Talk:Owens River

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Owens River 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

A fact from Owens River appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 June 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that California's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/June.

Wikipedia

California: Los Angeles / Southern California Low‑importance

	California portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject California, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of California 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.CaliforniaWikipedia:WikiProject CaliforniaTemplate:WikiProject CaliforniaCalifornia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Greater Los Angeles portal This article is supported by Los Angeles area task force.
	This article is supported by Southern California task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Rivers Low‑importance

	Geography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Rivers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Rivers 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.RiversWikipedia:WikiProject RiversTemplate:WikiProject RiversRiver articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject banners

I added the WikiProject Southern California banner to this article because the Owens River is the primary water source for the City of Los Angeles. -- Gmatsuda 20:22, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Added the WikiProject Los Angeles banner since the Owens River has provided the City of Los Angeles with the majority of its drinking water since 1913. -- Gmatsuda (talk) 11:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Owens River semi-protected in June 2010

I'd like to help clean up the article, but I cannot, because it is protected. Is there a reason it shouldn't be simply semi-protected (given that there was a disruptive IP editor)? —hike395 (talk) 04:52, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No clue, I requested semi-protection, and it was denied, but then it got full protection anyway... Shannon ^talk _contribs 05:26, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Likely reason: The block prevented me from even adding a simply link to a wikiarticle, so I did some checking. It seems that User:Shannon1 is the culprit who caused established users to be blocked (rather than just IP editors). Here's the sequence: he repeatedly reverted edits apparently under the guise of some personal rule he established for the article as an ad hoc (wannabe) moderator. He claims in edit summaries that since he warned of the rule, that it validated his repeated reverts. However, after his reverts to delete preceding edits, he then posted significant verbatim information directly from the reverted edits! (Is there Wikipedia terminology for such editing--as for one who claims/acts as a self-considered 'article owner'--or a log to report such actions?) Additionally, it looks like User:Shannon1's other recent edits in Owens River are also easily-verifiable as questionable (it looks like they undo constructive fixes). Unfortunatly the moderator who blocked the article didn't apparently make the quick effort to see those questionable edits and instead just warn/block User:Shannon1 instead of blocking all established users. It also appears User:Shannon1 made a preemptive plea of ignorance in his comment preceding this post, but considering his shouting (all caps in edit summaries), there's no doubt he knew of his culpability regarding the block. He even admits above that he reported his actions but after doing so now claims "no clue"? Perhaps a mea culpa from User:Shannon1 will convince the moderator to unblock the article? An apology to other users is in order also, but even if provided, that will probably only involve expressing sorrow (e.g., "I'm sorry") as is common nowadays--instead of the actual 3-Rs etiquette for a true apology, i.e., a detailed admission of Regret & Responsibility with an agreement to perform a specific exceptable Remedy(ies). US40AL-01 (talk) 22:17, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:Shannon1; User:71.219.172.174, that you mentioned above, was doing frequent reverting on another article "with misleading and incivil edit summaries," but without any talk-page discussion. An Administrator put it under protection. Possible Wikipedia:Sock puppetry. Good luck here---Look2See1 t a l k → 22:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Saw Vsmith's recent edit on the article; I noticed he removed a whole lot of hidden comments that look a lot imitating the ones I put on there except there were far more and they don't sound like I placed them... I wonder who did it :) Shannon ^talk _contribs 17:36, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Who was Richard Owens, the 1845 cartographer?

Any ideas / links etc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.45.109 (talk) 07:11, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]