Talk:John Day Dam

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the John Day Dam article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Dams C‑class Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Dams, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Dams on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DamsWikipedia:WikiProject DamsTemplate:WikiProject DamsDam articles
C	This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Oregon Mid‑importance

	Oregon portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Oregon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Oregon on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.OregonWikipedia:WikiProject OregonTemplate:WikiProject OregonOregon articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
The current collaborations of the month are Women's History Month: Create or improve articles for women listed at Oregon Women of Achievement (modern) or Women of the West, Oregon chapter (historical).

United States: Washington Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Washington (assessed as Low-importance).

Commons link

Moved from User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 09:30, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The image at Wikimedia Commons was already in the article for John Day Dam.

File:JhnDyDam2.jpg

John Day Dam fish ladder view from the Washington (north) side of the Columbia River.

Didn't you see it? I removed your link because it added no extra value to the article. If you add new images not already found in the article, then go ahead and link back. But, until then it is not worth it.

Also, if you want to move all the dam pictures to Wikimedia Commons and then link there go for it.

WikiDon 09:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree, I find having these commons links extremely useful when I'm translating articles into other languages as I can immitately see what images I can use from the commons. Furthermore, just because it only contains one image now people might add to it later which would increase the value of the link. I consider the interproject links to be equivalent to interlanguage links, which you wouldn't remove just because all the information in the linked language already exists at this article. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 09:30, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can you at least add them without pushing the external links way down the page? WikiDon 09:38, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

1996 blackout

this story seems like a significant bit of the history of the dam. -Pete (talk) 21:25, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Source for expansion

Still Waters Run Deep And Deadly For Columbia River Salmon

By Anna King

The Dalles, OR October 2, 2007

The Modern Day Columbia River – Part Two

Environmentalists often call Columbia River dams “fish killers.” But in fact the deadliest dam isn’t a dam at all: it’s a 76-mile reservoir that pools behind a dam east of The Dalles, Oregon.

In part two of our journey down the Columbia River, correspondent Anna King takes a closer look at the deadly John Day reservoir.

-Pete (talk) 07:22, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinate error

{{geodata-check}} The coordinates need the following fixes:

Write here

Two Coordinates are listed for "John Day Dam" The first one is correct and this second coordinate may be intended to be for the center of the impoundment but rather than the title of "Lake Umatilla" it is still listed as "John Day Dam" 70.99.89.117 (talk) 22:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Both sets of coordinates in the article indicate the same dam structure, which spans across a state boundary. BrainMarble (talk) 22:19, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on John Day Dam. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110727043435/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/worlds-toughest-fixes to http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/worlds-toughest-fixes/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 13:38, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]