a Salinity subsection of the Hydrology section.Add Great Salt Lake Monster info.Include an Origins subsection explaining how Lake Bonneville shrank to become GSL.Include info on oolitic sand.Include info on the lake's effect on the local climate.-Thank you Bob_rulz! :DAdd an illustration with labels for major tributaries, islands, bays, nearby cities, etc.
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