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Chetco River

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I've listed this article for peer review because it just passed its GAN, and I would like to see it become a featured article. Xtzou, the GA reviewer, gave me a few good tips already. Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks, LittleMountain5 17:45, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: This looks very nice to me, here are some suggestions for improvement, mostly nitpicks, though I think this needs more on Geology to pass FAC.

• In the lead, since Oregon is linked, shouldn't California be too?

  Yes, done.

• I noticed that the Chetco people link is to the Tolowa, but the Tolowa article does not mention the word Chetco, and this article does not mention Tolowa (that I could see). I do not thinks the Tolowa need to be mentioned in the lead, but they probably should be in the History section. I would also mention the name Chetco in the Tolowa article.

  Changed link to Chetco, maybe I'll expand it some day.

• Per WP:DECADE I think that ...after gold and other precious metals were discovered in the 1840s and 50s. should be ...after gold and other precious metals were discovered in the 1840s and 1850s.

  Fixed.

• Towns are usually founded or sometimes laid out, not created The town of Brookings was created in the early 1900s, and incorporated in 1951.

  Fixed.

• Be consistent on capitalizing redwood / Redwood. The lead makes it sound like it is the northernmost grove in the world, the Course section says in the US. I assume there are none in Canada or elsewhere?? Ecology later says world's northernmost...

  Capitalized all 'Redwood's, changed United States to world.

• Unclear which place the bomb was dropped on It flows between Bosley Butte to the north and Mount Emily to the south, the [latter is the] site of one of only four bombs dropped in the continental United States by an enemy aircraft.

  Fixed.

• Are river miles available for any of the tributaries? If so I would add them, but realize the data may not be avaialble

  I've only found river mile information from the mouth to the stream gage site, 10.7 miles upstream. Added one.

• Was the maximum flow a known storm? In Pennsylvania the max flows are often the dates of hurricanes (or their remnants) hitting the state

  There's not a specific page (except for maybe Pineapple Express), but it was the floods of 1964. (No specific name, either...)

• I might include that 97% of the land is forested in the lead

  Added.

• I think this needs a Geology section to pass FAC - comprehensiveness is a FA criterion - see the Rogue River (Oregon) for an example Geology section

  Will work on it.

  Added.

• I know it is linked, but I would add a phrase describing Kalmiopsis, "a flowering evergreen shrub and the namesake..."

  Added.

• I love redwoods and think they are really amazing, but I also think the "northernmost grove" part may be overdone in both course and ecology - could Course just say it flows past the redwoods (Lead has already told the reader these are the northenmost ones) and then Ecology could go into the details?

  Sounds good, fixed.

• The redwoods are also about 8 miles north of the Cailfornia according to Ecology, but the lead says the mouth is 6 miles north of California. Since these are coastal redwoods, I assume they are near the mouth? If they are inland, I would say that (and specify how far inland, if known) to avoid confusion

  They are a bit inland, added approximate river mile.

• Over 200 species of animals inhabit the river alone.[8] would this be clearer as "inhabit the river and its watershed" - as is it sounds like there are Bear, deer, and foxes living permanently in the river.

  Yep, fixed.

• Since most of the river is in a national forest, I would add the date of its establishment to the history, as well as any other details on it (expansion, etymologyt, hsitory, etc.)

  Added.

• Since the river is all in one county, I would also mention the year of its establishment in the History section

  Added.

• I think I would include the populations of the two towns at the mouth in the History section (2000 census? More recent US Census estimates?).

  Added.

• Can an image or two be added to History?

  Added one.

• The "Other" refs all look like Websites - what makes them different from the ones listed under "Websites"?

  They're mostly either maps or PDFs, but I could merge them into the books and websites sections, if you want.

• This looks quite good and seems like it would need little work to get ready for FAC. Nice job and I sure hope they block the mining plans.

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:11, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for another detailed review, it helps immensely! :) Sincerely, LittleMountain5 16:45, 14 June 2010 (UTC)